Review: Unwanted Mate (The Edge)
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 24, 2012
I have to say, I have read Rebecca Royce before and I connected very well with her characters. They were very likable, and I connected to the female leads especially. However, with this story, it fell a little flat for me. I totally understand how hard it is to grab a storyline, hot sex, and give us a believable happily ever after, or happy for now ending, if that is what you are going for. I do believe that this story was trying to go for that. It was very hard for me to believe that this woman just suddenly opened up the way that she did. I certainly understand what her intent was, venting her frustrations on the hunky wolf man to get over her sadness from her lose. What I couldn't quite believe was after all that pull that she finally succumbed to the possible idea that she really needed this man.If I am being totally honest, Judy wasn't the most likeable of females. If it is one thing that I have learned, it is that you must make the female likeable in order for a reader to connect with the story as a whole. If you can sell that, the whole thing will be everything it is setting out to be, a sizzling hot erotica short story. I wanted to desperately to like the story, because Gunther was likable as a big, hulking Alpha wolf. I just didn't like the match. I can't totally wrap my head around what bothered me most about this story. Because the sex was hot. The author hit on all the right words, used perfect sensual phrasing to get me to totally visualize the erotic scenes of this story. For that alone the story gets my 3 star rating.The full circle enjoyment value just wasn't there for me in this one. The bar is set high as far as shifter wolf reads go for me, and this one just didn't met my sexy shifter expectations.This review is also available on hotlyeverafter.com