Romance Book Review: Pamela Palmer's Hearts Untamed

Author: Pamela Palmer

Series Connection: Feral Warriors

ISBN: 0061894451

Genre: Parnormal/ Romance

Publisher: Avon

Originally appeared in the print anthology Bitten By Cupid, Heart's Untamed, is a story featuring  two Therians who are not actually Feral Warriors. There are appearances by three of the Feral Warriors in within the context of the story, however they don't play a part of the major characters of the story. The Therians are the original race of the Feral Warriors. At one time all Therians could shift into animal, however now the only Therians that can shift are the Feral Warriors. All Therians are still immortal. This book was written and originally released in 2010 as part of an anthology. Just a few months back, Pamela Palmer re-released the novella as an e-book. For those who are following the series, this story can stand alone, but was written before Jag, Kouger and Hawk had their own novels. I had totally missed this story, even though I am a fan of the Feral Warriors series, so I for one am glad the author decided to release this separately or I would have missed it all together.

Zee has decided to head home after ten year after hearing that the one time friend Julianne has been playing Beethoven. While some may not understand the importance of this Zee knows that it is only when Julianne is the most trouble that she uses her musical talent to play Beethoven. Zee realizes right away how much he hurt Julianne by leaving so abruptly all those years ago and now he is also beginning to realize what he has missed by not returning sooner. 

Julianne is in real trouble and so are her closest friends, although they don't know it. One of the Ilina, a race that was thought to have been eradicated a thousand years ago, is threatening to harm Julianne and her friends if she doesn't find a necklace hidden in their home. Julianne has searched everywhere she can think of and it is not anywhere to be found. 

To make matter worse she has just found out Zee is coming home. She loves Zee with all her heart but he can never know her deepest and darkest secret, because it could mean his life if he ever found out. 

Nicely done intermittent story. This is also a good story to learn about Melisande, the Ilina Julianne is being threatened by. The new Feral Warriors book, A Love Untamed, came out last month and features Melisande and Feral Warrior Foxx.

Description:

Ten years after he spurned Julianne's declaration of love and then vanished, Zee's back—only this time he's the one being rejected. Julianne's in desperate straits, and involving Zee could jeopardize his immortality. But he won't take no for an answer—and Julianne's about to discover that her former love is even wilder than she thought…

New Pamela Parmer Feral Warriors Coming Soon

Author: Pamela Palmer

Series Connection: A Feral Warriors Novel

ISBN: 978-0062107510

Genre: Paranormal

Publisher: Avon Books

Publication Date: December 26, 2012

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Description:

The newest member of the elite Feral Warriors brotherhood, Fox is eager to prove himself on the frontlines of battle against the Daemons. When paired with the legendary Ilina warrior, Melisande, he expects the fierce beauty to quickly fall under the spell of his quite considerable charm. Instead, he finds himself spellbound by a woman who's his match in every way.

Beneath Melisande's brittle exterior lies centuries of pain and a violent hatred of all shape-shifters--a hatred that slowly crumbles after they're caught in a deadly and cunning Mage trap and she glimpses a surprising depth in her far-too-seductive partner. Their survival demands unconditional trust--and their salvation surrender to a wild, untamed love.

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RWA 2012 "Readers for Life" Literacy Autographing

This evening the Romance Writers of America presented the 2012 "Readers for Life" Literacy Autographing. 456 Romance Writers of America authors attended the event to sign their name to books they donated to the cause, pause for pictures with attendees and answer hundreds of questions about their books.

The money raised at this open to the public event went to pay for Literacy programs.

I purchased seven books for the event including:
In Too Deep by Jayne Ann Krentz
Shades of Desire by Virna DePaul
Echoes at Dawn by Maya Banks
A Blood Seduction by Pamela Palmer
Sleepwalker by Karen Robards
Blazing Bedtime Stories by Tawny Webber (and Rhonda Nelson)
At Last by Jill Shalvis

A couple of the books I already had, but these at the books the authors brought so if I wanted the autographs, well then I get another copy.

It was really fun getting to see some of my favorite authors. I've posted photos of the event on my facebook site.

