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Wild Thing (The Guardians #1.5)
by
Maggie Shayne (Goodreads Author),
Marjorie M. Liu (Goodreads Author), Alyssa Day (Goodreads Author), Meljean Brook (Goodreads Author)
New York Times bestselling authors Maggie Shayne and Marjorie Liu join two hot talents in an anthology of all-new sexy paranormal romance.
New York Times bestselling authors Maggie Shayne and Marjorie M. Liu, and sizzling newcomers Alyssa Day and Meljean Brook discover the wild instinct in everyone with four all-new stories of feral heat. Fans will get swept away by the pas...more
New York Times bestselling authors Maggie Shayne and Marjorie M. Liu, and sizzling newcomers Alyssa Day and Meljean Brook discover the wild instinct in everyone with four all-new stories of feral heat. Fans will get swept away by the pas...more
Paperback, 394 pages
Published
May 1st 2007
by Berkley Trade
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Maggie Shayne's story was cute, but mostly because it had a lot of dogs. I liked the characters, but I just don't like the typical romance formula where they've had two conversations and mind blowing sex and suddenly two people who were adamently opposed to relationships are deeply in love.
Meljean Brook's story was more of a novella. It felt very complete and unrushed (even though they too, of course, fell in love almost instantly). It seemed like a good intro to her Guardian series. If I liked...more
Meljean Brook's story was more of a novella. It felt very complete and unrushed (even though they too, of course, fell in love almost instantly). It seemed like a good intro to her Guardian series. If I liked...more
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An anthology of four short stories on a paranormal romantic theme.
Series: Paradise, Guardians, 1.5
Hunter Kiss, Hunter Kiss, 0.5
Wild Hearts in Atlantis, Warriors of Poseidon, 1.5
The Story
Maggie Shayne's Animal Magnetism was cute. A veterinarian, Dr. Macy McNamara, can sense everything an animal can and helps Detective Jay Harris find a rapist.
Meljean Brook's Paradise finds Lucas Marsden, a former cop-lawyer-theatre owner/nosferatu, struggling to recover from the murder of his consort, Olivia Jo...more
Series: Paradise, Guardians, 1.5
Hunter Kiss, Hunter Kiss, 0.5
Wild Hearts in Atlantis, Warriors of Poseidon, 1.5
The Story
Maggie Shayne's Animal Magnetism was cute. A veterinarian, Dr. Macy McNamara, can sense everything an animal can and helps Detective Jay Harris find a rapist.
Meljean Brook's Paradise finds Lucas Marsden, a former cop-lawyer-theatre owner/nosferatu, struggling to recover from the murder of his consort, Olivia Jo...more
Animal Magnetism by Maggie Shayne A veterinarian has an unusual ability to communicate with animals and is able to identify the perpetrator of violent crimes from the canine eyewitness. She has to learn to trust the detective investigating the cases enough to let him into her life and her heart before it is all too late.
Paradise by Meljean Brook A vampire who is head of the community of Ashland, Oregon joins forces with a charismatic Guardian to fight against a demon. Well written short story wi...more
Paradise by Meljean Brook A vampire who is head of the community of Ashland, Oregon joins forces with a charismatic Guardian to fight against a demon. Well written short story wi...more
As this is an anthology I will tell something about every story.
Animal Magnetism by Maggie Shayne
I really liked this story. It's about an animal doctor who can 'talk' with animals. She's not too fond of humans though, but she might have to change her views when she gets dragged into a series of violent crimes because of her gift.
The action storyline and the romance storyline melt well together and I liked both Macy, the lead character and Jay, her love interest. I might pick up other books by t...more
Animal Magnetism by Maggie Shayne
I really liked this story. It's about an animal doctor who can 'talk' with animals. She's not too fond of humans though, but she might have to change her views when she gets dragged into a series of violent crimes because of her gift.
