Review: Steamy but something was missing
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 16, 2011
I enjoyed this novella.  I didn't think the sex scenes were random and I thought they made sense and were well written.  What I did think was odd, was that in a town of all werewolves a were-cougar apparently fits in until the elders decide she's going to be their alpha queen.  Somehow, I don't know, that didn't make sense even though the author tried to explain it.Another thing that bothered me was the amount of spelling and grammatical errors.  It really bogged the story down for me.What bothered me most was the serious skipping around by the author.  I know that it's a novella, but if you introduce several problems in a story, it makes sense to deal with them.  First the mating between Merrick and Nikki all by itself would have made a perfectly cool novella, but the author added another rival pack, a kidnapping of the brother of the alpha, and a traitor in their midst.  The kidnapping rescue - I wanted to know about the process.  It went from Nikki accepting a delivery from Merrick to the actual last bit of the rescue.  I felt cheated by not getting more of that integral event.  The book left things hanging with the traitor and I assume it will be picked up in the next novella, but still...I would have liked more than a HEA ending slapped on the end of a nearly devastating fight.I'm not turned off the author entirely, but I certainly hope that the novella that follows is better reviewed for errors.  All in all, I thought the sex scenes between Merrick and Nikki, the romance that blossomed for them, was great.  It was all the extra stuff that fluffed around that main idea that queered the book for me.