Feral Warriors Book 1: Desire Untamed by Pamela Palmer

by shewolf0316 on July 27th, 2009, 12:08pm Login or Register to post comments

June 30, 2009
Harper Collins Publishers/Avon Books
Paranormal Romance/Dark Fantasy
Urban Fantasy
Mass Market Paperback and eBook
Rating: 5

A CK2S K2 Recommended Read!

With Desire Untamed, Pamela Palmer has started a brand new dark fantasy series that explodes with action immediately and keeps going full speed ahead until we reach the conclusion.

Kara MacAllister’s life is irrevocably changed one dark night when she is stolen away from her terminally ill mother’s side into a world she never knew existed. Suddenly a strange man is telling her she is immortal and the salvation of an ancient race of shape shifting warriors who will die if she does not take her place in their world. And that odd “stretch mark” that recently appeared? It’s the mark of the Therians, declaring her their new Radiant. When hideous creatures attack her the same night, she sees just how dark this new world is.

Lyon is the leader of the Feral Warriors and the only one who was able to track down their new Radiant, who’s power will give the warriors back their ability to shape shift and give them the power to fight their enemies, the Mage and the Draden. Now the Draden are growing in numbers and the Mage seem to be on a mission to release their greatest enemy, high Daemon Satanan and his followers. If Kara doesn’t accept her place in Therian society soon, the Feral Warriors will not have the power to defeat their enemies. He never counted on the Desire Untamed he would feel for Kara.

Desire Untamed is such an intense book full of danger, passion, and magic that my synopsis cannot even come close to doing the full story justice. Also, since it is the first book in the new Feral Warriors series, we are subject to a lot of world-building, but Pamela Palmer does this brilliantly. There are no information dumps here, which drive me crazy in paranormals and urban fantasies. Everything is explained in bits and pieces throughout the book to the heroine, Kara, since up until Lyon comes and kidnaps her she has no idea what she truly is.

Desire Untamed is a dark story, no doubt about that, with an ancient war between the Mage and the Therian ongoing for thousands of years. They joined forces once hundreds of years ago to defeat Satanan, giving up much of their respective powers to the cause, but hatred runs deep. Each side hopes the day will soon come to give them the edge to defeat their enemies forever. We have some shocking revelations come about here that turn the story upside down and give us a very good indication of what is to follow in future books in the series.

Kara and Lyon’s passion for one another defies everything Lyon has believed for centuries. This leads to some intense conflict as they fight their attraction when all they want to do is claim their mate in each other no matter what it may do to their cause. This tension just adds fuel to the fire and when these two finally discover a way to be together, we know the result will be a conflagration intense enough to rival the Radiant’s fire. I fell in love with all the Feral Warriors (especially Tighe, Paenther, and Jag) and am impatient for the next two books in the series. I am excited to know that we will get Tighe and Paenther’s stories in Obsession Untamed and Passion Untamed respectively.