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REVIEW: Hunting Season by Shelly Laurentson

Dear Ms. Laurentson:

Hunting SeasonThe Hunting features everything I like about your writing and everything I don’t like. Your heroine is strong. Your langauge, while coarse, is fitting for the setting. The hero is hot. What I don’t like is that your book is all crescendo and no diminuendo. Even in the “downtimes” or the non action sequences, the characters are yelling at each other (in jest sometimes) and that creates a tenser atmosphere which in turns gives me a headache.

Skuld has her winged warriors called the Crows and Odin has his Ravens. Neecy Lawrence is a member of the Crows or The Gathering. These women are chosen by Skuld to serve from the forgotten and the mistreated. They are taught to be strong and fearless and to go out and do her bidding (which usually involves beating up and destroying bad men). Neecy is second in command in the Jersey Crows. Her Odin counterpart is Will Yager. Will has had the hots for Neecy for, oh, a loooong time. (I love this kind of storyline). But Neecy doesn’t want to fall for Will for fear …