Review: Dirty and swoony
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 5, 2014
I don’t even know where to begin with this dirty little novella. I guess we should start with the where – the setting of the story has a very old-west feel with horses, dirt roads and nary a Target in sight. There are no machines left, so people and werewolves have been forced into a simpler lifestyle. It’s an interesting concept, one I’ve read before though never in conjunction with the paranormal shifter aspect included. It may sound odd, but it worked.Now the who – Ginny is a female werewolf living alone on her cattle ranch. She’s not part of the local pack and that makes her a target for some local troublemakers. She’s strong and independent, not wanting a man in her life because of the scars left over from her parents’ troubled relationship. I liked her from the start…I liked her even more once she met up with Jack.Alpha, leader, hopelessly in lust with Ginny – that’s our Jack. For five years these two have been dancing around each other – Ginny avoiding, Jack craving. From the instant these two come together in this story, there is a tension that simply bleeds from the pages. It’s hot and beautiful and so much more than simple lust.There’s drama and fighting, a woman afraid to fall in love and a man desperate to make her his. There’s even a bit of shifter magic working through the story that simply adds to the appeal. And there is an overwhelming sweetness to the way these two characters care for each other, to how they crave the closeness they feel when together. There are these beautifully sweet moments mixed in with the ridiculously hot sex scenes that just make you swoon.I give this novella four solid stars. I have already purchased the second novella in the trilogy since I adored the characters of Oliver and Hazel so much from Wild Card.