Review: Thirty, unmated, unmarked - left out? Unlikely!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 28, 2013
Whitney Wickham has come to the Gathering with her two sisters - they are triplets after all. She's spent her whole life doing most everything with them. Everything that wasn't wolf related that is, because, well, she isn't marked.  She was part of them, but not. They never made her feel that way, but her parents did.  The rest of the wolf community did.  Scarlet and Gabby (the first two books in the series), they were special. They were going to be mated to Alpha pairs.  Whitney? She was *just* a human. She'd never get to have that.  While her sisters lived despising their destinies, looking for loopholes, Whitney secretly longed for it.  Just when she'd resigned herself to a life without it - a life as a normal human - she gets the same summons to the Gathering as her sisters.  Fate is cruel and she's damned sure going to find out why, starting with the Wardens, the extra-sexy magical wolves whose mojo sent the invitations - the ones who are responsible for blowing up her Zen.  One way or another she will get to the bottom of things because she's a Wickham, she's "goodness and light" - she's Whitney.Whitney's book is a great conclusion to this trilogy, but more than that it gives readers what we've waited for - Whitney in all her "goodness and light" glory.  In the first two books we ached for the girl who was part but apart.  The triplet who was always just outside, even as her sisters tried to include her.  In this one we get to see Whitney's inner self, all of her personality, thoughts, insecurities, and even her background like never before.  The insight is truly heartbreaking and also empowering.Then there are the Wardens.  We've heard about them for the whole series.  The mysterious Wardens.  The ones who were supposed to show and do some 'splainin'. Well... they're finally here, but they don't seem to have any answers either.  What good are the two most powerful magical men in the wolf world if they can't tell Whitney why the magic mojo wires got crossed and she got a summons when she's not marked?  Yes, we do get to learn more about Emmett and Levy and about the sudden, inexplicable attraction that Whitney seemed to have to the aloof and cool-as-ice men at the end of Gabby's book.  Icebergs or flames?  You're going to have to read to find out.True to form Celia Kyle brings the laughs along with the tension. The Wickham sisters' no-holds-barred straight talking dialogue will make you feel like you're part of a sisterhood.  More than a few fist-pumping moments and laugh-out-loud parts catch you off guard while the main plot of why Whitney is summoned keeps you on edge and, of course, the sex will make you want a cold shower!Working on my second read through now, Whitney's book will certainly make it to my "favorite re-reads when I'm down" shelf.