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Hunting Julian (Gatherers, Book 1) |  | Author: Jacquelyn Frank
Publisher: Kensington Mass Market
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Media: Paperback
Edition: Original
Pages: 354
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Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 142010425X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9781420104257
ASIN: 142010425X
Publication Date: January 1, 2010
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As a guardian for his colony, Julian Sawyer travels to Earth to bring back the Chosen - women who possess energy potent enough to help revitalize his people. The stunning, silver-clad beauty who strides into his club one night radiates a sensual magnetism unlike any he's encountered, and Julian realizes that Asia Callahan is not just Chosen, she is his kindra: his one true mate. For months, Asia has tracked the beautiful and mysterious Julian across the country, convinced that he's behind the disappearance of her sister and a dozen other women. She's prepared to believe he's a ruthless killer, but when she presents herself as bait, she discovers that the truth is far more shocking. Taken to a strange, hazardous realm she never knew existed, Asia will face the ultimate choice - between abandoning the life she's always known, and forsaking a passion as dangerous as it is powerful.
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 Everyone has their own opinions. However did you read the deeper portion of the story? February 24, 2010
Lisa J. Philpot (Somewhere close to insane)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Hunting Julian is Jackie's first book of her new series. Alot of people seem to have a hard time connecting to her characters. As I read the reviews it seems that they have a hard time connecting because they have missed the under currents in Jackie's books.
In order to know more about the series, you have to know that Jackie is a hard hitter. She writes plots and subplots and titillating avenues all in the span of a chapter. Her stories are not hard to get, you just have to pay attention. She reminds me of Stephen King when he wrote Talisman. There is alot going on.
Julian is a leader in his tribe. The protector of his village in a race that is dying because of anothers' mistakes. He was hand picked by his council member due to his unique ability to connect on a VERY sexually emotional level with women of our plain. His world is an earth alternate. Like in a different reality/dimension several layers below where earth sits in the universe. People are starving to death, there is chaos abound and he feels a keen need to bring about a fruitful peace.
Asia is a woman who has had to raise herself and her sister Kenya. She is a no nonsense woman who believes shes got life figured out. Her sister is a free spirit who feels pain and suffering in an almost psychic level. Asia cant deal when her light is taken from her after her sisters disappearance. Asia deals with it in the only way she knows how...by getting vengeance.
When she tracks Kenya's disappearance to Julian shes sure the man is a worthless bag of nothing as there is the belief he killed her sister. She tracks him down when even the police cant make a connection to all the kidnappings left in his wake. She is a very intelligent soul with no connection to her emotions.
Kenya was raised is a fairytale like upbringing. Her life is a dream and Asia works hard to give her anything she wants and to keep her protected. Kenya never knew an moment of hurt and uncertainty. This is why when she is given the choice to go to a new realm and help those that need her she doesn't hesitate. Her life on Earth is full and happy. She feels the driving need to give back to others as her sister gave to her...with all the love and devotion she has.
The Gatherers are a group of men from this new realm that must harvest certain things from the citizens of earth to feed their starving families back home. How Jackie brings this about is unique and best left for you to read about in the actual book. All of the characters plays a part in how the world functions on its dysfunctional levels. And how can you not think of trusting people you spent years living around? How could you suspect that anyone that you loved would be able to turn in the blink of an eye?
As a whole we have these same issues. Jackie only brings a very life like world alive in her new series that leaves the reader feeling like a guest partaking of all the accidents and incidents. Life is complicated. Keep up or you will miss some vital clues as to why things are the way they are. AND if you missed something or you just feel like it rereading brings a whole new level of fun and understanding....
Good new Series from JF January 9, 2010
J. Todd (Huntsville, AL USA)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Hunting Julian by Jacquelyn Frank. Good start to a new series from JF. Enjoyed it. Looking forward to the next iterations. Another option when defining "vampire" for those of us who enjoy the genre. My take: world creation 4/5; characters 4/5; story line 5/5. Oddly, the masculine lead was the more emotional of the pair. That may be what seemed a bit off about it for me. I thoroughly enjoyed two of her others series (the Nightwalkers and Shadowdwellers), but this was a very good read just the same. Hope you enjoy it too.
