Leaving the Pack (Silver Nights Trilogy –
Book One). David O’Brien. Tirgearr Publishing. May 2014. 257 pp., 1391 KB. ASIN No.: B00KCYJA78.
The story opens with Paul
waking up by the knowledge that today is the day he will meet the woman with
whom he’ll spend the rest of his life. It’s a day he awaits with great joy and
mind-numbing fear!
For Paul McHew, lawyer by
day and werewolf by night, is the leader of a werewolf pack that runs the local
city streets during the three nights of every full moon cycle each month. During that time the pack seeks to drink
their fill and enjoy as many women as they can have; they’re full of an
extraordinary energy and lust for life during this lunar time. However, they will die out unless they marry
outside of their pack and what human would marry a werewolf?
Susan is a feisty gal who
actually makes the first move when she spots Paul in a local bar. For the first
few minutes it even seems as if they clash so much, there isn’t a chance they
will wind up on a date let alone fall in love.
However, that spark has been lit for sure and they do begin to have some
wildly hot romantic nights, spend many an evening sharing drinks, and even get
to the point when Paul tells Sara he has to be with his buddies at the time of
the full moon. Susan is amused for the
first few months but then begins to wonder at this obsession Paul must fulfill
each month!
Meeting Paul’s family and
planning for the holidays delights Susan, yet Paul is unhappier within himself
as time passes for he must tell her about the secret his family has held for
centuries. Humans have been told some
truths, some lies, some fantastical stories and more about the true identity of
werewolves, with the result being that all humans associate with the word
werewolf is absolute, unmitigated horror!
Some scenes in the book
carry just enough violence to confirm the association, but the reader must
decide how much of reason and animal behavior accounts for what happens in each
scene.
This is the story of a huge
romance that must unfold with the reality of horror diluted by the truth. David O’Brien paces the conflict perfectly
and it all reads like a light-hearted, passionate romance tinged with some
darkness. It seems like a wonderful
beginning to this horror-romance trilogy and it has just the right amount of
passion and intrigue to keep the reader avidly flipping the pages! Nicely done, David O’Brien – looking forward
to the next novel!
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