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Raven Investigations #1
Electric Storm
Everything changed when Raven, a natural born conduit, accidentally walks in on a slave auction. She only wants a night out with her friends before her next case as a paranormal liaison with the police. Instead, she ends up in possession of a shifter and his guardian. When your touch can kill, living with two touchy-feely shifters is a disaster waiting to happen.
To make matters worse, a vicious killer is on the loose. As mutilated bodies turn up, she can't help fear that her new acquisitions are keeping secrets from her. The strain of keeping everyone alive, not to mention catching the killer, pushes her tenuous control of her gift and her emotions to their limits. If they hope to survive, they must work together as a pack or risk becoming hunted themselves.
To make matters worse, a vicious killer is on the loose. As mutilated bodies turn up, she can't help fear that her new acquisitions are keeping secrets from her. The strain of keeping everyone alive, not to mention catching the killer, pushes her tenuous control of her gift and her emotions to their limits. If they hope to survive, they must work together as a pack or risk becoming hunted themselves.
321 pages, Paperback
First published April 8, 2012
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Stacey Brutger
50 books1,295 followersStacey Brutger lives in a small town in Minnesota with her husband and an assortment of animals.
When she's not reading (from the towering stack of books she can't resist buying), she enjoys creating stories about exotic worlds and grand adventures...then shoving in her characters to see how they'd survive. She enjoys writing anything paranormal from contemporary to historical.
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Where the fanged, furry and spell slingers fight the darkness inside their soul for a chance to claim the one they love.
When she's not reading (from the towering stack of books she can't resist buying), she enjoys creating stories about exotic worlds and grand adventures...then shoving in her characters to see how they'd survive. She enjoys writing anything paranormal from contemporary to historical.
~~~~~*****~~~~~*****~~~~~*****~~~~~
Where the fanged, furry and spell slingers fight the darkness inside their soul for a chance to claim the one they love.
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December 8, 2013Ok... so..
I am seriously a little unsure what i read.
I am seriously a little unsure what i read.
November 4, 2017
Rating : 4 stars
Previous rating : 2 stars
After reading Academy of Assassins that I seriously loved, I kind of wanted to go back into Raven and her pack's world.
My first time of Electric Storm was far from a perfect read, as you can see with my previous rating. I was lost, confused and understood about nothing. Which didn't bother me to read and adore the rest of the series.
My second read was excellent.
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Raven, no last name, rare conduit & hot guys' magnet :
▫ Former labs experiment
▫ Hold a menagerie inside her
▫ Tries to live as a loner but fails big time
▫ Female alpha
▫ Vulnerable
▫ Afraid of herself
▫ Smart
▫ Charismatic
Raven is very different from the usual UF badass chicks. She does not kick ass neither she uses sarcasm as a weapon. She might be powerful but she does not have entire control over it, she's also broken and let her fears rule her life. But she is very endearing, loveable and kind of sweet. I just can't help to want her to be happy (with her guys).
Her entourage is also great. We have her friends with whom she escaped from the labs and still works with her from times to times : Dominic the leader, London the grumpy bear shifter, Dina the awful cook, we have Rylan, tortured vampire, and we have her guys, from her very recent formed pack : Taggert, young slave that can't shift, Jackson, moody Enforcer & Durrant, very yummy tiger & owner of a club.
The relationships between Raven and everybody take time to evolve. Lots of time. It's based of trust, on friendship and on acceptance and as where I am on book four, the romance is still very subtle and next to non-existant. But it doesn't matter, because it's beautiful and greatly well done.
I said it, I said it again and i'm gonna say it again : Stacey Brutger's main strength is from the bonds between characters she creates. She's amazing and the results are wonderful.
After reading Academy of Assassins that I seriously loved, I kind of wanted to go back into Raven and her pack's world.
My first time of Electric Storm was far from a perfect read, as you can see with my previous rating. I was lost, confused and understood about nothing. Which didn't bother me to read and adore the rest of the series.
My second read was excellent.
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Raven, no last name, rare conduit & hot guys' magnet :
▫ Former labs experiment
▫ Hold a menagerie inside her
▫ Tries to live as a loner but fails big time
▫ Female alpha
▫ Vulnerable
▫ Afraid of herself
▫ Smart
▫ Charismatic
Raven is very different from the usual UF badass chicks. She does not kick ass neither she uses sarcasm as a weapon. She might be powerful but she does not have entire control over it, she's also broken and let her fears rule her life. But she is very endearing, loveable and kind of sweet. I just can't help to want her to be happy (with her guys).
Her entourage is also great. We have her friends with whom she escaped from the labs and still works with her from times to times : Dominic the leader, London the grumpy bear shifter, Dina the awful cook, we have Rylan, tortured vampire, and we have her guys, from her very recent formed pack : Taggert, young slave that can't shift, Jackson, moody Enforcer & Durrant, very yummy tiger & owner of a club.
The relationships between Raven and everybody take time to evolve. Lots of time. It's based of trust, on friendship and on acceptance and as where I am on book four, the romance is still very subtle and next to non-existant. But it doesn't matter, because it's beautiful and greatly well done.
I said it, I said it again and i'm gonna say it again : Stacey Brutger's main strength is from the bonds between characters she creates. She's amazing and the results are wonderful.
May 12, 2015
The writing style left a lot to be desired ..
Ever get the feeling when you are reading a book and it feels like there was so much missing like the author wrote the book in (1-2-3-4) steps then for whatever reason or while editing the book ended up like this (2-3-and half of 4 ) ???????!!!!!!!!
It was very disorienting and confusing as hell it reminded me of book 1 of the hollows series
Not to mention there is little dialogue compared to the heroine's inner blabbering I mean she was being waaaay too much in her own bubble ..
P.S: I really do not like Jackson but have a feeling the author will shove him down my throat anyway *sigh*
Ever get the feeling when you are reading a book and it feels like there was so much missing like the author wrote the book in (1-2-3-4) steps then for whatever reason or while editing the book ended up like this (2-3-and half of 4 ) ???????!!!!!!!!
It was very disorienting and confusing as hell it reminded me of book 1 of the hollows series
Not to mention there is little dialogue compared to the heroine's inner blabbering I mean she was being waaaay too much in her own bubble ..
P.S: I really do not like Jackson but have a feeling the author will shove him down my throat anyway *sigh*
April 10, 2015
It was the beautiful cover that first attracted me to the book and the blurb was intriguing enough for me to buy it. Oh how I wish I had looked at a few reviews before making that decision!
Where to start...ok, our MC, Raven. She was once a captive in a lab that held and experimented on supernatural creatures. She has very strong powers in her that she tries to keep bottled up but finds it difficult to control. She is also a doormat. She lives with a group of other supernaturals who seem to totally despise her. They treat her like crud, talk nasty to her, demean and abuse her every chance she gets yet she just sits there and takes it without a word. Raven, grow a damn backbone and tell these obnoxious scumbags to take a hike! She was meant to be meeting people she called 'friends' that night and after the events at the slave auction, she wonders if they set her up and sent her there to get into trouble. These are friends? Honestly, Raven is just a pretty pathetic excuse for a supernatural. She whines and moans about how everyone treats her and does nothing about it.
