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First line: She didn't know what woke her up. The lightning and thunder crashing outside the bedroom window? A rare thing in the beginning of an L.A. summer; so maybe. Or the fact that she was in a strange bed? Or the fact that she was naked in a strange bed?

First off let me point out that I had no clue Ms Laurenston was coming out with a new series but remembered around this time she usually releases a book from her Pride series and was looking for the something like that but instead found The Unleashing.

As a fan of Ms Laurenston I have certain expectations from her books, as I would think most people would who have read her work do, but if you haven't then Ms Laurenston tends to add a hilarious yet sarcastic and wicked sense of humour to her characters and books along with characters that say what they think and can also kick-ass. The Unleashing hits all these and also adds in a little more blood and gore than I was expecting, but no complaints from me.

My actual one and only complaint was in fact that I found it a little slow at times and kept wanting more, more, more. Which honestly is a bit unfair for the author as if she tried to cram any more goodness into The Unleashing then she would be expected to top that every time and that's just not realistic! No, it's really not, even if it would be really, really, really good!

The Unleashing as the first book in the Call of Crows series really drew me in. The story opens with a great big bang and I loved it! It then slows down a little and you get an explanation and what the series is really about. The Crows!
There are a great deal of interesting and dynamic characters that I can't wait to know more about. Most of them are part of the Crows but some of the others belong to the Ravens. As you can tell there are more than one Viking group involved in this book and I enjoyed the way Ms Laurenston portrayed them.

The Unleashing while about the Crows was also about Kera and Vig. I just adored Vig, I mean seriously adored him. I thought he was a brilliant character and liked him from the get go. Kera on the other hand took a while for me to warm up to. Thankfully because of Vig {and Ms Laurenston's writing, of course} it didn't take me very long to warm up to her.
The downside was I was expecting to like her from start to finish but clearly didn't. I felt a little like her fellow Crows, getting annoyed at her because she was too stuck in who she used to be instead of who and what she was now.

At times I did have issues with some of Kera's fellow Crows as they would on occasion overstep my comfort zone but on a whole, I liked them. Especially when paired with the Ravens. I'm looking forward to more of those, "how did you die?" stories.

Overall, I really liked The Unleashing, it's a very unique story with a quirky but interesting set of characters and am already looking forward to the next book!


This review is based on the ARC of The Unleashing, provided by Kensington Publishing