Blood Lines (The World of the Lupi, Book 3) | Eileen Wilks

Blood Lines (The World of the Lupi, Book 3) | Eileen Wilks | Keeps you intrigued

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	Blood Lines (The World of the Lupi, Book 3) Eileen Wilks Berkley, 2007 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 34 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

FBI agent Cynna Weaver teams up with sorcerer Cullen Seabourne to help identify elected officials who have accepted demonic pacts. But the passion simmering between them-and their investigation-spiral out of control when an ancient prophecy is fulfilled.

A Great Read

This was a good book from start to finish. Hardly any down spots and as usual, plenty of action. Can't wait to see what the future holds for Cullen and Chynna. I recommend this whole series.

Keeps you intrigued

I picked up the first in the series on a whim and have been caught up in the characters ever since. I like that life isn't always peaches & cream, but there is enough of the good to outweigh the bad, after all, this IS escapism at it's best, right?

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Wilks has surprised me again. Interesting plot twists, expanded characters, the suspense continues

If you love the Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs, and the two "Magic" series books by Ilona Andrews, you will love this third book in the Wilks series about werewolf/magic/demon/dragon and otherworldly folks. A really suspenseful and fun summer read. I enjoyed every page. This is not erotica, but there are some scenes not suitable for the under 12 age group. I particularly enjoy the writers style, it's not "namby-pamby-kiss-me-once-and-I-fall-in-love-and-take-off-all-my-clothes" kind of romance that fries my bu** and insults my intelligence. There is real thoughtful development of the characters, their relationships and most importantly, the plots.

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This one will make you a believer.

Slap me silly or stuff my mouth with soap. I am so eating my words after having read this one...

So okay, 1 & 2 were, at times, frustrating to read, and getting used to the characters and Wilks' style could get trying, at times. In the end...totally worth it in this third installment, which ties everything--from plotting to characters to explanations--so well, I was marveled. And struck dumb.

As things stand: the world is on the cusp of falling apart and surviving Dis (i.e. Hell) was the easy part. It begins with a wham-bham-thank-you-mam tidal wave of magic that coats the entire globe, unleashing power and shifting realms. And creates general chaos and mayhem. By now, we all know that the female deity that the Lupi were created to oppose and eventually destroy, is behind all the trouble. However, to get that, she needs an ancient book, the Book of All Magic that was lost after the Purge, in order to enter this realm.

To be short, there are two interlaced romances and tales in and of their own right. They do develop rather slowly, but its not a bad pace, and this book's plotting is incredibly dense.

Lily's & Rule's tangoing is pretty much status quo and now has that 'awe...that's so sweet' element that was really frustrating, and uneventful (physical-wise), in the first 2 books. I've always appreciated, and rather enjoyed, Wilk's day-by-day spin on the romance part. Very realistic and more meaningful. Love and romance, however, are the least of their worries as Toby, Rule's young son, decided to up and leave his human family to spend Christmas with them, and becomes the center of a plan by Jiri, Cynna's old teacher and perhaps a puppet to Her. To add to the hectic pace and drama, Rule has become inexplicably entangled with his familial enemy, Leidolf, and becomes
embroiled within that pack's religious and political structure. It's still not clear if this is a good or bad thing, but one thing is for certain, it's something wholly unheard of, in any clan tradition.

The second romance is of Cullen and Cynna's, while written with a bit more force, and parallels Rule's & Lilly's, doesn't really bloom until 3/4 of the way. But, boy, is the outcome interesting...though the process of their flirting is subdued and dull, their ability to annoy each other can be amusing. And tedious, since they argue semantics and magical logics of their world, though its purpose is to explain what the hell is going on and why. Wilks may bring in a lot of weird stuff in, but she always gets it explained, and doesn't wait too long to tell you.

Meanwhile--Grandma Yu gets her chunk of play, as we begin to learn more about her and her overall role in things to come. Which is a doozy.

I realized the reason why I was put off with the first two in this incredible series. One, I'm used to a lot of exposition, character internalization of emotions and detailed accounts of emotional battles, both verbal and not. This series doesn't rely on that. It sticks strictly with dialogue exposition, almost entirely third person, and carefully placed descriptions of all action, physical, emotional, psychological, etc, which is hard to get comfortable with at times. There is no stream of consciousness, or much (if any) internal talking by characters. Thus, the narrator is both there and yet not, which is why the characters themselves can feel mechanical and distant. Also, there isn't the usual hot and heavy sex scenes. Which Wilks really isn't into, and doesn't find as essentially important as plotting, which is so well thought out, and focuses on character developments, which is either stable, static or meandering. It's not so much immediate growth, but things happen, and their digesting what to do. A bit more true-time if you imagine it like real life...

By now, the characters are growing on me. I still find them hard to relate to but I do like them, and I appreciate how consistent they're written and behave. Wilks has really made things logically reasonable and believable, consistent, despite the scope of her world, which she knows inside out. And everything else, really. Her style can be clinical, a bit mechanical and choppy sometimes, but she gets her points across that were hook-line-and-sinker for me to keep going, despite my misgivings and my inability to see romance novels out side the box. So thanks and huge kudos for her!

There's so much that happens, that after the other two, it's kind of disorienting but well executed. There's a lot of dialogue that you'll have to tread through carefully, otherwise it won't make as much sense. The one annoying thing is the constant recap and repetition of info that Wilks feels necessary to keep hitting you in the head with. However, I'm on tenterhooks to start the 4th...and thank god I stuck with it.

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Just as good on the inside

I have to say, I love the tattooed woman on the cover of this book. But don't just buy this book for the cover. It's a good read.

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