Silver (Silver #1) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Jun 06, 2012 Christal rated it it was amazing

Shelves: urban-fantasy, favorites, multiple-leads, weres-and-shifters, assassins-spies-and-mercs, death-as-a-character, 2012-favorites

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Wow! This was an outstanding debut by Rhiannon Held. The tone and subject matter reminded me of Bitten by Kelley Armstrong in the best ways possible, but Silver was a completely unique story. I really enjoyed Ms. Held's take on werewolves and I am hoping for more from the two leads, Silver and Dare.

Andrew Dare is Roanoke's werewolf enforcer and he is on the trail of a stray smelling of silver. It's his job to find the stray and either e See this review and others like it at BadassBookReviews.com!

Wow! This was an outstanding debut by Rhiannon Held. The tone and subject matter reminded me of Bitten by Kelley Armstrong in the best ways possible, but Silver was a completely unique story. I really enjoyed Ms. Held's take on werewolves and I am hoping for more from the two leads, Silver and Dare.

Andrew Dare is Roanoke's werewolf enforcer and he is on the trail of a stray smelling of silver. It's his job to find the stray and either escort him out of pack territory or to kill him. The stray turns out to be a rather disturbed woman. She calls herself Silver because of the poison injected into her veins and she has lost her wolf self. Dare has to decide if he should hide Silver, help her, or just kill her. He finds that he can't get the young woman out of his mind and finally decides that helping her is the only thing he can do.

I would consider this book more of a character study than an action-packed thriller. The driving plot is Dare trying to track down Silver's pack and the person that attacked her. While this was very interesting, the best parts of the story were Dare and Silver's growth as characters and their slowly developing relationship. I loved learning about their secrets, pains, losses, strengths, and loves. Dare seems like he is a very hard person, but we get to see a softer side come out when he is around Silver. Silver herself seems pretty crazy at the beginning but Dare seems to help ground her and allows her to hold on to more of her actual self.

At the beginning of the book, it seems like a one-way street. Silver needs Dare's help just to survive, but she is really just a complication in his life. As the book goes along, we learn that Dare has come to depend on Silver to figure out who is he as well. The gradually developing relationship was sweet and it gave each of them a strength to act in ways they couldn't on their own. They were damaged people, but their relationship helps heal them and makes them stand on their own two feet, even in situations where they might have faltered before.

I really loved this book. I did not want to put it down, reading it in only two sittings. I'm glad to see that this will be a series from Ms. Held and the next book, Tarnished, will be out May 2013. I loved Silver and Dare but I also appreciated Ms. Held's stark writing style and her way with emotions. I will be eagerly awaiting anything she puts out next! ...more

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Jul 31, 2013 Deyara rated it really liked it

Shelves: setting-america, time-contemporary, urban-fantasy, char-shape-shifters

I liked it a lot. The story itself was pretty ordinary but I loved the characters and the world-building was pretty good too. The culture of the weres was really strong in this story which was a bit unusual and really interesting.

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