Highland Werewolf Series (Paranormal Romance)

I recently finished reading USA TODAY bestselling and award-winning author, Terry Spear’s, “Highland Werewolf Series.” While this is the first 4 books in this series, it is also included in her “Heart of the Wolf Series” as books 7, 10, 11 and 14 respectively.

Terry presents the best take on werewolves yet! It’s not time travel or historical, but it kind of gives you the best of both worlds; wolves  that age slowly so that they’ve lived over a few centuries and still hold to that way of life meeting modern-day she-wolves to mate.

I have to give her 4 stars. Once I started I wanted to finish. Book 1 leads to book 2. Book 3 has an 18^th century prologue. Book 4 introduces new characters and each book is stand alone. The endings do not leave you hanging. 

Each book is full of ancient castles, manor houses, kilted highlanders and even includes a ghost. On the flip side, they’ve included modern day appliances, cars and cell phones. The clans still live by their ancient codes and the main characters meet she-wolves that have adapted to modern-day society and lack a pack/clan of their own. The plots include the alpha wolf struggle to tame the alpha she-wolf.

If I had to claim a flaw, I would point out the enemy from book 1 stating that he set-up the MacNeill clan to lose money through investments. The problem is that in book 2, where the investor appeared, the investor didn’t know that they were a werewolf clan. There is the possibility that the investor didn’t actually know as they didn’t physically meet and the investor was just forwarded to them, but there was no mention of book 1’s enemy in book 2. That was an opportunity to tie it together that she missed.

I assumed that that book 4 would marry off the last quadruplet, but Terry introduces a neighboring clan with triplet brothers; marrying off the clan chief to the manor’s owner. The clan chief happens to be a good friend of Ian’s, from book 1, and his mate happens to be Ian’s mate’s best friend. So, of course, the MacNeill’s are not forgotten.

The 4 book set sold by Amazon features an excerpt from book 5, Highland Wolf Christmas. The focus returns to the MacNeill family and the last quadruplet. Of course I’ll be downloading that next. Good read. Would definitely recommend to all highland/werewolf/paranormal fans.

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http://www.amazon.com/Highland-Werewolf-Boxed-Heart-Wolf-ebook/dp/B00NT4ISQM/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416260851&sr=1-2&keywords=heart+of+the+highland+wolf

Book Description:

The Highland Werewolf Boxed Set contains the first four books in Terry Spear's Highland Werewolf series.
In Heart of the Highland Wolf a modern werewolf laird and a beautiful red female werewolf enter into an intrigue involving the laird's secretive clan, an ancient relic, and a romance novel. Has this wiley female met her perfect hero?

In A Howl for a Highlander the driven Duncan MacNeill has left his highland home to chase a thief into a tropical paradise. When he meets lone wolf and botanist Shelley Campbell on Grand Cayman Island, he'll discover just how tempting paradise can be.

Scottish Cearnach MacNeill and sexy little American werewolf Elaine Hawthorn collide, quite literally, on a foggy Highland road in A Highland Werewolf Wedding. Now they're stuck with each other while they wait for help to arrive, and it's going to be a delightful, steamy and devilishly funny wait.

She's never been to Scotland, but when werewolf Colleen Playfair learns she must spend a year and a day in the highlands learning to manage her new estate, she's up for the challenge. But she did count on the stubborn Grant MacQuarrie whose clan has been managing the castle for the last three centuries and will do anything it takes, including taking Colleen to bed, to convince her that nothing needs to change in A Hero of a Highland Wolf.