Silverwood Rising by Jeanett Greaves

 

 This month I choose Silverwood Rising 

This is the fourth and final book in Jeanette Greaves ‘Ransomed Hearts’ series.

 Yes, we certainly all know by now that this series is about werewolves and Greaves has created her own brand of them.  These aren’t ruled by the moon and mostly change between two legs and four at will. Over the four books I feel that I’ve got to know the pack and I wish that they really existed.

By now the general public are aware of their existence and that makes a difference to how the world operates for everyone. 

We get several points of view through a variety of scenes in the book. Yet we get very close to every person so that we really can empathise with them.

The Silverwood Pack still has to face the White Pack and so do other packs they have come to know.  

As the story comes to its climax and resolution we are offered a few more glimpses into how the Whites have become what they are. Some of us may find metaphors for our own world there. Others may just consider this to be a good story. I feel there is room for both. Fantasy works like that anyway.

The story is once more well-structured and the writing remains at all times engaging with a good narrative balance of description, action, dialogue and inner monologue.

This novel is suitable both for the higher end of young adults – 16+ - and for adults.    

 

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Hearts' Home by Jeanette Greaves

 

This is the third in Jeanette Greaves ‘Ransomed Hearts’ series.

In this one both pace and tension increase. The pack grows as do problems about security and privacy. The hearts are high profile enough as a rock band. But their alternative life makes it even more difficult to manage home and work; now Mark and Andrew each have two families to worry about.     

Jeanette Greaves continues to give attention detail.  She presents a carefully considered world. She knows exactly what the world does but only gives us the amount of information we need at each point.

We are mainly in the point of view of Mark, though we get glimpses of the others too.

Greaves’ writing style tends towards the literary. The pace and tension are such that we want to keep on reading. So altogether a very satisfying read.  Beautiful prose and a good plot.  

The ending is dramatic and clearly paves the way for the fourth book.

I find this book suitable both for the higher end of young adults – 16+ - and for adults.  

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Igloo by Jennifer Burkinshaw

This is a gentle romance at the same time as being a gentle coming of age story.

Niv does not like skiing nor does she want to go to university. Her passion is for working with wood.  Then along comes Jean-Louis with his one set of problems mainly to do with his dysfunctional mother. Can Niv survive her poor GCSE results? Can her relationship with Jean-Louis continue? Will she regain her mother’s trust and affection? All of this set against a backdrop of snow, mountains and two igloos.

There is pace and tension a plenty in Jennifer Burkinshaw’s Igloo.