Hazardous Environment

Werecheetah Coalitions #2

by Marcia Colette

"The sequel to Unstable Environment." Overcoming anger to find love. Root woman Donna Tucker made a mistake. A person died on her watch, no thanks to tainted roots and herbs that were meant to heal. Now she must trace her steps to where her stash came from and stop a modern-day plague from destroying a small town. She's not going alone. Werecheetah Ronan McCleary would rather see her pay for killing his coalition's matriarch than to accompany her anywhere. He believes she's responsible and the only thing this trip is doing is delaying the inevitable. Her death. But death is hunting them both. The residents of Seclusion, North Carolina have an unseen force in their midst that has control over the town's most influential people. There are those who'll do anything--kill anyone--to keep the secret of the Davenport Foundation. A lowly root woman and her werecheetah companion are no match for them. And they won't be unless they can put their differences aside and work together to survive the night. Of course, that would mean having to survive each other as their hearts brave a Hazardous Environment.

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 24, 2012

About the author

Paranormal author Marcia Colette is always hard at work on her next novel...assuming her day job doesn't get in the way.

Ever since her first book HALF BREED opened to fantastic reviews and became a Fictionwise Bestseller, she hasn't looked back. She can't write a story unless there are paranormal aspects or a certain level of creepiness involved. When not crafting novels with twisted plots and supernatural thrills, she's either diving into her massive DVD collection or working out on her elliptical. Marcia is a member of the Horror Writers Association, Paranormal Mystery Writers, and Infinite Worlds of Fantasy Authors.

The best place to find her is on her blog where she loves connecting with readers and other writers. Conferences/conventions where sci-fi, fantasy, and horror reign supreme are a good bet, too, along with the occasional romance conference.

For more information, check out her website at www.marciacolette.com"

Reviews

[Abra · Rating 2 out of 5]

Despite plenty of things happening in Hazardous Environment, I found it very boring and somewhat confusing. The book is about a root woman, Donna, who loses her patient to a weird disease right at the beginning of the book. The patient was the matriarch of a werecheetah alliance who blame Donna for her death. There is another shifter in the early stages of the disease so Donna decides to trace the source of the herbs she used on the matriarch. Accompanied by Ronan, a werecheetah, Donna goes to her supplier, Moira, to find out about the herbs she purchased. Moira points them to a town called Seclusion and the necromancer, Harlan, from whom she got the herbs.

Donna and Ronan travel to Seclusion and find the Osborne sisters living in Harlan's house, but Harlan is nowhere to be found. The four Osbornes are apothecaries, who work magic with potions. One of the sisters is starting to show signs of the disease, which is why they are there. The six of them look for Harlan while trying to find a cure. There are mummies who walk around in bandages when they are hungry, but find clothes when they have fed. There is also some connection between the mummies, their minions, and cats that mostly escaped me. The nameless cat was an attack cat? I'm not sure how a domestic cat could really help in a defensive situation. He certainly didn't do anything that I could tell.

It's been a long time since I've read a book with so many typos. I was going to give up on Hazardous Environment at 16%, but then I decided to give it until 30%. However, I became fascinated by the sheer number of typos and couldn't stop counting. I found 39 typos that included the wrong word, misspelled words, missing quotation marks, the wrong name, the wrong personal pronoun, and real confusion about the difference between anymore and any more. This sentence was just weird: "Despite her slightly plump body, she kicked and screamed like weight wasn't an issue." How does being plump keep you from kicking and screaming? I can attest to the fact that it doesn't.

Anyway, I don't know if it was the typos kicking me out of the story so frequently or something else, but this book seemed really flat despite a good hero and heroine.

[Cf · Rating 2 out of 5]

Had a hard time getting into this one not sure I will continue with the series. Also the book did not have page numbers.

[Lula Carter · Rating 5 out of 5]

Outstanding, this was a true page turner and now I need more of her books!