Reviewer: Debbie Nahom
Title: The Calling - 1st in the Immortals series
Author: Jennifer Ashley
Publisher: Dorchester Publishing
ISBN: 10: 0-505-526875 / 13: 978-0-505-52687-8
Release Date: May 2007
Genre/Sub-genre: Paranormal Romance
Year/Setting: Present Day Seattle/Los Angeles
Overall Rating: 5.0
Sexual Content Rating: Sensual/Sexual
Language (Profanity/Slang) Content Rating: Mild
Violent Content Rating: Intense
Immortal's Website:
www.immortals-series.com
Adrian is an ancient Immortal, born in 2500 BC. He’s one of five brothers created by the Goddesses to protect the society from death magic, the magic used by demons and vampires to wreak havoc on the world. Immortals, witches, and other paranormal beings exude life magic, but without a balance of life magic and death magic, the world will cease to exist.
700 years ago, Tain, the youngest of the Immortals, disappeared, and from that time on Adrian has made it his life’s quest to find his brother. Immortals cannot die, so Adrian knows Tain is alive and suffering somewhere in the world. Now in present day Seattle, Adrian’s search for his baby brother has brought him to the doorstep of Amber Silverthorne.
Amber, a modern day witch who makes a living giving Tarot readings and teaching sorcery classes is on a sibling quest of her own. Her older sister, Susan, a powerful witch, was murdered by a demon, and Amber is determined to find out why at all costs. Both Amber and Adrian’s search for answers lead them to each other, and when their paths collide it’s definitely magic.
Adrian and Amber quickly realize that Susan’s death and Tain’s disappearance, although 700 years apart, are closely interwoven, and soon the living siblings join forces to find answers. Along the way, they discover an intense passion for each other that will eventually lead them to the answers they seek but not without dire consequences.
The Calling is the first in the Immortals series. This book follows Adrian’s journey with future books telling the stories of each of the Immortal brothers; Kalen, Darius, Hunter, and Tain. Jennifer Ashley is the author of Adrian’s, Hunter’s, and Tain’s stories, with Robin T. Popp and Joy Nash writing Darius and Kalen’s tales respectively. If the rest of the books in the series are even half as good as The Calling, each one will have a place at the top of my "to be read" pile.
Jennifer Ashley creates powerful, strong, and intriguing characters in Adrian and Amber as well as the people in their lives who both support and fight them. Both Amber and Adrian have a close knit group of friends consisting of shape shifters, vampires, and mortals, all of whom stand by and support them through the search to solve the mysteries of Tain’s disappearance and Susan’s death. My favorite is Adrian’s best friend Valerian, a sexy, wise cracking shifter who will do anything to protect his friend and adds a good does of humor to an otherwise dark story.
There is quite a bit of violence but all necessary to plot. The Calling is also one of the sexiest books I have read in a long time. The passion between Adrian and Amber is fierce and nothing is left to the reader’s imagination.
I can’t say enough good things about this book. It’s a dark, emotional, unbelievably sexy, sometimes funny, and always compelling story, and I hope the rest of the series can compare.
Debbie
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