She saves the supernaturals from the slave auction thing and there seems little gratitude from them. One has the personality of a plank of wood and the other is Mr Angry all the time, starting fights with Raven, who of course just lets them both walk all over her. She tells them to pick any room except hers to sleep in and guess what room they pick? Does she order them out? No she decides to let them get away with it and chase her out of the room. I hate spineless characters and she is a real doozy! Tell these guys you'll withdraw your protection and return them to the auction if they don't behave! She even lets them bully their way onto the crime scene to be close to her and even the cops just let them contaminate the crime scene!
And of course, it doesn't take her long to suddenly gain an Anita Blake style harem around her. This does not work for me. I bitch sometimes about the amount of lovers Anita got but she gained them gradually and there was a reason provided for each new man. Here, it was as if the author just decided it was time for sex and threw in some random guys. Raven also has none of the charm of Anita that makes you want to see what happens to her. If this was an attempt at copying Anita Blake, it came up well short.
Best part? The cover.
Where to start...ok, our MC, Raven. She was once a captive in a lab that held and experimented on supernatural creatures. She has very strong powers in her that she tries to keep bottled up but finds it difficult to control. She is also a doormat. She lives with a group of other supernaturals who seem to totally despise her. They treat her like crud, talk nasty to her, demean and abuse her every chance she gets yet she just sits there and takes it without a word. Raven, grow a damn backbone and tell these obnoxious scumbags to take a hike! She was meant to be meeting people she called 'friends' that night and after the events at the slave auction, she wonders if they set her up and sent her there to get into trouble. These are friends? Honestly, Raven is just a pretty pathetic excuse for a supernatural. She whines and moans about how everyone treats her and does nothing about it.
She saves the supernaturals from the slave auction thing and there seems little gratitude from them. One has the personality of a plank of wood and the other is Mr Angry all the time, starting fights with Raven, who of course just lets them both walk all over her. She tells them to pick any room except hers to sleep in and guess what room they pick? Does she order them out? No she decides to let them get away with it and chase her out of the room. I hate spineless characters and she is a real doozy! Tell these guys you'll withdraw your protection and return them to the auction if they don't behave! She even lets them bully their way onto the crime scene to be close to her and even the cops just let them contaminate the crime scene!
And of course, it doesn't take her long to suddenly gain an Anita Blake style harem around her. This does not work for me. I bitch sometimes about the amount of lovers Anita got but she gained them gradually and there was a reason provided for each new man. Here, it was as if the author just decided it was time for sex and threw in some random guys. Raven also has none of the charm of Anita that makes you want to see what happens to her. If this was an attempt at copying Anita Blake, it came up well short.
Best part? The cover.
August 13, 2019
I really wish that I liked Raven.
I love everything else about this book, seriously. But Raven sucks, and she sucks so much that it is hard to gauge the other characters. Like, they walk all over her like she's a doormat. Does that reflect more on them, or her? I don't know, so I can't gauge them.
Raven is a pretend badass. She talks tough, she seems to have strong powers (seems, because that's another flaw to this book - there's little detail or structure given about her powers, so I don't know what she can REALLY do, and I'm suspicious that's deliberate so she can do anything the author needs her to do, frankly), people she's known for a long time seem to respect that she does indeed have strong powers, and her inner narrative has a baseline setting of "take no shit".
That would ordinarily be great - that's the basic ingredients for Kate Daniels, one of my favorite UF heroines ever. But it's all a lie. Literally everyone she encounters in this book walks all over her. She lets people bully their way into her life and her job with only a token pushback - Jackson even goes so far as to fuck up her work relationships and leak info about her cases, and she blusters about it a teeny bit but ultimately does nothing. People stand in her kitchen and call her a whore, and she doesn't kick them out of her house. She rolls over and accepts everything. It is fucking disgusting.
Then, for the last quarter of the book, the only thing she had going for her - seeming to be competent at her job - falls apart as she makes one stupid decision after another. The bad guy is so fucking obvious he's practically twirling his curly mustache in her face. She walks into his trap. She then proceeds with the world's most hare-brained plan, to catch the hunters. It predictably falls to shit. There seemed to be lots of opportunities to salvage the situation - seemed, because her powers are so ill-defined, but there's stuff we have seen her do before that I don't understand why she doesn't do here, like suck people's energy out - but she doesn't do any of it. Then, in the most laughable moment of the climax, she's running from a murderer in the woods and she stops running to yell at the person running with her. And then murderer then jumps her. I rolled my eyes so hard that I actually gave myself vertigo.
The backstory elements are cool, but that may only seem to be the case because they are so nebulous. Who knows. I'm going to read one more in the series to see if it gets its shit together, but I'd say there's maybe a 10% chance of me continuing beyond there.
**2.5**
I love everything else about this book, seriously. But Raven sucks, and she sucks so much that it is hard to gauge the other characters. Like, they walk all over her like she's a doormat. Does that reflect more on them, or her? I don't know, so I can't gauge them.
Raven is a pretend badass. She talks tough, she seems to have strong powers (seems, because that's another flaw to this book - there's little detail or structure given about her powers, so I don't know what she can REALLY do, and I'm suspicious that's deliberate so she can do anything the author needs her to do, frankly), people she's known for a long time seem to respect that she does indeed have strong powers, and her inner narrative has a baseline setting of "take no shit".
That would ordinarily be great - that's the basic ingredients for Kate Daniels, one of my favorite UF heroines ever. But it's all a lie. Literally everyone she encounters in this book walks all over her. She lets people bully their way into her life and her job with only a token pushback - Jackson even goes so far as to fuck up her work relationships and leak info about her cases, and she blusters about it a teeny bit but ultimately does nothing. People stand in her kitchen and call her a whore, and she doesn't kick them out of her house. She rolls over and accepts everything. It is fucking disgusting.
Then, for the last quarter of the book, the only thing she had going for her - seeming to be competent at her job - falls apart as she makes one stupid decision after another. The bad guy is so fucking obvious he's practically twirling his curly mustache in her face. She walks into his trap. She then proceeds with the world's most hare-brained plan, to catch the hunters. It predictably falls to shit. There seemed to be lots of opportunities to salvage the situation - seemed, because her powers are so ill-defined, but there's stuff we have seen her do before that I don't understand why she doesn't do here, like suck people's energy out - but she doesn't do any of it. Then, in the most laughable moment of the climax, she's running from a murderer in the woods and she stops running to yell at the person running with her. And then murderer then jumps her. I rolled my eyes so hard that I actually gave myself vertigo.
The backstory elements are cool, but that may only seem to be the case because they are so nebulous. Who knows. I'm going to read one more in the series to see if it gets its shit together, but I'd say there's maybe a 10% chance of me continuing beyond there.
**2.5**
March 23, 2013
Please, see the update at the end.
I'm not sure how to rate Electric Storm. At the beginning, for the fist few chapters and over, I really thought this was going to be a good book, 3 stars verging on the 4.
