Find Hair Of The Dog Translated By Ashlyn Kane Offered In Volume
let the Title put you off this was a great book,
Description:
Its nine oclock the morning after his fathers funeral, and Ezra Jones already knows its going to be a bad day.
He wakes up hungover, sore, and covered in blood, Then it gets worse: the handsome and compelling Callum Dawson shows up on his doorstep claiming Ezras been turned into a werewolf, Ezra wants to be skeptical, but the evidence is hard to ignore,
Ezra doesnt have a lot of time to get used to the rules Alpha Callum imposesor the way his body responds to Callums dominanceas hes busily working for the CDC to help uncover the origins of a lycan epidemic.
When the sexual tension finally breaks, Ezra barely has time to enjoy it, because a new danger threatens, Someone wants Ezra for their own unscrupulous purposes and will do anything to get him,
My Thoughts:
The story gives a slightly different take on lycans, Whereas they do turn into werewolves and have alphas and betas, this story has the added benefit of pheromones which gave it an interesting twist, Every pack has two alphas, a female and male but don't need to be mated, also gave the story a unique factor, The other things that make the story different I won't mention I'll leave you to find them out since they were cute and funny, Ms Kane has a way of crafting likable characters who allow you to get emotionally involved with them, Although there were several inconsistencies in the book and it could have used better editing overall this was an enjoyable book and Callum and Ezra were great characters yup this is a m/m romance.
A solidfrom me, . . and a wish they would change the name of the book, I would definitely recommend this novel,
Netgalley read. It's good. The dynamics are great, I can relate to the characters, there's plausible misunderstandings and shit that gets overlooked, etc, The UST is delicious and the hints of kink are suitably understated, yet not completely overlooked, I like that it works into the whole pack dynamics idea, It was a bit weird at first that there are only two "classes," since most werewolf books seem to go into a whole fullblown Greek alphabet collection, but it's nice because the focus is on the intrigue and not trying to figure out a whole fantasy society.
I like that there are still subtle distinctions within the two, but since they're not "omega," "delta," "gamma," whatever, the focus isn't splintered,
The author committed to the world, Xe brought in points and interwove the entire thing,
More importantly, THERE ARE BEAUTIFUL SUBTLE NUANCES, IT'S BEAUTIFUL.
Awkwardness NFWS. Idk what the acronym stands for, but I keep seeing NSFW,
And then it ended, . . NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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I kind of read it in bits and pieces so maybe my memory's a little faulty, but I really rather liked it.
The parts seemed to work together all nicely and stuff and it ties in nicely,
I had to comment on this One thing that tossed me out of the story was when one of the main characters, in describing the shifting of a human to wolf, says the knees flip backwards.
To the author: please at least do research on wolf/dog anatomy before stating something like that! Wolves do indeed have a knee joint that bends in the same direction as a human.
The 'backwards knee' that you are talking about is actually the ankle joint, The flipping of the knees is also mentioned during the first 'shift', . . really threw me out of the story,
As for the rest, basically starts out paranormal, heavy on the sniffing and pheromones, Big focus on intro to wolf society, light on the actual shifting, The storytelling which felt somewhat disconnected, . . Several times you read about events after they took place and were just told what happened, Some plot lines were barely touched the whole father death thing, securing the estate etc, But, all in all, its a decent read, Not a big fan of mysteries but this kept my interest, Well fleshed out characters and a well planned ending,
Callum and Ezra are cute together, The progress of their relationship makes a lot of sense to me, And while I might have enjoyed some more oneonone time once they got into things and no, I am not referring to more sex at least this reticence ensured that things remained subtle.
Very cute indeed.
Great, wellbalanced side characters, too, Those FBI agents are fun, This clearly is not one of those books that only feature shallow, stereotypical or sexist female characters,
Teenytiny niggle Please dont name both the and the little kid Nick.
