Review: ... in which Eve tries to find some answers, gets into Ethan's lab, and has lots of sex
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 8, 2011
Book 3 of "Great Wolves of Passion, Alaska" serialised imprint. Preceded byThe Alpha's Fall. Followed by "Shane's Need" (not published at the time of this review). These books are *not* designed to stand alone and require reading in sequence.Plot:1. Eve has declared her love for Noah, but she feels herself falling for Ethan and their cousins. How is she going to protect her heart when it all ends? And what are they holding back about this mating thing?2. Someone is targeting the Wolf Shifters in Passion, and the wolves and people they care about. Ethan has been injured, the shop in town burnt to the ground. If they don't work out who is doing it, and why, someone is really going to get hurt.Comments:- 1857 kindle locations, 21,279 words- Eve has sex with 1, 2, 3 and 4 men at a time. They are aiming for a committed menage with one woman, 6 men.- Ethan is Noah's brother. He's "the Brain" and the man who was attacked at the end of "The Alpha's Fall".Opinion:This is a good addition to the "Great Wolves of Passion, Alaska" series. It adds to the overarching plots (Dead Wolves and Eve's Great Romance), gives us plenty of sex and is enjoyable to read. I did find it harder to get into than the other books (partly due to editing issues, see below) and was more annoyed with Ethan's not seeing what was in front of him, but it's a perfectly good book. I want to keep reading the series. Which is what West wants. The more I keep wanting to read, the more I'll keep buying.But curiously, there are a few things West *isn't* doing which may raise readers' hackles:- Making sure every man has a role (and sex) with Eve every episode. In Ethan's book, Jason doesn't even make an appearance and Max only cooks. It took me a bit to recall there are *six* men Eve's supposed to care about. This isn't A Bad Thing; it allows us to focus on Ethan&Eve;, not over-filling the book with characters, but I did wonder where Jason had gotten off to. Maybe he's the Bad Guy! (Alright, probably not but don't put him in a red shirt or he might become expendable).- Moving the story along at any sort of rate. We pretty much get just one or two "events" during the book, the rest of the time spent having sex and the odd D&M.; This is getting a little annoying; I'm waiting for the inevitable clash with Eve and The Bad Guys, and getting it little-by-little does start to grate. But it is the nature of the serialised books, so I'll wait a little longer.- Giving us a HEA for everyone. It really is a "HEA for the moment"; by the end of Ethan's book, we know Ethan and Eve are "in love", but nothing else is resolved.When I finished this book I felt I'd had A Good Read. I was sufficiently immersed in The World to want to return to it, and to care that they all get their HEA. It didn't grab me as much as the previous books. But that's okay. I still want to read about Shane. Keep 'em coming Ms West!Aside:Some editing and proofreading issues in my electronic version:- Picks up "over two weeks" after Ethan was injured. Although, "Just a week before he would have sworn he would let no one in his lab. But when a wolf had been attacked, he and Eve had worked together to save the wolf". Which happened a day or two before Ethan was.- If the author can't keep track of the names, how are we supposed to? In the first chapter, Ethan is having an inner monologue, wishing he could have with Eve what *Noah* has; only we get the names confused a few times which is somewhat irritating.Some tighter editing and proofreading (for various minor typos) wouldn't have gone astray.-CR-