Then it slowly unravelled. What started pretty fresh and new became a carbon copy of an Anita Blake novel, you could match character to character, story to story. And unfortunately the clone could not hope to win.
The plot was good even if the setting was again a deja-read (Paranormal consultant to the police, working for a Lieutenant that reveals himself prejudiced, missing shifters, human hunters that organize a hunt of "big game" with the help of a traitor, being grandfathered at the end... shall we play the guess-the-Anita-title game?)
There were too many characters, so unfortunately not enough depth to them. But the bigger problem was that you couldn't avoid to compare them to the original. The heroine suffers deeply. Anita is a strong woman if damaged. Here we have a whiner, unable to stop the people in her life to steamroll her. If any of A's men had threatened one of her investigation, she would have ripped them a new life. Here the heroine does nothing. She is enraged, but there's no retaliation. Anita's men know she is GOOD, they would never endanger her or the others in an attempt to protect her. Here it happens the other way out. She wants to protect them (anita-like) and they keep interfering.
What I found worse is that AB is often called a slut and there's a strong base of fans who hated her and her author after book ten. But Anita moved slowly to that point and moreover she has sex. Period. She's not ruled by hormones. Hell, it's difficult to say that the ardeur rules her. So seeing someone who wants to emulate her whimpering every time a male goes near her is infuriating. I prefer the excessive sex in a Blake novel, to the unfulfilled fake tension in this book. I say fake because I found all this PNR matey stuff bs, I really do not want to know a woman whose brain goes mush at the sight/smell/presence of a man. I don't find sexy a woman who stops to think.
I'm not even sure how she linked so quickly to this many guys.
A bigger problem, less related to what I like or dislike, is the world-building. The over-all world is clear enough, again as it's based on the known. My problem came with the heroine (oh a necromance! Infected with the strain of different animal virus....What a novelty!! Not. Anita again if you missed the reference < grin >) whose power is based on electricity. I did never understand how it worked or (better) stopped working for the plot's sake.
Weirdly enough there weren't too many typos.
Updated to add:
Reading what I wrote yesterday I realized it seemed I was pissed because this is an AB rip-off. No, I don't mind the fact at all. I read a few New Species books by Lauren Dohner without a qualm. You do wonder how it's possible they were published and that's it :D
I consider this book more like a tribute, kind of fan-fiction. But where Dohner took the idea and wrote her books on it, her characters are her own. Clearly, given the story they'll never be fresh as they are based on someone else's works. But I never really seen the scaffolding under them.
Here, after a while, you really saw the pieces coming from the LH's work.
Again, it's mostly distracting and it does detract from this book, but for this reason: it sucks you out of the story. The ok rating comes from this and the confusing bits (or those I didn't like): the heroine's power that seemed to be different at the beginning and the end, the hoarding of men (they could be pack, why the matey stuff?), the woman as a walking hormone clichés.
I had the same problem with BloodSworn. You clearly saw the influence there too, but it was much less distracting.
I think Ms Brutger writes nicely and hopefully one day she'll be a good writer able to better weave the "common" fantasy worlds and tropes into a world of her own.
I'm not sure how to rate Electric Storm. At the beginning, for the fist few chapters and over, I really thought this was going to be a good book, 3 stars verging on the 4.
Then it slowly unravelled. What started pretty fresh and new became a carbon copy of an Anita Blake novel, you could match character to character, story to story. And unfortunately the clone could not hope to win.
The plot was good even if the setting was again a deja-read (Paranormal consultant to the police, working for a Lieutenant that reveals himself prejudiced, missing shifters, human hunters that organize a hunt of "big game" with the help of a traitor, being grandfathered at the end... shall we play the guess-the-Anita-title game?)
There were too many characters, so unfortunately not enough depth to them. But the bigger problem was that you couldn't avoid to compare them to the original. The heroine suffers deeply. Anita is a strong woman if damaged. Here we have a whiner, unable to stop the people in her life to steamroll her. If any of A's men had threatened one of her investigation, she would have ripped them a new life. Here the heroine does nothing. She is enraged, but there's no retaliation. Anita's men know she is GOOD, they would never endanger her or the others in an attempt to protect her. Here it happens the other way out. She wants to protect them (anita-like) and they keep interfering.
What I found worse is that AB is often called a slut and there's a strong base of fans who hated her and her author after book ten. But Anita moved slowly to that point and moreover she has sex. Period. She's not ruled by hormones. Hell, it's difficult to say that the ardeur rules her. So seeing someone who wants to emulate her whimpering every time a male goes near her is infuriating. I prefer the excessive sex in a Blake novel, to the unfulfilled fake tension in this book. I say fake because I found all this PNR matey stuff bs, I really do not want to know a woman whose brain goes mush at the sight/smell/presence of a man. I don't find sexy a woman who stops to think.
I'm not even sure how she linked so quickly to this many guys.
A bigger problem, less related to what I like or dislike, is the world-building. The over-all world is clear enough, again as it's based on the known. My problem came with the heroine (oh a necromance! Infected with the strain of different animal virus....What a novelty!! Not. Anita again if you missed the reference < grin >) whose power is based on electricity. I did never understand how it worked or (better) stopped working for the plot's sake.
Weirdly enough there weren't too many typos.
Updated to add:
Reading what I wrote yesterday I realized it seemed I was pissed because this is an AB rip-off. No, I don't mind the fact at all. I read a few New Species books by Lauren Dohner without a qualm. You do wonder how it's possible they were published and that's it :D
I consider this book more like a tribute, kind of fan-fiction. But where Dohner took the idea and wrote her books on it, her characters are her own. Clearly, given the story they'll never be fresh as they are based on someone else's works. But I never really seen the scaffolding under them.
Here, after a while, you really saw the pieces coming from the LH's work.
Again, it's mostly distracting and it does detract from this book, but for this reason: it sucks you out of the story. The ok rating comes from this and the confusing bits (or those I didn't like): the heroine's power that seemed to be different at the beginning and the end, the hoarding of men (they could be pack, why the matey stuff?), the woman as a walking hormone clichés.
I had the same problem with BloodSworn. You clearly saw the influence there too, but it was much less distracting.
I think Ms Brutger writes nicely and hopefully one day she'll be a good writer able to better weave the "common" fantasy worlds and tropes into a world of her own.
June 20, 2012
At one time or another we’ve all experienced a feeling of separation from our friends, family or loved ones, but it’s usually a temporary distance. If not temporary, eventually other people come into our lives to replace the connections we’ve lost.
But what if separating yourself from others, living an emotionally isolated lifestyle wasn’t merely a choice but a necessity—the only one that guaranteed you wouldn’t kill the ones you love?
Raven knows because that’s the way she’s existed for the past ten years, after greedy men and greedier scientists changed her forever. They made her different, but they didn’t break her. Instead, they forged a will of iron. One she wields for justice on behalf of the Paranormals discriminated against in the human world.
She hides from the scientists in plain sight, working as a liaison for the police department on Paranormal cases, and investigating private cases on the side—never revealing who she is or what she can do.
