Lora Leigh has definitely made me a follower of this series. Previously I reviewed A Jaguar’s Kiss and Dawn’s Awakening and have read a few of the other books (shown in my 100+ list), enjoying them all.
Elizabeth’s Wolf is the story about Elizabeth, Dash, and Cassie. Elizabeth had been married to a man who couldn’t have children naturally and they decided to use artificial insemination to begin a family. Though the couple are able to get pregnant, they are not happy and Elizabeth divorces him. When their daughter is around eight years old, her father got into financial difficulties and decided to give Cassie to Grange, the man to whom he was in debt. That night, Grange kills Cassie’s father in front of her, leaving her terrified and locked in a room. Elizabeth learns what has happened and rescues her daughter from Grange. That rescue is the start of a two year desperate race to stay a head of the goons that Grange has sent after them to recapture Cassie.
In one of the schools that Cassie attended during that time, the teacher had the students choose a name from a list of military personnel who were stationed in combat zones but had no one to write to them. Cassie chooses Dash, because she thinks that it is a “good daddy’s name” and it is her letters that introduce him to her mother. These letters are a life line for Dash. Before he had begun receiving them, he had been shot down in a helicopter, the only person to survive the crash and had to spend many months in a hospital recovering.
Lora Leigh does a fantastic job of creating characters that the reader cares about and in writing stories that follow a group of Breeds who though they have had similar tortured beginnings, have grown up into such magnificent adults. The strength of will that these characters possess is impressive to see and I look forward to reading more about them.
Grade: B
2 Comments
May 4, 2008 at 4:43 am
You know, I kind of gave up on LL because I felt all of her novels read the same, just with different character names. But this one sounds really good. I’m adding it to my wish list.
Thanks!
October 13, 2008 at 7:39 am
[...] awesome series and has managed to make this old topic new again. In the past I’ve reviewed Elizabeth’s Wolf, A Jaguar’s Kiss, and Dawn’s Awakening — and have enjoyed them [...]