from Earth. Fly's from Itor. By a quirk of fate they met, She tamed him and they fell in love, They live idyllic lives in a protected corner of the world away from the wolflike people and savage tribes of Neanderthals, and when Jenny discovers shes pregnant they feel everything is perfect.
But things are changing outside their little kingdom, The wolfpeople are disbanding and someone, or something, appears to be hunting the Neanderthals,
Fly makes provisions to protect all thats dear to him, but then he just doesnt return home, Jenny knows hes alive somewhere, but alone with her baby daughter, is she equipped to deal the horror that awaits her
Her life, and that of her baby daughter, depend on her presence of mind.
And when Jenny becomes hunted she knows its time to fight back! Chichi means tits, . . just sayin' .
Good! Plot holes, uneven characterization, could use an epilogue!! You know what else needs an epilogue, . . LAST HOUR OF GANN!!! I absolutely loved Eden and Hunted did not disappoint, This book was a page turner from beginning to end, Ms. Wise writes with the kind of plot suspense and atmospheric danger that you are never sure if she is going to kill off a major character, including the hero or the heroine.
There is so much fastpaced action in the second half of the book that I felt a little worn out when I finished it.
The natives take a major role in this sequel, and it takes a talented writer to imbue semiverbal creatures with so much characterization that they feel like friends and enemies.
Plus, we finally learn a lot more about Fly's fascinating backstory, As in Eden, Ms. Wise has very rich descriptions of the landscape, making it a character in this book, too, Fly and Jenny are basically explorers and settlers, and their new world plays an appropriately sinister and threatening role,
This book was great from beginning to end, and a perfect conclusion to the Eden story, I liked Fly and Jenny so much that I will miss them, They were great characters who solidified their roles as a couple in the first half and then were tested and challenged on so many fronts as individuals in the second half that Ms.
Wise left you prepared for their possible demise, It was a breathtaking adventure! This second book was full of action and the heroin was more badassed than the first book, I also enjoyed more since it was free on my Scribd subscription,
Once again with the horrible cover, Luckily, the book itself was better than the cover would have me believe, As a sequel to Wise's Eden, this was a pretty solid scifi adventure story with some human/alien romance tossed in, I would probably have rated it four, as it was a quick read and certainly kept me turning pages, except there was way too much domesticity and childbirth stuff bogging it down.
I don't think that's a spoiler since it is revealed that Jenny is pregnant in the first chapter, Who comes up with the covers! Fire him/her,
Well,I assume you looked this book up after finishing "Eden" and want to know if it is worth to continue reading.
It is not what I expected, If the first book was book of falling in love and begging new life while surviving,then this is a book of war, Not that there is an actual war, . . but it is how I feel after finishing it, The world expansion is like blast of Nova, Suddenly the world expanded to include so mutch more,that at the times it felt unrealistic, Too mutch can be a bad thing too,especially if you ruin the setting of the first book,
Other reviewers have mentioned how most of the book Jenny and Fly is apart and trying to get back together, It is true. But I didn't had a problem with it,it was logical and nicely explained, However the rejoining and HEA was too abrupt for my liking, It was like the moment they got back together,the world shrunk back at the snap of fingers, A few more pages would have been a better way to end it and wrap up loose ends,
Is it as good as the first book It is not worse,that's for sure, . . it is just different. And gives you different feelings than the first book, Still very easy to read, And it is a good thing that no more books are to follow,
This is a second and final in a series and it was WONDERFUL! Read "Eden" first or you'll be lost, Beginning of this review has spoilers in regards to the first novel as I am writing a longer synopsis than usual so I'll notate that section but not hide it.
Synopsis/Rundown minor spoilers of book preceding this one but no spoilers of this book:
Okay, so we find the chick and the dude alone once again in domestic bliss but that doesn't mean their problems are over.
Chick human Jennifer and Dude alien Fly are slowly discovering that there's a threat out there and they don't really know how significant it is until the author reveals it bit by bit.
Cleverly done so as to leave the reader in suspense, This suspense continues with fast paced action from themark on till the end, Dude and Chick end up challenging this threat head on but not together, As the book description tells us, the Chick really shows her stuff in the battle against the threat, She acts smartly despite having realistic setbacks and some "oh shit, that didn't work the way I meant it to" moments along with extreme emotional hurtles to overcome.
Once the action starts, it doesn't stop, Dude and Chick traverse this new land with the intention of just getting back to each other but find they have to do battle to get there as their once small existence of two with handful of natives becomes unexpectedly quite large.
To say more would spoil so I'll end it there but will say that you won't be disappointed in this sequel at all, It's one of the better done sequels I've ever read, In fact, I'm following the author in case she decides to grace us with another one,
World Building: Just as great as the first book though I still had my "mapping issues" as I tend to map the different areas of the lands in my head only to find out that this map in my head is wrong as I read along and that frustrates me but that's my fault, not the authors.
Characters: Dude and Chick are done very well here and we still find a growth in both of these characters throughout the book and a lot of authors don't have that ability.
Dude realizes how his past has come back to bite him in the ass, He also discovers how much he has changed from the love of this woman, Chick finds her strength and determination along with her ability to act and succeed without her Dude next to her, The natives become much more complex and the ability to communicate with them progresses in a completely realistic manner, And I loved the way the Chick imagines what the natives are saying to her in basically onesided communications, It was a fresh and amusing addition to the character, And how the natives perceive the Chick seemingly as ridiculous turns out to be true on many levels, Without giving any spoilers, the other characters we discover are also richly portrayed and shows us how naive Dude and Chick were about their little world.