Only those on her investigative team know about her, and she exists on the outer edges of even this private group. That is, until fate decides to shake things up. Raven becomes embroiled in the shifter world when she tries to save a slave named Taggert at auction. Instead of freeing him, politics and rules force her to bring him into her home and protect him—as well as Jackson, the man assigned to watch over him.
Raven tries to keep her distance. She can’t get close to anyone. But their seriously alpha personalities and distractingly gorgeous bodies are playing havoc on her emotions and libido. And when she thinks things can’t get any more complicated, the cases she’s working endanger not just her life, but the lives of everyone she cares for.
I LOVED this book. It’s equally plot and character driven. The plot is filled with enough tension and twists to propel the storyline at a breakneck pace. The characters are dimensional, interesting and resonate with genuineness and emotion. Yes, the heroes are total hotties—all of them. (There’s a list, so get ready for some serious character crush action!)
Have I kept things a bit general and not spoilerish? You bet. This story rocks, and I won’t give away any of the surprises. Electric Storm is the first novel I’ve read by Ms. Brutger—and I’m waiting on pins and needles for the next installment of Raven and her gang.
Read Electric Storm. You won’t be disappointed—well, except for having to wait for the next book in the series to come out!
But what if separating yourself from others, living an emotionally isolated lifestyle wasn’t merely a choice but a necessity—the only one that guaranteed you wouldn’t kill the ones you love?
Raven knows because that’s the way she’s existed for the past ten years, after greedy men and greedier scientists changed her forever. They made her different, but they didn’t break her. Instead, they forged a will of iron. One she wields for justice on behalf of the Paranormals discriminated against in the human world.
She hides from the scientists in plain sight, working as a liaison for the police department on Paranormal cases, and investigating private cases on the side—never revealing who she is or what she can do.
Only those on her investigative team know about her, and she exists on the outer edges of even this private group. That is, until fate decides to shake things up. Raven becomes embroiled in the shifter world when she tries to save a slave named Taggert at auction. Instead of freeing him, politics and rules force her to bring him into her home and protect him—as well as Jackson, the man assigned to watch over him.
Raven tries to keep her distance. She can’t get close to anyone. But their seriously alpha personalities and distractingly gorgeous bodies are playing havoc on her emotions and libido. And when she thinks things can’t get any more complicated, the cases she’s working endanger not just her life, but the lives of everyone she cares for.
I LOVED this book. It’s equally plot and character driven. The plot is filled with enough tension and twists to propel the storyline at a breakneck pace. The characters are dimensional, interesting and resonate with genuineness and emotion. Yes, the heroes are total hotties—all of them. (There’s a list, so get ready for some serious character crush action!)
Have I kept things a bit general and not spoilerish? You bet. This story rocks, and I won’t give away any of the surprises. Electric Storm is the first novel I’ve read by Ms. Brutger—and I’m waiting on pins and needles for the next installment of Raven and her gang.
Read Electric Storm. You won’t be disappointed—well, except for having to wait for the next book in the series to come out!
November 27, 2022
A storm is a good title for this book. Because there's an absolute shit-storm of stuff going on...overall I enjoyed it and will be reading the next one, but wow my brain was a little scrambled at times!
More to come, maybe...
More to come, maybe...
November 26, 2017
This shit was mad confusing!!!
As previously stated by many reviewers that the writing and editing leaves a lot to be desired....
I MEAN A LOT.... SERIOUSLY....
What is even happening?
But let's not forget I am an ever-panting-angsty-smut-craving-hoe so I accept whatever the fuck was happening in the book. It's ok I am with it... at least the parts I understood.
As previously stated by many reviewers that the writing and editing leaves a lot to be desired....
I MEAN A LOT.... SERIOUSLY....
What is even happening?
But let's not forget I am an ever-panting-angsty-smut-craving-hoe so I accept whatever the fuck was happening in the book. It's ok I am with it... at least the parts I understood.
October 10, 2013
I really enjoyed this story. I’m a fan of the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton and The Hallows series by Kim Harrison. This novel reminded me of those authors, but was about shifters and Raven, a heroine who doesn’t know the extent of her unique powers. I thought the development Raven was outstanding and she stayed in character for the entire novel. The inter-workings of the shifters was complex and I wanted to know more. I also would have liked more definitive hero as at first I thought it was one character, than another, and so on. I got lost in the multitude of characters. I found myself flipping back to figure out who was who. But even those reasons didn’t stop me from turning pages to find out what happened. It’s addictive.
I’ve already purchased the second book in this series, Electric Moon, and can’t wait to read it.
I’ve already purchased the second book in this series, Electric Moon, and can’t wait to read it.
November 22, 2015
2.75 stars
February 1, 2022
While I found the world-building interesting, trying to follow the story was incredibly confusing as relationships and the society itself weren't well explained, and the story moved along very rapidly before I fully understood what was going on.
The slave auction didn't seem like much of a slave auction when I hadn't noticed any bidding, and the extra shifter that followed Raven's claimed slave home came out of nowhere and was just accepted by Raven without much protest. It took a good 25% of the book before Jackson's backstory was explained and why he was following Taggert around. The whole shifter mating and pack joining seemed to have new arbitrary rules added every few chapters and seemed to be a bunch of poorly planned out details.
The concept of Raven's house of misfits was also a huge mass of confusion to me. Was Raven the boss or was Dominic the boss? Where did all the shifters live usually if they only lived in Raven's house for short stints of time? Is Dominic supposed to be a love interest of Raven? Why is he and London the bear shifter the only ones that keep showing up in the nick of time? Then there's Rylan the deadly vampire - his background with Raven was glossed over in a few sentences, and his appearance in critical scenes are quite unpredictable.
Raven's conduit abilities were another pretty poorly explained plot point. Her deadly ability had to deal with lots of electricity and hoarding it from the environment, but she also couldn't control it because of... personal reasons? mental reasons? just reasons? She somehow also ended up with a ton of shifter animals inside of her from experimentation in the labs and they do... something? They're somehow vital to tying different shifters she encounters into her pack for safety reasons? What shifter animals does she have inside her anyways? And just to add to the chaos, let's also give Raven some vampire-like and necromantic abilities that had to be a *big secret* that would pop up every few chapters for some random purpose?
Raven seemed to just be along for the ride throughout the whole book, pushed around like a leaf in a current by the other men in her life, rather than a bad-ass alpha chick that set the course of action as she was portrayed to be with all these god-like special abilities. I'm giving this book a marginal 3-star since I do like what I understand about the characters and the world but very unenthusiastically since the book was very poorly paced and the plot poorly implemented.
Continuing with the next book to see if it improves.
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Ratings - abandoned series:
#1 Electric Storm (this book): ★★★☆☆
#2 Electric Moon: ★★★☆☆
#3 Electric Heat: ★★★☆☆
#4 Electric Legend: ★☆☆☆☆ / DNF
The slave auction didn't seem like much of a slave auction when I hadn't noticed any bidding, and the extra shifter that followed Raven's claimed slave home came out of nowhere and was just accepted by Raven without much protest. It took a good 25% of the book before Jackson's backstory was explained and why he was following Taggert around. The whole shifter mating and pack joining seemed to have new arbitrary rules added every few chapters and seemed to be a bunch of poorly planned out details.
