Chase the Darkness

By: J. D. Tyler

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins

Publisher's Summary

Believed dead by his packmates, Micah Chase, a wolf shifter and Dreamwalker, was held captive for months, subject to tortures that left him physically scarred and emotionally unsettled. Now under the care of the Alpha Pack's doctors, he's been prescribed an experimental healing drug, but he still can't shake the nightmares. Even more damning is that Micah's problems pose a danger to his team, and if he doesn't get himself under control, they'll all suffer a terrible fate.There is a key to his salvation.

Jacee is a beautiful coyote shifter, and though her kind is hated, she's falling in love with a man whose very future is in her hands. Together they'll face his personal demons as well as a deadly enemy - and for both of them desire has never come with such risk.

©2015 J. D. Tyler (P)2015 Tantor

Not the book I hoped for!

Would you try another book from J. D. Tyler and/or Marguerite Gavin?

I will continue to follow the story of the Alpha Pack as long as J. D. Tyler continues to write them, but I must say, I was a little disappointed with this book. After waiting so long for the next part of this series, and after being so excited to know I could finally hear the story of Micah Chase, I found this book was a let down.

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

There was, (IMO), NOT enough action! If you have listened to the previous books you know they keep you pumped up and at times holding your breath. Well, this book didn't do any of that for me. It just seemed to fall flat. Just Not enough fight like I expected after the first six stories.

Did Marguerite Gavin do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?

Marguerite Gavin did NOT do the narration justice. I gave the first six books a five star rating, Even gave Ms Gavin five stars on the last book, but with this one she just fell short!

Was Chase the Darkness worth the listening time?

I will say, go ahead and listen to the book. I always like to read the whole series and don't like to skip. I feel like you miss information when you do, but even with the story not having as much action as I would like, it is still a decent listen.

Any additional comments?

I hope they go back to using Kirsten Potter for the narration. She has a much better speaking quality and conveys the emotions of the character mush better.

10 of 11 people found this review helpful

:Like the series, but ....

I like the series, but these characters aren't holding my attention like the first 5 books. It's losing momentum to me. But, I'm in this far, may as well keep going. No credit or cash regrets, I just feel like it's missing something??? I don't know what, but...
It doesnt help matters that there is a different narrator, good, but not the original.

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

Not the Best of the Alpha Pack

I couldn't get past the narrator. I'm not sure why she bothered me so much but for some reason it didn't match the other books. The storyline was weak.

I will continue with this series I am looking forward to Phoenix and Noel.

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

Horrible Narration

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

I wish I picked up the Kindle book.

What did you like best about this story?

It was a good story. Lots of obstacles in the couples way.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

Her voice was flat. She was just the wrong person to do this book.

5 of 6 people found this review helpful

Horrible narrator ruined the book

Did you know the healer and sorcerer are BRITISH??? Ugh! With a different narrator, this would've been a good book.

4 of 5 people found this review helpful

Bring back Kirsten Potter!!!

They need to bring back the narrator that did the first 5 books Kirsten Potter!!
For some reason Marguerite Gavin changed the voices from the last book she did. All of a sudden Cerial has an Irish accent and Kalen is British. No consistency. And her voice is just not good.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

PLEASE WRITE ANOTHER BOOK AND HAVE KIRSTEN POTTER NARRATE IT

Whoever has the bright idea to switch narrators halfway through the series should be banned from making any more decisions EVER AGAIN. DID Marguerite even listen to the narration of the first two books?? I don’t think so. Xan - has a foreign accent - sometimes
Cerial (sp?) has acquired an Irish accent (I mean, seriously??) and sounds sinister. He sounds like you can’t trust him.
Sometimes characters have southern accents. Sometimes they don’t.
Sometimes they sound foreign, sometimes they don’t.
Kalin suddenly has an English accent?? I guess he obtained it while living with a group of Americans in the Shoshone mountains.

I wish the author would write a book about Raven. We have been left up in the air about that one AND the wolf that crawled up to the compound at the end of this book. But are we never going to see Raven find his mate and transform back to a human? And now we have been led to believe JC’s sister has found her mate with the vampire prince. Are we not going to hear that story either?

Make the Addiction Stop!

The storylines are really engaging and filled with action. The intimate scenes are a little repetitive, especially if your binging, but I find myself wondering what’s going to happen next!

Change in pace, learn to love the characters

The book was slow to start and you new right away who the mated match was, would of liked to of had more suspense on that part. With that being said after the first few chapter I really got into the story. I thought mist would of played a bigger role and the villain wouldn't of been so obvious. I do have a few chapters left but feel it won't be a big change.

Good book but not very good narration..

At 28% I wasn’t crazy about this book. I mean, I was already tired of Micah popping pills every time he turned around. So far I’ve loved the other 6 books but I thought this was going to be a bummer. I could see that bondmate thing wasn’t between Micah and Jaycee wasn’t going to be easy. OK, I was wrong. It turned out to be a pretty good read. Loved Micah and Jacee, and it’s been a while since I’d read the last book that I thought I’d forgotten all the players. I was wrong about that too. I remembered Sariel as soon as his name was mentioned. He was my favorite character in every book, the magical blue Fae. He was awesome.

I have to tell you, though, that Micah had a couple of near death experiences. The first was such a huge surprise I had to read the sentence twice. The second was when a huge eagle shifter nearly tore him apart, before his pack saved him. I will tell you the silliest thing in this book was when Micah was told they had to take out his spleen and his appendix and made it sound so serious that they had to remove his appendix. Really? I think all an appendix is for is to have it rupture and nearly kill you. I think it was just silly, that’s all. And speaking of silly. This is book 7 of 7. BUT there is a 7.5 and at the end of this book the last page was about a wolf dragging himself to the front of the packs headquarters and it ended. That’s an opening for another book but this book was published August 2015. Almost 2 years and still no book about the dying wolf Ari?

There was explicit sex in this book and the F-bomb was used about 90 times.

As to the narration: I have no idea why Kirsten Potter didn’t narrate books 6 and 7 and 7.5.
After all those books Marguerite Gavin was just drab in her narration

1 of 2 people found this review helpful