Full Blooded

Jessica McClain, Book 1

By: Amanda Carlson

Narrated by: Casey Holloway

Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins

Publisher's summary

It's not easy being a girl. It's even harder when you're the only girl in a family of werewolves. But it's next to impossible when your very existence spells out the doom of your race.... Meet Jessica McClain - she just became part of the pack.

In the vein of Kelley Armstrong and Patricia Briggs, a new urban fantasy that rewrites the werewolf myth....

©2012 Amanda Carlson (P)2012 Hachette Audio

This is paranormal romance series

They say it is an Urban Fantasy series but it has all the hallmarks of a paranormal romance series.
As I have heard the paranormal romance series described in the past “Paranormal Romance novels are pornos: They have meaningless hot sex and really bad dialog.”
Logic, commonsense and intellect is not important in these stories, the authors can force any shaped peg to fit their round hole.

To make it worse, the performer sounds like a 10 year old girl who thinks she is the best reader in her class and is trying to prove it be reading slowly and over annunciating every syllable.

Entertaining, but has things that annoy

Wasn’t my favorite narration; what in the heck was the decision process for the voice of the next door neighbor, too over the top for my liking. Not sure if this was the author’s choice or the narrator’s, but it really took me out of the story. The other narration was good though.

I like the setup for this story; first female wolf shifter trying to survive a possibly ill-fated prophecy type of thing, mysterious hottie looking to help her out, and she has some kick butt qualities as well. Bad people out to get her from multiple angles; exciting danger! A fun adventure! Like that the story deals with shifters and other supernaturals, and I like that there is a soul connection of sorts.

Unfortunately, there were some things that didn’t work for me. I can’t stand when the lead female character sleeps with someone else that isn’t going to be her love interest for the series; it puts a taint on the rest of this book and the series for me. Also, I don’t like the traits the author chose for the shifters, vampires, and other supernaturals in this book. They are pretty much the things I don’t care for when I’m reading paranormal romance. Shifters that can’t control their wolf’s urges; especially sexual ones, and that mates aren’t given more worth. Pompous, holier than though vampires. Witchy with a B witches. Just really makes these characters annoying to me. The next book seems like it will deal a lot more with the vampires, so not sure I want to continue. If I find a good deal, then possibly. There is a cliffhanger ending to this story. Overall, I liked the story okay; it was an entertaining read, but it just wasn’t fully for my tastes.

Terrible narration ruined it for me

The premise was an interesting one, but the narration was so poor I gave up on the book. The narrator wasn't bad when voicing the main character, but at other times was so stilted she sounded robotic.

Hard to listen to

Would you try another book from Amanda Carlson and/or Casey Holloway?

Yes, but hope she changes who reads, good story line this one might be a better hard cover read.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

Like a struggling reader, pauses in the wrong places, and characters are hard to follow

What character would you cut from Full Blooded?

the narrator, she colors how you view the all the different characters, hard to build a relationship