The concept of Raven's house of misfits was also a huge mass of confusion to me. Was Raven the boss or was Dominic the boss? Where did all the shifters live usually if they only lived in Raven's house for short stints of time? Is Dominic supposed to be a love interest of Raven? Why is he and London the bear shifter the only ones that keep showing up in the nick of time? Then there's Rylan the deadly vampire - his background with Raven was glossed over in a few sentences, and his appearance in critical scenes are quite unpredictable.
Raven's conduit abilities were another pretty poorly explained plot point. Her deadly ability had to deal with lots of electricity and hoarding it from the environment, but she also couldn't control it because of... personal reasons? mental reasons? just reasons? She somehow also ended up with a ton of shifter animals inside of her from experimentation in the labs and they do... something? They're somehow vital to tying different shifters she encounters into her pack for safety reasons? What shifter animals does she have inside her anyways? And just to add to the chaos, let's also give Raven some vampire-like and necromantic abilities that had to be a *big secret* that would pop up every few chapters for some random purpose?
Raven seemed to just be along for the ride throughout the whole book, pushed around like a leaf in a current by the other men in her life, rather than a bad-ass alpha chick that set the course of action as she was portrayed to be with all these god-like special abilities. I'm giving this book a marginal 3-star since I do like what I understand about the characters and the world but very unenthusiastically since the book was very poorly paced and the plot poorly implemented.
Continuing with the next book to see if it improves.
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Ratings - abandoned series:
#1 Electric Storm (this book): ★★★☆☆
#2 Electric Moon: ★★★☆☆
#3 Electric Heat: ★★★☆☆
#4 Electric Legend: ★☆☆☆☆ / DNF
June 3, 2014
I do remember reading this a while ago, but have kept going because it's so good.
The plot is a basic murder mystery with detectives and the whole shebang. The character is very contemporary, someone you can empathise with and understand, as well as being likable.
The mix of supernatural with the human characters is well integrated, and we have an all round good tale.
Shall be on to the next one soon, and looking forward to the third book coming out this year.
The plot is a basic murder mystery with detectives and the whole shebang. The character is very contemporary, someone you can empathise with and understand, as well as being likable.
The mix of supernatural with the human characters is well integrated, and we have an all round good tale.
Shall be on to the next one soon, and looking forward to the third book coming out this year.
December 29, 2017
I’ve never been more confused about what happened in a book... like things happened...there was a plot? And characters? But what happened exactly? I feel so baffled... 😩
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October 7, 2020DNF @ 52%
Second attempt at reading it, but I just cant. Might give it it's last chance sometime in the very distant future
Second attempt at reading it, but I just cant. Might give it it's last chance sometime in the very distant future
June 16, 2023
4.5
Loved this book - hard to put down. Was not perfect but it had a lot of things I dig about addicting PNR series. Do hope it ends up being RH - seems to be but hard to tell. Nothing else would work as well though with the set-up. The biggest annoyance was her inconsistent power - she'd go from extremely powered to weak seeming, hard to handle to easy to handle, plenty of blacking out "fades to black". She either can draw tons of strength, or she loses it too easily. The power level became frustrating and inconsistent.
Loved this book - hard to put down. Was not perfect but it had a lot of things I dig about addicting PNR series. Do hope it ends up being RH - seems to be but hard to tell. Nothing else would work as well though with the set-up. The biggest annoyance was her inconsistent power - she'd go from extremely powered to weak seeming, hard to handle to easy to handle, plenty of blacking out "fades to black". She either can draw tons of strength, or she loses it too easily. The power level became frustrating and inconsistent.
May 6, 2022
Pizza series
This is the kind of series/book you read while you're in between hard, rough books. Like a pizza: it helps with your hunger, but it's nothing special.
Anyway, back to the book.
Good start of the series, fun, I'll go on with it. The MC seems ok, and the writing is decent. It even made me a bit curious to see what'll happen next, so well done, first book!
This is the kind of series/book you read while you're in between hard, rough books. Like a pizza: it helps with your hunger, but it's nothing special.
Anyway, back to the book.
Good start of the series, fun, I'll go on with it. The MC seems ok, and the writing is decent. It even made me a bit curious to see what'll happen next, so well done, first book!
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May 20, 2025dnf -writing style a bit hither and nither
April 9, 2020
So it's been a couple of weeks since I read this one but I have to say I am still thinking about it. I've even become a slight bookish stalker on Stacey Brutger's web page. I really need book 2, like yesterday! Obsessed I tell you, obsessed!!
This book kicked ass. It was unique and had everything I love about Para/Urban Fantasy. Raven reminded me of the early days of Anita Blake and from me that's a compliment 'cuz I love the early Anita Blake books. Raven is the kind of chick I would so want for my BFF. She is strong without being a bitch. Independent, powerful and willing to do what she must to protect the ones that have come into her life. She's got several love interests and while romance is not the key element of the book, the chemistry between her and these men rock!!
Raven is a kick ass heroine. She also has quite the menagerie of power going on. I know that this drives some people crazy but for this book it really works. Raven starts out very closed off from anyone, she won't let anyone touch her and emotionally she is very shut down. For very good reason, but still...
These men are deliciously awesome. They all have distinct personalities and I never felt like I was reading about the same guy over and over. I really hope that she ends up with all of them. I know, I know, that's a lot of men for one woman, but Raven can totally handle it.
There is the very sweet and damaged, Taggert, who also happens to be a were-wolf. Jackson, who is also a were-wolf and in the beginning I wasn't sure what I thought about him but by the end I loved him. Durrant, is a were-tiger, and I am excited to see where the relationship goes. Last, but certainly, not least is Ryland, the very deliciously dark and mysterious vampire.
The writing and world building were really awesome. Stacey Brutger is a writer to watch and I will definitely be reading anything else that she writes.
I recommend this book to anyone who loves a really good Paranormal/Urban Fantasy book.
If you haven't read Electric Storm, do, go buy it. It's good, really good.
Originally posted on Me, Myself & Books
This book kicked ass. It was unique and had everything I love about Para/Urban Fantasy. Raven reminded me of the early days of Anita Blake and from me that's a compliment 'cuz I love the early Anita Blake books. Raven is the kind of chick I would so want for my BFF. She is strong without being a bitch. Independent, powerful and willing to do what she must to protect the ones that have come into her life. She's got several love interests and while romance is not the key element of the book, the chemistry between her and these men rock!!
Raven is a kick ass heroine. She also has quite the menagerie of power going on. I know that this drives some people crazy but for this book it really works. Raven starts out very closed off from anyone, she won't let anyone touch her and emotionally she is very shut down. For very good reason, but still...
These men are deliciously awesome. They all have distinct personalities and I never felt like I was reading about the same guy over and over. I really hope that she ends up with all of them. I know, I know, that's a lot of men for one woman, but Raven can totally handle it.
