Review: Solid 3-Star Story
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 7, 2014
I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.I thought this was a decent shifter love story centering around two alphas. Kane is forced to leave his pack when his family cannot accept he's gay. Like a true Alpha, Kane creates his own pack/family, offering friendship, belonging and protection to those in his care. Shane though, is a lone wolf, wary, separate and always alone. Not a pure wolf, and possessing magic, Shane was forced to flee for his life and years later, he's still running. When the mating bond strikes, these two dominant men will meld their lives together, despite murder attempts and alpha-instincts.I enjoyed the characters in this story, not just our two MCs but the secondary characters as well (Grif and Dean in particular). And the life-or-death part of the plot provided some much-needed tension. But for me, the suspense was sometimes ruined by the author's reliance on Shane's magic as a plot device. His magic is nearly limitless and I tired of him twitching his fingers and creating food and clothes, healing bruises and doing other, bigger things (yes, I'm trying to avoid spoilers).Along with the finger-twitching magic, the other thing that sometimes threw me out of the story was the author's frequent use of British slang. Most of the time I could ignore it but every once in awhile, I had to stop and puzzle out what the author meant. While sometimes distracting, it didn't really detract from the story for me.Overall, this was an okay book. I'll probably check out Book 2, since I liked Grif and that's his story.