Review: Awesome!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 17, 2013
This is book two in Lynn Lorenz's extremely fascinating and well written series 'Rougaroux Social Club' which is set in Louisiana bayou country. This story picked up three months after the end of the first volume and involves the little town of St. Jerome. I get really excited about good, and interesting, shifter stories. The fact that 'Bayou's End' also involved a pairing with a pretty damaged young man, and a strong, loyal man, led me to believe I was going to really like these two main characters. I knew the story would also share glimpses of Ted and Scott, the main characters from book one, and that was an added appeal.Peter has been making do ever since his father kicked him out and stopped paying his tuition at twenty when he came out as gay. Since then his life has consisted of a number of sugar daddies to take care of him. Unfortunately, the last one, the artist he met on his retreat in St. Jerome, turned into quite the abuser and all around sleazeball. Peter left and decided to head back to Louisiana to see if he could get some help from his friend Ted, whom he met at the retreat. It comes as quite a surprise to Peter when he discovers the werewolves that live in town, especially a gay wolf, since his own pack threw him out for being gay.Billy. Hmm. How best to describe him? Is it bad to say that I kept hearing the Waylon Jennings theme song to Dukes of Hazard? "He's just a good ole' boy, never meaning no harm..." I got this picture in my head of a sexy, strong, loyal, fierce, honorable man, and that's exactly who Billy is. He loves his life in the pack and as a sheriff's deputy in the small town of St. Jerome. It's home and he never wants to leave. When he walks into the jail to discover a small, gorgeous, blond man who is looking for Ted, it takes all of Billy's willpower to hold his wolf back from claiming his mate. Of course, it takes a female pack member to clue him in to that concept. *snort*I fell head over heels for Peter. He was so vulnerable, but completely determined to stand up and be the kind of man he knew he could be, and the kind that would make Billy proud. Peter has been handed some crap in his life, no doubt about it, and how he's dealt with some of it hasn't been the smartest, but we all do stupid things when we're young, and we all have to grow up eventually. Billy was very easy to love. He is such a good man, always concerned with making sure Peter never felt pressured, and wanting to give Peter the space he needed to learn to stand on his own two feet. It was pretty incredible considering the pull of mates is so strong.It didn't take long before trouble started up, though. Peter being accused of theft, pack members attacking him in wolf form, and Billy has no idea who or what is behind all of this, but he's darn sure going to figure it out. No one is going to hurt his mate, not on Billy's watch. I adored this second installment. It had all the excitement, the hotness factor, and the intrigue that I saw in the first book. It had a little more midnight spell mojo being performed by Scott's mom - shhh, they're prayers - and a wonderful ending. I look forward to reading more.NOTE: This book was provided by Loose Id for the purpose of a review on Rainbow Book Reviews.