Suza Kates

I won this book in a giveaway, and I'm really glad that I did otherwise I wouldn't have known about how fantastic it was.

The book begins with a prologue that introduces a whole bunch of women all seemingly heading to the same place. It was a bit confusing to be bombarded with all this information first thing, but it's only a quick introduction, so it's not that bad really. Anyway, after that the story begins properly. We meet Shauni, who has the ability of communicating with animals. This made for some great scenes with her pet cat, Cuileann, who I thought was great! He had such a no-nonsense attitude, just like you'd imagine a cat to be really.
Shauni's ability to communicate with animals means that she inevitably ends up meeting the town vet, Michael Black. A man who's sweet, sexy and loves animals (he might be my ideal man lol). I liked the relationship between Shauni and Michael, although it did seem to happen a bit quickly.

As for the action part of the story, well there's the coven of witches, including Shauni, who are the good guys, and they're up against some demons. There are, of course, some obligatory fight scenes, and it's all very exciting, if a little predictable. The author builds up this thing about Shauni having to face a test of her powers at the end, but when it came it was a bit of an anti-climax.

Overall I really enjoyed the book and I loved the characters. I'm looking forward to reading more books in the series. My only real complaint is that the author seems to have a habit of describing everyone's hair, which got on my nerves after a while.… (altro)

This book has a lot of characters which are all basically introduced in the first few pages of the book which made it difficult to keep all of the straight until at least halfway through. The characters are somewhat interesting although there's a lot of typecasting and for some reason everyone is gorgeous. There quite a few cliches sprinkled all over the place for the way magic works and feels at times a hodgepodge of a lot of different myths. Also, there are random descriptions that felt like they were put in there because the author felt like it was something cool to say or had always wanted to put something like that in a book.

As a romance novel this is great. The plot is much better than most. As a fantasy novel this is rather ho-hum.

Disclaimer: I won this from First Reads.… (altro)

Shauni has a special talent. She can communcate with animals. When she finds herself irresistabley drawn to an island near Savannah, she discovers that she is not the only one with hidden talents. On the island she joins eight other women who are destined to fight an evil that has been dormant for years. She also finds another irresistable source in the form of a delectable guy with secrets of his own.

This is a really fun novel. It is sort of an old fashioned witch story real magic. I enjoyed the setting, the characters, the magic and the cats. I am looking forward to the next in the series.… (altro)