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A review by marq123
Skin Heat by Ava Gray
2.0
I don’t know what to make of this book or this series. Is it a romantic suspense or paranormal romance? Or a combination of the two?
At the end of Skin Tight, Zeke is one of the “patients” that escaped from the facility. He has hitched hiked his way back home and finds his farm neglected and his animals gone. Zeke isn’t the same man he was when we was abducted 6 months ago. He now has extrasensory abilities, bordering on animal instinct. He doesn’t know what to make of it but he is determined to get his life back in order.
Neva is the local vet. She has turned her back on her wealthy family and their expectations by doing something that she loves. She takes a chance on Zeke when he shows up at her clinic looking for a job. Neva sees that Zeke has a natural kinship with animals and thinks that he would be a good addition to her staff. There’s mutual attraction between Zeke and Neva but Neva doesn’t want to cross the employer/employee line. What she doesn’t know is that Zeke has always wanted her and that his feelings for her go deeper than just a crush.
I like Zeke and Neva as a couple. They are from different backgrounds but have the love of animals in common. Because of the genetic experimenting that Zeke went through, he can no longer reader and speaks in short, incomplete sentences. His way of communicating is terse and straight forward. Neva realizes that is different but doesn’t know how. She never talks down to him; she treats him as an equal. Neva gets Zeke in a way that no one does.
The sexual chemistry between Zeke and Neva is explosive. When they come together, it is hot and steamy. Their mating was borderline animalistic at times. There were a couple of times I had to fan myself it was so hot. The relationship aspect of the novel was enjoyable and believable and the best part of the book. The secondary plot about a local serial killer who are killing women who favored Neva was weak in my opinion. I thought it was unnecessary and was used as a way to add suspense to the overall story. It didn’t take much thought to figure out who the killer was. The previous book’s plot, Skin Tight, was directly related to Dr. Rowen’s human experiments. In Skin heat, there was very little mentioned (only a paragraph at the end) of the fall out from Zeke’s escape. This is where the book didn’t feel connected to the series.
I finished Skin Heat unsatisfied. Again, I don’t know what to make of this series. It seems like with each book, it takes a different direction. With most series, each book is a continuing story from the previous book, with different characters. The story flows with the characters but the plot is out of sorts. Are we going to find out more about the experiments and the repercussions? And the question that is still bothering me but has not been answered: Kira, from Skin Game, how did she come into her powers? That question is what keeps me from enjoying the series. It seems like the author had an idea for the series to be a certain way but then changed her mind mid-course and went a different direction.
At the end of Skin Tight, Zeke is one of the “patients” that escaped from the facility. He has hitched hiked his way back home and finds his farm neglected and his animals gone. Zeke isn’t the same man he was when we was abducted 6 months ago. He now has extrasensory abilities, bordering on animal instinct. He doesn’t know what to make of it but he is determined to get his life back in order.
Neva is the local vet. She has turned her back on her wealthy family and their expectations by doing something that she loves. She takes a chance on Zeke when he shows up at her clinic looking for a job. Neva sees that Zeke has a natural kinship with animals and thinks that he would be a good addition to her staff. There’s mutual attraction between Zeke and Neva but Neva doesn’t want to cross the employer/employee line. What she doesn’t know is that Zeke has always wanted her and that his feelings for her go deeper than just a crush.
I like Zeke and Neva as a couple. They are from different backgrounds but have the love of animals in common. Because of the genetic experimenting that Zeke went through, he can no longer reader and speaks in short, incomplete sentences. His way of communicating is terse and straight forward. Neva realizes that is different but doesn’t know how. She never talks down to him; she treats him as an equal. Neva gets Zeke in a way that no one does.
The sexual chemistry between Zeke and Neva is explosive. When they come together, it is hot and steamy. Their mating was borderline animalistic at times. There were a couple of times I had to fan myself it was so hot. The relationship aspect of the novel was enjoyable and believable and the best part of the book. The secondary plot about a local serial killer who are killing women who favored Neva was weak in my opinion. I thought it was unnecessary and was used as a way to add suspense to the overall story. It didn’t take much thought to figure out who the killer was. The previous book’s plot, Skin Tight, was directly related to Dr. Rowen’s human experiments. In Skin heat, there was very little mentioned (only a paragraph at the end) of the fall out from Zeke’s escape. This is where the book didn’t feel connected to the series.
I finished Skin Heat unsatisfied. Again, I don’t know what to make of this series. It seems like with each book, it takes a different direction. With most series, each book is a continuing story from the previous book, with different characters. The story flows with the characters but the plot is out of sorts. Are we going to find out more about the experiments and the repercussions? And the question that is still bothering me but has not been answered: Kira, from Skin Game, how did she come into her powers? That question is what keeps me from enjoying the series. It seems like the author had an idea for the series to be a certain way but then changed her mind mid-course and went a different direction.