Review: Review from the book review blog, Book Faery
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 13, 2010
I enjoyed this novella!  While fairly brief, everything was set up perfectly in this world created "during the bite of the Great Depression" [...].Joan and Seamus are both considered dominants, which, one would think, would lead to a clash in power.  This is not the case.  Joan is tired; it's almost heartbreaking witnessing such a female as rundown as she was in the beginning of this tale.  (It IS depressing seeing what happens to Adam.)  When Seamus enters the scene, the young female werewolf is wary, and with good reason.  Boston's alpha has succumbed to following scum--scum with money.  Corruption ensues.While I won't go into their story, I loved how the romance developed betwixt the two.  It felt *slightly* faster than usual romances--which I blame on the length of the book, and not the inability of the writers.  I think that's just a problem in general for short stories.  Or maybe I'm just greedy and I want to read full length books.  Either way, I was grinning by the end, which is really all that matters.Speaking of the ending, it satisfyingly good.  There was no rush, the final "battle" was exciting, and then the reunion between Joan and Seamus made me sigh in happiness.  Plus, Joan kicks major butt.  Who doesn't love a chick who can hold her own, yet isn't so frustratingly independent that she rejects her man at every given opportunity just to show how kick ass she is?  Convincing, admirable, and endearing.  Those are the three words I would use to describe her.This is a new series that I am definitely looking forward to reading more about.  Seamus and Joan were three dimensional, and had me genuinely invested in their world.  Plus there's a--read these two words with me, folks: werewolf bootlegger (GO WEREWOLVES)  Now, if only I could get my grubby little hands on an e-reader so that I could read Sanctuary Unbound...