| Title | : | Blood Prince (Wolf Creek Pack #4) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1606017195 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781606017197 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | ebook |
| Number of Pages | : | 154 |
| Publication | : | First published November 1, 2009 |
To uphold peace between werewolves and vampires, Devlin Morgan, werewolf, must return the body of a deceased vampire princess to her coven. When he arrives he discovers Prince Zacarius Ivinovav, the ruling prince and brother of the vampire princess.
The attraction between the two men is instant, but their love is forbidden. Vampires and werewolves have been enemies for nearly 500 years, ever since the Great War. But Devlin and Zacarius are unable to fight their desire for each other and eventually give in.
They're torn by their emotions, but they'll have to work things out in time to save Zacarius from a violent stranger. Can they ever be together, or will the animosity between werewolves and vampires lead to the end of their mating?
Blood Prince (Wolf Creek Pack #4) Reviews
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I gave up at a little over 50%.
I *might* try and finish it later, but probably not.
It's not that I expect a lot out of these books, I know they all follow the same kind of formula, and I actually like those kind of books on occasion.
But...this one just was too much for me! -
I'm giving every book in this series two stars because they're badly written and the characters are all obnoxious clichés, but the story is interesting enough for me to want to find out what happens in the next one.
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Stormy Glenn writes sweet and sexy stories with heroes who while they may have strong alpha tendencies are also able to be loving and tender towards their partners. Very nicely written this is a wonderful and entertaining story.
My complete review is posted at
Rainbow Reviews -
(After reread done 7/1/2018) ~ I found it very interesting that this time around I enjoyed Zacarius much better than during my original read. I still adored Devlin and his wicked sense of humor. I also got my introduction to Stefan (a member of the coven) and I totally fell for him.
This was a 3.5 for me. Strange, because I love vamps and shifters so these guys should have rung all my bells. Instead I just couldn't seem to get the warm fuzzies for Zacarius the vampire prince. He just never seemed to really click for me. I loved Devlin and his character kicked ass so that helped overall.
It was a good enjoyable easy read. -
Pretty much what you expect from a Stormy Glenn m/m paranormal, although I'd be surprised if anyone actually edited this one.
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3.75 stars
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This is the summary off the back of the book.
To uphold peace between werewolves and vampires, Devlin Morgan, werewolf, must return the body of a deceased vampire princess to her coven. When he arrives he discovers Prince Zacarius Ivinovav, the ruling prince and brother of the vampire princess. The attraction between the two men is instant, but their love is forbidden. Vampires and werewolves have been enemies for nearly 500 years, ever since the Great War. But Devlin and Zacarius are unable to fight their desire for each other and eventually give in. They're torn by their emotions, but they'll have to work things out in time to save Zacarius from a violent stranger. Can they ever be together, or will the animosity between werewolves and vampires lead to the end of their mating.
This is what I think of the book.
I have to admit I wasn't sure if adding vampires to the mix of this series would work, but I am happy to say I was wrong, it works just fine. It gives the series a whole new dynamic and lots more hot men to pant over.
The theme of this instalment was prejudice and how old wife's tales are thought of as truth when there has been conflict and no interaction. It was also about how leadership can dictate how the rest of the population feels when it is a tight knit community. The fact that both the werewolf and the vampire leaders both want peace and see the other side as people not the enemy makes the whole situation about tolerance. Don't get me wrong this is a fun read and sexy as well but that doesn't mean it cant have a social conscience and this one has it in spades. -
typical stormy glenn romance. nothing fantastic, nothing so bad it can't be finished. what is typical stormy glenn? imagine a shorter harlequin romance but with no t&a (see, i was going to write no surprise pregnancies, but... yeah.).
laziness dictates i will use this as my template for all books by the following authors unless a book is remarkably good/bad :
stormy glenn
lynn hagen
scarlet hyacinth
joyee flynn
carol lynne
gabrielle evans -
Was too short and felt like it was missing something but like all stormy Glenn's book, a brilliant story.
