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Needed in Garoureve by Elle M. Drew
4.0
After receiving a letter from the local retiring doctor, Scarlett arrives in Garoureve ready take over his position as the local clinician, but when she learns that this town hasn’t had a working clinic for 15 years, she realizes that things are more mysterious than she expected. Combine that with the fact that she’s immediately drawn to Mardoc, the wolf shifter who owns the bakery, and her life just got a lot more complicated.

Some Highlights: 
  • We love a fat heroine who isn’t self-conscious about the size of her body. Scarlett does have scars on her body that do make her self-conscious, and I think it was a great addition to really emphasize that Scarlett’s nerves about undressing have nothing to do with her size.
  • I wasn’t a huge fan of Ariana and Cole in the first book. Now that those characters have been established, however, I really enjoyed how they were used in this one!
  • The sex scenes are, unsurprisingly, fantastic. I’m a fan of the idea of fated mates, and that being a constant draw for Mardoc and Scarlett was lovely. SPOILER:
    I also love how easily Scarlett accepted her fate? Both the fact that she might be trapped in the town and the fact that she and Mardoc were mates. It didn’t feel like it was forced that she was accepting it — more that this all fit some level of what she was hoping for in her life. She wanted to find a small town to settle into and and build her happily-ever-after there, and all of those things just made it that much easier for her....so why fight it?

I really had a fun time reading this book. The first one just wasn’t my thing, so I was afraid the series wouldn’t be but everything I had issues with in the first book was gone for this one. I think Mardoc and Scarlett are both well-developed characters, the pairing made a lot of sense, and any major conflict also made a lot of sense when you consider the scenarios these characters were in. I’m really looking forward to the next book of the series!
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