The action storyline and the romance storyline melt well together and I liked both Macy, the lead character and Jay, her love interest. I might pick up other books by t...more
Three of the stories in this book were surprisingly good, with only one being a real disappointment.
Animal Magnetism, by Maggie Shayne, was a great, easy-to-read story about a female veterinarian who has the advantage of being able to talk to her patients, and who gets drawn into a murder-rape investigation when the pet of one of the victims gives her critical information about the attacker. I'd never read anything of Ms Shayne's before, but after reading this one, I'll be keeping an eye out for...more
Animal Magnetism, by Maggie Shayne, was a great, easy-to-read story about a female veterinarian who has the advantage of being able to talk to her patients, and who gets drawn into a murder-rape investigation when the pet of one of the victims gives her critical information about the attacker. I'd never read anything of Ms Shayne's before, but after reading this one, I'll be keeping an eye out for...more
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I finished reading Hunter Kiss by Marjorie Liu. This is her prequel to the Hunter Kiss series that is currently out. It's a fun story about a demon hunter, who watched her mother get shot to death after her little demons abandoned her for her daughter. The story about the 5 little demons that turn into tats on her body, is truly different from anything I've read. This story shows how Maxine Kiss meets Grant, and how their chemistry came about. 3.5 stars
I also finished Alyssa Day's tale about Atl...more
I also finished Alyssa Day's tale about Atl...more
This is anthology that has four paranormal stories, I have only read one so far, but I will get to the rest. I bought the book for the prequel story by Marjorie M. Liu, so that is where I started.
Hunter Kiss by Marjorie M. Liu
An introduction to Maxine Kiss as a hunter of demons with the help of her own little friends Zee, Aaz, Raw, Dek and Mal. Meeting and finding why the demons want ex-priest Grant Cooperon dead, leaves Maxine questions she never thought to ask and doubts about herself she ne...more
Hunter Kiss by Marjorie M. Liu
An introduction to Maxine Kiss as a hunter of demons with the help of her own little friends Zee, Aaz, Raw, Dek and Mal. Meeting and finding why the demons want ex-priest Grant Cooperon dead, leaves Maxine questions she never thought to ask and doubts about herself she ne...more
Three of the stories were quite good. I particularly liked Shayne's and Liu's, but the "Warriors of Poseidon" one was a fun read as well.
It's the other story that keeps me from giving this 5 stars- I hated it. The world made no sense to me- granted, I haven't read anything previous in it, but it was still incoherent- while relationships between vampires, nosferatu, demons, and guardians were vital to the plot, the explanations f how it all fitted together within the plot seemed to keep contradic...more
It's the other story that keeps me from giving this 5 stars- I hated it. The world made no sense to me- granted, I haven't read anything previous in it, but it was still incoherent- while relationships between vampires, nosferatu, demons, and guardians were vital to the plot, the explanations f how it all fitted together within the plot seemed to keep contradic...more
4 short stories... 2 as one of other series... and unfortunatly other books in said series are not fully available at the library.
Animal Magnetism Maggie Shayne
Macy - aka Dr. Doolittle, but she hides her ability to talk (mind pictures) with animals... the local vet... Jay, policeman... seriel rapist on the loose... a dog is hurt, he brings the dog to Macy, the dog 'tells' Macy about the rapist... after a bit, Jay believes her... rapist is actually his partner's son... the partner tries to cover...more
Animal Magnetism Maggie Shayne
Macy - aka Dr. Doolittle, but she hides her ability to talk (mind pictures) with animals... the local vet... Jay, policeman... seriel rapist on the loose... a dog is hurt, he brings the dog to Macy, the dog 'tells' Macy about the rapist... after a bit, Jay believes her... rapist is actually his partner's son... the partner tries to cover...more
"Wild Hearts in Atlantis" by Alyssa Day. 3.5 stars. Great little short if you are reading the Poseidon Series. Quick pace and easy to read.
