From the Blurb:
Shaka
My life as a
vampire is pretty routine. Go to my bartending job, find an
unsuspecting human customer to feed on, glamour them to forget, go home,
sleep, repeat. Pretty standard stuff. Until I’m approached by a
werewolf who needs my help to find his missing Alpha. As a vampire,
werewolves are our natural enemies. I know I should tell him no, but
something about him calls to me, and it’s not just his big, sexy body or
angelic face. I want to get to know him. There’s no harm in helping him
out, right?
Raphael
Shaka is not what I expect. I’ve
heard he’s a vampire with a powerful tracking ability, but all I see is a
gorgeous and flirty young vampire who will probably get me in a lot of
trouble. How attractive I find him is one thing—his flirting is
something else. I think he’s trying to shock me, but I want to do all
the dirty things he suggests—and more. It will be a struggle to keep my
hands off him if we work together, but I need his help. With my pack
leader on the run and possibly in danger, I need to find him fast. And
to do that, I need Shaka.
Raphael’s pack leader left for a
reason. But why? Will Shaka and Raphael find him in time to avoid an
unknown danger? Will Shaka and Raphael come out unscathed? And will they
be able to let each other go at the end of it all?
Sarah C's Review:
Tracking With the Enemy is my forst Rosyln Faulk book and will not be my
last. It's the story of a vampire and a werewolf - two species that
hate one another for reasons unknown to both of our MCs and the reader.
(Sadly, while we get history on a particular vampire and why he doesn't
like werewolves, we do not yet know why the species dislike one another
in this universe.) However, they have to work together when the
werewolf's alpha goes missing. Because the vampire? He's a near
legendary tracker.
From page one, I was absolutely enamored with
Shaka (the vampire). He was a loud and fun character who revels in the
fact that he's a vampire. He also has special powers due to who he was
as a human - the son of a priestess. I loved Rafael (Raphy) just as much
once he was introduced and the two boys - the moment they were
interacting, you just felt it.
Rosyln builds an interesting
world full of interesting characters. The Queen of the Fae is more
helpful in this book than she appears in almost every other book that
includes a Fairy Queen, making her seem like one of the good guys who
genuinely cares about other Supes. The dislike between werewoves and
vampires doesn't prevent them from working together nor does it pose any
risk of either of the two dying if one bites the other as it is in some
universes. Other supernatural creatures are mentioned - and some
introduced - in the book as well. Werewolf politics are pretty basic,
basically a mythos that I grew up on.
Faulk doesn't do too much
original with the mythos, though she adds her own spin on parts of it to
make it somewhat different and to make it her own. Which is much
appreciated.
The book has a solid mystery, not one that I solved
within the first few pages. I wish the climax of the mystery had lasted a
bit longer, but it still made a good showing. I also wish we would've
gotten more answers about why vampires and werewolves don't get along
and that we got a bit more about the other species and a bit more world
building in general. But the bits we got were good and let me imagine
the whole world that we were seeing.
All in all though, this
book was amazing. This book roped me in and had me grinning at certain
parts. It is also pretty hot - I'm just saying. I would definitely
recommend this book to anyone whose looking for a cute supernatural
story.
Rating: 4 Stars
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