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The Wild Road (Dirk & Steele) | 
 enlarge | Author: Marjorie M. Liu
Publisher: Leisure
Category: Book
List Price: $7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 7251
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 306
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0843959398
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780843959390
ASIN: 0843959398
Publication Date: July 29, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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 Wonderful Fantasy Romance August 20, 2008
This book is full of the mystery, fantasy, and just plain enjoyment that I love in a book. The story is slowly revealed and the characters are diverse and make a splendid tapestry of a world that we can not see. The magic, mayhem, and romance make for a wonderful read. Do not miss this one it is one of the best by this author.
The author makes reference to several of her other novels and characters from those novels and short stories are intergal to this novel. The main character of Lannes is based on the short story in DARK DREAMERS. The short story called, A Dream of Stone and Shadow. Lethe or Alice, is a main character in SOUL SONG. Togather they give us a wonderful romance.
Lannes is a gargoyle, he is also a bookbinder. He learned the skill from a friend of his father's who was human. After the events in, A Dream of Stone and Shadow, he has become a recluse. He is only in town to bind a book for a dear friend. Having closed off his heart he is undone by the thoughts and feelings for the waif he saves off the street.
Lethe, only gets a name very late in the story. She has lost all memory and woke up in a hotel room that is on fire with three dead men on the floor. Only a note pinned to her blouse says "RUN" so shoeless and nameless she finds her way out of the burning hotel and onto the street.
Lannes and Lethe are led or chased across the country. Until men from The Dirke and Steele Agency find them. Lannes brother works for the agency and he sends Koni and Richter to help his brother and protect him from the woman he has decided to help. They think she may be connected to the same women who tortured Lannes and his brothers.
Lethe may not have a memory but her mind is not her own. She has a rider who is determined to kill the people who killed her daughter. But nothing is as it seems and none of the answers are easy to find.
I loved it.
The Wild Road August 16, 2008
Wonderful continuation of the Dirk & Steele Books. Eagerly looking forward to many more in this genre..
 Not Intense Enough August 13, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've read all of Liu's books and loved most of them, but this book is really lacking in romance, in tension. Most of the book is spent tracking down the reason why our heroine has had her memories erased. Helping her is our hero, a disguised gargoyle who is repeatedly described as kind. Liu tries to make him an alpha hero by stressing his strength and commitment to the heroine, but because he is afraid most of the book, it doesn't really work. He's a beta hero, without the resonance of such. For me, he was too tentative, too afraid. Neither the hero nor the heroine were vivid, and the book lacks romantic tension. In the end, when the villain is tracked down, I wasn't sure exactly what happened, but it was distinctly anti-climaxtic, almost occurring off-stage. "The Wild Road" is a fairly good adventure (with magical, wonderful description of a fairy queen--straight out of a fairy tale), but only a so-so romance.
 Really enjoyed reading this August 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the first book I have read in this series. I loved it. It isn't the kind of paranormal romance I am used to reading nor is it the kind I would prefer to read but I really,really loved it. It is just written so well! Marjorie Liu really knows how to tell a story and she does an excellent job of making everything so real. The romance was sweet and the plot page turning. I am going to try some more of her books now...
Nice! August 3, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Nice Addition to the Dirk & Steele Series. Good continuation and good all on its own. Not so much going that it makes it too complicated, nice romance, nice mystery. Nice surprise to here the story of the rest of the Gargoyle brothers from a great short story in the anthology Dark Dreamers (you should get that book if you enjoyed this story!!!).
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