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Title: Tempting Danger (The World of the Lupi | Book 1) Author: Eileen Wilks Rating: Not available Avg. Score: 5 Submit Comment Hits: 15

Review of Tempting Danger (The World of the Lupi, Book 1)

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• Posted on 2008-07-03
  Dangerously entertaining
  
  This book gets right into the story, doesn't have any whining at all and has a good amount of action. I highly recommend this book.
  Score: 5
• Posted on 2008-05-27
  Touching Romance with a Fantasy Twist, Icky Opening Scene
  
  "Tempting Danger" is an alternate present-day romance, where some people have variety of magical powers. The leaing lady, L--, can sense magic in anything she touches. A police detective, she is brought in to investigate a rather icky murder case. The obvious suspect is R--, a handsome werewolf to whom L-- is immediately drawn.
  
  This is a fast paced, fun novel with surprises and passion. R-- is masculine enough to engage your sympathy; L-- is strong without slipping into radical feminism. Background details draw you in nicely, like L--'s chinese heritage. Other details (like the nearly missing "world description") are left extremely vague, which is slightly annoying yet typically can be overlooked. My biggest problem with this novel is that the opening scene has a really yucky and explicit description of the murder victim. This may offend sensitive readers.
  
  Overall, a fun & fast read, a pleasant story for a lazy afternoon.
  Score: 4
• Posted on 2008-05-11
  Promising...
  
  Lilly Yu is a moral-fibered cop in the San Diego PD. She's no-nonsense and can handle the tough world of magical beings and human criminals. And she's also a sensitive, a human with the rare ability to sense magic by touching beings or objects...
  
  Welcome, to the world where werewolves to gnomes, witches to banshees aren't just behind the scenes and 'hidden', but part of history and reality itself.
  
  So when Lilly is put in charge of a grisly human murder, supposedly done by a werewolf, she's a bit more than alarmed when the main suspect, Rule Turner, a prince of a werewolf clan, is not only off her paranormal scanner but seems to have a powerful pull she can't bat away. Not that she isn't trying.
  
  As evil machinations evolve and more killings occur, Lilly is forced to team with Rule himself, the FBI's Magical Creatures Division, and...her grandmother. Trying to figure it all out isn't easy. Especially when a strong-willed cop, unable to fight something more powerful than magic, just got saddled with her soulmate, Rule.
  
  Wilks effortlessly combined practically every paranormal creature available, but delves only into creatures necessary for plot. There was little action, the focus on characterizations and (mediocre) plotting.
  
  Discovery of this world is organic. So you learn as you read, mostly through the dialogue but even that doesn't clear any confusion, but adds more. Most of it is answered, eventually, but... well, this method is clever but tricky, which was usually confusing and frustrating at times. But, if Wilks brings it up, take note.
  
  The romance element is a subtle twist, though unsatisfying, coming off slightly passionless and flat. It's about personalities and will rather than sexual dueling, though snappy dialogue abound. Wilks seems hesitant to `go there', so the romance is somewhat stilted, almost unexciting. To further frustrate, the emotional and psychological rendering was weak and she kept the main characters at a slight distance, untouchable and robotic.
  
  However, this IS only Book 1, with a creative and interesting world with a well-developed female lead. Be patient, give it a chance and it might get its claws into you too. The promise of something more and greater to come is definitely there. In which case, I'm about to be tugged away to Book 2.
  Score: 3
• Posted on 2008-05-08
  Great book about werewolves
  
  I like when a book can have a known subject and change it or adapt it, and that's what can be found on this book. A new lore on werewolves, and a new way to talk about bonded mates. I liked the femenine character as she isn't too brave or too coward, she's just real, and not flipant at all. She knows who se is and what she wants. The same with or werewolf, who knows what kind of man he is and tries to live up to it. I found the way in which they first clash and afterwards merge wonderful, and very well developed /written. The plot of the book was sound, and I liked it that much that I ordered the three following books without so much as a second thought! ;)
  Score: 5
• Posted on 2008-04-13
  Stick with this book
  
  This book is very hard to get through until you are 2/3 done. BUT, it is worth it. The series is great and will make much more sense come book 2 in the series.
  Score: 4