Four stories of inhuman passions from four of the hottest authors in paranormal romance…“Alpha and Omega” by Patricia Briggs The werewolf Anna finds a new sense of self when the son of the werewolf king comes to town to quell unrest in the Chicago pack—and inspires a power in Anna she’s never felt before.“Inhuman” by Eileen WilksAndie has a secret gift of sensing thoughts and desires. What she … Wilks
Andie has a secret gift of sensing thoughts and desires. What she senses in her neighbor Nathan could be dangerous. Because he has a secret gift too, and it’s about to be let loose…
“Buying Trouble” by Karen Chance
A Lord of the Fey crosses paths with a fiery red-headed mage named Claire in a New York auction house. But in this strange underground society, the rarity up for sale is Claire herself.
“Mona Lisa Betwining” by Sunny
Among the children of the moon, Milady is of mixed blood—part Monère, part human, and destined to be alone. Until she meets a man who could be her salvation—or her downfall.
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I picked up this anthology for Alpha & Omega, hoping to find some new Urban Fantasy authors along the way. Unfortunately, the other three novellas were mediocre, overdone to the point of ludicrousness, and outright erotica.
Read my full review:
https://rebeccasreadingcorner.blog/review-anthology-on-the-prowl/
Buying Trouble:
This book happens in sync with Midnight’s Daughter, while listed as a prequel I find that having read Midnight’s Daughter first made more sense.
Dory only appears in this story by reference, the main character is Dory’s roommate Claire. This story centered on what was happening to Claire while Dory is looking for her in Midnight’s Daughter.
In this novella we got to see aspects of the Fey which are the least known about species in this series and the Cassandra Palmer series. It was a refreshing change of pace from the mages and vampires the stories usually center around.
REVIEW OF ALPHA & OMEGA BY PATRICIA BRIGGS:
Reading On The Prowl was totally not a planned thing. I was a few hours into the audio book for Cry Wolf (Alpha & Omega series #1) when I started e-mailing back and forth with Ginny Lurcock. She has already read the series and wanted to know what I thought about Charles. Well, I took that opportunity to spew my frustrations with the book. I love Patty Briggs!! She’s an amazing writer who creates amazing characters. Here I was, 3 hours into an audio book, the FIRST in the series, and I had NO CLUE what was going on. I had never had a problem with missing details in any of her previous books that I had read and I couldn’t understand how she could disappoint me so!
When I read her response, I could see Ginny’s face on the other end of the World Wide Web. I imagine a face of exasperation and “Ummmmmm, hello?!?!?!?!” as she informed me that I was missing a step. I started with Cry Wolf completely skipping the prequel that explains all of the events that you are unceremoniously dumped in the middle of. I immediately grabbed On The Prowl and started reading as soon as I got home last night and finished it up this morning. It answered every single question I had and completely restored by short lined loss of faith in Ms. Briggs.
Alpha & Omega is actually a kind of hard story to read. The content is hard to imagine and rather painful to read through the eyes of Charles. Between his instant protectiveness and the painful details of Anna’s prior treatment, it is just hard to read through at times.
As with everything else I have ever read by Patricia Briggs, it is brilliantly written. The writing style is classic Briggs – easy to read with enough detail to paint a perfect picture.
Since it is a novella, it just kind of feels like the missing chapter from the beginning of Cry Wolf.
I am going to slap a big juicy 5 stars on it. I am very much looking forward to proceeding on with Cry Wolf now. Having all the details gives me a completely different outlook on the way things are going in Cry Wolf and also gave me a fresh dose of hatred for the pricks from Anna’s Chicago pack.
Loved it re read all the time