I won this book in the Storygraphs raffle so I think I owe it a review. A fair review, too. My rating is less against my entire collection of reviews but rather this particular type of book. Truth be told I do not read spicy/smut books in my reading life aside from cackling at Fifty Shades, they just don’t do much for me, but I also think the genre gets an undeserved bad rap. There is a lot of cliches and whatnot present in the genre but honestly I’d like to see anybody who complains about how awful these books are write a sex scene with decent pacing and evidence of spatial awareness. Not as easy as it sounds! I think people just hate to see women writing literature predominantly for women.



That being said this is absolutely fine for its genre and the 2.75 rating it has right now honestly seems a bit harsh in my opinion. It’s a novella so obviously we aren’t spending a lot of time fleshing out plot, but as somebody who has never read any shifter romance I was honestly just interested in how this world worked. For example it is mentioned that in the year 1877 there was a North American truth between humans and supernatural species—I absolutely need to know more about that. Is that a complete US/Canadian/Central American agreement? Do those nations exist in this world? How are pack territories recognized, do they function like Native reservations in regards to governance? I want to know but unfortunately there is no time for that, our protagonist Jasmine has three sexy wolf shifters to be snowed in with!

That being said I do actually like the emphasis on consent and I think our author Traci Lovelot (excellent name btw) is completely right by writing a “Why Choose?” Series. Cause like, honestly, why choose! These are wolf shifters in an erotica novel and why shouldn’t they be living their polyamorous best life? 

Character-wise, I liked the characters just fine. They were not groundbreaking in personality or diversity but I didn’t really dislike any of them either, they are ultimately intended to be vehicles for this story and erotic scenes so that is fine for what it is. The parents of Gabriel, Garret, and Grayson are definitely crazy though because my parents can't even handle me and my sister's name starting with the same letter, they call us the wrong thing all the time. God forbid it was three of us.

Definitely was confused by some of the teasing of a sequel? Spinoff?  Series? Not totally sure but you know I paid zero dollars and I got my light entertainment sitting down and reading this between things, so hey, worth the price of admission for me. If you are into shifter erotica and the like then give it a read, you’ll probably like it! As for me, I don’t think I’ll be investigating any further unless I happen to win another giveaway, in which case, I’ll be there Ms. Lovelot 🫡