 Promising Start January 11, 2010
K. Potter (Klamath Falls, OR)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have to disagree with some of the other reviewers. I enjoyed Hunting Julian, although I did not think it was as good as some of Frank's other books. I thought the world she was developing was interesting and I liked the characters involved. The plot did not develop as seamlessly as some, but still held my attention. I look forward to reading the next book in the series, but also hope to see more in the other two series as well.
Reviewed by Romance Junkies January 2, 2010
Natalie S (Nashville)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Julian is a Gatherer for his world. His entire purpose and the lives of his people depend on his ability to attract and bring females from Earth to their home. They are needed because their energy is what keeps his race alive. Julian is used to being able to gather the women needed and take them where they need to be - he is shocked to find himself in the company of a livid Asia Callahan as she does her best to bring him to his knees for the murder of her sister. Having no choice because his purpose on Earth has been compromised, Julian reluctantly takes Asia to his society where he sets out to prove that her presence is needed because not only is she a power source, but Julian thinks that Asia just might be his true mate.
Asia Callahan has been HUNTING JULIAN for months. She has sat and watched him lure woman after woman to his home, some never to be seen again. When her sister becomes a casualty, Asia has had enough. She refuses to allow Julian to kill another woman, and so she puts her plan in motion. She doesn't care that Julian is one of the most enigmatic men she has ever seen, he is going to pay for murdering her sister. When the time is right, Asia sets herself up as a target never realizing the plan she thinks is foolproof will change her life forever. Waking up in a strange dimension that Julian insists is his world is bad enough - finding out that Julian believes they are soul mates is worse.
Jacquelyn Frank has woven a creative and compelling world in HUNTING JULIAN. Julian and Asia will have to fight themselves as well as otherworldly forces in order to be together. Their plight is chock full of bumps and bruises along the way but in the end, love wins its battle between these two incredible characters. With plot twists and turns and more than one surprise throughout this fast paced story, HUNTING JULIAN shows Ms. Frank's uncanny ability to draw her readers into her stories.
Natalie S.
Enjoyable book to read April 5, 2010
Lady Hecate (Millersville, Maryland United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book, to me, came out screaming. There was no reading some 150 pages before the relationship between Julian and Asia got heated. Right from the git go, you were pulled into Julian's masculinity. I liked the character of Asia. I liked that Ms. Frank made Asia strong, determined and independent yet not a bi#ch.
From the first few pages of this book, I knew that I would like it. I like the way Ms. Frank writes and she surely is not hesitant in her sexual scenes between hero and heroine. This is one of the main reasons why I like her books.
Asia thinks Julian is a serial killer and to which had done something to her sister Kenya and goes after him. He ends up taking her to this new world without her permission and there she has to stay. She finds out that not only does her sister live but went willingly to this new world. The only problem I have with the book is that Asian blames Julian for taking herself to this new world without her permission, when the only reason Asia was seeking him out in the first place was because of her sister. Kenya, meeting up with him at a bar and then disappears, because Kenya agrees to go to this new world to help. To me, I would be mad at my sister for all the heartache I went through in thinking that Kenysa was dead and not Julian.
I loved the character of Julian. He was very masculine and manly.....basically everything a woman would want in a man, i.e., he was caring, a wonderful lover and his heart was opened to be hurt, unlike Asia, whose heart she protected for fear of taking that step and loosing her independence.
There also came a time in the book wherein it did not keep my attention, and I almost gave in but held in there to give Ms Frank a chance to pull me back in, and to that end, she did, as I knew she would. I loved her Shadowdwellers series and am reading The Nightwalkers. So, because I got a little disinterested in this book at one time, this is why I am giving it four starts instead of five. But it is worth the read. The love making scenes, as usual, never disappoints me, and they are not few and far between like some other romance books.
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