There is the very sweet and damaged, Taggert, who also happens to be a were-wolf. Jackson, who is also a were-wolf and in the beginning I wasn't sure what I thought about him but by the end I loved him. Durrant, is a were-tiger, and I am excited to see where the relationship goes. Last, but certainly, not least is Ryland, the very deliciously dark and mysterious vampire.
The writing and world building were really awesome. Stacey Brutger is a writer to watch and I will definitely be reading anything else that she writes.
I recommend this book to anyone who loves a really good Paranormal/Urban Fantasy book.
If you haven't read Electric Storm, do, go buy it. It's good, really good.
Originally posted on Me, Myself & Books
August 31, 2018
Hmmm, nope. DNF'd this at 16% and I wish it a horrible trip all the way to book hell. This is someone's work, so I don't necessarily want to call it utter trash, and yet... to me it is, but I sincerely hope other people like it better.
I've finally gained enough emotional distance from what a terrible waste of pages this awful read is so that I no longer wonder if I should continue to give it anymore chances(it would be the 30th by now, I'm pretty sure). That being said, excuse me if I choose not to think on it too much in order to not go back to that dark, dark place. I guess this review will have only the few thoughts I bothered to gather while reading this to consist of *shrugs*:
February 15, 2018 –
15.0% "gah, I just remembered: she took the two guys to a crime scene!!!!!!!!! like what the fricking pnr book hell????"
February 15, 2018 –
15.0% "This will probably be dnf'd."
February 15, 2018 –
15.0% "some other people that have the same dark and mysterious past as her. None of whom appear to like her, one of them(a girl, obviously, b/c women never like each other, duh) even going as far as to openly insult her for making breakfast/lunch/dinner. Also, the two guys are going to sleep in her room. B/C REASONS! = romance has to happen someway, somehow."
February 15, 2018 –
14.0% "I don't know if the problem is that this book really is as confusing as I find it to be, or if it only seems that way because of how much I skimmed through it. Either way, until now the only thing that I remember happening is that the MC went to a club to hook up with someone, but there was some type of slavery auction thingy happening there, so that was a bust. Then two guys followed her home, where she lives with +"
- too many threads with nothing to connect them to each other
- slut-shaming
- all the guys love the MC for NO REASON AT ALL, and I mean that in a literal sense
- all the guys are idiots and not even in a way that can be considered fond
- all the characters(up until now) are dumb
- lousy workplace ethics(here's something I never thought I'd write in a book review)
I've finally gained enough emotional distance from what a terrible waste of pages this awful read is so that I no longer wonder if I should continue to give it anymore chances(it would be the 30th by now, I'm pretty sure). That being said, excuse me if I choose not to think on it too much in order to not go back to that dark, dark place. I guess this review will have only the few thoughts I bothered to gather while reading this to consist of *shrugs*:
February 15, 2018 –
15.0% "gah, I just remembered: she took the two guys to a crime scene!!!!!!!!! like what the fricking pnr book hell????"
February 15, 2018 –
15.0% "This will probably be dnf'd."
February 15, 2018 –
15.0% "some other people that have the same dark and mysterious past as her. None of whom appear to like her, one of them(a girl, obviously, b/c women never like each other, duh) even going as far as to openly insult her for making breakfast/lunch/dinner. Also, the two guys are going to sleep in her room. B/C REASONS! = romance has to happen someway, somehow."
February 15, 2018 –
14.0% "I don't know if the problem is that this book really is as confusing as I find it to be, or if it only seems that way because of how much I skimmed through it. Either way, until now the only thing that I remember happening is that the MC went to a club to hook up with someone, but there was some type of slavery auction thingy happening there, so that was a bust. Then two guys followed her home, where she lives with +"
- too many threads with nothing to connect them to each other
- slut-shaming
- all the guys love the MC for NO REASON AT ALL, and I mean that in a literal sense
- all the guys are idiots and not even in a way that can be considered fond
- all the characters(up until now) are dumb
- lousy workplace ethics(here's something I never thought I'd write in a book review)
June 6, 2012
Reviewed at [Insert clever quip here]
I thought this book was very well written and full of sizzling, detailed description. It drew me in from the start and I refused to put it down even when I needed to get to bed. The author crafted a detailed fictional world full of interesting, diverse characters.
The heroine, Raven, is a natural born protector and leader. It's rare to find such a strong, engaging alpha female. Also, the heroes, and I do mean hero in the plural form, are all very swoon-worthy and protective of Raven. It was intriguing to read how their motley pack formed and continued to grow throughout the book.
The author did a fantastic job setting the basis for a series and even managed to sneak in a cliffhanger at the end. Of course, I'll have to pick up her next book so I can finally find out what happens! Jeez. I'll be waiting for that one, Ms. Brutger!
I thought this book was very well written and full of sizzling, detailed description. It drew me in from the start and I refused to put it down even when I needed to get to bed. The author crafted a detailed fictional world full of interesting, diverse characters.
The heroine, Raven, is a natural born protector and leader. It's rare to find such a strong, engaging alpha female. Also, the heroes, and I do mean hero in the plural form, are all very swoon-worthy and protective of Raven. It was intriguing to read how their motley pack formed and continued to grow throughout the book.
The author did a fantastic job setting the basis for a series and even managed to sneak in a cliffhanger at the end. Of course, I'll have to pick up her next book so I can finally find out what happens! Jeez. I'll be waiting for that one, Ms. Brutger!
March 16, 2018
more dark than i expected.
not necessarily bad but theres definitely triggers and a more gore compared to similar series.
most characters have traumatic pasts.
theres a lot of plots that are consistently overlapping like a murder mystery which while not bad is a bit full on in addition to everything else happening as well.
the romance aspect confuses me.
its not traditional at all and its not even typical of shifters/paranormal in the sense of one true fatef mate type deal so... yeah
idk i liked it and i'll continue the series but hopefully theres some sort of balanve or routine or normal because this book was crazy everything up it the air no time to even close your eyes type deal. even though it was very go go go it was also dense so it felt like harder to read than a more simplified plot.
while i do enjoy complex characters and stories i guess im more comfortable with only one or two antagonists or problems or whatever instead of everything being a free for all.
the lack of idk solid ground left me a lil uneasy despite her pack supporting her there was still a lot of weirdness and betrayal and general unknown to have evn that be stable so yeah.
if you prefer more murdery mystery and gritty stuff then this will be right up your alley but im more of an adventure fantasy romance with some humour thrown in type deal less dark and depressing more aww reactions and laughter & kick him in the balls action. rather than rape torture slavery i mean there is a lot of sick twisted shit that is mentioned as happening before or happens during the course of the book. so you know not exactly a mood upper.
looking forward to the next book it seems to be more solid happy/romance wise at the very least. *probable wishful thinking*
not necessarily bad but theres definitely triggers and a more gore compared to similar series.
most characters have traumatic pasts.
theres a lot of plots that are consistently overlapping like a murder mystery which while not bad is a bit full on in addition to everything else happening as well.
the romance aspect confuses me.
