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Werecat #3
The Fugitive
The smoldering and action-packed return to award-winning fantasy author Andrew J. Peters’ Werecat series.
Jacks travels to the Barbados with his only clue to what the Glaring’s assassin was after: his maker’s key to a safety deposit box at an offshore bank. While waiting to claim its holdings, he meets an alluring South African ex-pat Maarten who hosts a nonstop pleasure cruise on his yacht.
With his nerves scratched raw from living on the run, it’s too tempting of an escape for Jacks to turn away. But while he’s acquiring a taste for Maarten’s hard partying, nihilistic way of life, back in New York City the Glaring closes in on his boyfriend Farzan and his maker’s secret source of power.
Also in the Werecat series: The Rearing (Book One), The Glaring (Book Two), and The Sim Ru Prophecy (Book Four).
Jacks travels to the Barbados with his only clue to what the Glaring’s assassin was after: his maker’s key to a safety deposit box at an offshore bank. While waiting to claim its holdings, he meets an alluring South African ex-pat Maarten who hosts a nonstop pleasure cruise on his yacht.
With his nerves scratched raw from living on the run, it’s too tempting of an escape for Jacks to turn away. But while he’s acquiring a taste for Maarten’s hard partying, nihilistic way of life, back in New York City the Glaring closes in on his boyfriend Farzan and his maker’s secret source of power.
Also in the Werecat series: The Rearing (Book One), The Glaring (Book Two), and The Sim Ru Prophecy (Book Four).
- GenresParanormalLGBT
120 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 3, 2014
About the author
Andrew J. Peters
15 books102 followersAndrew J. Peters is an author, an educator, and an activist. His books have won the Silver Falchion award and been a finalist at the Foreword INDIES (The City of Seven Gods), as well as a Readers' Choice pick at The Romance Reviews (the Werecat series). He has written two fantasy books for young adults (The Seventh Pleiade, Banished Sons of Poseidon), and he is the author of the adult novel Poseidon and Cleito.
His latest novel Irresistible is a gay rom-com based on the oldest extant romance novel in the world.
Andrew grew up in Amherst, New York, studied psychology at Cornell University, and has spent most of his career as a social worker and an advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth.
Most of Andrew’s work takes inspiration from mythological themes, but as a young writer, he adored Agatha Christie. At Smallwood Elementary School, he was briefly a literary celebrity when his school principal invited him to read from his novel Murder at Moosewood Mansion over the P.A. system at lunch.
In the 90s, Andrew founded a ‘Coffeehouse’ in suburban Long Island to provide a safe place for LGBT teens to make friends, express themselves through the creative arts, and get help if they needed it. While he writes about fantasy worlds, his work tends to feature LGBT characters, and he is proud to write gay fiction for readers of all ages.
Andrew lives in New York City with his husband Genaro and their cat Chloë. Outside of writing, he is an administrator and an adjunct professor at Adelphi University School of Social Work.
Andrew is also on Patreon where you can climb aboard his ship on his journey across the rollicking sea of authorhood.
His latest novel Irresistible is a gay rom-com based on the oldest extant romance novel in the world.
Andrew grew up in Amherst, New York, studied psychology at Cornell University, and has spent most of his career as a social worker and an advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth.
Most of Andrew’s work takes inspiration from mythological themes, but as a young writer, he adored Agatha Christie. At Smallwood Elementary School, he was briefly a literary celebrity when his school principal invited him to read from his novel Murder at Moosewood Mansion over the P.A. system at lunch.
In the 90s, Andrew founded a ‘Coffeehouse’ in suburban Long Island to provide a safe place for LGBT teens to make friends, express themselves through the creative arts, and get help if they needed it. While he writes about fantasy worlds, his work tends to feature LGBT characters, and he is proud to write gay fiction for readers of all ages.
Andrew lives in New York City with his husband Genaro and their cat Chloë. Outside of writing, he is an administrator and an adjunct professor at Adelphi University School of Social Work.
Andrew is also on Patreon where you can climb aboard his ship on his journey across the rollicking sea of authorhood.
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August 2, 2015
Jacks is in Barbados, waiting to get access to Benoit's accounts and safety deposit box. Worried about his lack of funds, missing Farzan, he wanders around, looking for something to do. Meeting up with Maarten, another werecat, leads to an extended party cruise with a group of spoiled werecats while Farzan deals with wild cat attacks back in New York.
Not a good storyline for me, and I was concerned how it would play out, especially when the story sometimes felt manipulated to go a certain way, where the events didn't feel natural, didn't always make sense. Worse for me, though, was how Jacks made up excuses to justify his poor choices. I was irritated with his implausible rationalizations, and angry at how inconsiderate he was being to Farzan, the man he supposedly loved, but who he now questioned if he "liked" him. WTH? Wasn't he worried about Farzan? Didn't he miss him, want to hear his voice? What were his declarations of love all about? Yeah, I was angry. His priorities were messed up and he was being self absorbed and immature.
So why was I still so caught up in this story?!
Because I wanted to know what was going to happen, how things would get resolved. Luckily, we got some action, and progress in the storyline as Jacks and Farzan were reunited. Jacks seemed to finally be getting it and I appreciated his remorse even as I winced at the angst of it. Unfortunately, even though this story was longer than the first two, it still read as an installment in a series, and not a complete story by itself. So, good things were happening, but the main problem with The Glaring was still unresolved. I'm a little frustrated, but also curious how this will all turn out.
Side note:
A few odd word choices were jarring at times, especially when I was caught up in the story. I kept checking the dictionary to see if my understanding of a word was incorrect.
