Review: Good plot, decent romance, and an interesting twist on werewolf lore
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 23, 2012
Warning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS.Rating: 8/10PROS:- The authors make the wolf lore in this story a little different than normal in some small but important ways, and I liked the overall effect.- It's refreshing to read an m/m werewolf book with female characters who not only play a decently large part in the story, but who are wolves also. Oh, and are LIKEABLE, to boot.- There's sexual tension from the start, but it builds slowly and isn't acted upon until well into the story--at which point the two men are going crazy for each other. It's delicious. The fun part is that the guys both want to have sex...and they both KNOW that they both want to have sex...but they literally can't until something specific happens. And I actually believed in that plot device.- I'm used to reading stories in which one of two situations regarding werewolves is true: either their identity is a secret kept from humans who aren't intimately involved with them, or their existence is common knowledge and people have a sort of "meh" reaction about them. I found it amusing to read a story in which the existence of werewolves is largely still a secret, but certain key people in society know about them and participate in maintaining the illusion that they're not real.CONS:- Occasionally the same scene is told from two different characters' perspectives, but the second telling of it doesn't start until the first telling is over. The result is that you get a 2-hour scene from Character A's point of view, and then in the next scene, the timeline of the story jumps backwards by 2 hours instead of moving forward so that you can see the same thing happen from Character B's perspective.- There are a few scenes in which one character throws out a barrage of homosexual hate language. He's a bad guy, so it's not like this is someone we're supposed to like, but fair warning if you're particularly susceptible to slurs.Overall comments: The plot and the relationship here are woven together well. Most of the scenes are about Callum and Ezra's everyday lives rather than the mystery plotline, so I got a good sense of who the characters really were. The story felt mostly domestic to me, with details about the mystery thrown in just often enough to keep the story from getting too boring or from feeling too settled.