Wilder's Mate by Moira Rogers
Series: Bloodhounds #1
Published by Samhain Publishing
Published on: 3/8/11
Genres: Steampunk
Pages: 146
Format: eBook
Source: Freebie
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Wilder Harding is a bloodhound, created by the Guild to hunt down and kill vampires on America’s frontier. His enhanced abilities come with a high price: on the full moon, he becomes capable of savagery beyond telling, while the new moon brings a sexual hunger that borders on madness.
Rescuing a weapons inventor from undead kidnappers is just another assignment, though one with an added complication—keeping his hands off the man’s pretty young apprentice, who insists on tagging along.
At odds with polite society, Satira’s only constant has been the aging weapons inventor who treats her like a daughter. She isn’t going to trust Wilder with Nathaniel’s life, not when the Guild might decide the old man isn’t worth saving. Besides, if there’s one thing she’s learned, it’s that brains are more important than brawn.
As the search stretches far longer than Wilder planned, he finds himself fighting against time. If Satira is still at his side when the new moon comes, nothing will stop him from claiming her. Worse, she seems all too willing. If their passion unlocks the beast inside, no one will be safe. Not even the man they’re fighting to save.
Warning: This book contains a crude, gun-slinging, vampire-hunting hero who howls at the full moon and a smart, stubborn heroine who invents mad-scientist weapons. Also included: wild frontier adventures, brothels, danger, betrayal and a good dose of wicked loving in an alternate Wild West.
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This is my first steampunk read. I haven’t read much from Moira Rogers, but I love the Beyond series by Kit Rocha, who is the same pair of authors under a different pen name. I downloaded this as a free ebook from Amazon, so I thought I should go ahead and read it. I really enjoyed this book. There are vampires and bloodhounds. It took me a while to figure out the bloodhounds, but they are former humans and while they seem to have some characteristics with werewolves, but yet not. They are affected by the New Moon and their sexual hunger hits its peak at that time. They are created and work for the Guild.
Satira is an inventor. Her mentor has been kidnapped by vampires and the Guild has sent the bloodhound, Wilder to help her get him back. This is an interesting introduction to steampuck. I loved the combination of old wild west and new inventions. They ride in carriages, but have some pretty interesting technology, especially in weapons.
The romance between Wilder and Satira was great. Bloodhounds are discouraged from taking mates. He lives a lonely life and usually goes to a brothel for a woman or maybe two for the night of the new moon, to meet his sexual urges. He wants to get this mission over with before the new moon starts. He does not want to be with Satira when new moon rises. The more he is around her, the more he appreciates her intelligence.
Being a woman in this old wild west, means that Satira’s intelligence goes unnoticed by most. She tries to hide her beauty, as that would put her back into the “woman” category. She dresses in men’s clothing. She just wants to work on her inventions. She frowns on the fact that her best friend in the sex trade, but everyone has to make a living, right?
This story has everything that I would expect from this writing duo. The characters are intriguing. I love the world. The secondary characters leave you wanting to learn more about each of them. The bloodhound species is very interesting and I can’t wait to learn more about them. Even the evil vampires make want to know more. This is a novella and a shorter story, so the story moves fast, but still has everything you like in a PNR style romance.
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I’m Melanie and I live in Ohio. I have two horses and a dog. I’m an animal lover, avid book reader and audiobook listener. I like to live vicariously through fictional characters. I enjoy reading and listening to mostly fictional books in the paranormal genre, including Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance and Horror. My favorite paranormal creatures are shifters, doesn’t matter the flavor.
This sounds like it could be an interesting series, never heard of it but it’s going on the pile. 🙂
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I hope you enjoy. I know I will be looking for book two sometime soon.
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It’s been awhile since I’ve dabbled in steampunk. I think this is a great book to get myself reintroduced to this genre.
Thanks for the heads up, Melanie!
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This was my first foray into Steampunk and I enjoyed it. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
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I grabbed this freebie too because I’ve heard good thing about the author.
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I’ve had this on my Kindle for a long time. I’m really glad I finally decided to give it a try.
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I didn’t know it was a novella and I’m glad you tried your first steampunk book! YAY! I love the genre, it’s so fun. I hope you’ll be able to try more great ones!
It was such an interesting world. I can’t wait to see what else this genre has to offer.
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LOL! I was just having a conversation with someone like five minutes ago about not knowing all the writing duos that have alternative names and here you taught me another pair. Didn’t know Kit and Moira were the same author duo or that Kit was an author duo. Haha!
Oy! Anyhoo. I’ve got this one a while back as a freebie b/c I thought a Wild West PNR-Steampunk sounded all sorts of fun too. Glad it was good.
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We both had writing duo’s today. 🙂
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I was just having a conversation with another blogger about writing duos. This is a new one for me. I have yet to read a steampunk novel but to check one out for free is a good way to get a feel for it and it’s PNR which is my go to genre so this sounds like a fun read to me. Thanks for the review.
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I thought the same thing about trying a steampunk with some PNR to get me started. Plus, I was familiar with these authors. Plus, you can’t go wrong with the price either 🙂
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Read this before it came out and I really enjoyed it. It’s not even really steampunk, more… wild-west punk? I think this was where I started with Bree and Donna though and I’ve been a fan who happily followed them to their Kit Rocha pen name.
Great review Mel!
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Thanks. I did notice the more wild west feel. As this is my first steampunk, I wasn’t sure this was how they all went, or if this one just didn’t really fit in the box exactly right.
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I have never read a steampunk book, and actually it never really interested me. Westerns aren’t my thing either. I am glad this worked for you though. Maybe I need to broaden my horizons! The bloodhounds do sound interesting 🙂
I’ve never really wanted to try a western before, but I have been wanting to try the steampunk genre. This one also has a lot of paranormal in it, so it worked well for me. I found the bloodhounds really interesting. I want to find out a bunch more about them.
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Even though I’ve never read the Beyond Shame series, I’ve heard of it and the author. I had no idea they are two people under the name though! And that they’re writing steampunk under a different pen name! I’ve read a few steampunk series and I do enjoy the genre so I will definitely give this one a try since the characters sound so interesting. I hope it’s still free! Lovely review, Melanie! 🙂
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I have only read one Steampunk series – The Doorknob Society and I really enjoyed it. This sounds interesting so I can add another to my tbr pile.
Thanks for sharing Melanie.
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I’ve had books like that from before I started tracking on Goodreads. I couldn’t remember if I had read or not. I’ve started a few only to notice the story when I was part way through.
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The bloodhounds sound pretty interesting. Wild West steampunks are a lot of fun.
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Yay for great free reads, there is nothing better! This does look really interesting and I don’t remember seeing it on Amazon so I am hoping I can still grab it. 😉
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I was just ‘organizing’ my kindle and found this one, Melanie, so I’m glad you enjoyed it. I didn’t realize Moira Rogers and Kit Rocha were the same authors. I have several books from Rogers and Rocha on my ereaders. The world of Wilder’s Mate has me intrigued, I have to say. And I’m eager to meet Satira…she sounds like my kind of heroine. 🙂
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