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Not a good storyline for me, and I was concerned how it would play out, especially when the story sometimes felt manipulated to go a certain way, where the events didn't feel natural, didn't always make sense. Worse for me, though, was how Jacks made up excuses to justify his poor choices. I was irritated with his implausible rationalizations, and angry at how inconsiderate he was being to Farzan, the man he supposedly loved, but who he now questioned if he "liked" him. WTH? Wasn't he worried about Farzan? Didn't he miss him, want to hear his voice? What were his declarations of love all about? Yeah, I was angry. His priorities were messed up and he was being self absorbed and immature.
So why was I still so caught up in this story?!
Because I wanted to know what was going to happen, how things would get resolved. Luckily, we got some action, and progress in the storyline as Jacks and Farzan were reunited. Jacks seemed to finally be getting it and I appreciated his remorse even as I winced at the angst of it. Unfortunately, even though this story was longer than the first two, it still read as an installment in a series, and not a complete story by itself. So, good things were happening, but the main problem with The Glaring was still unresolved. I'm a little frustrated, but also curious how this will all turn out.
Side note:
A few odd word choices were jarring at times, especially when I was caught up in the story. I kept checking the dictionary to see if my understanding of a word was incorrect.
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Note: A copy of this book was provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.
April 15, 2018
Werecat: the Fugitive (Werecat 3)
By Andrew J. Peters
Vagabondage Press, 2014
Four stars
Gotta say, these books have sucked me in. The werecat premise, with its complex backstory and (as of this third book, front story) and the character of Jacks, has intrigued me from the start. Peters’ writing has gotten stronger and his narrative voice clearer with each volume.
Having been forced into a life he didn’t want, Jacks now finds himself in Barbados, facing the truth of his heritage as a werecat, and the implications of Benoit’s safe deposit box. Shocked and disoriented by what he learns and who he meets, Jacks also has to think long and hard about his relationship with his all-too-human medical student, Farzan.
But the book’s nicely wrought plot arc, which veers into dark and violent territory once more, also allows Jacks to become a more fully realized character. He’s not just a college student reacting to events, but someone with responsibility for something much bigger than he is. Like, possibly, the fate of the world.
I’ve already bought the fourth and final book in the series, because I have to know how this all turns out.
By Andrew J. Peters
Vagabondage Press, 2014
Four stars
Gotta say, these books have sucked me in. The werecat premise, with its complex backstory and (as of this third book, front story) and the character of Jacks, has intrigued me from the start. Peters’ writing has gotten stronger and his narrative voice clearer with each volume.
Having been forced into a life he didn’t want, Jacks now finds himself in Barbados, facing the truth of his heritage as a werecat, and the implications of Benoit’s safe deposit box. Shocked and disoriented by what he learns and who he meets, Jacks also has to think long and hard about his relationship with his all-too-human medical student, Farzan.
But the book’s nicely wrought plot arc, which veers into dark and violent territory once more, also allows Jacks to become a more fully realized character. He’s not just a college student reacting to events, but someone with responsibility for something much bigger than he is. Like, possibly, the fate of the world.
I’ve already bought the fourth and final book in the series, because I have to know how this all turns out.
July 18, 2017
This series is really starting to heat up! On the run from the law after the events in The Glaring Jacks travels to Barbados to uncover what he can about Ben's history. There he meets a Pride of werecats like himself. There is also action and character development from Farzan in New York and the ending was totally awesome and well thought out.
May 5, 2019
Awesome so much better than book 2
This book kept me reading and the action was non stop of the three books I have read this was the one were you saw death, pain, anger and bloodshed. You felt the lost of friends and family but you saw their will and fight to make a difference. .
This book kept me reading and the action was non stop of the three books I have read this was the one were you saw death, pain, anger and bloodshed. You felt the lost of friends and family but you saw their will and fight to make a difference. .
January 9, 2015
A Joyfully Jay review.
4 stars
This book is the third in the Werecat trilogy and I find this to be an exciting and really unique series. Right from the first book, Peters has created this fascinating world of werecats and we have followed along with Jacks as he is turned, and then must figure out how to navigate the world without his maker. I think once again Peters does a nice job here expanding upon the lore, giving us more information about The Glaring and what they are up to, and the politics of the cats. I liked how we see the comparison between Maarten and his friends, who are all about enjoying life and staying out of complications, versus The Glaring who are determined to fight against the humans. For all of Maarten’s pacifism, it is mostly fueled by apathy and self absorption, at least toward anything beyond his love for his sister. At first Jacks finds that way of life alluring, and lets himself get caught in the spell. But soon he realizes he needs more than that, he needs to fight and take action against the cats that are out to kill humans, rather than just sit back and ignore the problem.
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4 stars
This book is the third in the Werecat trilogy and I find this to be an exciting and really unique series. Right from the first book, Peters has created this fascinating world of werecats and we have followed along with Jacks as he is turned, and then must figure out how to navigate the world without his maker. I think once again Peters does a nice job here expanding upon the lore, giving us more information about The Glaring and what they are up to, and the politics of the cats. I liked how we see the comparison between Maarten and his friends, who are all about enjoying life and staying out of complications, versus The Glaring who are determined to fight against the humans. For all of Maarten’s pacifism, it is mostly fueled by apathy and self absorption, at least toward anything beyond his love for his sister. At first Jacks finds that way of life alluring, and lets himself get caught in the spell. But soon he realizes he needs more than that, he needs to fight and take action against the cats that are out to kill humans, rather than just sit back and ignore the problem.
Read Jay’s review in its entirety here.
August 25, 2016
read part 1 & half cos i thought it was about jack and ben,it wasnt a romance in book 1 atleast so not for me ,i was dissapointed 1 star
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