Guest Review: Savage Hunger by Terry Spear

Posted October 4, 2012 by Tracy in Reviews | 1 Comment

Tracy’s review of Savage Hunger (Heart of the Jaguar #1) by Terry Spear.

In the heat of the jungle, jaguars are clawed, dangerous, and hungry for love. With hopes of overcoming night terrors and thanking the man who saved her life, Kathleen McKnight returns to the Amazon. A jaguar at heart, Connor Anderson doesn’t just protect her, but wants to claim her for his own.

Kathleen McKnight was on an Army mission when it went all to hell. Her men are killed and she’s wounded. She survives though with the help of a man named Connor Anderson. It’s been a year and she can’t stop thinking about the man who saved her life. Now she’s back in the Amazon and she’s hopelessly lost. She was with a guide but became separated and now doesn’t know which way to turn. Connor, with his sister, Maya, come to Kat’s rescue once again and then take her back to their hut.

Connor and Maya are Jaguar shifters. They know almost nothing of their heritage and to their knowledge no other shifters are out there. They head to the rain forest twice a year from their home in Texas to be in a habitat that jaguars feel most comfortable in. After Connor saved Kathleen he couldn’t get her out of his mind and is a bit hung up on her. When he finds her again she looks different but he’s very excited to be able to get to know her more.

Maya wants a mate for Connor. She has no idea if humans can be turned into jaguar shifters but she’s not above trying. She wants Connor to have the woman he’s almost been obsessed with and she wants a sister. Maya scratches Kat and then licks her – turning Kat into a shifter.

Kat has some issues with being turned, once she finds out that’s what’s up. She also sleepwalks and when she does she turns into a jaguar. She can’t control her shifts when she’s awake either and this poses a problem when it comes to the trio getting back to the states.

They head out of the jungle but the drug lord that was after Kat a year ago has found out she’s in the forest and wants her for his own. He’ll do whatever it takes to get to her including following her all over South America.

I’ll start my review with my view on the characters. Kat was a very strong woman and I admired her for the inner strength that she had shown both when she was in the military and when she was turned into a shifter. She took things a lot better than I would have, that’s for sure. She actually almost took them too well but since she was in the middle of the forest with no clue how to get home it’s not like she could just stomp off. lol She had some issues that she was working through but she faced them head on and I really liked her for that.

Connor was strong jaguar. He took care of his sister and then Kat with intelligence and I really liked him most of the time. For some reason there were points in the book when he grated on my nerves but for the most part I found him pretty entertaining.

Maya is Connor’s twin but she certainly didn’t act 30 years old. She was definitely more likeable, for me at least, when she was in her jaguar form. When she wasn’t she acted much younger. I had to keep reminding myself of her age which was a bit annoying. I understood her reasons for turning Kat but I just think she went about it all wrong.

When it came to the bad guys I was a bit confused. I couldn’t figure out why the drug lord, Gonzales, wanted Kathleen. She assumed it was to get back to her for the Army mission as so many of his men died but that was never verified. Gonzales was made to be this nasty horrible person but when it came to actually bring the man himself down it wasn’t too difficult – which seemed didn’t seem to fit with what we had read.

Overall it was an entertaining book but I’m not sure I would read the next in the series.

Rating: 3 out of 5

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This book is available from Sourcebooks Casablanca. You can buy it here or here in e-format. This book was provided by the publisher for an honest review.