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Big Bad Wolf series by Charlie Adhara
Apr. 16th, 2022 08:42 amThe Wolf at the Door, The Wolf at Bay, Thrown to the Wolves, Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, Cry Wolf
4/5. Series of M/M suspense romances about a human paired up with a werewolf in the not!FBI.
You guys, I am having A Time right now. Like two emergency root canals in two weeks, sudden anaphylaxis landing me in the ER in reaction to something I've been exposed to many times before, oh yeah and we're moving to another part of the country in three weeks. A Time.
So when I say that I read these books in four days and they are perfect, please take that as valuable context.
They are interesting – there's a lot of paint-by-numbers tropiness here in ways that worked and ways that didn't. But over the course of the series (which is clearly not done, BTW) the power dynamic gets more and more interesting. These books calmly distinguish between sexual dominance games and emotional dominance within a relationship in a way that most romances don't manage. The guy doing most of the penetrating is really not the guy in charge most of the time, imagine that, and more unusually no one is hung up about that. Oh, and the sex scenes are varied, creative, and fun.
I am suspending judgment on the big plot arc, which could go interesting or really, really not. Basically, a lot of people in these books keep sneering at the notion of an alpha in the wolfy leadership dominance sense, but the series is potentially setting up a scenario where the plot validates all that alpha crap in a well-when-it's-the-right-alpha kind of way. Which I personally think would be boring and disappointing. So we'll see where that lands.
Content notes: Violence, death of parents, gore.
4/5. Series of M/M suspense romances about a human paired up with a werewolf in the not!FBI.
You guys, I am having A Time right now. Like two emergency root canals in two weeks, sudden anaphylaxis landing me in the ER in reaction to something I've been exposed to many times before, oh yeah and we're moving to another part of the country in three weeks. A Time.
So when I say that I read these books in four days and they are perfect, please take that as valuable context.
They are interesting – there's a lot of paint-by-numbers tropiness here in ways that worked and ways that didn't. But over the course of the series (which is clearly not done, BTW) the power dynamic gets more and more interesting. These books calmly distinguish between sexual dominance games and emotional dominance within a relationship in a way that most romances don't manage. The guy doing most of the penetrating is really not the guy in charge most of the time, imagine that, and more unusually no one is hung up about that. Oh, and the sex scenes are varied, creative, and fun.
I am suspending judgment on the big plot arc, which could go interesting or really, really not. Basically, a lot of people in these books keep sneering at the notion of an alpha in the wolfy leadership dominance sense, but the series is potentially setting up a scenario where the plot validates all that alpha crap in a well-when-it's-the-right-alpha kind of way. Which I personally think would be boring and disappointing. So we'll see where that lands.
Content notes: Violence, death of parents, gore.
