Review: Big Bad Wolf Series
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 24, 2012
First of all, I decided to read these stories when I learned "The Kings" series was a spin off from BBW series.  A lot of these characters are referred to in The Vampire King and The Phantom King, so I wanted to read their stories. (Beware: Spoilers)THE HEAT:  Right off the bat, I didn't care for Daniel's attitude.  He's flirtatious and in the past has slept with all of his sister's friends, which in turn makes them Lily's friends too.  I don't feel the love connection or mate bound, more like just lust between the two.  He marks her as his mate almost immediately after she comes back into town and I don't feel they were at the point where she is proven to be his mate.  Sure she had dreams about him but their so called friendship had not progressed to a relationship.  I don't like that Lily desired another male after she was marked by Daniel as his mate.  It doesn't matter that Cole is a powerful wolf and he uses that power to pique a woman's desire.  I feel once you find your mate and are mated there is no room for anyone else.  Malcolm Cole's story did come to light and I was glad to know he's not a monster (moving on to his story next).  Daniel and Lily's relationship did develop properly after the Cole kidnapping.  Daniel showed his true feelings and I liked him better after this.  There is another plot to the story, a serial killer is involved.  I figured out who the criminal was from the first time he was introduced in the story.  All in all, I breezed through this story quickly; I hope Cole's story is better.THE STRIP:  Only on the first couple of pages of the second story and I'm not liking it already.  Story goes immediately to the heroine having kinky sex with a guy that's not the hero. Urgh!  After getting past that, I have to say this was a very good story.  I think Malcolm Cole is my favorite.  I don't understand the job of a sentinel (Jesse), they can only help the person they guard if she's dying otherwise she has to experience life.  So she can be violated, abused, tortured and almost killed but its all part of her life experiences.  What?  I think this story would have been just as good without Jesse and Charlie being friends with benefits; just being best friends would have sufficed.  I actually like Jesse and hope he gets a story in the future.  We find out in the story that Charlie has a bad uncle and good powerful grandfather.  Now really, she's been basically on her own since she was twelve, her grandfather should have taken his son's daughter under his wing instead of leaving her to fend for herself in the human world.  Now he enters the story showing all the love he has for her as his granddaughter and she accepts him.  I'm missing something here.  Sure he has the sentinel watching over her through the years, but I felt she needed her family more.  All in all Malcolm and Charlie's story is very intense and keeps you hooked.THE SPELL:  Finally a PERFECT story with the exception of the girl on girl implications.  This book was everything I liked in a story.  Possessive alpha male meet and claim mate.  Danny hid her dormancy from the werewolves with a spell, but there still was an instant attraction between her and Lucas from the moment they met.  Although she knew there would be because she had a secret...she dreamed about him.  Come to think of it, I don't think she ever told him that in the story.  Not that it mattered, Lucas knew she was his.  It was interesting to read Jason's attempts to have Danny as his after reading his parts in "The Kings" series.  In this story he's the bad guy.  I thought Lucas' older brother Byron would make an appearance in this book since the next story is about him, but we were only reminded that Lucas lost his brother to someone with magic which is why he hated witches and warlocks.  Now I'm moving on to Byron's story "The Hunt".THE HUNT:  Started reading this story and I realized that I've read it before.  Looking back through my emails, I had purchased this book as a standalone almost a year ago.  It is no longer in my amazon library, which means I deleted it because I didn't care for it and had no plans of ever reading it again.  Maybe I would have felt different if I would have read the first three books in the series, either way I have decided not to read it again.  One thing I do remember is, I didn't like the fact that Kat, as a hunter, was killing innocent werewolves for no other reason than they wanted to claim her.  She's a dormant and their instinct is to mate because these women are very special and needed for the survival of their race.  I've read other stories where the main character is a hunter, but they were truly killing evil or monsters.After reading these stories, I must say it goes from one extreme to another.  Intensive violence, violation, bondage, girl on girl, etc... would I have read the book if I had known all this?  Probably not.