its not traditional at all and its not even typical of shifters/paranormal in the sense of one true fatef mate type deal so... yeah
idk i liked it and i'll continue the series but hopefully theres some sort of balanve or routine or normal because this book was crazy everything up it the air no time to even close your eyes type deal. even though it was very go go go it was also dense so it felt like harder to read than a more simplified plot.
while i do enjoy complex characters and stories i guess im more comfortable with only one or two antagonists or problems or whatever instead of everything being a free for all.
the lack of idk solid ground left me a lil uneasy despite her pack supporting her there was still a lot of weirdness and betrayal and general unknown to have evn that be stable so yeah.
if you prefer more murdery mystery and gritty stuff then this will be right up your alley but im more of an adventure fantasy romance with some humour thrown in type deal less dark and depressing more aww reactions and laughter & kick him in the balls action. rather than rape torture slavery i mean there is a lot of sick twisted shit that is mentioned as happening before or happens during the course of the book. so you know not exactly a mood upper.
looking forward to the next book it seems to be more solid happy/romance wise at the very least. *probable wishful thinking*
April 28, 2023
3 Confused Stars
I’m so confused! I think the author had an awesome idea for this book. She probably had all the details In her head or in her notes…maybe she didn’t notice when they never ended up in the final copy?
I don’t understand anything. I don’t understand the magic system in this world. I don’t understand what it means to be a conduit. I don’t understand why FMC thinks she will die if she ever shifts.
I don’t understand the relationships. I don’t know what is going on between these people, but it doesn’t feel romantic even if they are mated. The whole thing feels like a business transaction with poorly explained terms.
I don’t understand the world they live in or the politics of it all.
I literally understand nothing about this book .
- 👀 Single, third person-limited POV
- 📖 Urban Fantasy RH
- 🤓 Tropes: I have no idea, I’m too confused…
- 🔪 Badass FMC with electricity powers. She has multiple animals like a shifter, but she can’t shift
- 🌎 2/5 World-building Stars
- ⭐️ 4/5 Plot-line Stars
- 🥸 2/5 Character Development Stars
- 👥 Mates: Maybe 3? Maybe 4? I know nothing
- ♥️ 0/5 Romance Stars (no romance yet)
- 🍒 Virgins: I think the FMC maybe? But there were hints about past SA, so IDK
- 🌶 0/5 Spicy Stars (no spice at all yet)
- 🔥 Slow burn
- 🚫 No MM, no OW, no Cheating, no bullying, no betrayal
- ‼️ Triggers: shifter slavery, hints of past trauma and SA from multiple characters
⭐️ Shifters (wolf, feline, chameleon, etc), Vampires, unexplained magic users who aren’t witches…)
I’m so confused! I think the author had an awesome idea for this book. She probably had all the details In her head or in her notes…maybe she didn’t notice when they never ended up in the final copy?
I don’t understand anything. I don’t understand the magic system in this world. I don’t understand what it means to be a conduit. I don’t understand why FMC thinks she will die if she ever shifts.
I don’t understand the relationships. I don’t know what is going on between these people, but it doesn’t feel romantic even if they are mated. The whole thing feels like a business transaction with poorly explained terms.
I don’t understand the world they live in or the politics of it all.
I literally understand nothing about this book .
- 👀 Single, third person-limited POV
- 📖 Urban Fantasy RH
- 🤓 Tropes: I have no idea, I’m too confused…
- 🔪 Badass FMC with electricity powers. She has multiple animals like a shifter, but she can’t shift
- 🌎 2/5 World-building Stars
- ⭐️ 4/5 Plot-line Stars
- 🥸 2/5 Character Development Stars
- 👥 Mates: Maybe 3? Maybe 4? I know nothing
- ♥️ 0/5 Romance Stars (no romance yet)
- 🍒 Virgins: I think the FMC maybe? But there were hints about past SA, so IDK
- 🌶 0/5 Spicy Stars (no spice at all yet)
- 🔥 Slow burn
- 🚫 No MM, no OW, no Cheating, no bullying, no betrayal
- ‼️ Triggers: shifter slavery, hints of past trauma and SA from multiple characters
⭐️ Shifters (wolf, feline, chameleon, etc), Vampires, unexplained magic users who aren’t witches…)
October 5, 2020
Kindle Unlimited.
2.5 stars
The best way that I can describe the experience of reading this book is walking into a lecture hall halfway through the lecture. You sit and hope that by listening in and using some context clues, you'll figure out what you missed and what you need to know before your exam.
There is ZERO world building, but there is, in fact, a very specific, delicate balance of species and protocols for each species. As the reader, we just don't know them. For some reason, the main character needs to remain hidden, and her magic needs to be a secret. But she uses it all the time because she has no control.
Paranormals are out in the open, but still removed from main stream society. Slave auctions are a normal part of shifter culture. Our heroine knows this, and many other random facts about shifters, but then again, she also knows nothing about shifter culture.
Do you see where I'm going with this?
I think the premise of this book, and the characters are great. I think it needs an edit with MAJOR additions for world building and just general explanations of w.t.f. is going on.
I still don't understand the whole Jackson thing. Do they actually want to be together or not?
All of that said, I felt like I was sort of understanding towards the end, and then the book ended. Of course. So, I'm going to try book two and see if these issues smooth out.
2.5 stars
The best way that I can describe the experience of reading this book is walking into a lecture hall halfway through the lecture. You sit and hope that by listening in and using some context clues, you'll figure out what you missed and what you need to know before your exam.
There is ZERO world building, but there is, in fact, a very specific, delicate balance of species and protocols for each species. As the reader, we just don't know them. For some reason, the main character needs to remain hidden, and her magic needs to be a secret. But she uses it all the time because she has no control.
Paranormals are out in the open, but still removed from main stream society. Slave auctions are a normal part of shifter culture. Our heroine knows this, and many other random facts about shifters, but then again, she also knows nothing about shifter culture.
Do you see where I'm going with this?
I think the premise of this book, and the characters are great. I think it needs an edit with MAJOR additions for world building and just general explanations of w.t.f. is going on.
I still don't understand the whole Jackson thing. Do they actually want to be together or not?
All of that said, I felt like I was sort of understanding towards the end, and then the book ended. Of course. So, I'm going to try book two and see if these issues smooth out.
August 29, 2018
I will admit that this book is confusing af because I had no idea what the labs were all about. I mean I could guess, because you know, labs that experiment on people is somewhat self explanatory. The problem is however that the books in this series read like the labs are an established part of the world building when they aren't. Sure as the books progress we learn more about them but the first couple of books left me feeling lost because the books sounded like I should know all about these mysterious labs that no one told me about.
This being said I quite liked Raven and all her guys. The characters are well written, her cases are interesting, the pacing is ridiculously fast and I can't wait for the 6th book.
This being said I quite liked Raven and all her guys. The characters are well written, her cases are interesting, the pacing is ridiculously fast and I can't wait for the 6th book.
November 13, 2017
The story is a little muddled, but I liked the characters and the concepts. I think this might have been the author's first book, so I will continue the series and see if it improves.
