The Call: Joudan Lane, Emily Veinglory, BA Tortuga: Books

Posted on February 24, 2009


Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Werewolves under the moon. City boys forced to accept their wilder side. Primal danger. The Call anthology has all this and more. Three stories give us an inside view of the life of the wolf. Jourdan Lane, author of the popular Soul Mates series, gives us Instinct. Construction worker Ethan hates being a werewolf. He hates the man who made him what he is. When he meets Noah, he finds a fellow wolf who wants his help, and his body. Can he open up to Noah enough to put aside his fear? And what happens when the man who turned him wants him back? Emily Veinglory pairs the small town werewolf Nate with the city boy Steven. When Steven’s car breaks down at Nate’s gas station, Nate figures he’s found something worth keeping. He has secrets, though, and he might be too wild for the sophisticated Steven. Can he juggle his past and make a new life? From BA Tortuga comes Home Fires, the story of Houston, who escapes torturous captivity to return to his mate, Jackson. Jackson welcomes Houston back to their remote New Mexico home, and sets about healing Houston, body and soul. Can they remove the scars that Houston can’t hide? And can the two wolves escape the ghosts of the past when they come looking. Run with this anthology today!

3.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting and thought-provoking, but …,

By A Pod Peep “Contributing reviewer at podpeep … (USA) - See all my reviews

I purchased this book because I was intrigued by the blend of genres: Gay werewolves. Werewolves, well, maybe not…the werewolf aspect of these stories is really incidental, as there isn’t a great deal of wolfing out happening here aside from standard machismo. These are not horrific monster stories, and it is obvious that they were not intended to be. These stories are so much more than that; actually, they are parables illustrating a great moral and spiritual depth. These are very human stories of desperate men trying to find their place in the world while dealing with some of the most difficult issues humans have to face: love, acceptance, family loyalty, societal prejudices, and the desire to be with one’s own kind. The stories also expose some very serious themes and messages: trusting your instincts, managing and connecting with your inner beast, and what it feels like to live in a world and yet feel so alienated from it. All this is wonderful, and this is what a reader of serious literature expects to find amongst the words.

However, I do have some reservations…

The first two novellas in the book were well-written, well-constructed love stories. The sexual elements were hot, hot, hot, crossing the line into erotica in some places; although I did feel that the male characters were a little over-feminized. This is all good, but…this book suffers from very serious editorial flaws, which was surprising, since the editor’s name is blazed across the spine of the book.

As a reader, I can forgive a few typos here and there, but this book is littered with them, not to mention the rather slap-dash book formatting and typesetting.

In the third novella, the technical issues were so severe I was unable to continue the story to its conclusion. The story was written in the third person narrative voice, but the voice seemed to be that of the internal dialog of the main character Jackson. The problem this created is that there is no clear demarcation between the character dialog, internal dialog and thoughts, and the narrator’s voice. A story constructed in this way makes for a very muddy and frustrating read. It was almost as if the author had originally written the story in first person and then got cold feet, changing all the “I”s to “He”s without a proper edit to make it work. A critical editorial once-over would have fixed this serious technical issue.

Overall, I really enjoyed the concept immensely, but I feel that the publisher and editor failed the authors. The slap-dash approach in no way did these stories the justice they deserved.
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