Review: Sweet story- but not completely clear
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 13, 2011
No SPOILERS or plot summaries. Recommendations included.HIGH LEVEL: Book 1 to a new para-romance from Rogers. Definitely a MUST READ for fans of her "Red Rock Pass" series as the characters are consistent. Focuses on basic inter-werewolf struggles- pack leadership, mating, etc- during the Great Depression, so this is BEFORE Gavin has his own pack to care for. Not too lusty, but enough to be satisfying.SETTING IS IMPORTANT- and the reason I'm giving this only 3 stars. I was confused as hell in the beginning as I didn't realize the time period in which it was set. Why on earth would the women need to bring the water for a bath??? Maybe I'm just dense and missed the obvious, but it took me a while to figure out what the heck was going on- prohibition, stock market crash, lack of jobs... and running water... and neighbors. I couldn't understand where all these farm girls could possibly have come from around Massachusetts!Aside from that, it's a sweet story. Nothing outrageous, just a little bit of fun. Violence is minimal for the genre- more implied that anything explicit. It would have been nice if it had been a little more flushed out, but it worked in the end. The ending was great. By that time I was familiar with the setting enough to properly experience what life must have been like and it is a great set up for future books.RECOMMENDATIONS: (hard to find something very similar... these have something of a similar atmosphere)1. Moira Rogers' basic werewolf romance series:Cry Sanctuary: Book 1 of Red Rock Pass seriesand her more magically diverse romance seriesCrux: Southern Arcana, Book 12. Vivian Arend'sWolf Signs: Granite Lake Wolves, Book 1fun, light were-romance series. She also has a couple other light, but lusty options, includingTidal Wave: Forces of Nature, Book 13. Kelley Armstrong's shifting main character series with witches, demons, vamps and weresBitten: A Novel (The Otherworld)4. Loribelle Hunt's more sexually daring werewolf romanceOnce Bitten [Spellbound Moon 1]5. Renee Michaels' more sexually adventurous werewolf romanceHer Chosen Wolf: The Were Chronicles, Book 16. Christine Feehan'sMagic in the Wind (Drake Sisters, Book 1)- no werewolves or other odd creatures, sweet (but intense) stories of magically gifted sisters struggling to protect each other and find their true loves7. Nalini Singh'sSlave to Sensation (Psy-Changelings, Book 1)- romance series which features weres and psychics, but also carries plotlines with some substance8. Christine Warren's somewhat inconsistent, but often awesome series featuring werewolves, demons and vampsWolf at the Door (The Others, Book 1)- skip the one about werecats, it had a weak female lead