Book Review: Styx’s Storm by Lora Leigh
Styx’s Storm (Breed, #22) by Lora Leigh © 2010 Berkley Sensation. ISBN 9780425237397. Mass Market Paperback. Paranormal Romance. 293 pages. Source: Amazon purchase.
Synopsis: When Storme Montague’s father and brother are killed by the Breeds, her father’s research is also destroyed – except for a crucial data chip that both the Council and the Breeds would kill to possess. Betrayed to the Council, she is rescued by Styx, a Wolf Breed who is different from most other Breeds she has ever known. Storme has something he wants too – but it is not the data chip.
There’s never been a woman who bad boy Styx couldn’t seduce. But can the charmer of the Wolf Breeds charm the enemy? Or has the enemy come up with a plan of her own? A plan that could destroy the tentative balance the Breeds have created in society and among their allies – and that may ultimately destroy them both.
Review: I’m a little torn about this story. First of all the synopsis on Amazon and on Goodreads have nothing to do with the synopsis I provided above (which is the correct one). The synopsis above comes from the book itself.
The book, as I saw it, had a few inconsistencies but I don’t have all the problems other reviewers have with it. I can understand what they said about the heroine (she is a bit of a racist bigot) BUT when you look at her from the point of view of Styx, you begin to understand where her views come from (though I highly doubt you will love her—though by the end she does redeem herself).
The heroine seems to know a lot of secrets that the Council is privy too but we are never told how, and she never shares them with the Breeds even at the end when she trusts them, in fact the author seems to have forgotten that she put that in there in the first place. I also find a problem with how her father thought she could be trusted with the data chip when she was known to tattle on Breed sympathizers (to her father but still…) She has this attitude of poor little me and you get the feeling (and the Breeds all around tell her all the time) that she never grew up.
Styx I ADORED. He was sweet when he needed to be and very understanding. He was patient with Storme and his wolf even staved off the mating heat unconsciously because he wanted her acceptance first. I would have loved to see his relationship with his “grandfather” explored more though. There seems to be undercurrents there and a story to be told.
The overall story is a good solid Breed story though and the author advanced the main thread that is going through all the stories in a good way in this book. We do see a little more about Jonas, but it merely cements the impression we got of him in his previous book, which is that the old Jonas is gone and this new and not so improved version is here to stay.
I enjoyed the book, but at the same time kept thinking about why Lora would saddle Styx with Storme. The Scottish Wolf Breed with the unabashed lover of Chocolate and a ready smile deserved someone better methinks…
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