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sjb86's review
5.0
I really enjoyed this book. I love vivian arend series. This book was different from what I was expecting but still very good and kept me guessing till end.
shannon_cocktailsandbooks's review
The second installment to the Takhini Pack series, Silver Mine gives us the story of Chase, a crossbreed shifter, and Shelley, a shifter who can't shift. This is an interesting story of two outcasts who can't seem to keep their hands off each
What I liked about this story the best was the characters. There's just something about Chase, I wasn't sure what it was at first, I just knew that there was something about this character that set him apart from your average hero. Chase turns out to be a contradiction in terms. He's an outcast living off in the woods in virtual solitude, yet he’s the alpha of dozens of other outcasts of every imaginable shifter breed. He’s even got a wolverine in his pack! On the other hand, we have Shelley, the “mutant” wolf shifter whose human half sister fits in with the shifter pack better than she does. How a pack would accept a human but reject a shifter, I have yet to understand. What I do understand is that Shelley seems to have a masochistic side. The pack treats her badly, she refuses to return to the pack, yet she just has to go back to her hometown and serve as their doctor/vet. It almost sounds like your typical abusive relationship. I just couldn’t understand why she would put herself in that position, which made it hard to really get her character.
What I didn’t like about this story… Arend makes it a point to say, more than once, that Chase and Shelley are not mates. So if they’re not mates, then where is this relationship headed? A one-night stand? A hot affair that will continue until one or the other does find their true mate and dumps the other? To tell you the truth, I finished the book and I still don’t know. Although I greatly enjoyed the story, the love scenes were pretty hot, the action everywhere, the alpha attitude plentiful, yet it still felt incomplete. I don’t feel it measured up to Arend’s usual work. Maybe that makes me biased. So I’m basing my rating on my enjoyment of this particular piece of work as I read it. Would it have made a difference if I had read book 1 first? Maybe. So to be honest, I will give this series a second chance and read book 1 before deciding if I will continue to follow it or not. You be the judge. You disagree? Feel free to tell me.
What I liked about this story the best was the characters. There's just something about Chase, I wasn't sure what it was at first, I just knew that there was something about this character that set him apart from your average hero. Chase turns out to be a contradiction in terms. He's an outcast living off in the woods in virtual solitude, yet he’s the alpha of dozens of other outcasts of every imaginable shifter breed. He’s even got a wolverine in his pack! On the other hand, we have Shelley, the “mutant” wolf shifter whose human half sister fits in with the shifter pack better than she does. How a pack would accept a human but reject a shifter, I have yet to understand. What I do understand is that Shelley seems to have a masochistic side. The pack treats her badly, she refuses to return to the pack, yet she just has to go back to her hometown and serve as their doctor/vet. It almost sounds like your typical abusive relationship. I just couldn’t understand why she would put herself in that position, which made it hard to really get her character.
What I didn’t like about this story… Arend makes it a point to say, more than once, that Chase and Shelley are not mates. So if they’re not mates, then where is this relationship headed? A one-night stand? A hot affair that will continue until one or the other does find their true mate and dumps the other? To tell you the truth, I finished the book and I still don’t know. Although I greatly enjoyed the story, the love scenes were pretty hot, the action everywhere, the alpha attitude plentiful, yet it still felt incomplete. I don’t feel it measured up to Arend’s usual work. Maybe that makes me biased. So I’m basing my rating on my enjoyment of this particular piece of work as I read it. Would it have made a difference if I had read book 1 first? Maybe. So to be honest, I will give this series a second chance and read book 1 before deciding if I will continue to follow it or not. You be the judge. You disagree? Feel free to tell me.
musingbookworm's review
4.0
Where is a werewolf hermit with an ailment to go with a medical problem? To the anti-pack veterinarian of course.
Once again, Vivian Arend brings the wild and sexy world of shifters to the page in the second instalment of the Takhini Wolves series.
Our hero, the delicious Chase Johnson prefers the quiet life. The VERY quiet life of the Yukon, home of outcasts and hermits of the shifter world. Chase is all alpha but not interested in pack life, not least because he is a cross breed with no idea what he will shift to next, a cougar or a wolf.
Meanwhile, Shelley Bradley has spent years away from home after being endlessly mocked by the pack for being unable to shift to her wolf side, considered too weak to be anything but Omega. Now she is the new vet/shifter doctor for the town and determined to live life her way, with or without the pack.
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Once again, Vivian Arend brings the wild and sexy world of shifters to the page in the second instalment of the Takhini Wolves series.
Our hero, the delicious Chase Johnson prefers the quiet life. The VERY quiet life of the Yukon, home of outcasts and hermits of the shifter world. Chase is all alpha but not interested in pack life, not least because he is a cross breed with no idea what he will shift to next, a cougar or a wolf.
Meanwhile, Shelley Bradley has spent years away from home after being endlessly mocked by the pack for being unable to shift to her wolf side, considered too weak to be anything but Omega. Now she is the new vet/shifter doctor for the town and determined to live life her way, with or without the pack.
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audiobookmel's review
4.0
I really loved this book and this series so far.
Chase is a Metis shifter, with 2 different forms. He is also a defacto alpha for a clan of misfit group of mix species shifters that live out in the bush. All of these shifters look to him for leadership, whether he wants it or not.
Shelley is a wolf who can't shift at all. She was raised with a sister who is a full human, who is currently sleeping with the Takhini pack alpha. Shelley went to vet school to learn as much as she could so that she could help the shifters back home. It was her way to feel useful.
This is a great series with humor, sexiness and lots of great shifters. I'm so glad that I stumbled across a review for this series on RabidReads. I highly recommend this series if you like shifters.
Chase is a Metis shifter, with 2 different forms. He is also a defacto alpha for a clan of misfit group of mix species shifters that live out in the bush. All of these shifters look to him for leadership, whether he wants it or not.
Shelley is a wolf who can't shift at all. She was raised with a sister who is a full human, who is currently sleeping with the Takhini pack alpha. Shelley went to vet school to learn as much as she could so that she could help the shifters back home. It was her way to feel useful.
This is a great series with humor, sexiness and lots of great shifters. I'm so glad that I stumbled across a review for this series on RabidReads. I highly recommend this series if you like shifters.
shadowmaster13's review
3.0
The actual story between Chase and Shelley wasn't as good as [b:Black Gold|11708079|Black Gold (Takhini Wolves, #1)|Vivian Arend|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1307973229s/11708079.jpg|16655580], but the background story of the disease and the bears was very good.
theladyinreds's review
4.0
An outcast half-wolf shifter finds her place with an Alpha of a pack of loners. I really loved this one.
fromjesstoyou's review
4.0
Check out my review and two teasers here: http://frommetoyouvideophoto.blogspot.com/2012/09/feasted-on-takhini-wolves-series-book-2.html
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