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Summary: A disappointment.
Review: I tried very hard to like this book, and even tried some of the sequel, but every time the plot started to go somewhere, the author would interrupt with long passages about how stupid, inferior, smelly, etc. humans are (to the oh so superior werewolves, of course). Does she expect werewolves to be reading this book? Or human haters? It was extremely tiring. Plus I feel she should've researched Anne Rice a little less before starting her books. She could've at least set her story in a different time period and location (Paris, always Paris). She does move the story to Alaska, finally, and the book really picks up when a werewolf and a human are thrown into an ordeal together. It was such a relief to finally get out of Paris and to have a real story begin, instead of narrative about how awful humans are.
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Summary: The BEST romance I have ever read!
Review: Oh my gosh! I can't believe I was lucky enough to find this book. I don't even remember how I did it. It is SO different from normal romance novels, where the characters have all this instant passion and the girl is fiercely independent and all that stupid crap. This is such a refreshing novel.
First of all, it has all the elements I like in a novel, including tragedy which nobody EVER has, at least not directly involving the main characters. I actually didn't expect to like this book at first but I was pleasantly surprised. I fell in love with it. I can't wait for her new novel.
Everyone compares Boyd to Anne Rice, but I personally think Boyd writes better. I have yet to read another werewolf book (I usually hate werewolves), but I have a feeling that none will surpass the characters created in this novel. They were almost better than vampires (much better than Rice's vampires, at any rate). READ IT!!!
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Summary: The Journey and Back
Review: Donna's imagination and writing continues to be amazing. I felt as if I was an eye-witness to the entire story that unfolded before my eyes. A dark fantasy and yet so vivid it is almost real.If you are a fan of Donna's from her previous Silhoutte Shadows werewolf series, don't expect THE PASSION to be in the same category. THE PASSION is *not* a romance novel. To me, THE PASSION is a paranormal tragic love story about selfishness and selflessness... and of the cruelty of loves that are not meant to be. The tone and atmosphere that THE PASSION envelopes you in is similar to Anne Rice's INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE - dark, sometimes disturbing, and often heartwrenching. "Haunting" as one reviewer wrote is a perfect description of THE PASSION. I am a romance reader who is used to happily ever afters and less dramatic reads. I can't wait to read book two, THE PROMISE, and yet I'm afraid to read it for the emotions that I am sure it will bring...
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Summary: Emotionally Intense, Captivating, Great read !
Review: Need I say more? This is one for the keeper shelf to be read and re-read. Brilliantly written saga that kept me emotionally engaged throughtout. A tragedy, a love story, intense, intriging; I could go on and on. I don't often read books from this genre, and was pleasantly (to put it mildly) suprised. Definitely a must read!
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Summary: ABSOLUTLY LOVED THIS BOOK! ALEXANDER, WHAT A WEREWOLF!!
Review: This werewolf story is unlike any that I have ever read! I had a hard time putting this book down! Not alot of passionate love scenes, however this book did not need them. This is the first book I have ever read by Donna Boyd and I am looking forward to reading the sequel to this werewolf story, The Promise. Alexander and Denis keep you enthrolled to the very end!!
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Summary: Werewolf Folklore
Review: Like Ann Rice and the (infamous) Vampire Chronicles, Donna Boyd takes the wereworlf and gives us his history, and what a fabulous history it is! I absolutely fell in love with the wolf/men (men being the operative word :) and couldn't wait to get to the next page to find out what was going to happen. Their strength, their loyalty to "the pack", their respect for eachother...why don't humans ever act the way some animals do :) Don't stop with this book, go right on to The Promise, it is just as good, if not better than The Passion, and will leave you asking where her next book is? Debbi
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Summary: You can't put this book down!
Review: If you love to read werewolves or Anne Rice, Donna Boyd is a must read. I could not put this book down, and don't forget her followup The Promise. They are both excellent. Amazon recommened The Passion to me, and I am so recommening it to you!
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Summary: Where Can I Find a Werewolf?
Review: The autonomy of this singularly entertaining treatment of werewolf lore is too often obscured in its frequent comparison to the vampire tales of Anne Rice. I will be the first to admit that Boyd's prose do not strike the literary height for which Anne Rice is celebrated, nor does the story carry as much philosophical depth as, say, Memnoch the Devil or Queen of the Damned. However, I daresay that Boyd's story line is more gripping than any Anne Rice has developed so far; in a cliché, the book refused to be put down. The characters, if not as multi-dimensional, are far more exciting and unbelievably more sensual than our famed vampires Lestat and Armand. Perhaps this is because the story is about werewolves, not vampires, and we can easily relate the characteristics of these roguish, brutal, and beautiful monsters to the familiar expressions and antics of family pets like Pongo and Perdy. I myself was awed by the werewolf Alexander's intense animal strength, but I couldn't resist the strong desire to hug him and pet him! (I think I have a crush...) I have never read another werewolf story, so I do not how common this is, but Boyd's portrayal of the individual characters as well as the complex political structure of their "were-community" is enlightening, luxuriously fanciful, and deviously canine. I loved this book and absolutely cannot wait to read The Promise.
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Summary: it was okay...
Review: The book is good in it's content that it is a romantic, erotic, thriller about werewolves. For those of you who are fans of the werewolf genre whether romantic or killers, this book serves it's basic purpose. However, I did find it a bit long and drawn out in the descriptions of the scene/situation. I found myself skimming through to the next interesting event. Also, the dialog between characters were a bit too far and in between (hence, the skimming). In any case, I think this book will suffice in satifying any who have a thirst for werewolf tales. And now that this book is offered in paperback, it's worth it. I bought the hardcover!!
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Summary: Similar to Anne Rice
Review: I found THE PASSION to be very similar in style to Anne Rice's vampire trilogy, except they are werewolves instead of vampires. The language of the novel flows very well and is beautifully descriptive. The world of the werewolves is very vibrant and well-described in the book. As a reader, I did not find myself particularly moved, however, by any of the characters. The harsh world of which they live and the violence throughout the novel sort of turned me off of all of the characters to some degree (in all fairness, Anne Rice's novels affect me the same way), even Tessa, the most sympathetic character who also can be unsympathetic at times. The story also started to drag for me at the end. I think I was becoming worn down from all of the suffering that goes on by most of the characters at this point. However, the book is very original and one of the best about werewolves that I have read. I would recommend it more for people wanting to read a horror/sci-fi story rather than a romance. Not a book for the faint-of-heart.
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