SEAL WOLF IN TOO DEEP (Heart of the Wolf #18) by Terry Spear-Review, Book Tour & Giveaway
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ABOUT THE BOOK: February 2, 2016
Debbie Renaud is a police diver working on criminal cases with SEAL Allan Rappaport. She admires him greatly for his missions in the Navy, plus he’s just plain HOT. Allan seems to share her attraction, but what she doesn’t know is that her partner is wolf shifter.
Allan is really hung up on his smart, beautiful dive partner, but he can’t get involved with a human outside dive duty. Yet when she gets between a werewolf hunter and his intended victim, one of the members of Allan’s pack, they run into real trouble, and their lives are altered forever.
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REVIEW: SEAL WOLF IN TOO DEEP is the eighteenth installment in Terry Spear’s contemporary, adult HEART OF THE WOLF paranormal, romance series. This is wolf shifter/former Navy SEAL Allan Rappaport, and police officer Debbie Renaud’s story. SEAL WOLF IN TOO DEEP can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty.
Told from dual third person perspectives SEAL WOLF IN TOO DEEP follows two paths: the building and forbidden relationship between law enforcement divers/partners Debbie Renaud and Allan Rappaport; and the hunt for a killer who has set his sights on shifter wolves. Allan is a wolf shifter whose new diving partner is a human female; a sexy woman that the leaders of the Pack (Paul and Lori) refuse to accept as Allan’s mate. What ensues is the search for a killer who has targeted ‘werewolves’, and the building romance between Allan and Debbie that will culminate in the unexpected when Debbie is caught between a killer and his gun.
The relationship between Debbie and Allan begins as co-workers in the police department. Both Debbie and Allan are police divers who investigate a series of murders and attempted murders that lead back to a possible rogue wolf or a vendetta against shifters of every kind. The romance is very slow to build as Allan understands that Debbie cannot be his mate but Debbie continues to pursue Allan for something more. Saying that, the sexual attraction and heat between Debbie and Allan is lacking; there is no chemistry or romance; no passion, no spark of electricity. I felt no emotional connection to our leading couple-the ‘mating’ felt like a handshake between business partners or strangers-cold and stilted. The $ex scenes are intimate without the over the top erotic imagery. There is a second man vying for Debbie’s love.
SEAL WOLF IN TOO DEEP has a very large ensemble cast of secondary and supporting characters including Paul and Lori (Seal Wolf Hunting #16) and their expanding Pack, and several mentions of the original Greymere Pack. A fellow police officer-Rowdy-appears to know quite a bit of the shifter wolves-here’s hoping Rowdy’s story is next. The world building continues to focus on the shifter wolves and their attempts to keep secret their existence from the human population.
SEAL WOLF IN TOO DEEP is an interesting story line but one that lacked in many areas including the love connection between Allan and Debbie. The murder mystery focused on too many possibilities, and with the introduction of so many players, the story line got lost in the details.
Copy supplied by the publisher through Netgalley
Reviewed by Sandy
and she turned to see what was funny and nearly had a heart attack.
He was holding one hot pink and white mug while reading it, the other
sitting on the counter: Men should be like my curtains, easy to pull and
well hung.
Her lips parted, she had to have turned cherry red, and she turned away
quickly before she burned the cocoa. Now what? Explain that a friend had
given them to her when her last boyfriend and she had parted company? Or
just ignore the fact that they were drinking out of those cups while she
was having hot cocoa with him and pretend she wasn’t embarrassed to the
tip of her toes?
He brought the mugs over. “Anything else?”
“There’s a can of whipped cream in the fridge, if you want some.”
“Real cream,” he said, eyeing the can. “Looks good.” He gave it to her,
and he lifted the mugs.
She shook up the can and pointed it at the right mug, pushed the nozzle,
and the cream dripped and fizzled. Not to be thwarted, she shook it again,
hoping that it wasn’t defective. And then the whipped cream swirled around
with perfect ridges in a twirl on top with a cute little pointy peak.
Perfect.
Then she turned to the other mug, shook the can again, and pushed the
nozzle. It was working great until halfway through her little mountain of
whipped cream twirling to perfection, when the nozzle malfunctioned again
and spewed whipped cream everywhere.
In horror, she stopped what she was doing and stared at the white cream
splattered all over Allan’s chest and a few that had dotted his boxer
briefs. Her mouth agape, she glanced up at him.
His eyes sparkled with mirth and he laughed.
“Oh, oh, let me get something to wipe it up,” she said, belatedly, and set
the can of whipped cream on the counter.
She grabbed some paper towels and wetted them, then rushed back to wipe
the mess up. He was still holding onto both hot pink mugs of cocoa. She
had every intention of taking one of the mugs and letting him clean
himself, but he just moved his arms apart as if to say she made the mess,
she could wash it up.
She thought she was going to die. Yes, he was totally hot. And yes, she’d
fantasized about making love to him-since they were both unattached, and
she truly liked him. But in her wildest dreams she would never have
imagined making him cocoa in the middle of the night in her duplex while
he stood in sexy silk briefs, not baggy, but nice and form fitting, and
then she proceeded to splatter him with whipped cream. All over his tanned
chest and those black briefs.
Website/ Goodreads/ Twitter/ Facebook Love, love, love romance, the paranormal, hunky Highlanders with their delicious brogue and hot kilts, so Terry Spear writes about those hunky Highlanders both in medieval times and as wolves in contemporary times. Jaguar shifters too! And young adult urban fantasy. And romantic suspense. She grew up reading mystery, adventure, mythologies from around the world, ghost stories, the paranormal, fell in love with Dracula and Wolfman, and felt they needed loving too. Everyone should have someone to love. Which means her stories always have a HEA. USA Today Bestseller residing in Central Texas from Sacramento, California who creates award-winning teddy bears too! 
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