Here are a few for the fun of it.

Karen Robards and Me

Pamela Palmer and Me

Tawny Webber and Me

Books I purchased

Tomorrow the fun really begins. There will be hundreds or writer's workshops to choose from, a lot of social activities and more opportunities to meet my favorite authors.

Romance Book Review: Hunger Untamed

Author: Pamela Palmer
Series Connection: Feral Warriors
ISBN: 978-006179471
Genre: Paranormal/ Shapeshifters/ Erotic Romance/ Suspense
Publisher: Avon

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Hunger Untamed is by far my favorite book so far in the Feral Warriors' series. For pretty much the whole series readers have been aware that Kougar is the oldest of the Feral Warriors. He had live a long life as we have been told that he lost his mate 1,000 years ago. It wasn't until this book in the series where the story centers around him and his finding his long lost mate, that we find out exactly how old he really is.

Kougar once was the chief of the Feral Warriors. Even back 1,000 years ago he and his fellow warriors were fighting the mage. While on the battle field Kougar feels the bond with his mate cut just as he learns her race has been infected with a dark spirit and all were dying. Believing her dead, Kougar falls into an emotionless state for 1,000 years. Now in present day, Kougar has previously learned that his mate survived after all, but he believe that she is still infected with the dark spirit.

When he finds he needs her help Kougar reaches out to his mate to help free his fellow warriors, trapped in a dark spiral abyss.

Queen Ariana knows that the minute she sees Kougar for the first time in 1,000 years that she can not let him to close. She know that the mage poison that is infecting her will kill him through their bond mate. She has no other choice than work with the Feral Warriors so that she can save her own warriors, by saving theirs.

Out of all of the Feral Warriors series this book shows a lot of emotion, a great deal of detail oriented scenes based in and alien locations. Both Kougar and Ariana are warriors struggling to fit into each other's worlds, both 1,000 years ago and today. Each desperately trying to find away to be together, yet avoid being hurt as they had been in the past. Both are strong and alpha characters. After reading Kougar's story, I find him a much better choice as leader of the Ferals in a lot of ways than the current chief.

As Pamela Palmer digs into the world of both the past Ferals and the Ariana's people that Ilinas and learning of the thousands of years of misery and destruction of both their races the readers begin to understand the battle that the Feral Warriors have been fighting. A story that has gone one for thousands of years and continues to see no end in sight.

Description:
For a thousand years she has haunted him—Ariana, queen of the Ilinas, a beauty of mist and light. His love, his life mate... Kougar believed her lost to him forever until the truth of her stunning betrayal left him bitter and hungry for revenge. Now she alone holds the power to save two trapped and desperate Feral Warriors.

Ariana, caught in a deadly battle of her own, is neither the soulless creature Kougar believes her to be, nor the savior he seeks. And when darkness threatens to annihilate both races, the greatest danger of all becomes the glorious love Kougar and Ariana once shared. A love that must never rise again. A love that has never died.

Romance Book Review: Rapture Untamed

Author: Pamela Palmer
Series Connection: Book 4 in the Feral Warriors series
ISBN-13: 978-0061794704
Genre: Paranormal/ Shifter/ Mage/ Demon
Publisher: Avon

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For those who are fans of Pamela Palmer's Feral Warriors, she's back with a story about Jag. The only word for Jag so far in the series has been "combative". He's the first to instigate fights with his fellow Feral Warriors and offer up rude commentary. In Rapture Untamed fans finally get to see the man behind Feral.

Each of the Feral have long histories, living sometimes three to four centuries, and have been through a lot in that amount of time. Jag is not different.

While the mage threaten to bring back the feared Satanan, the Ferals do their best to stop them. They've called in reinforcements from the Therian British Guard. Leader of the guard, Olivia, has interested Jag since he first met her. He's desperate to have her for his own, but Olivia has a secret and if any of the Ferals or the guard find out it will mean her life. So while it is important to keep up with her goal to rid the world of Daemons and the possessed mage, she also must stay below the radar. That is going to be hard to do when she has a Feral on her tail.