November 7, 2020
This book was pure rubbish. I think mainly because the author took no time to explain the world she was creating or its occupants. I wish I knew how such trash gets published
December 24, 2022
Kinda confusing while also kinda interesting I wish I could give half stars on here
December 11, 2013
I've had "Electric Storm" on my 'to read' list for some time; but, imagine my surprise when I discovered that this book contained so many things I normally don't tolerate in books I enjoy yet I really couldn't put it down. How can I explain this? I can't and it still has me scratching my head.
Raven is a loner even though she lives with a group of others. After suffering horrendous experiments performed on her in a lab, she has developed many unique characteristics. She has various shifter, vampire tendencies but most importantly she is a conduit for electricity. She uses her skills to assist the police on cases involving paranormals and she is also a well respected investigator.
While waiting to pick up her friends from "Talons," a paranormal nightclub, Raven becomes worried after they are more than 30 minutes late. Reluctantly she goes inside the club where she meets a young were named Taggert who is a slave. It doesn't take long for Raven to realize she has stumbled into the midst of a slave auction. She is disgusted especially considering the cruelties she suffered from the experiments in this he lab. Unfortunately, before she manages to leave, she sees Taggert be accosted and mishandled by a pack of women. This she will not tolerate and soon she steps in to claim him in order to grant his freedom. What she does not realize is that by doing so, she has just made him her responsibility for the next 30 days as well as the grumpy but sexy were enforcer, Jackson.
Raven has always been reluctant to touch or be touched due to her special electrical nature; yet, she must adjust because weres are by nature touchy feely. As she attempts to maneuver with the police in the investigation of a string horrific paranormal murders she will also have to contend with her new packs need to protect her at any and all costs. This is now an easy thing to adjust to for an independent woman.
Now comes the confusing part. I really was not a big fan of the author's writing style. It did not flow well for me especially recognizing which character was speaking. I had to go back and reread various parts to gain understanding. Additionally, the world building was rather weak and I loathed the way every man within breathing distance was falling all over themselves to be with Raven. I wanted to shout, "Really? Get a grip!" At times there was so much action I thought my head was going to explode. So, if I struggled with all of this why oh why did I give this book 4 stars? I don't know. I just know that as odd as it may sound I really did enjoy this read and I'm looking forward to the next one in the series. So much for me being Ms. LOGICAL.
Raven is a loner even though she lives with a group of others. After suffering horrendous experiments performed on her in a lab, she has developed many unique characteristics. She has various shifter, vampire tendencies but most importantly she is a conduit for electricity. She uses her skills to assist the police on cases involving paranormals and she is also a well respected investigator.
While waiting to pick up her friends from "Talons," a paranormal nightclub, Raven becomes worried after they are more than 30 minutes late. Reluctantly she goes inside the club where she meets a young were named Taggert who is a slave. It doesn't take long for Raven to realize she has stumbled into the midst of a slave auction. She is disgusted especially considering the cruelties she suffered from the experiments in this he lab. Unfortunately, before she manages to leave, she sees Taggert be accosted and mishandled by a pack of women. This she will not tolerate and soon she steps in to claim him in order to grant his freedom. What she does not realize is that by doing so, she has just made him her responsibility for the next 30 days as well as the grumpy but sexy were enforcer, Jackson.
Raven has always been reluctant to touch or be touched due to her special electrical nature; yet, she must adjust because weres are by nature touchy feely. As she attempts to maneuver with the police in the investigation of a string horrific paranormal murders she will also have to contend with her new packs need to protect her at any and all costs. This is now an easy thing to adjust to for an independent woman.
Now comes the confusing part. I really was not a big fan of the author's writing style. It did not flow well for me especially recognizing which character was speaking. I had to go back and reread various parts to gain understanding. Additionally, the world building was rather weak and I loathed the way every man within breathing distance was falling all over themselves to be with Raven. I wanted to shout, "Really? Get a grip!" At times there was so much action I thought my head was going to explode. So, if I struggled with all of this why oh why did I give this book 4 stars? I don't know. I just know that as odd as it may sound I really did enjoy this read and I'm looking forward to the next one in the series. So much for me being Ms. LOGICAL.
July 9, 2014
Ok so the blurb under the cover does not even begin to describe how awesome this book is. This book is.... Kate Daniels + Wird Sisters + Meredith Gentry but without all the awkward slutiness. Yep thats about it. Now, to tell you about how awesome this book really is.
Raven is a "supernatural " conduit who works special liaison cases with LAPD. She keeps her life under the radar because of things that happened in her past. All of that changes when she walks into a supernatural club and saves a werewolf from his horrible fate as a slave. Along with saving the werewolf, she gets his gaurdian. Might I mention they are both extremely hot. Between working a dangerous case with a serial killer who has taken a fancy to shifters and being thrust into the spotlight after being a good Samaritan, Raven has to come to terms about who she is and to learn to trust those around her.
Spoiler alert, she never does. Ok so there is some serious sexual tension in the book between.... Every living breathing male in Raven's vicinity. I wouldn't say it's slutty like Meredith Gentry but it does get a little annoying . Also , through out the entire book Raven is concerned about becoming a monster and or losing control of her abilities. Hey! We get it already! Super strong bad ass female with lots of power and potential to take over the city of La or the Republic of Russia. Sure she's got a horrible past and it has completely tramautized her and left her unable to trust , but with all those HOT supportive people who are willing to protect you even thought they barely know you, I would think you had time to heal. Excuse the run on sentances and the ranting.
All in all the book is pretty f*cking awesome and so is the second. Raven definitely has some serious issues she needs to work out but whatever, awesome kick ass female, hot dudes and a solid plot are all I need to make me happy. Read this book if you enjoy Kate Daniels, Wird Sisters, the toned down version of Meredith Gentry or just urban fantasy in general without the cliche PI background.
Raven is a "supernatural " conduit who works special liaison cases with LAPD. She keeps her life under the radar because of things that happened in her past. All of that changes when she walks into a supernatural club and saves a werewolf from his horrible fate as a slave. Along with saving the werewolf, she gets his gaurdian. Might I mention they are both extremely hot. Between working a dangerous case with a serial killer who has taken a fancy to shifters and being thrust into the spotlight after being a good Samaritan, Raven has to come to terms about who she is and to learn to trust those around her.
Spoiler alert, she never does. Ok so there is some serious sexual tension in the book between.... Every living breathing male in Raven's vicinity. I wouldn't say it's slutty like Meredith Gentry but it does get a little annoying . Also , through out the entire book Raven is concerned about becoming a monster and or losing control of her abilities. Hey! We get it already! Super strong bad ass female with lots of power and potential to take over the city of La or the Republic of Russia. Sure she's got a horrible past and it has completely tramautized her and left her unable to trust , but with all those HOT supportive people who are willing to protect you even thought they barely know you, I would think you had time to heal. Excuse the run on sentances and the ranting.
All in all the book is pretty f*cking awesome and so is the second. Raven definitely has some serious issues she needs to work out but whatever, awesome kick ass female, hot dudes and a solid plot are all I need to make me happy. Read this book if you enjoy Kate Daniels, Wird Sisters, the toned down version of Meredith Gentry or just urban fantasy in general without the cliche PI background.
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