"Paradise" by Meljean Brook. 3.5 stars. 3rd "story" in her Guardian series. Good piece to read after Demon Angel b/c it's a fairly straight forward and light tale. Main female, Selah, was from Demon Angel. Nice transition to next full-length novel. Enjoyed the outcome...
"Animal Magnetism" by Maggie Shayne. 4 stars. Easy to read short shory. Loved the characte...more
"Paradise" by Meljean Brook. 3.5 stars. 3rd "story" in her Guardian series. Good piece to read after Demon Angel b/c it's a fairly straight forward and light tale. Main female, Selah, was from Demon Angel. Nice transition to next full-length novel. Enjoyed the outcome...
"Animal Magnetism" by Maggie Shayne. 4 stars. Easy to read short shory. Loved the characte...more
Three of the four stories were great, wonderful even. I fully enjoyed those. It was the third story that was a bit weird, at times hard to follow and understand, and in the end, we still do not completely understand it, nor do we know for sure that the couple gets a happily-ever-after, since she might die when her daughter comes of age, when she produces a daughter, that is. We do not get to see if they somehow find a way around that. I hope so. Even so, weird story. And the woman (who acts like...more
Very good short installment of the Warriors of Poseidon series, although I do feel we got a little jipped on the Bastien and Kat story I felt there should be more of it, alike in its first novel of the series where so many questions are unanswered its like we are getting the major points of the story and little character development and very little background.
Even though I did enjoy this story, was really dissapointed that it was Bastien's story rather than a less major character as there was w...more
Even though I did enjoy this story, was really dissapointed that it was Bastien's story rather than a less major character as there was w...more
I recently bought this novella in a eBook format cause a friend of mine loaned me the two novels: ‘The Iron Hunt’ and ‘Darkness Calls’ and she told me that this novella was the prequel to the whole story so it made sense for me to buy and read it. At first, the novella was really confusing. Marjorie M. Liu’s writing style is like no other I have encountered before, which is sometimes bad and sometimes good. It could get really confusing for an international reader like myself, because there are...more
I finally finished this book. Most of the stories were good, but I just didn't connect with the one by Brook. For a only 100 page story, I keep putting it down and not wanting to pick it back up.
Animal Magnetism by Maggie Shayne
I liked this story of the vet who could read animal thoughts and her struggle to do the right thing but at the same time protect herself.
Paradise by MelJean Brook
I just didn't connect with this one. Neither the characters or the story interested me. A vampire needs the h...more
Animal Magnetism by Maggie Shayne
I liked this story of the vet who could read animal thoughts and her struggle to do the right thing but at the same time protect herself.
Paradise by MelJean Brook
I just didn't connect with this one. Neither the characters or the story interested me. A vampire needs the h...more
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overal rating for complete anthology: 3.5 stars
Animal Magnetism – Maggie Shayne
Listen to the secrets of a beautiful animal whisperer who’s drawn intimately closer to danger, and t the most suspect of all male animals: man...
I liked this story very much. As known in Anthologies, the stories are too short for full indepth charactarization but Maggie Shayne did a good job nonetheless. The story is about Macy MacNamara, a vet who can “talk” to animals, and Jay Harris, a hot detective who brings a do...more
Animal Magnetism – Maggie Shayne
Listen to the secrets of a beautiful animal whisperer who’s drawn intimately closer to danger, and t the most suspect of all male animals: man...
I liked this story very much. As known in Anthologies, the stories are too short for full indepth charactarization but Maggie Shayne did a good job nonetheless. The story is about Macy MacNamara, a vet who can “talk” to animals, and Jay Harris, a hot detective who brings a do...more
I read only the Alyssa Day entry, Wild Hearts In Atlantis.
