Review: Three werewolves on the make find themselves a (mostly) willing Mate
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 1, 2011
First in "Triple Trouble" series - followed byStorm Warning. There is, however, a prequelSteam, which doesn't seem directly related to this book.Plot:Ain, Brody and Cail are werewolves looking for The One, their Mate. Elain is it. Now they just need to convince her that she has to give up everything to be their Everything. Shouldn't be too hard, right?Comments:- A short book (1936 kindle locations), but it is a complete story arc. Although this is the first in the series, it would standalone.- The sex is m/f and m/f/m/m with exhibitionism. Aiming for a committed 4-some. But it isn't particularly steamy. Perhaps more clinical than lusty. Disappointing.- Elain starts off being this strong, interesting, independent woman. And Ain is an Alpha who wants to give her choices and wants her to take them willingly, not because of some genetic imperative. But when push comes to shove, Elain rolls over because she's too horny for words and Ain takes away pretty much all her choice and goes all "you must submit" on her. Oh and he does this "she needs to go into this with her eyes open" but doesn't bother to explain the marking ceremony? or the Alpha imperative? Not impressed. She should definitely dump him, if it was at all possible! And while I'm at it, Brodey and Cail are supposed to be Alphas too but all they ever seem to do is hang around with puppy dog looks. Get a spine!Opinion:There is nothing particularly unusual about this "erotic" shifter romance, except for the "marking" ceremony. The bedroom scenes were pretty dull and the characters not terribly appeailing. One of those books where you don't really care if they get a HEA and firmly doubt they would stay together 2 months, let alone 200 years, without Elain giving up her entire identity.[Since writing this review I have read "Storm Warning". Some of the issues of the first book are rectified in the second. I don't think that changes how I feel about the first - if you can't grab the reader and convince them to read Book 2, then why bother with an open ended plot? But it is nice to know the plot holes were perhaps deliberate, not an error of bad editing.]