Tina's Reading Books

The only reason I actually got this was because
1. It was on Kindle unlimited
2. It came with free audible narration (I am in an audiobook mood)
3. The narrator was good

But I was very pleasantly surprised by and greatly enjoyed the story. The plot is really fairly simple.

Trey is the Alpha of a wolf clan that broke off from another clan. The alpha of that previous clan, his uncle Darryl, wants the two clans to re-unite again. They can either agree amicably for this to happen or they can fight it out. The problem is Trey doesn't want to re-unite and if Darryl pushes it they have to fight. Added to that, Darryl has a lot of clan alliances so he can call on some pretty heavy support to force the issue.

Enter Taryn Warner. She is the daughter of an alpha of another powerful clan. If Trey can convince Tarryn to marry him, they can in turn convince her father to ally with Trey and thereby even the numbers when it comes to the big, inevitable confrontation with Darryl.

They enter into what is a Mating-Of-Convenience -- well not technically just 'convenience' because they basically have lots and lots of sex.

The romantic conflict, obviously, is for Taryn and Trey to realize that their temporary mating isn't that temporary while staving off all sorts of external threats.

The writing is fine, Tarryn is super snarky and a bit of a bad ass dominant herself. Trey is all hotness and growls a lot.

They have a big supporting cast consisting of pack members, enforcers, friends, and enemies. Tarryn gets into a lot of confrontations with people because while they need her, some of Trey's pack don't like her. But Tarryn holds her own and is full of snappy one-liners and quippy rejoinders. And she slowly wins people over.

One thing I liked a LOT was that the author didn't drag out the faux mating thing between Tarryn and Trey to the bitter end. They had a few episodes of miscommunication and angst but they realized their feelings and got their stuff together well before the end of the book so it was really nice to have that dynamic as they went into the climactic confrontation with Darryl.

So the story was good. The world building is rather meh. Nothing different or interesting, really just run of the mill PNR stuff. I read a review where someone compared this to Nalini Singh's Psy/Changeling world. Yeah, No. Not even close. It was a fun book, good romance, good angst, fun one-liners and hot sex, but like I said zero world-building. And also, zero diversity. Lots of characters introduced & nobody of color at all. Or even LGBT.

The narrator of the audiobook was really good. There is a lot of explicit sex on this book and the narrator totally got into it. She didn't just read she did the groans and the moans, etc. LOL. Totally committed.

I'll probably look up the next one. Also in KU, also available in audio, same narrator.