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2/5
Somewhere along the line I could have like the story, but I didn't. -
I dont think i will be reading this
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Decent story, but it has this grammatical weirdness that drove me crazy
Warning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS.
Rating: 6/10
PROS:
- Glenn constructs a pretty detailed and elaborate history of the clash between vampires and werewolves that is revealed in small snatches, and I found it well-constructed and interesting.
- I also thought the author did a good job of portraying Zacarius’s fixation on Devlin’s blood. Obviously, any vampire is going to have a thing for blood, but I really felt Zac’s lust for Devlin’s blood in particular.
- Sometimes it’s nice to read about two people who recognize their attraction for what it is and don’t hesitate too much to act on it.
- There’s quite a bit of sex in the story, and I would describe it as more sweet than hot. The scenes are numerous, but they aren’t described in a lot of detail, nor are they very long. The scenes are unabashedly lovey-dovey, though. (There’s a lot of blood play, so if that bothers you, stay away.)
- I liked the amount of angst in the book: just enough for the characters to develop a sense of longing for each other before reuniting, but without the separation seeming too overwhelming.
CONS:
- There’s an entire verb tense (past participle) that’s almost entirely lacking throughout the whole book (it uses simple past tense instead), which gives the writing an almost foreign, translated sound at times. Here are just a few examples: “Devlin never saw eyes that color before” (rather than “Devlin had never seen eyes that color”); “He drank his second glass of wine by the time Devlin entered the room” (rather than “He had drunk his second glass…”); “Zacarius called him darling almost since their first meeting” (should be “Zacarius HAD called him darling…”); “It happened for days now”… You get the point.
- There are phrases here and there that are so cheesy they made me cringe (“Curiosity may have killed the cat but it inspired the vampire”), and others that are like, duh (“Zacarius bit his lip to keep from laughing. His mate just made the situation humorous for him”).
- In some instances the writing uses a lot of pronouns and then doesn’t identify which characters they refer to: “his gaze bore into his in silent expectation”; “Zacarius didn’t see how he thought he would take over the coven even if he died.”
Overall comments: The story here is pretty typical of Stormy Glenn: decent plot, sweet characters, some angst, some sex, and a healthy dose of melodrama. But the strange lack of past participle tense throughout the story drove me absolutely bonkers. I almost couldn’t finish reading it because I found those sentences so forced and awkward and irritating. -
I was a little bit disappointed in this book, as part of the series. It was decent and it was a good book to read. But after reading this book, I am not as excited about reading the rest.
Devlin, who has been wanting to find his mate, has been sent to the vampire coven to return the prince's sister's body. People are more concerned about having a werewolf on there premises than finding out she was dead. Apparently, she wasn't well liked and the coven was just waiting for her to 'take it to far'. There Devlin meets the very oh-so-sexy, Zacarius (Zac). Zac is the prince(leader) of his coven. He has been around since the war that split the werewolves and vampires apart. They feel an instant attraction to each other.
While, Zac understands and the 'confirms' that Devlin is his mate; Devlin is fighting within himself about his attraction towards Zac. let alone is Zac a bloodsucker(vampire) but also the prince of his coven. Many people would/will frown upon there relationship and Devlin wants to do the 'right' thing.
Zac 'seduces' Devlin and they have a night of passion, where it is confirmed that Devlin is his mate. Devlin freaks out , but more than anything upset that Zac didn't tell him when he first figured it out. Now they are mated and can't take it back. Devlin runs away, back home. Zac, who can't live without his mate is heartbroken.
They both have to work on coming to terms of what it means to be mated to one another. And if that isn't enough, someone is out to kill Zac. How will the others bloodsuckers/werewolves react then they find out about them being mated. How far will they go to protect one another.
Reasons I am not a fan of this being part of her series -
2014 Re-read:
As I suspected, this Ethan and his back-story are rather different from the one we saw in the previous, expanded story. It’s disorienting, especially when he states that he only knows Reece, Keeley and Devlin – when in actual fact (at least during the other book) he’d never met any of them and instead just came into closer contact with Jim and Donovan. This is a new, twisted version of retroactive continuity.
