I REALLY liked this book. The first in the series didn't really appeal to me, so I decided to give this one a go and I'm glad I did. Gunnar is so damn possessive at times that it is overwhelming to say the least but I loved, liked really fell in love with ( )

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What happens if you fall in love with the "wrong" person? Not a question that is asked very often in our world, because arranged marriages, to our thinking, are not the way things should be done. I thought it was very interesting how Kim Dare picked up this concept and played with it here.

Gunnar knows that as the Beta he's expected to mate the troublemaking Alfred, and he accepts his fate to the point of self-denial. Even when he finally admits he's in love with Talbot, he refuses to change their fates by owning up to this love. Duty is far more important to him than love. This made me furious. But then, I am most certainly not a Beta, nor a werewolf, so I wouldn't be able to understand or sympathize with this sort of thinking in a million years. So all I could do is accept this, admire how realistic Kim Dare had drawn this character to make me so mad at him, as if he were a real person, and hope for the best.

Talbot is about the most submissive Omega in history. He does have his own ideas (like his love for Gunnar and his willingness to seduce him), but he will only own up to them under the most extreme circumstances. Well, let me tell you, circumstances get extreme due to Gunnar's idiotic stubbornness. And when needed, Talbot does stand up for himself and Gunnar - in a totally Omega way, of course.

In this volume Kim Dare takes the preconceptions about duty and love, and which partner in a D/s relationship is the one who stands up for the pairing, and turns them upside down. I like this idea, even if I still can't believe Gunnar wouldn't have figured out that his Alphas (a love match if there ever was one!) wouldn't accept the fact that he'd fallen for another werewolf than the one they'd picked for him. I mean, really! If you like strong characters, who need yelling at while you're reading because they're a bit slow on the take-up, you will probably like this book.



NOTE: This book has been provided by Total-E-Bound for the purpose of a review. ( )