I wasn't sure I was going to like the book on Jag. Frankly he wasn't a character I appreciated in the past, but Pamela Palmer has done an excellent job to bringing out the character and explaining why he acts the way he does and letting the heroine, Olivia, help to change him. By the end of the book I just wanted to continue reading, but unfortunately we're all going to have to wait until Febuarary when the next novel comes out.

Description:
The most combative - and tormented - of all the Ferals, Jag is a predator who hunts alone - until daemons terrorize the human population. To stop them, he partners with Olivia, a flame-haired Therian temptress as strong as she is beautiful. But Olivia is no ordinary immortal. The survivor of a vicious supernatural attack, she possesses a deadly and forbidden skill - one that must remain hidden, especially from the powerful Feral Warriors.

As Jag and Olivia's sensual dance of dominance and seduction gets wilder and hotter, a dark force sets its sights on Olivia, threatening to destroy everything she has vowed to protect. And the only one who can save her soul is the arrogant jaguar shifter she lusts for but dares not love.

The German cover for Desire Untamed by Pamela Palmer.

Pamela Palmer recently showed off the new cover of her 2009 Spring hit Desire Untamed that is being released in German. I like the American cover better because it really pulls off the air of paranormal and mystery that ran through the book.

Below is the review I wrote for the book several months ago. This book was also award Romance Book Scene's #1 Paranormal for 2009.

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Author: Pamela Palmer
Series Connection: Book 1 in the Feral Warriors series
ISBN: 978-0061667510
Genre: Paranormal
Release Date: June 30, 2009

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I happened to get a review copy of this book months ago and wound up reading it really early. I just loved it. All the characters were strong, but hero and heroine are a perfect match. The hero is definitely a strong, sexy, alpha male type. Lyon will stop at nothing to save his group of shape-shifter warriors. He needs Kara's help in saving not only his kind, but all of humanity, as well. Kara is raised as a human. It is only when she meets Lyon that she finds out that there were a few things her mother forgot to tell her.

Quickly she is thrust into a world nothing like the small town she is from. This world has demons, mages and men who turn into different types of animals. It might be just a nightmare, but it is all two real.

The story line is filled with suspense and action. The plot complicated with a lot of sub characters, but easy to grasp. Pamela Palmers imagination really runs wild in this series and that is all the better for the readers. I re-read the story a second time last night to familiarize myself with it again and wasn't disappointed by it in the least.

Description:
Kara MacAllister’s quiet small-town life is transformed forever the night a powerful stranger rips her from her home, claiming she is the chosen one – the key to his survival. Spiriting her away into the rain-soaked night, Lyon reveals a truth Kara can barely credit. She’s immortal, and the only one who can save his race. And deep within her, he arouses a fierce, primal hunger beyond anything she’s ever imagined. But only when their lives are threatened by an ancient evil will Kara and Lyon realize they have found a love they would risk their immortal souls to claim...and a powerful desire that could never, ever be tamed.

Romance Book Review: Passion Untamed

Author: Pamela Palmer
Series Connection: Feral Warriors
ISBN-13: 978-0061667534
Genre: Paranormal/Shape-shifter

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The best of the three Feral Warriors to come out yet. I was hanging on the edge of my seat through to the end. Passion Untamed tells the story of Paenther, who disappeared at the end of the last Feral Warriors book. The story picks up as Paenther wakes to find that he has been enthralled by the mage and chained in an effort to create an energy that is being used to release the evil Daemon. Once he and the mage witch who entrapped him, Skye, escape from the mage stronghold, it is a race against time to find a way to stop the mage from releasing more of the evil creatures and save the earth.

This action packed tale offers an interesting twist on the shape-shifter theme. I was so happy to hear that the series will be continuing in June 29, 2010 from Avon Books with "Rapture Untamed", which will be Jag's story. With Jag's surly personality he will definitely make a great story of his own.

Description:
They are called Feral Warriors—an elite band of immortals who can change shape at will. Sworn to rid the world of evil, consumed by sorcery and seduction, their wild natures are primed for release . . .