After reading all of the other books in the series, I was kind of wondering what happened to Bastien. He was a decent part of the first book, then poof! Gone. Turns out he had his own story in Wild Thing. Bastien is a giant of a warrior, standing nearly seven feet tall. Renowned for his strength and his even demeanor, he is chosen by Prince Conlan to be the liason with a powerful shifter pack in Florida. Trouble is stalking the Panther p...more
After reading all of the other books in the series, I was kind of wondering what happened to Bastien. He was a decent part of the first book, then poof! Gone. Turns out he had his own story in Wild Thing. Bastien is a giant of a warrior, standing nearly seven feet tall. Renowned for his strength and his even demeanor, he is chosen by Prince Conlan to be the liason with a powerful shifter pack in Florida. Trouble is stalking the Panther p...more
A paranormal anthology by 4 romance authors. Trade paperback. The stories are:
1) Animal Magnetism by Maggie Shayne - a vet with a special talent for communicating with animals (Dr Macy McNamara) meets police officer Jay Harris when he comes into her examination room with a bleeding dog. The dog was shot while trying to protect her owner from a rapist and is the only witness who can identify him. Now Macy, who has spent most of her life hiding her talent and being cold towards people, must convin...more
1) Animal Magnetism by Maggie Shayne - a vet with a special talent for communicating with animals (Dr Macy McNamara) meets police officer Jay Harris when he comes into her examination room with a bleeding dog. The dog was shot while trying to protect her owner from a rapist and is the only witness who can identify him. Now Macy, who has spent most of her life hiding her talent and being cold towards people, must convin...more
So I bought this book because I am a huge fan of Meljean Brook and her Guardians series.
I'm not a big fan of anthologies in general simply because I like a good, long story you can get your teeth into and because I really don't think the short story lends itself to the romance format. It's just not long enough to get invested into characters.
But as this short from Meljean takes place in her Guardians world with characters we know and love, it doesn't feel like a short, more like a continuation o...more
I'm not a big fan of anthologies in general simply because I like a good, long story you can get your teeth into and because I really don't think the short story lends itself to the romance format. It's just not long enough to get invested into characters.
But as this short from Meljean takes place in her Guardians world with characters we know and love, it doesn't feel like a short, more like a continuation o...more
At this time I have only read Alyssa Day's contribution to this anthology. Wild Hearts in Atlantis, a Warriors of Poseidon novella was pretty good. This story takes warrior Bastien out of Atlantis and into the position of liaison to the Shape Shifters. Specifically a Florida Panther pride, in which the former Alpha's daughter Kat resides. She is unable to shift as she is half human and the alpha's mate never misses an opportunity to remind her. This story was short but gave us all the necessitie...more
Animal Magnetism by Maggie Shayne -
This story was really sweet. The sexual interaction between the hero/heroine seemed abrupt at first, but then it settled in ok, and ended up being a cute story.
Paradise by Meljean Brook
This is the first story I've ever read by Meljean Brook, and I was so excited to read something by her after everything I've heard...but, it was SO SLOW. It drug along for the first 2/3 of the story, and then things picked up ok.
Hunter Kiss by Marjorie M. Liu -
I really liked th...more
This story was really sweet. The sexual interaction between the hero/heroine seemed abrupt at first, but then it settled in ok, and ended up being a cute story.
Paradise by Meljean Brook
This is the first story I've ever read by Meljean Brook, and I was so excited to read something by her after everything I've heard...but, it was SO SLOW. It drug along for the first 2/3 of the story, and then things picked up ok.
Hunter Kiss by Marjorie M. Liu -
I really liked th...more
I read this only for Alyssa Day's story. The only way you will enjoy her story is if you are reading the Warriors of Poseidon series, if not then its meaningless. You see this isnt even a real part of the series, its just like a spin off of one of the less important characters....i actually waited to read this last because it was a VERY short story more like a novella, and it wasnt about any very important characters in the series....
