Review: The Wolf's Call (Two-Natured London)
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 1, 2014
Charly is a heroine to admire.  She pursued her schooling and career without family help.  She is a lawyer and personifies everything you think of in a strong female push the issue type.  She always had a strong sense of smell and she had anger issues, both which weren't normal and a foreshadowing of what's to come.Rafe is a typical dominate alpha wolf:  Confident, chauvinistic, and sexy and of course he knows it.  He smells Charly and is deeply interested in her but fights being her mate.  No this is not an instant mate romance.The beginning starts really well and showed promise.  But I ended up skipping chapters.  Rafe refusing to commit to a human.  Now I could see Charly in her strong lawyer persona objecting to his stand but she doesn't.  It isn't until Rafe is shown Charly is more than human that changes his mind.  So she's a convenient lay when human but can't commit to mating until she's more.  Stupid.SPOILERSAt that point I skipped chapters.  The book didn't hold my interest.  I read the last two chapters and was looking forward to Charly coming into her own.  Find her own skin.  There was a lot of build up to his, her fist shift would happen in her 30's.  She was scared.  She may never be human again due to her strong wolf.  Her wolf has been contained for decades and there was worry once it was out it wouldn't return to let her human out.So yes I was really looking forward to her shifting.  I'm glad things were sorted with her family but it would have been nice to hear another family member was a full blooded wolf.  Or she was adopted.  But there wasn't any conclusion there.  We don't even hear why her father was so against shifters and the paranormal community.  We don't learn HOW her wolf was contained or how her parents knew it could be done.  That's a lot of misses for me on my reading enjoyment.So she shifts.  No fanfare.  No big deal.  Yes she protects her mate but he wasn't even there to see it.  So he didn't help her through it she did it herself.  Yes there was some difficulty shifting back but that was expected.  Nice touch Charly wouldn't obey or listen to her brother-in-law at this crucial time.  It's too bad this alpha gene of hers wouldn't exert itself when she was dealing with Rafe.  Instead she went into full blonde air head melt down.I agree with the other reviews.  Calling a dog an 'it' is stupid.  If it's altered it's still a he.  It could have added a lot to the story - I read one book where the dog shed and smelled and the werewolf was complaining of smelling like a dog.  Lots of teasing.  That didn't happen here.  But at least Rafe loved Bob.This one was a hit and miss for me.  Parts of it I liked and others were boring.  I assume this was the first book in the series and as such first books aren't always the best.  Sometimes it takes two books to get into a series.  If I do read into this series it's the price that makes up my mind.  - Dan's Wife