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    Something Secret This Way Comes

    By Sierra Dean

    3.5/5

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    Some secrets are dangerous. This Secret is deadly.

    For Secret McQueen, her life feels like the punch line for a terrible joke. Abandoned at birth by her werewolf mother, hired as a teen by the vampire council of New York City to kill rogues, Secret is a part of both worlds, but belongs to neither. At twenty-two, she has carved out as close to a normal life as a bounty hunter can.
    When an enemy from her past returns with her death on his mind, she is forced to call on every ounce of her mixed heritage to save herself—and everyone else in the city she calls home. As if the fate of the world wasn’t enough to deal with, there’s Lucas Rain, King of the East Coast werewolves, who seems to believe he and Secret are fated to be together. Too bad Secret also feels a connection with Desmond, Lucas’s second-in-command...
    Warning: This book contains a sarcastic, kick-ass bounty hunter; a metaphysical love triangle with two sexy werewolves; a demanding vampire council; and a spicy seasoning of sex and violence.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSierra Dean
    Release dateMar 23, 2017
    ISBN9781939291189
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    Sierra Dean

    Sierra Dean is the kind of adult who forgot she was supposed to grow up. She spends most of her days making up stories, and most of her evenings watching baseball or playing video games. She lives in Winnipeg, Canada with two temperamental cats and one sweet tempered dog. When not building new worlds, she can be found making cupcakes and checking Twitter.

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    • 2/5
      It was enjoyable in the same way that an action film can be, just mindless fun. But the short before this book was, in my opinion, more successful.
      Secret is still funny and generally pleasant, but she's turning into a Mary-Sue - everyone thinks she's soooo ~special~, and to be honest, I'm not a fan of love triangles, but I'm even less of a fan of love pentangles, or whatever is happening in this series. And the main (is he the main one, there are so many, I don't even know anymore...) love interest, Lucas? Are we supposed to care about him when he barely shows up in the book at all and she spends her time sleeping with his best friend who also happens to be less annoying?

      But, as I said, it's such mindless fun that I'll probably keep reading.
    • 2/5
      Whatever special sauce has been getting so many people excited about this series...I don't get it.

      (1) Secret McQueen is a badass? Um...kinda. I mean, if you like badass characters who take insane risks for dumb reasons, don't prepare for big showdowns, get themselves into trouble and need to be rescued. Secret only really wins one fight in this book - the first one, with the newbie vampire. All the others are, at best, draws. I was not impressed.

      (2) The worldbuilding? Well, that was ok. Not particularly fresh or new, with some annoying inconsistencies - sometimes Secret knows nothing about werewolves, sometimes she knows the ropes of the were world - but could have been fun.

      (3) Secret's horde of love interests? Secret has so many boyfriends it's no wonder that the author can't do any single relationship well. Her books just don't contain enough words to develop bonds with THAT many guys. One early, irritating example: Secret gets a cinnamon vibe from a strange guy. He kidnaps her, takes her up to his penthouse lair, unbuttons his shirt, sits her down and informs her that he's a billionaire werewolf king and they're soul-bonded. Secret leaves and angsts about whether or not she wants a soul-bond. This whole encounter just made me sigh. It's a particularly boring example of insta-love, which is never my favorite. Not interesting. Not new. Not sexy. And I felt the same way about the other...what? Three or four guys she's got circling around her?

      (4) The writing? Yeah, no. It's awful. Lots of infodumping. Lots of telling instead of showing. Flat, dull, annoying.
    • 4/5
      Very past-paced and engaging!
    • 3/5
      This was one of those books where I pushed through because I wanted to see how it ended. I'm really not a fan of the love triangle/quad/quin thing at all. In fact, at this point, if I know it progresses through multiple novels, I won't start them. While I thought the book was fun, there was nothing in it that made me love or connect to any of the characters.. and with how the book ends the open ended love triangle, it's enough for me to pass on future books.
    • 5/5
      Book Title: Something Secret This Way ComesAuthor: Sierra DeanPublisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.ASIN: B004QQ3MGIReviewed by Michele Tater For The Couch Tater ReviewCamouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal. ~ Russell Lynes Amidst the hustle and bustle of the great City of New York, there are monsters that do more than go bump in the night. When one of these monsters take their “fun” to far, the Vampire Tribunal calls upon one person to take care of the problem. The person is not really a human person at all, she happens to be half vampire and half werewolf. Secret McQueen makes the strongest, of before mentioned, monsters quake in their shoes with fear; even just saying her name sends them shaking. The most recent trouble is the return of a very old vampire who had a run in with Secret before and he still has the broken tooth to prove it. Can she stop him in time to stop his taking over the largest of all cities with his rogue vampires? This while Secret is becoming more connected to her wolfy side. Why do women try to do so much at the same time! Can Secret handle it? Now I know there are many vampire/werewolf books out there, but I found this one stands out on its own. Secret is a fantastic main character that shows how being different is not necessary a bad thing. She also has a strong support group that are there for her if needed. Yes there is love too, not too mushy or anything, just plain old boy meets girl and girl meet another boy...you will just have to read it for the details. The book is fast paced, packed with action and filled with mysteries that will leave the reader wanting to know more. Thank goodness the author planned to write this as a series and the other books are just a quick down load away.
    • 5/5
      I was extremely excited to read Something Secret This Way Comes after loving the prequel, The Secret Guide to Dating Monsters. I just love the main character, Secret. She is a kick-ass bounty hunter that works for the vampire council of New York City and she just happens to be half-vampire and half-werewolf.

