Decent intro to the series. Not my fave though.. I'm glad I read book 2 in the series first.

But this one holds it's own and I liked the main couple.

AWESOME!!!

 

Romeo & Juliet took my breath away here.

arcos Rivera is a fighter. A gang member. Someone who has seen the dark side of humankind and survived. He has lost family and gained enemies. He has stolen cars and destroyed hearts, stripping one for money and the other for pleasure. His past is haunted and his future is bleak.

Until her.

Katie Foster is a high school history teacher. Smart, strong, and sexy. She is a woman Marcos shouldn’t want. Shouldn’t touch. Shouldn’t love. He met her in Garnet, a backwards, hick town that’s the last place in the world he wants to be, but he finds himself going back, all for a taste of the forbidden.

Katie represents all that is good in the world, and Marcos knows he’s nothing but trouble for her perfect life. He fights and he screws. He commits crimes and he breaks the rules. He will never change and he will never escape his gang lifestyle.

Or can he?

What happens when two different people from two very different walks of life risk it all by giving into the passion that threatens to consume both of them? Can a woman who only knows how to play it safe give her heart to a man who lives hard and loves harder?

Can she survive The Viper?

Kidnapped then released deep in the woods, Brandi is on a harrowing run for her life, hunted by beasts straight out of a horror movie. But there’s an even bigger, more vicious creature in the woods—the deadly werewolf who saves her life. Jason is much more than a man, dangerous and intimidating, and Brandi still finds herself wanting every unbelievably sexy inch of him.

When he investigates the desperate screams near his secluded cabin, Jason’s shocked to find his own kind hunting a human—but he ends up even more stunned when he accidentally triggers a mating heat in the beautifully lush woman he saved. Overwhelmed with lust, Jason takes her, bites her, binds her to him forever…

Now he just has to break the news to Brandi.

 

Review

This is a quick fun read with a heroine who stands up for herself and sexy nice guy hero who really likes her and is a wolf shifter. There isn't much more going on that that in terms of character development but there is enough here to make it a fun read and the other members of the pack look like good heroes for more books in the series. 

Way too much sex. I hate the "I'm leaving you for your own good" trope. It was all basically meh.

Except Melody thinking she had to leave town because of her crazy ex. Like, no. You just moved into a town where everyone is an MMA fighter, a UFC champ, or a karate master. Stay where you are, dumbass.

Also, the accents and dialect got worse and worse the further into the book we go. The characters went from southerners to backwoods hicks. I live in Alabama - I'm familiar with the way these people are talking and I promise you... the author seriously missed the mark unless she was trying to write uneducated white trash characters. But she was so inconsistent with it, I doubt that's what she was aiming for.

Would not recommend - if you like fighter romances, there are way better out there.