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Title: Secret of the Wolf by Susan Krinard ISBN: 0-425-18199-5 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 10 October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.13 (23 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent paranormal romance
Comment: Near her family's vineyards in Napa Valley, Dr. Johanna Schell provides a haven for those plagued with mental anguish. Suffering Quentin Forster stumbles into Johanna's sanctuary, but suffers from amnesia with some glimpses of his past. Quentin knows he is on the run, but why and from whom remains blank. She offers the tormented yet compassionate man refuge and he grasps at her overture.
Joanna and Quentin begin to fall in love even as she tries to help him with whatever hidden tortures wrack his mind. However, his past arrives in her shelter causing perilous havoc for everyone there and under her hypnotic spell THE SECRET OF THE WOLF is released. If Johanna and Quentin somehow survive his past, can two extraordinary individuals cross specie lines find a lifetime of happiness even as love flows freely between them?
The third Susan Krinard werewolf romance (see TOUCH OF THE WOLF and ONCE A WOLF) is an exciting supernatural tale that will haunt readers long after the novel is done. The story line is loaded with plenty of otherworldly action that will thrill horror fans yet finds room for a strong ardent relationship between Johanna and Quentin. Ms. Krinard has another howling success that will send her back to her normal spot on the bestseller lists.
Harriet Klausner
Rating: 4
Summary: Good but a bit disappointing...
Comment: Boy! What a myriad of emotions I went through while reading Secret of the Wolf by Susan Krinard! First of all, let me say that I'd been eagerly waiting for the conclusion of Krinard's werewolf saga. I adored Braden and Cassidy in Book 1 Touch of the Wolf and I really enjoyed Rowena and Tomas in Book 2 Once a Wolf. This is Quentin's story. It started slow and without much spark. I was set to write a very poor review. Then it picked up in the middle when a double personality story was introduced, which was a very interesting concept but it eventually overshadowed the werewolf story! This was not the story of Quentin the werewolf as much as the story of Quentin/Fenris, his alter ego. I really liked heroine Johanna's character: she was insightful, calm and trustworthy. She cared for her patients as if they were family. Her only experience with love and romance had left her unsure of herself as a woman. But her attraction and devotion to Quentin was undeniable. Quentin was fighting demons from Page One, and having read the previous stories, I thought it would be like Rowena's story: an unwillingness to accept the werewolf half of his body and personality. But there was so much more to Quentin than could be seen at first. Physical childhood abuse had carved out his character, violent aspects and all, but the reader never doubted Quentin's essential goodness. The ending was a real page-turner, with all the pieces coming together in a complicated, action-packed conclusion. And because the book was ultimately a romance, of course there was a happy ending. But I must admit a sense of disappointment (hence the 4 star rating). There was not enough of the werewolf aspect of the story and no real connection to the previously ( well-loved) characters such as Braden, Cassidy and Rowena. I feel this was the weakest link in the trilogy, although it's still very much worth reading.
Rating: 1
Summary: One weird romance...
Comment: ... well if you call the heroine-doctor falling in love with her multiple-persona (due to torture as a child by a relative), werewolf patient a romance. This isn't a romanticized Jekyll/Hyde with fur type of story. I kept reading it wondering where the story was going and how she could give us our happy romantic ending. It does, but it's still a weird read.
If you like your romantic couple to suffer before ending up together then this might be the book for you. I found it tedious.
Ms. Krinards descriptons and scenery are very good, but her jumping from each character's point of view (sometimes within the same paragraph) got confusing.
There are many other books of supernatural romance out there... I would strongly suggest you read one of those.
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Title: Once a Wolf by Susan Krinard ISBN: 0553580213 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 05 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Touch of the Wolf by Susan Krinard ISBN: 0553580183 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 05 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Prince of Wolves by Susan Krinard ISBN: 0553567756 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Prince of Shadows by Susan Krinard ISBN: 0553567772 Publisher: Fanfare Pub. Date: 01 July, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Prince of Dreams by Susan Krinard ISBN: 0553567764 Publisher: Fanfare Pub. Date: 01 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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