Review: Don't order books when you're fighting a cold
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 26, 2013
because you'll give yourself a headache pounding your head against the wall asking yourself "How could I be so stupid?"  Cold medications should not be taken when trying to operate your brain, much less machinery.I had the bright idea that I would order a few books that the synopsis (synopses?) made sound interesting, just so I'd have something to focus on other than my cold and ended up ordering 8 from different authors before I'd realized what I'd done.  Bad part was that I ordered a few from authors I'd read previously and hadn't liked, but decided to give them another chance as even great authors can have a bad book.In the case of Becca Van, I should have stuck with my first impression.  I ordered (and returned) her Set Me Free back in May and thought it had too much gratuitous sex and not enough plot.  Unfortunately, Keira's Wolf Saviors, Mate for Three, Werewolf Mates, and Vegetarian Mate are all in the same vein.  After erroneously ordering all these books I read the first and browsed the rest just to see if they'd improve, which they did not.Becca's formula for writing these  ménage/shifter books seems to be:1.  All werewolf heroes must be extremely good looking, kind, thrifty, thoughtful, brave, you get the drift.2.  All the heroines must be spunky but very submissive, downtrodden women who allowed themselves to be abused, taken advantage of, etc. and whose inclination at the first sign of trouble is to run first, go to authorities later, if at all, and never trust another man in her life, except for the heroes, for which they can't help themselves.3.  Although the heroes in this book are werewolves who belong to a very successful pack  and are "experts" in finances, real estate, and most importantly, SECURITY, for some reason not a single member of the pack seems to smell a stranger on their home turf, the big gates around the property doesn't keep any regular old human out, said regular old humans also seem to know their security codes and security systems extremely well to be able to personally hack into it and put up a feedback loop, thereby allowing Keira to not only be abducted, but again for someone to come back onto the property a second time, after security is supposedly beefed up, allowing her to get shot. While all the werewolves are out on the property grounds having a run.4.  Gratuitous sex must be thought of between, by and/or about the heroes/heroines within the first chapter.  In this book, Keira's pussy juices began to flow and her clit throbbed by page three.  After just one look at one of the heroes.All the books in this series just get worse as they go on without a redeeming character among them.  Although the Vegetarian Mate had a little (very little) more humor, it had even less plot than the others.  I think the bad guy was in there just for the sole reason being for an excuse for the heroine to become a werewolf herself; a vegetarian werewolf. Oh the irony.Seriously, I'm returning all these books for refunds and will be taking great care to not order any more ebooks from Amazon unless I'm 100% healthy and not taking anything stronger than an aspirin.  And definitely not ordering any other Becca Van titles.