      Only a hand full of people know about Secret’s hybrid status; Keaty, her human mentor and partner, Holden, the sexy vamp that is assign to be her liaison to the vampire council and her Grandmother that raised her after her mother abandoned her.

      Secret keeps both of her inner “monsters” under control, she feeds from bagged blood instead of people and she doesn’t change into a wolf during a full moon. But she is finding that keeping her inner monsters in check is becoming harder and harder after she meets a group of werewolves while trying to hunt down her current assignment from the vampire council.

      Speaking of Secret’s current assignment, she is taxed with the job of bring in a rouge vampire ALIVE to the council for questioning. The big problem is that this vampire is one of the first vampires that Secret tried to kill when she was sixteen and new to NYC. She barely made it out of their first meeting alive and now after six years the vamp is out to see her dead.

      Dean does an excellent job of mixing humor, snarky dialogue, violence and just a touch of sexiness into her urban fantasy series. I loved this book some much that after I finished it and started the next book, Bloody Good Secret the moment I read the last word of Something Secret This Way Comes.

      Fans of Riley Jenson series by Keri Arthur and Jaz Parks series by the late Jennifer Rardin will love Seirra Dean’s books.
    • 4/5
      First in an ongoing series, not a standalone novel. While the big bad for this episode is found, there's potential bigger badness in the future. No HEA (or HFN). I suspect Secret's romantic relationships will be unresolved throughout the series run. (Fingers crossed that this is a planned series; I'm really getting tired of the ones that go on forever in no particular direction to the point I get bored and and give up. It makes me not want to start any series until it's finished, which is why I'm giving warning here.)The worldbuilding uses pretty common themes of sexy vampires and werewolves (and fae and maybe other creatures), hostile to each other but united in hiding the secret of their existence from humans. Nothing terribly original, but it's solidly incorporated into the story.The plot and pacing are both engaging. It starts with Secret racing through Central Park to protect a young woman from a rogue vampire, only to discover that her worst enemy has returned to New York and may be after her. In addition to hunting this enemy (sanctioned by her employers on the vampire tribunal), she also has to figure out how to deal with suddenly being soul-bonded to the local wolf king and to his second -- neither of whom know that while she's half-werewolf, she's also half-vampire.I enjoyed the character of Secret. At 22, she's fairly young, but she's smart enough to learn from her mistakes, savvy enough to be diplomatic even when she doesn't want to be, compassionate enough to help those in need, and has a strange tendency to space out into internal backstory/exposition at inappropriate times. She also has a dry sense of humor."I was flattened to the ground, the wind knocked out of me with a painful hiss and a thrashing vampire with his bared fangs going straight for my throat. Just another day at the office."She's soul-bonded to Lucas, the werewolf king of the East Coast, and to his second, Desmond. She doesn't know what that means, and Lucas won't provide a full explanation. (Lucas has a bit of the alpha manipulator thing going.) She's convinced that she has to make a choice between them -- whether or not that's the case, I don't know -- and feels guilty that she's physically and emotionally drawn to them both. To add to her confusion, the Oracle has told her that both sides of her heritage will be involved in a love triangle. Normally, super-powered chica who's the object of desire for a herd of characters would have me rolling my eyes and looking for another book--especially when combined with a cliffhanger ending. Fortunately, the voice, pacing and character interactions are entertaining enough that I plan to stick with this series until the next book, at least.Note: while there's apparently a whole geometry class worth of potential love triangles, there are no threesomes (so far anyway) and while there are a couple of sex scenes, the sex is not terribly explicit and doesn't take over the story.
    • 2/5
      SOMETHING SECRET reminded me a lot of the fantasy books of my adolescence. The writing wasn't particularly polished and the plot was nothing special, but the concepts and characters introduced would have been enough to spark many a high school day dream. Dean has done a good job creating an interesting mythology and social structure for her vamps and weres. While Secret's name, genealogy, and love life are a bit too pat, they're also sure to titillate and intrigue in future books.

      Full review at All Things Urban Fantasy.