UF Review: Fair Game [Mass Market Paperback]

I've read "Fair Game" the 3rd book in her Guardian series by Taylor Keating.

Product Description

Video-game designer River Weston has seen her world torn apart. The streets of Earth have filled with looting, sickness, and fighting, but River knows that she is in a unique position to help. Drawing on her Fae magic, she creates a computer-generated program called Hollow Man, designed to protect humans during battle. Worlds away, Guardian Chase Hawkins has finally returned to his own body after years of astral projection. His mission now that he's back: retrieve River, who is walking a dark path without even knowing it, and strip her world of the technology that has brought it to ruin. Hawk and his team arrive on Earth only to discover that River's new computer program endangers the world all on its own. An old human virus has resurrected and mutated with a computer virus inside of Hollow Man, and it's spreading uncontrollably. Hawk is convinced it's too late to save Earth ... but River isn't ready to give up hope yet. River and Hawk find themselves on opposing sides, yet drawn together stronger than ever before. But a future with both of them in it could mean walking paths darker than either of them could ever have imagined.

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Tor Books; 1 edition (August 28, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0765365499
ISBN-13: 978-0765365491

My Review:

Chase Hawkins is a Guardian who has recently been released to return to his own body from astral projection.  He can't wait to get back to earth and River his new love.  His superiors have decided that Earth isn't ready for the technology that River has designed and has ordered Chase and his team to defuse them.  He is ordered to bring her back and to explain what he must do.

Before Chase leaves he discovers a deadly plot against Earth and a secret lineage related to River.  He forms a shaky alliance with her Fae spiritual leader grandfather but he will make sure he reaches her.

River Weston is a video game designer who has dedicated her life to save human kind and her friends/family until Chase can come back to her.  She has to contend with a sadistic evil villain who is still chasing her and a new virus that is spreading through her hologram program she has developed.

This series is a dark urban fantasy full of tense action scenes with a hot intense passionate romance.

4/5

Books in series:

1.  Mind Games
2.  Game Over
3.  Fair Game

Thanks TOR books for sending me this book to review, greatly appreciated!

PNR Review: Fair Game (Alpha And Omega) [Hardcover]

I've finished "Fair Game" the 3rd book in her Alpha and Omega series by Patricia Briggs.

Product Description

Patricia Briggs, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mercy Thompson novels, "always enchants her readers." (Lynn Viehl, New York Times bestselling author) Now her Alpha and Omega series-set in a world of shifting shapes, loyalty, and passion - brings werewolves out of the darkness and into a society where fear and prejudice could make the hunters prey ...

They say opposites attract. And in the case of werewolves Anna Latham and Charles Cornick, they mate. The son - and enforcer - of the leader of the North American werewolves, Charles is a dominant alpha. While Anna, an omega, has the rare ability to calm others of her kind.

Now that the werewolves have revealed themselves to humans, they can't afford any bad publicity. Infractions that could have been overlooked in the past must now be punished, and the strain of doing his father's dirty work is taking a toll on Charles.

Nevertheless, Charles and Anna are sent to Boston, when the FBI requests the pack's help on a local serial killer case. They quickly realize that not only the last two victims were werewolves - all of them were. Someone is targeting their kind. And now Anna and Charles have put themselves right in the killer's sights.

About the Author

#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs lives in Washington state with her husband, children, and a small herd of horses.

Product Details
Reading level: Ages 18 and up
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Ace Hardcover; 1 edition (March 6, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0441020038
ISBN-13: 978-0441020034

My Review:

This book opens right after River Marked so there are scenes relating to the outcome of the ending of that book.

Charles is starting to unravel mentally and starting to see ghosts, pushing Anna away and giving in to his blood thirsty nature after killing several werewolves.  His father Bran sends Charles and Anna to Boston to assist with the FBI on their serial killer case that has lasted for several decades.  At first they had a typical pattern (mostly Asian teenagers) but now they have included werewolves and fae.  The bodies have been found carved with symbols, raped and then killed.

A high ranking fae's human daughter has been kidnapped and the FBI, werewolves and fae have only a few hours to save her.  As they dig deeper into the case they discover a long dead witch and a strange kind of fae are involved.  If they don't be careful Anna will be their biggest conquest.

I really enjoyed the detailed graphic crime scenes and the research the author incorporated into storyline.

Some great secondary characters were introduced in this book Leslie the tough FBI agent, Issac the Boston Alpha werewolf and Beauclaire the high ranking and powerful fae.

Really glad to see Anna has grown and being more assertive by going against Marrock and being more vocal.

This book is more darker that the previous two with black magic, powerful unknown killers and bloody crime scenes.

4/5

Other books in series:

1. Cry Wolf
2. Hunting Ground

Thanks Penguin Canada for sending me this book to review, greatly appreciated!