Though the Mage witch Skye has a gentle heart, demonic forces have enslaved her, forcing her to kidnap Paenther, a powerful and dangerous Feral Warrior. Even chained and naked, Paenther is a cunning prisoner who seduces her, body and soul, turning captive into captor.

Paenther's pride demands revenge against the enchantress who emerged from the deep woods like a sensual vision and enthralled him, even as she makes his body burn with passion. Despite his fury over her treachery, Skye's gentle beauty calls to his soul, calming the wild chaos within him, and stealing his heart. But when evil threatens, Paenther and Skye's only chance at survival is to trust in one another . . . and the power of love.

Romance Book Review: Obsession Untamed

Author: Pamela Palmer
Series Connection: Book 2 in the Feral Warriors
ISBN: 978-0061667527
Genre: Paranormal/Shape-shifters

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In the second book of the Feral Warriors series, readers get to know Bengal tiger shifter Tighe. In Desire Untamed, Tighe was the fun loving, easy going shifter who falls in love with the new radiant, but finds she was meant for another. During the fight with the mage in book 1, Tighe loses half of his soul to a mage-made clone and is now in a quest to find his other half before he he completely loses himself and goes mad.

Delaney is an FBI agent on the hunt for a serial killer who the press as dubbed a vampire. When she comes upon the killer, she survives his attack and now knows what the killer looks like. He also leaves her with the ability to visions as he kills his victims. When Tighe finds out that Delaney can see the murders, he has to convince her that he isn't who she thinks he is and that they should work together to find the clone. Delaney has always had trust issues, can she learn to trust Tighe before it is too late to stop a killer and save Tighe's life?

This is an action-packed, fast paced book. I wound up reading it in one seating, not able to put the book down to the end. The emotion that Pamela draws from her lead character is so exciting and easily believable. The shifter angle of the story is and well plotted.

Next book is Passion Untamed, scheduled to come out in September 2009.

Description:
Every time she closes her eyes, Delaney Randall suffers another nightmare. A brutal serial killer has found his way inside the tough, take-no-prisoners FBI agent’s head. Now she lives the murders through his eyes, from his deadly approach, to his victims’ screams. Until the night he breaks into her apartment and she fears she’s going to be the next to die. But the man who snatches Delaney from her home isn’t the murderer.

He’s Tighe, a dangerous Feral Warrior who needs her and her visions to stop the rampages of a creature as inhuman as he is evil. Tighe has little use for humans, but as he and Delaney join forces to track the dark fiend, he falls for the intense beauty and becomes wild with an obsession as untamed as his heart.

Romance Book Review: Desire Untamed

Author: Pamela Palmer
Series Connection: Book 1 in the Feral Warriors series
ISBN: 978-0061667510
Genre: Paranormal
Release Date: June 30, 2009

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I happened to get a review copy of this book months ago and wound up reading it really early. I just loved it. All the characters were strong, but hero and heroine are a perfect match. The hero is definitely a strong, sexy, alpha male type. Lyon will stop at nothing to save his group of shape-shifter warriors. He needs Kara's help in saving not only his kind, but all of humanity, as well. Kara is raised as a human. It is only when she meets Lyon that she finds out that there were a few things her mother forgot to tell her.

Quickly she is thrust into a world nothing like the small town she is from. This world has demons, mages and men who turn into different types of animals. It might be just a nightmare, but it is all two real.

The story line is filled with suspense and action. The plot complicated with a lot of sub characters, but easy to grasp. Pamela Palmers imagination really runs wild in this series and that is all the better for the readers. I re-read the story a second time last night to familiarize myself with it again and wasn't disappointed by it in the least.

Description:
Kara MacAllister’s quiet small-town life is transformed forever the night a powerful stranger rips her from her home, claiming she is the chosen one – the key to his survival. Spiriting her away into the rain-soaked night, Lyon reveals a truth Kara can barely credit. She’s immortal, and the only one who can save his race. And deep within her, he arouses a fierce, primal hunger beyond anything she’s ever imagined. But only when their lives are threatened by an ancient evil will Kara and Lyon realize they have found a love they would risk their immortal souls to claim...and a powerful desire that could never, ever be tamed.