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Book Review of Desire Untamed (Feral Warriors, Bk 1)

Desire Untamed (Feral Warriors, Bk 1)
Desire Untamed (Feral Warriors, Bk 1)
Author: Pamela Palmer
Genre: Romance
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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The Feral Warriors - Lyon, Tighe, Jag, Vhyper, Foxx, Hawke, Paenther, Wulfe and Kougar - are immortal shifters whose job it is to protect Humans from the Daemons. Their powers are waning since their Therian Radiant has died - a female who draws power from the earth to enable the Feral Warriors to shift into their animal forms in order to fight and kill the Daemons.

Kara was raised human. She is the Feral Warrior's Radiant, unbeknownst to her. Lyon (yes, that's his name and it is a literal name too) has "finding" ability and is the one tasked to hunt her down. So, he kidnaps her, from the only home she's known, and takes her to the Warriors home. Kyra has to learn to draw the power of earth and then give it to the warriors. To feed the warriors she needs to come to full power/ascended. Blood and sex is part of every ritual. To ascend a few drops, to release Satan a bucket full...hmmmmmm.... Kara is not being told what her full role is and so tries to flee. (I would too I someone kidnapped me). Her flight means death to the guardians as their power wains to zero. So they are all pist-of at her for trying to run away though not one explains fully what her being Radiant means in the big picture... as in no Radiant, no power for the guardians = dead guardians, loads of loose deamons, and eventual rise of the BIG BAD DEAMON Satan, that is imprisoned in a knife the guardians have in their protection, which is paramount to total destruction of earth, and most if not all humans. The only other female chatacter in the book is PINK a split soul flamengo shifter which acts as a servant/cook. Well she has the mid-shift body of a flamengo and doestn take well Kyras stunned reaction to her the morning after being kidnapped and having no idea there are things bumping in the night. And the slut girlfriend that sleeps with all the guardians on demand. A rival magician as it turns out, and the principal villain who steals shards of the guardians souls, creates duplicates out of deamons and butchers Kyra for buckets of blood to raise the Satan. Lucky for Kyra she survives, the Vilain gets killed, and Satan is not raised. All but one deamon guardian/copy is killed so all but one guardians get their soul shards back and are healed from being quarelsomne (or gone totally feral) spitballs of vengance. Though one of the guardians gets his soul sucked in by the evil knife/Satans prison, and steels the knife to try again. And the book is set for follow up stories.... The main romance is split into threesome, where Kyra must be matched to her ideal mate. Though the guy with sucked soul gone evil manages to change the selection and is marked as her mate though the Lyon is the one that should have been marked and has true conection to Kyra. They struggle with this conection till it is reconfirmed at the end of the book.

Kyra her self is petulant and more then a bit TSTL-H as in too stupid to live Heroine. Lyon is obstinent and suffers heavily of the Matcho-Hero Coplex. But over all this story comes nicely together. The H+H and the vilain with all the supporting characters are well fleshed out. The writig flows well. It is a nice introduction to new series. I would give the book 4* though it is not a keeper.