Frozen
in Amber
Phyllis Ames
DAW, Aug 4 2015, $7.99
ISBN 9780756407803
Ever since that fatal death when she still was young and joyful,
attorney Amber Treganis chooses human over wercougar though the full moon still
causes her conversion. In spite of her
efforts to control the beast, Amber wakes up feeling ill, suffering a thigh
injury and surrounded by apparently hunters.
Encouraged by Eunice the drama queen who insists she needs her as
second chair, Amber goes to work only nothing seems right there especially
after her immediate supervisor shockingly quits for no apparent reason. When Amber returns home, she finds her house
filled with dangerous snares as if someone hunts her as game. Bewildered by the radical changes to her
previously structured humanity life, astonished Amber cannot understand why her
leg has not healed. She turns to
attractive WerEagle Adler Schnee for help.
Urban fantasy legal thriller readers will relish the three
dimensional Ames mythology as well as the wer communities employed in
professional positions like law and medicine; even with a Cecil De Mille size
cast needing a scorecard of the good, the bad and the deadly. The issue is the protagonist; Amber’s
bumbling, fumbling actions à la
Inspector Clouseau (sans humor) will mystify the subgenre audience as she
behaves at times like a naive adolescent in heat failing to learn from her
mistakes rather than a polished adult lawyer.
Harriet Klausner
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