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The Heat

Big Bad Wolf Series, Book 1

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The Heat

By: Heather Killough-Walden
Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
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In the debut to Heather Killough-Walden's Big Bad Wolf series, Lily St. Claire is in for a surprise when she moves back to her Louisiana hometown and finds two alpha werewolves fighting to claim her as their mate. Contains mature themes.

©2010 Heather Killough-Walden, Inc. (P)2011 Tantor Paranormal Paranormal & Urban Fantasy Contemporary
Intriguing Plot • Suspenseful Storyline • Great Reading Voice • Strong Willed Characters • Paranormal Elements

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While browsing through books I came across the review written by another listener and I'm sorry to say I do not remember who it was. But she mentioned this series in the review that she had written for another book and am I glad she did!!! I wasn't to interested in the original book, but I decided to check out this series and again I have to thank you for mentioning it. This is the story of Lily St. James a dormant and Daniel (who happens to be the police chief of New Orleans) a werewolf. This is the first time I have heard of the term "dormant" in relationship to werewolves, a term that means more then just mate. Lily is caught between 2 powerful alpha werewolves, Daniel and Cole. As the story moves along, you come to find out Cole is not the sinister werewolf that he seems to be despite what he does to Lily.

Ms. Walden writes a fast paced book with may twist and turns and Gildart Jackson does a great job of narrating all though he could use a little work on his female voices.

I Would Like to Thank That Reviewer!!!!

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Can I just say Wow! What an amazing book. The way Heather tells this story. I was on my tippy toes and clutching my hands tight. And the way Gildart Jackson reads! I felt as if I was right there in there room with the characters. As soon as the book ended, I purchased the next 3 books in the series. The heroin Lilly, well lets just say every girl next door wants to be in her shoes.

"CLIFHANGER"!!!! "Can't get enough"!!!!

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tough to finish this storyline. I will give next book a chance to speak to me.

book 1

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The book wasn’t bad, but the longer I listened, the less I liked Lily. She’s just too perfect, perfectly nice, perfectly beautiful, perfectly kind and, well, everyone (!) thinks so (I think there were even 2 characters that thought the exact same thing about her, don’t remember what it was, but something along the lines of “she’s the nicest person I’ve ever met”). That’s a Mary Sue right there. Not my type of female lead.

The romance is... meh. It’s a lot more show than tell, imo. And we’re supposed to emphasize with the villain, but he does want to force her to be his just so he feels better; the hero also forces his mark on her without explaining- apparently there’s no time, but hey, you could’ve taken at least 5 minutes to explain the basics, like the serious drawbacks of being freshly marked. Or his sister could have, she did have time.

All in all, it wasn’t for me and I didn’t even finish it. But (!) if you like the possessive male lead archetype and you like the female not having much of a say (in the end she does have a say, she does not get forced! But if she didn’t want to be with him, her choices wouldn’t exactly be great), then you might very well like this book.

The narration was fine, but maybe try to get someone from Louisiana to read a book set in Louisiana next time. He just didn’t get the accent right (which is difficult, let’s be honest here). It might not have been so distracting if the characters with a southern accent had only been minor characters, but since almost everyone is from there, it was a bit jarring. Wouldn’t mind listening to his narration again though, if the setting was right (British).

Didn’t like Lily

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If you could sum up The Heat in three words, what would they be?

Suspenseful, Adventurous, and Interesting

What did you like best about this story?

The way the story was written with the PACK like a family.

What about Gildart Jackson’s performance did you like?

Easily understood

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Don't get too close!!!!

Fantastic Wolf Series

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