Unless theres a compelling reason,
I really enjoy this particular take on werewolf lore, It feels closer to the original and less like following the trodden romance path, I particularly enjoy that biting people during sex is “not socially acceptable”, Heh. And people remain people.
Even the evil scientist angle seems less haphazard and instead grounded in a goal very specific to the person seeking it,
Some things are perhaps not perfectly consistent,
We never learn that Ezra got to take care of those errands that were so important after his fathers wake,
And why take him into company after he was told he should not go out until after his transformation
Or the fact that on the first day as well as at the end Callum shows his partial wolfiness to Ezra, yet apparently changes only happen during the full moon and are wholebody experiences rather than partials.
There might be explanations for these things, but those were not obvious to me while reading,
Time to go off on a tangent,
More often than not in books that feature this when we get a POV shift to an enemy to catch us up to what the evil side is plotting I get bored.
Occasionally such scenes work for me, but those cases are few and far between,
What I would like to know is whether thats just me or if it happens to anyone else, too
Its just that it tends to not ratchet the tension up at all for me.
If anything, my tension goes down, I usually dont care for those people and to be fair most of them conform to the expected stereotypes anyway, So its rarely actually necessary to be given the information,
Here we get a bit of both, I enjoyed the prologue because it was so “other” and I liked its pace and the very canine feel to it,
The scientist however Eh, Its appropriately gruesome and sad as things progress, But it took away my happy buzz,
And the secrecy surrounding who the big bad is felt awfully forced, I mean it is fairly obvious right away, so the persistent hiding of his name in his POV scenes comes across as silly more than anything.
The finale is great in that it takes one of the highly unlikely things romance authors like to slap us with and makes it actually work.
Excellently done. I completely buy it.
There is no excess mush or really any at all and while this story is not told in an abrasive way, no time is “wasted” dwelling on emotions.
Theyre mostly inferred.
Towards the end the odd punctuation mark or two are missing, as are a few words here and there, Not a big distraction but definitely noticeable,
So this did not give me the full extent of the happy fuzzies I am craving right now although the ending came pretty close to that.
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All in all it was a great story,
It just figures my opinion on this would be in the minority again, Good plot, decent romance, and an interesting twist on werewolf lore
Warning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS,
Rating:/
PROS:
The authors make the wolf lore in this story a little different than normal in some small but important ways, and I liked the overall effect.
It's refreshing to read an m/m werewolf book with female characters who not only play a decently large part in the story, but who are wolves also.
Oh, and are LIKEABLE, to boot,
There's sexual tension from the start, but it builds slowly and isn't acted upon until well into the storyat which point the two men are going crazy for each other.
It's delicious. The fun part is that the guys both want to have sex, . . and they both KNOW that they both want to have sex, . . but they literally can't until something specific happens, And I actually believed in that plot device,
I'm used to reading stories in which one of two situations regarding werewolves is true: either their identity is a secret kept from humans who aren't intimately involved with them, or their existence is common knowledge and people have
a sort of "meh" reaction about them.
I found it amusing to read a story in which the existence of werewolves is largely still a secret, but certain key people in society know about them and participate in maintaining the illusion that they're not real.
CONS:
Occasionally the same scene is told from two different characters' perspectives, but the second telling of it doesn't start until the first telling is over.
The result is that you get ahour scene from Character A's point of view, and then in the next scene, the timeline of the story jumps backwards byhours instead of moving forward so that you can see the same thing happen from Character B's perspective.
There are a few scenes in which one character throws out a barrage of homosexual hate language, He's a bad guy, so it's not like this is someone we're supposed to like, but fair warning if you're particularly susceptible to slurs,
Overall comments: The plot and the relationship here are woven together well, Most of the scenes are about Callum and Ezra's everyday lives rather than the mystery plotline, so I got a good sense of who the characters really were.
The story felt mostly domestic to me, with details about the mystery thrown in just often enough to keep the story from getting too boring or from feeling too settled.
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