Cry Of The Wolf

The Pack #5

by Karen Whiddon

Her ability to shape-shift into a wolf. On the run now from the dangerous mobster who destroyed her special gift, Jewel faces even deadlier stakes. For she will die if she doesn't change into a wolf soon.

Arriving in west Texas, Jewel strives to complete her transformation. But as she lies naked in a grassy area and the animal in her is crying out for release, a handsome stranger intrudes. Brooding Colton Reynolds appears to be a man who knows a good deal about secrets…and the power of keeping them to himself.

A man equally unable to trust. As her urge to shift awakens burning carnal desires, Jewel must put everything on the line. For if she gives her body to Colton, can she truly free her soul?

Genres: Paranormal Romance, Romance, Paranormal, Werewolves, Harlequin, Shapeshifters, Ebooks

304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Karen Whiddon spun fanciful tales for her younger brothers as early as the age of eleven. Growing up in the Catskill Mountains of New York, then the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, she found enough magic in the rugged peaks to keep her imagination fueled for years.

Now making her home in North Texas, she shares her life with her hero-like husband and three doting dogs. She writes paranormal tales for Harlequin Nocturne including the popular Pack series and romantic suspense stories for Harlequin Romantic Suspense.

She's also written Fae novels for Lovespell and a long time ago, she wrote five Precious Gem Romances for Kensington publishing. These she now owns again and has put them up for sale on Amazon.com among other places

Reviews

[Heather · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've owned this book since 2007 when it first came out the Nocturne line by Silhouette was new. If you didn't know, this book was #07 in the line and cost $5.25 at the time. Man, it make me feel old just thinking about it. Anyway. I remember loving this book all those years ago (I was 14) and have kept it out of nostalgia all these years. I read one or two others in the series that were published, such as Touch of the Wolf and Dance of the Wolf btu had no idea there were 18 books.

I'm cleaning out the books that I've kept out of pure nostalgia and this one came up as a contender for elimination. After having re-read it, I'm going to keep it but we'll see what others I eliminate.

Colton is kinda preachy, boy, just sit there and look pretty.

[Janet · Rating 3 out of 5]

NCT #7

[Vicki · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book to me was very complex. Both main characters had some very serious issues. Because of this it was hard for me to get into it but once I did it was fantastic. Great read.

[Linda Rea · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good story

[Marie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Was a bit too cliche to be honest. I typically enjoy cliche love stories but the writing for this had me cringing.

[Christina, but with tea · Rating 1 out of 5]

My biggest objection - other than the amateurish writing - was the way female shifters were portrayed as mindless, sex-craved slaves to their inner wolf/instincts. More on that in a bit.

There were so many characters introduced, it got confusing. I was barely interested in the main characters and here are a dozen more secondary ones marching through the place. By the time I got to the confrontations at the end, I thought they were more silly than suspenseful and some of the characters' reasons for doing things were 2-dimensional and flat, if not just childish.

I didn't buy the love story at all. The first time the hero and heroine have sex is off-putting - both for the reasons it happens and for the mind set the heroine was in prior to it happening.

The only thing I really liked was when the heroine is confronted with a character who has accused the hero of physically abusing her. The heroine, though torn and not wanting to believe he could have done it, actually urges the woman to call the police, to get help, even to stay away from the hero.

She herself tries to stay away from him as well, but ends up jumping into bed with him instead. But we're not supposed to think about the ew factor of that happening after she's found out he could be an abusive bastard because it wasn't really her, it was her inner wolf who was craving sex and she couldn't control herself. Even more ew! There are issues with consent that just bother me here, not just because of that scene, but because of the way female shifters are portrayed as a whole.

Not the book for me.

[Unapologetic_Bookaholic · Rating 3 out of 5]

Jewel is a woman is a myserious past. She doesn't want to share it with
the inhabitants of the town she has moved to. She is a wolf shifter that
can't shift and thinks it has to do with her abusive ex-husband.

Colton finds Jewel naked and shivering on the bank of the lake he was to fish. Because of his own past, he thinks her condition is from: drugs. He questions her but is struck silent by her immediate and hungry lips covering his. Who is she?

This was another great addition to the Pack series. The characters are
a treat to read about and the plot was suspensful enough to carry you
through to the end.

Jewel's probelms shifitng, her worries about her ex finding out about her,
and her keeping Colton at a distance all played into a well written
paranormal romantic suspense. A solid 3 rating. I liked this enough to
want to continue the series and I also thought it over and geniunely
liked the characters to want to say a little about why I liked them. I bit
better than your average "sweet" paranormal-lite romance.

[Jacqueline J · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was okay but nothing special. The writing was fairly amaturish. I know this woman has several books published but I still thought the writing was not so good. The premise had promise but the book was so short that the characterization was severly lacking. It seemed like people ran in a out of the story like cars on a busy highway. Don't blink or you'd miss them. The book needed a lot more detail and development. I know this was a category romance but I've seen books this short done much better.

[Myst · Rating 2 out of 5]

Bleh, Soul of the wolf (The Pack #3) had better storyline then this. All fluff that's full of holes. Nothing about what happens after, what about Reba? She's pretty much portrayed as a sex addict during her episodes. Disgusting, one of the few titles I'll actually give a star rating cause it was so bad. #coyer

[Erotic Horizon · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Pack: Cry Of The Wolf (Book 6) (Silhouette Nocturne) by Karen Whiddon (2007)

[Alicia Gordon · Rating 2 out of 5]

2 1/2 stars.

[Rachel · Rating 3 out of 5]

The story was ok. Good premise, fairly well written.