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Summary: Read this book today!!!!!
Review: I enjoyed this book as much as any I have ever owned. I was a big fan of Anne Rice but Donna Boyd is every bit as good and probably even better! I would suggest buying this book today. It is hard to put down once you start reading it. I can not wait until the next book in this series is available!!
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Summary: One of the best books I ever read!!!
Review: Forget Anne Rice. Donna Boyd shocked me! I thought this would be just a ho hum book, something new to read. It was easily one of the best books I have ever read. The romance was unbelievable, and yet it was a tale of adventure, heart ache, intrigue. It was a tale of prejudism, and love, and of love lost by prejudism. When I put the book down I knew I would buy anything Donna Boyd put her name on. The book may seem out of sorts, but there is not a woman alive that couldn't relate to this book. Buy it!!!
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Summary: Best book I read this summer!
Review: I could not put this book down. It was not a slash and gore novel but one that taught you of another way of living (as a werewolf.) The history of the ruling Devoncroix family was fascinating and I can see why Tessa, the human, did not want to leave them. I am eagerly awaiting the next from Donna Boyd!
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Summary: Great Book When is the next one?
Review: This is absolutely one of the best books I have read this year. I couldn't put it down. I was really intrigued by the Devoncroix and having the story told from the werewolf's perspective was different and interesting. I hope there is going to be a sequel to this one. Congratulations to Donna Boyd for a really great book.
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Summary: I haven't read a book this good in a LONG time!!
Review: This was an OUTSTANDING piece of fiction that I absolutely could not put down. Ms. Boyd is a storyteller of rare talent and I anxiously await her next book. I am hopeful that she will create a series (much like Anne Rice) so that we may learn more about the wonderful creatures that she's given such vibrant life to in the pages of her book. Don't miss this one - it's a MUST read!!!!
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Summary: I was enchanted!
Review: I really enjoyed this read but felt it began to become vague and unraveled towards the end. Nevertheless, I still loved the concept and the characters. And now I am convinced I am in love with a werewolf who lives in the mountains!
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Summary: I loved it!
Review: This book is the best kept secret in publishing. It is wonderful and I don't even like Werewolves.
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Summary: OUTSTANDING
Review: In Manhattan, a serial killer has seemingly emerged. The three victims have all been brutally murdered and are all loupgarous. Nicholas Devoncroix announces what he plans to do to the culprit when he captures the human. His father, Alexander, already extremely worried over what is happening to his pack, is now concerned with his son's cavalier attitude about one more dead human. He decides to tell his son about his own personal disaster with the humans. In 1897 Paris, Tessa Laguerre tries to murder Alexander because the werewolf left her father to die in the American jungle. Instead of eliminating her enemy, Tessa fell in love with him. He, in turn, introduced her to his world of wonder. However, the werewolf Queen Elise and Alexander's own brother lead Tessa into a situation with dire consequences for one and all. Nicholas is brilliant, but will he understand Alexander's hard learned experience? If Anne Rice wrote about werewolves, the novel would be similar to this brilliantly erotic tale. The poignant story line rapidly moves forward and the protagonists are a wonderful pack. Readers will passionately howl for Donna Boyd to follow up with a sequel to THE PASSION. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: A fantastic epic of glamourous werewolves
Review: Loved this book. I've heard it's the first in a major series. It does for werewolves what Anne Rice did for vampires. Donna Boyd's werewolves are brilliant, seductive, romantic, capable of both immense good and evil. Forget everything you know about werewolf mythology!The Passion has the rich feel of a historical novel combined with the edginess of a modern plot. I predict Donna Boyd is going to develop a large and loyal following, starting with this book.
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Summary: Beatific
Review: I have to say that I was quite impressed with this novel. The Passion made me nearly tear up at the end, made me gasp with horror, shout with frustration and anger, clench my fists with the impotent desire to intervene and also want to highlight some passages that were especially simple, wise and touching.
I don't know how to express to fellow readers out there how discriminating my tastes are; it is highly unusual for me to feel so fulfilled and yet drained by reading a novel.
There are too many authors out there that do not do what Boyd did with this book: they do not take the time and effort to write the truly difficult stories, the complicated plots, the ugly details of the lows as well as the highs of the characters. Boyd invested in the full crafting of three-dimensional characters--that I loved, hated, and felt pity for.
It is amazing to me how well and how gradually, how subtly and naturally Boyd was able to move me in an emotional journey as I followed the paths of her characters. I was moved from disgust with a character to pity, toleration, understanding and eventually to fondness, affection and love. Conversely, Boyd was able to make me see the flaws of characters that I so much wanted to unconditionally love...and I even loved these characters more for knowing that they are only 'human' (tongue in cheek). Boyd writes with exceptional depth.
I loved how Boyd was able to make the characters symbolic devils and angels. I loved how she was able to make me doubt whether those who so clearly semed to be evil were evil...or honorable, weak, etc.
There were so many subtle lessons for me. I learned a lot about anger, judgment, pride, what strength is and also about the meaning of love.
Anyway, I just really thought this novel was wonderful and moving. I don't know if I can read anymore in this series though, because of the strength with which the tragedy and beauty of the stories and outcomes upset me and kept me up with dreams nights after I read the novel. I read the entire novel in one sitting, because it was so enthralling.
I always THINK that I want to read writing this good and this deep, but maybe I do like my writing a bit fluffier:-)
Brava, Boyd!
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