But this is not (yet) Ethan’s book, so let’s move on.
After a beginning that wasn’t bad, things of course took an extreme turn down into wilful miscommunication city. It’s truly frustrating that the author can’t come up with better conflicts in this series, better ways to bring about the heartbreak and rescue scenes she clearly wants to write. Well, okay, she has become a lot better at this since these books were written, but this is still not completely gone.
The writing as such has definitely improved with this volume, though. POVs especially seem a lot cleaner.
And once the protagonists got over that hurdle of stupid, things turned enjoyable again. To an extent. It’s amazing how used one can get to people making little sense or showing little consistency in their thoughts or behaviours. So, accepting that, it was nice by the end.
Although, here’s something silly that crops up now and again in certain books and affects this one too. It’s stated that certain mated pairings (a thoroughly bonded vampire in this case) have their lives entwined in such a way that the death of one means the death of the other. And then no one ever thinks about that again. With Zacarius getting precariously close to dying several times over in this story and resigning himself to it, no one ever stops to think that this would kill the other dude too. Kind of a big deal, isn’t it? While much is made of the “no feeding from anyone else” stipulation mentioned in that very same paragraph! Oh, but much later Zacarius does ingest some blood from a donor bag so I guess that only applies when the author wants it to, as well. -
My least favorite so far.
"Prince" Zacarius is 500 years old, yet acts like a teenager. He's whiny and throws temper tantrums and he ALWAYS gets his way. After all, he IS the prince and a forkin' martyr. UGH! Spare me, please. Oh and did he really say "as if"? What are we? In Clueless? Sorry Zac, but you're a full-on Monet. You might be kind of a Baldwin though if you stop acting like a brat.
Both him and Devlin were wrong with the mating thing, BUT and here's the kicker
I want Stefan's story!!! -
I knew it, the idea of having two guys together is very sexy hahaha
plus, they were from different species.
Zac is a vampire while Devlin is a shifter.
I love how these two guys showing up their romance
Devlin yang tidak mau mengakui Zac sebagai pasangan
namun terus memikirkan Zac, sedangkan Zac berusaha membuat
Devlin menjadi miliknya namun karena penolakan Devlin
dan karena gengsi Zac malah pergi.
It just that their romance is too fast and it's
ending soon.
It's complicated too imagine the chemistry for both
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A little better than the previous books.
One little thing:
Zacarius dug his fingers into the arm around his waist. He took just a second to savor the knowledge that they both still lived before looking across the room to where Desmond now lay on the floor, a large kitchen knife sticking out of his bloody back.
Ho, what a surprise...a personage killed the same manner, in the same circumstance, than in the book 1.
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It was good. Very fast read. Not very deep. I enjoyed it enough to continue with the series, but not something I will probably read again. The storyline started out good, but didn't hold up and continue to be strong. The characters were never really revealed fully. It just fell kind of short. It was a fun short read, but nothing special.
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Must suspend belief. Bad editing. Okay story. The characters definitely needed to be fleshed out. The end and the situation with Stephan, just blew it for me. I'll be reading a couple more books by this author because I already purchased them.
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4 Stars for Brain Candy. I rate "brain candy" against other brain candy. I rate "gourmet" stories against the like. As others pointed out, this is a formulaic story meant to be a quick easy read that doesn't ask a lot of you. For that, it is hot & serves its purpose.
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Devlin y Zacarius son una de mis parejas favoritas de esta saga, la forma en la que se complementan entre ellos tan bien para ser una pareja formada por un vampiro y un hombre lobo. Amo esta saga sin duda alguna es de mis favoritas ya que mezcla dos criaturas sobrenaturales que me encantan.
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A werewolf mating with a vamp. Totally love that combination. Great story! I hope to read more like this one from Stormy.
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why does a 500 year old vampire sound and act a little like a valley girl?
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3,5 stars
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2.5 Stars