Along with the natives, we are shown more characters that have degrees of evilness and some that are completely endearing,
Relationships: The relationships between singular characters as well as groups of beings is also rich and diverse, Truly unexpected and completely believable,
Predictability: Overall, I wasn't able to predict a lot in this book, I tend to dislike predictability in my books and while the author dropped hints, my assumptions and predictions based off those hints were not actualized which is a plus with me.
It kept the suspense going till the end, Very well thought out plot,
Ending: It was fairly fulfilling though I would have liked a little more info about how this now larger world impacted the Chick and Dude in the future.
There was no cliffhanger and I understand that this book is an end to the series but man, the author could probably writemore books from this complex world she has written as we have so many more characters to care about now.
Overall, a fantastic conclusion to the series and I'm following this author so I can be notified if she decides to continue this world.
Spuffed, "Half are for pansies and one gif is plenty, "
Fantastic read an excellent continuation an conclusion of Eden, Totally original and the character growth from the first book is amazing, Anotherstar book!!! Well, basically all my complaints about the previous books were satisfied in this one, No more annoying Matt and Bodie, Instead, we get this exciting and completely fantastical race through the jungles of the planet as the H and the h get separated and reunited over and over again.
It was a bit tiring, honestly, at some point I thought "again", but I just had to keep going to find out what had happened to the main characters.
Most of the stuff that Jenny does in this book is completely impossible, But it was entertaining. Also because she's the definition of a heroine in this one! I bonded with the characters, which really helped take away the monotony of the separationreunion xthing.
I was excited to see there was a sequel to Eden, especially when I discovered they were going to have a baby, Fly was so changed in the first book, going from a deadly assassin to a man wanting nothing more to live in peace with Jenny.
A baby would be something new for him, something more to love, And he already felt so deeply, Now everything he loves would be threatened, and I couldnt wait to see Fly in action to protect Jenny and his child, I couldnt wait to delve into this book,
I was thoroughly enjoying this book, smiling at the lightheartedness between them, the jokes and teasing Fly endures from Jenny, I was also interested in the honnards and the occurrences that were happening, Plenty of action and edge of your seat moments,
However, I didnt love Hunted as much as the first, Possible Spoilers ahead.
Fly and Jenny spend most of this book separated, Id say roughly aboutof this book they are on their own, Several events keep them separated, and when you think they are going to finally find the other, someone else makes another move to put distance between them.
I was looking forward to Fly going into protection mode as he and Jenny are on the run from the Jelvia, To seeing them justtogether. So I found myself at times skipping some parts not many of more running, more thoughts on finding each other so they could justfind each other! More Spoilers ahead
When they were finally together at the end, I feltcheated.
It was over so fast by that point, I loved the emotion Fly had with his daughter upon seeing her for the first time, and I wanted to see him actually experience the birth on his next child.
Overall, this was still a good read, We meet more Jelvias, and discover more about Fly's
past, as well as what the honnards think of Jenny, I liked the book, but I guess I just missed the romance, Amazing that a sequel is better than the first book but this one is, I enjoyed the story and loved seeing Jenny come into her own, Fly was amazing. In the beginning Jenny irritated me a lot, Plot is good hero was great I was happy nothing happened to Fly when his people showed themselves, Im glad Jenny , Diana and Fly made it at the end and found new friends, Another excellent book by this author, There was sooooo much going on in this book at times I had to put it down because I just could not stand all the tragedy.
I wanted Fly and Jen to be safe and sound in their little piece of paradise, Fly has come such a long way in his love of Jen and their mutual need of each other, Jen has grown by leaps and bounds from a TRULY pathetic, scary, whiny, clueless girly girl, to a kick ass survivor determined to save not only herself but her man as well.
Between explosions, caveins, marauding Jelvias, HUGE attacking birds and the elements trying to kill both Jen and Fly at every turn this book was a real roller coaster ride lots of action, adventure and past histories revealed.
I highly recommend this one, Since I purchase both this and “Eden” together I read them one right after another, This book was a bit like “Clan of the Cave Bear” mixed with a little of a Western with aliens, I liked the first book better which really isnt saying much, It was an original read, the writing style was fairly good but I found the h annoying, Overall the series is a½ tostars, Sometimes, a sequel needn't be bothered with, Eden, the first installment of this duology, was, if nothing else, a pretty interesting first contact character study, As the two cultures clashed, the reader learned a lot about both cultures and Eden even had a positive message about being openminded, Hunted, however, was just a contrieved, endless drama,
The characters had settled into a boringly harmonic everyday lofe that is interrupted by Jenny's suspected pregnancy, As usual with space pregnancies, Jenny is threatened with death if the baby should be a boy, Dwama! Of course it isn't a boy, so we get to read about the pragnancy and Jenny's rolling around and giving birth and bla bla bla.
Because reading about pregnancies has been out of date since way before Twilight ever got it's series of unfortunate sequels, the author decided to bring in a bunch of tirelessly brital and evil aliens to antagonize our harmonic couple.
These bad guy aliens hunted for Jenny because she's a woman, letting the imagined threat of potential rape loom prettily above the unsuspecting heroine's head.
It was all show, though, No worries, nothing bad ever happened in this book,
And neither did anything interesting, Too bad. .