Review: An Emotional Ride...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 29, 2013
I received Werewolf Without a Cause from one very sweet lady. She told me I needed to read it. I'll be honest, I've just started reading paranormal within the past three to four months, and I am so afraid I'm going to pick up one book and it's going to be exactly like the previous one I've read. I'm glad I didn't give into my assumptions when I started reading this one.This book is #5 in the Entwined Series. They can be read as stand alone's. I believe I would have been more emotional if I would had read #1-#4 because I would had an emotional tie to the characters. Don't get me wrong, this book is a raw emotional ride. The book starts out outside of a bar and werewolf Tommy Jenkins is itching to fight. He has lost the love of his life Maya Reign, #4 has the traumatic event, and he can't get control of himself.He is drinking and wanting to fight anything that will give him cause to. He eventually ends up on a bender in Las Vegas. This is where this series is different than others I have read. He can actually get drunk and hung-over on regular booze, and he even blacks out. It's in Vegas were he makes a bet AND meets Annie...Annie is out with her girlfriend in a diner and Tommy decides to go in and mess with them after he sees them in the diner. Later on, he meets back up with Annie after being shot down. They go out and Tommy decides if it was a different time, he could have loved her. At the end of their night, Annie drops a bomb that completely changes everything, and he reveals to her that he is a werewolf... The question is, does she believe him. (Must read to find out!)Tommy is in so much pain. he tries to drink it away. Tommy is also a MMA fighter and even training mode, he is drinking. In the few moments we read about him fighting in the octagon, you can tell that he is really battling his inner-self while fighting his opponent. He really needs to get himself together before he loses the only 'family' he has left, Josiah Reign, Maya's brother. Tommy is Josiah's everything: Mentor, brother and friend. Right now, the tables are actually turned, and Josiah is left being the 'adult' in the situation.Tommy ends up back in Vegas and it's nothing like before... When he arrives back at the house he now shares with Josiah, things are changing and I'm thinking that might be part of the next book.  The ending was NOT what I thought was going to happen. Tommy does something that probably so many people think about when grieving the lost of their love ones, but what happened brought tears to my eyes.I loved this book, it's darkly deep and it's not like your average werewolf book. Tommy doesn't know what is happening to him when he is in his werewolf form. The vampires in this book are interesting. They almost watch out for him, but not all of them. It's unique twist on paranormal writing and I want to read more. I am hoping that books #1-#4 have more about this world of the vampires and werewolves.So my thoughts... 4.75 stars out of 5. What 4.75 you ask? Is that possible? I'm writing the review so sure, why not. This book is raw, emotional and powerful. You can feel his pain when you are reading, but there are a few grammatical errors (it's the editor in me) that made me have to stop and re-read the sentence to make sure I read it correctly. Nothing major. I yelled, laughed and cried with Tommy. I'm hoping that this book is a the turn for the good for him. He deserves happiness, but only he can make it happen.