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Jaguar Moon
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Livvie Merrick hates the psychic gifts that make her different and cause nothing but trouble in her life. That's especially true when she has a vision that the school's star quarterback will break his leg. Naturally Livvie warns him--a warning misconstrued as a curse when it comes true. That makes for a lonely senior year until Alex Sawyer moves to town. Livvie is quickly lost in his big blue eyes. And though it's clear that Alex is as attracted to her, she knows the day will come when he finds out what a freak she really is. What neither of them knows is that Alex is different, too, and the psychic gifts Livvie despises may be exactly what she needs to save him.'
Livvie Merrick hates the psychic gifts that make her different and cause nothing but trouble in her life. That's especially true when she has a vision that the school's star quarterback will break his leg. Naturally Livvie warns him--a warning misconstrued as a curse when it comes true. That makes for a lonely senior year until Alex Sawyer moves to town. Livvie is quickly lost in his big blue eyes. And though it's clear that Alex is as attracted to her, she knows the day will come when he finds out what a freak she really is. What neither of them knows is that Alex is different, too, and the psychic gifts Livvie despises may be exactly what she needs to save him.'
- GenresYoung Adult
257 pages, ebook
First published January 1, 2009
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About the author
Linda Palmer
68 books56 followersLinda Palmer admits it all started when she fell in love with Roy Rogers in the fifties. The family TV was boxy; the picture was black and white. That didn’t matter. Roy’s cowboy courage won the day and inspired her to create elaborate scenarios when playing with her sisters and friends outside. Indoors, she read romances in every genre from Sci Fi to Gothic.
Linda began writing for pleasure in the third grade, mostly poetry, and has letters from her grade school teachers predicting she'd be an author. Her poems eventually became short stories; her short stories became books. And even though a writing career was never actually a dream, it was something she pursued with intent after winning some writing contests and joining local and national writers’ groups.
Silhouette Books published Linda's first romance novel in l989 and the next twenty over a ten-year period (writing as Linda Varner, her maiden name). In 1999 she took a ten-year break to take care of her family, but learned that she couldn't not write. She began again in 2009, changing her genre to young adult/new adult paranormal romance. She has now written over a hundred novels and novellas ranging from traditional romance to erotica. Linda was a Romance Writers of America Rita finalist twice and won the 2011 and 2012 EPIC eBook awards in the Young Adult category. She was also a finalist in that category in 2013 and in 2014.
Linda has been married to her junior high school sweetheart over fifty years and lives in Arkansas, USA with her family. Ever a hopeless romantic, she still falls for unattainable Hollywood heroes that inspire her to write romances about alpha males and the women who stand up to them. Linda hints that her current crush’s name starts with Tom and ends with Hardy. Her website is www.lindavpalmer.com. You can also find her on Facebook: Linda Varner Palmer.
Linda began writing for pleasure in the third grade, mostly poetry, and has letters from her grade school teachers predicting she'd be an author. Her poems eventually became short stories; her short stories became books. And even though a writing career was never actually a dream, it was something she pursued with intent after winning some writing contests and joining local and national writers’ groups.
Silhouette Books published Linda's first romance novel in l989 and the next twenty over a ten-year period (writing as Linda Varner, her maiden name). In 1999 she took a ten-year break to take care of her family, but learned that she couldn't not write. She began again in 2009, changing her genre to young adult/new adult paranormal romance. She has now written over a hundred novels and novellas ranging from traditional romance to erotica. Linda was a Romance Writers of America Rita finalist twice and won the 2011 and 2012 EPIC eBook awards in the Young Adult category. She was also a finalist in that category in 2013 and in 2014.
Linda has been married to her junior high school sweetheart over fifty years and lives in Arkansas, USA with her family. Ever a hopeless romantic, she still falls for unattainable Hollywood heroes that inspire her to write romances about alpha males and the women who stand up to them. Linda hints that her current crush’s name starts with Tom and ends with Hardy. Her website is www.lindavpalmer.com. You can also find her on Facebook: Linda Varner Palmer.
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March 5, 2013
OK, if anyone reads my reviews, they will know that I love anything shifter. And I really loved this book!
I loved not only the MCs, but the secondaries as well. They were all sufficiently lovable, creepy or downright evil, as called for. And I am including the several ghosts that float through the book.
Livvie, the female MC, is great. She does nothing stupid or ridiculous (isn’t it sad when we expect that of an MC?). In fact she takes charge, deals, and is actually quite accepting of the fact that her boyfriend is a were jaguar – despite the initial shock of running him into a cave, not knowing it actually was him. The scene where she realizes the big cat’s identity was very effective – sort of like, there he is and he’s a big old cat – none of this pussy (no pun intended) footing around where the MC doesn’t have a clue that the other MC is a shifter until 80% through the book and then immediately freaks out and runs away. Alex? Very cool – great lines, very good to Livvie, and deals with being a shifter in what I think would be a realistic manner. Yes, there is insta-love, but that is absolutely essential to this story.
I must have purchased a new addition, because my book had no misspellings or grammatical errors.
The only issue I had with the book? The cover. Yet another case of the publisher not reading a book yet still thinking they can cast the cover models. Alex is described as being olive-skinned of Peruvian descent, while the guy on the cover is pale and looks extremely Irish. Of course, I did spend 99.5% of my time reading the book, and .5% looking at the cover, so no biggie…but still.
I loved not only the MCs, but the secondaries as well. They were all sufficiently lovable, creepy or downright evil, as called for. And I am including the several ghosts that float through the book.
Livvie, the female MC, is great. She does nothing stupid or ridiculous (isn’t it sad when we expect that of an MC?). In fact she takes charge, deals, and is actually quite accepting of the fact that her boyfriend is a were jaguar – despite the initial shock of running him into a cave, not knowing it actually was him. The scene where she realizes the big cat’s identity was very effective – sort of like, there he is and he’s a big old cat – none of this pussy (no pun intended) footing around where the MC doesn’t have a clue that the other MC is a shifter until 80% through the book and then immediately freaks out and runs away. Alex? Very cool – great lines, very good to Livvie, and deals with being a shifter in what I think would be a realistic manner. Yes, there is insta-love, but that is absolutely essential to this story.
I must have purchased a new addition, because my book had no misspellings or grammatical errors.
The only issue I had with the book? The cover. Yet another case of the publisher not reading a book yet still thinking they can cast the cover models. Alex is described as being olive-skinned of Peruvian descent, while the guy on the cover is pale and looks extremely Irish. Of course, I did spend 99.5% of my time reading the book, and .5% looking at the cover, so no biggie…but still.
September 21, 2010
Good story, but I got a bit tired of the "my boyfriend" descriptions. Sometimes it's just better to use "he" or "him" so the reader isn't taken out of the story.
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