Review: Nice start to a series
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 21, 2013
This was a decent start to a series by Ms. McBride. Toxic is the first book in the Truckee Wolves series. The story is about curvaceous Veterinarian Dr. Briony and Rico who is a wildlife ranger who have been dancing around one another for months.  Dr. Briony, a bonafide chocolate lover, and her brother have some special powers so they always had to live off the grid growing up because some secret military agency is hunting them because of their special powers to experiment on them.  Their mother is ex-military of the highest order who adopted them after their parents were killed.  Rico is an orphaned were-shifter who is attracted to Briony's chocolate essence.  He never grew up around the Pack so he has a hard time adjusting to Pack life. Towards the beginning of the book, Rico makes his move on Briony during a meeting, but then that is when the different complications start happening.Briony and Rico had great chemistry. Whether he was in wolf form or human you felt their connection even in the first scenes.  I enjoyed their relationship, but Dr. Briony's sexual preferences felt a little forced so their first sexual scene seemed a little awkward to me, but their chemistry was solid it worked its way out. All the book wasn't burdened down with sex, it had actual plot so it was good.  The sex scenes fit where it was supposed to.The antagonist, Abraxas, that Briony and Rico shared was introduced in this book, but wasn't explored too deeply.  This book set up the framework for the rest of the series so hopefully in the next book we will see more of the Abraxas organization.  I liked the book well enough to continue the series.I was given a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.