There are those living secretly among us who have the power to change their physical form from that of a human to an animal, even animals thought to be mythical, such as dragons. Throughout out the ages, these shape shifters have come together in a loose organization to protect themselves from humans--and other shape shifters. According to their code, killing another shifter is a crime, no matter if the shifter was slaughtering humans. Kyrie Smith, a young panther shifter, must decide where she will stand: with her group or with humanity at large. And she'll have to do it while both older shifters and her boyfriend Tom Ormson--a dragon shifter--push her from quandary to quandary and police detective Rafiel Thrall--who happens to be a lion shifter--demands her help in solving mysterious murders that he suspects have been committed by a shifter. But when Tom begins getting telepathic warnings from the Great Sky Dragon that his life is in danger, the same dragon who recently almost killed him, he and Kyrie realize that much more is involved than a homicidal shape shifter. Someone--or something--has been killing shifters in large numbers, and the most ancient and powerful of shifters are converging on the city to find the killer. And anyone, human or shifter, who gets in their way will be eliminated without mercy. . . .
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Superb
7 Dec 2008
By LaughingLion
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Format:Hardcover
I really liked the previous book in this world, "Draw One In The Dark". This one is a noticeably better. The characters are better developed than a many writers manage in the fourth or fifth book in a series. The world is well drawn and wider and weirder than even the first book would lead you to believe. I adore it when authors don't throw everything into the first book and let you discover new places and people along the way it is so much more realistic than covering the characters same stomping grounds over, and over, and over and over again with only very small over dramatized changes.
Kyrie & Tom, Keith and the rest of the people we knew have all grown a bit since we saw them and it is the type of growth that makes you like both character and writer more.
Kyrie & Tom, Keith and the rest of the people we knew have all grown a bit since we saw them and it is the type of growth that makes you like both character and writer more.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Better than the first book
17 Mar 2009
By Mike Garrison
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Format:Hardcover
This is the second book in a series about people who "shapeshift" into animals (both normal animals and mythical animals). I started reading it and then realized that it was a sequel, so I went back and read the first book first. I recommend that a reader should start with "Draw One In The Dark" before reading this book, even though I think this is the better of the two novels.
The first book was just a little too slow. Hoyt seemed to think that if five paragraphs of internal deliberation about how one character felt about another character were good, then six must be better and seven must be better yet. And the plot started out in medias res, but then advanced only in fits and starts for most of the book. But ... it was still fun. The characters were intriguing, even if the love triangle aspect has been way, way overdone.
But in this second book, the plot advances at a more constant rate. It's also more complicated and more interesting. And the love triangle aspect is de-emphisized. In its place was a remarkably realistic depiction of two very private people trying to adjust to living with each other under extremely stressful circumstances. The book also delves more deeply into the interface and conflict between the world of the shifters and the world of the normal people.
The first book was interesting, entertaining, but flawed. This book was more interesting, more entertaining, and less flawed. I look forward to another.
The first book was just a little too slow. Hoyt seemed to think that if five paragraphs of internal deliberation about how one character felt about another character were good, then six must be better and seven must be better yet. And the plot started out in medias res, but then advanced only in fits and starts for most of the book. But ... it was still fun. The characters were intriguing, even if the love triangle aspect has been way, way overdone.
But in this second book, the plot advances at a more constant rate. It's also more complicated and more interesting. And the love triangle aspect is de-emphisized. In its place was a remarkably realistic depiction of two very private people trying to adjust to living with each other under extremely stressful circumstances. The book also delves more deeply into the interface and conflict between the world of the shifters and the world of the normal people.
The first book was interesting, entertaining, but flawed. This book was more interesting, more entertaining, and less flawed. I look forward to another.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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A fun adventure
29 Oct 2011
By T. Jackson King
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GENTLEMAN is a well-written urban fantasy set in present day Colorado in a remote mountain town. It presents the real life problems faced by a pair of shapechanger people, Kyrie a panther and Tom a Norse-style dragon, as they try to look out for each other and their friends as a group of old shapechangers called the Ancient Ones focus on the need to make Kyrie and Tom "pay" for the shapechanger deaths that occured in the prequel to this book. I especially liked the "real world", gotta work to pay the bills, setting of this story, along with the idea of a grotto-like aquarium set in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, which place is where a lot of the mysterious deaths occur. The author has a GREAT sense of humor, as a minor plot element involves the Rodent Liberation Front, as in mice and rats and etc. The origin of some of the other shapechanger animals is handled very well, and the personal motivations of many characters (in this multiple POV story) are very well drawn. Entertaining, fun, with a thread of "can they solve the mystery and defeat multiple foes before they get killed or known to the public?" Highly recommended.
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