I really liked the first story, like 4 or 5 stars still thinking about it a week later like it. The story's about a vet who could talk to animals and a serial rapist and a cop. The second was another story about the Guardians and they're interesting, but I can never quite get into them --I keep running into them in anthologies like this. The third was ok, but it let me know that I won't be at the library anytime soon trying to track down every book she's written. Good to know. And the last I'm s...more
Animal Magnetism Maggie Shayne Macy McNamara, vet and animal whisper sees the face of a serial rapist throught the thoughts of the victims dog. She then has to convence Dey Jay Harris to believe her. Wild Heats in Atlantis Alyssa Day One of Poseidon's warriors Bastien is sent to Florida as an official Atlantean liaison pairing him with Kat Fiero a half human daughter of the former Alpha.
This is just a review for Alyssa Day'S Wild Hearts story.
Awesome short story. She definitely could have made this into a full book. Not sure why she didn't. At any rate, I think this series has great potential. Day does a great job of making her characters come alive and really connects their story with the reader. This story is about Bastien finding his mate and includes the plot about the Atlanteans joining forces with shapeshifters who are sympathetic to the human cause. Very good. Off to the...more
Awesome short story. She definitely could have made this into a full book. Not sure why she didn't. At any rate, I think this series has great potential. Day does a great job of making her characters come alive and really connects their story with the reader. This story is about Bastien finding his mate and includes the plot about the Atlanteans joining forces with shapeshifters who are sympathetic to the human cause. Very good. Off to the...more
I gave this book only 4 stars because of the 3rd story in the book. Not something I'd have chosen to read had it not been in the book. A demon hunter that hunted zombies but not quite zombies as they were possessed ppl..not for me, but others may like it. I can now move onto the next book in the Warriors Of Atlantis series..getting better with every book!
These short stories are really just okay. If you're a devotee of the authors, you'll probably enjoy. I read it for the Liu story and even that one didn't live up to my expectations. If you're choosing between this and something else, go with the something else.
As a side note, there is no steam in this romance.
As a side note, there is no steam in this romance.
I only read one story in this anthology, Wild Hearts in Atlantis by Alyssa Day. I enjoyed the story, even though it was short. It is the story of Bastien finding his mate, a half-human, half shape-shifter park ranger. We also learn a little more about the alliances the Atlanteans are forming.
My complaint though is that I don't like it when a part of a series, this is the second of the Warriors of Poseidon series, is included in an anthology. I know that way we are introduced to new authors with...more
My complaint though is that I don't like it when a part of a series, this is the second of the Warriors of Poseidon series, is included in an anthology. I know that way we are introduced to new authors with...more
I picked up this book solely because it contains "Hunter Kiss," the novella that precedes
Iron Hunt
. Liu certainly didn't disappoint me.
The other three novellas didn't suck as much as most romance-centered works do. Maggie Shayne's "Animal Magnetism" was working for me, but then a mention of a dog seeing a color brought my suspension of disbelief crashing down around me. "Paradise" by Meljean Brook was, eh, okay, I guess. I just couldn't really get excited, and the "plot" seemed a lame excuse t...more
The other three novellas didn't suck as much as most romance-centered works do. Maggie Shayne's "Animal Magnetism" was working for me, but then a mention of a dog seeing a color brought my suspension of disbelief crashing down around me. "Paradise" by Meljean Brook was, eh, okay, I guess. I just couldn't really get excited, and the "plot" seemed a lame excuse t...more
Loved the novellas by Meljean Brook and Marjorie M. Liu, but the other two were indifferent, to put it mildly. Brook's novella is part of the Guardian series (#1.5) and Marjorie M. Liu's is a prequel/introduction to her Hunter Kiss series, both of which are AWESOME. That made this anthology worth the money for me.
Anthologies are usually not something I keep and this won't be either. Two stories I really really enjoyed - one by Maggie Shayne and one by Alyssa Day. Day's is a continuation of her Atlantis series and I really think it could have taken a whole book. I loved it. The stories by Marjorie Liu and Meljean Brook were horrible.
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