Review: Light romance, with too many stupid decisions
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 21, 2014
Setting is modern day. H-- grew up human with a single mom, though knowing she had slightly unusual powers but ignorant of her werewolf nature. J-- is a male werewolf sent by the father she believes dead. His job is to kidnap her and bring her home via a cross country trip, so that she can marry a werewolf other than him. The plot twist is that he is unbelievably drawn to her and wants to keep her for himself. This hot attraction goes both ways, and makes their drive home interesting.The problems with this book stem from too many really stupid decisions made by the main characters and by her TSTL parents. I can't list them without spoilers, so I'll wait until later in the review. Suffice it to say that way too often you will be thrown out of flow of the book by the sheer stupidity or total absurdity of a decision someone makes.The romance & erotica are okay, but the best piece by far is the free introduction. The writing quality goes straight downhill from there. I'd suggest enjoying that, and then giving one of Jameson's other books a try instead.[spoilers]This book is chocked full of dumb decisions, but this is the worst. A mom & dad werewolf have one child, a young daughter (H--). They know a powerful werewolf will be trying to forcer her to marry him. They also know that a friend's son (J--) is her perfect werewolf mate. Instead of standing their ground or moving to another werewolf pack or getting help from their friends, the mom takes the daughter and the two of them spend their lives in hiding as human; while the lonely dad spends his life alone. Unbelievably stupid!  Why not all three go and live elsewhere? Why hide her werewolf nature from the daughter? Why tell J-- that H-- is going to marry someone else, and then force them to spend days alone together in a car with the obvious intent of tricking them into marrying? Simply telling J-- would have done the trick. The mom & dad's eventual plan is to marry him & her, which is the plot of this book, so why be so coy about it? How could H-- possibly have been ignorant of her werewolf nature when as a child she was living with a huge group of werewolves and assumedly saw them shape change on a regular basis? If the enemy werewolf is so powerful, why doesn't he even appear in the book once?Stupid, stupid and more stupid.