Uh. Books with wolves. I have a love/hate relationship with them most of the time. I love the idea of a pack (family) but all the dominance and blustering kinda turns me off of them. This wasn't the worst I've read with wolves but not the greatest either. And I always hate how authors portray their mates as whimpering submissives all the damn time. As if someone who isn't a wolf is automatically weaker than them and lower on the totem pole and couldn't possibly be, you know, a normal man. A man perfectly capable of not crying and whimpering and snivelling and always doing whatever the "alpha" wants unless he's angry and throwing a tantrum. Seriously. Of course if a mate actually acts like a normal person it must mean the wolf is an omega and therefore a bottom or the mate is a more powerful shifter like a lion or a vampire. There's never actually an equality. Of course this is not just with wolves or shifters in general...pretty much universal in any M/M novel but, alas, it wasn't excessive in this story and for that I am thankful if not particularly happy overall. I didn't connect with the characters much because of how Lys was presented with a lot of money as if to compensate his feminine appearance for example. Or how being an alpha Rip had to be an aggressive *ss at first. Or how "no one" loved Lys. I mean...kinda when an authors wants us to like a character so much she/he almost kills them for us to have pity on them? Just like that. Lys and Rip were so miserable all the time I just had to like them. Wrong. That just annoyed me all the faster. Lys's whimpering really got on my nerves and his dramatics? Boy. You don't want to know! 2 positive things I can say: Could've been worse and it's over. That's it. I really didi not enjoy this book at the start with the way that Rip treats Lys by refusing to believe that Lys is a man while they are having sex and generally being an idiot and not thinking about Lys's feelings. However it grew on me when he started to treat him like a man. My favourite scene is when Lys gets challenged by a woman in the pack and he brings her down with one move nice!I would recommend this book for people who enjoy a lot of public sex and misunderstandings in a book.
Hot damn, I loved this story! May I have some more? The best of the series so far!
—lyke
3.5 stars. I just loved the Penguin. ;3
—chichbo2004
One of the better ones in the series.
—supershay
2,5 stars
—John
