Not my favourite Cynthia Eden book. This was alright - I just liked the concept more than the execution. It felt very all over the place with what was going on. The romance wasn't very developed and the characters didn't particularly have much interaction besides danger and sex. It meant the book fell rather flat. Still it's not the worst thing I've ever read. 1.5 stars. ( )

I'm a big fan of Cynthia Eden, so it's no surprise that I really enjoyed the story. It's a werewolf book (pretty easy to tell from the title), but there are a lot of twists and turns in this book as the reader tries to figure out who is double-crossing who. I liked the way a couple of the characters were turned around. It bodes well for future stories. I do hope in future books that the manipulating brother meets someone who can out maneuver him. It will be fun to see him fall. ( )

Julie's staff pick for the week of 12/8/13. ( )

Another fantastic paranormal romance by Cynthia Eden. Look forward to more of this series. ( )

I've been reading this to sleep but end up staying up really late to finish this. It started like any average start with a guy suddenly surrounded by the supernatural and end up turning into one himself. But then there's a lot of twist in this book that I could hardly wrap my head around. Everyone isn't what they seems, there were some caveman phrases somewhere that should be laughable if death doesn't hang around the person who said them.

Purgatory is a slightly different than the Bound series. Yes, both have the same vampire and werewolf coupling but its about a special group in law enforcement handling the paranormal cases rather than werewolf clans fighting for their territories. The romance is quite a secondary part of the book as the story focus more about Duncan's transformation and his family history and Holly's own secret and the lies people kept from her and the whole premise centered on trying to find the werewolf serial killers, double agents and the things trying to make things break all supernatural hell loose among the population.

There's quite minimal sex scenes in this book to constitute as full-on supernatural smut and even without the explicitness, the book is a good well-written horror mystery thriller on its own. There's a lot of gore and deaths to keep the blood racing and more character development between the characters that made them interesting other than their attraction to each other and I think pre-existed attraction help with the book as it keep up with the novel's pacing. Its a solid Urban Fantasy novel even if it look like a bodice ripper. ( )