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This is a difficult review for me, so take it with a grain of salt. I was extremely bothered with some of the recurring themes in the book, but I realize that the very things which bothered me might make this book appeal to others, so I am going to attempt to review the book on its wordsmithing and construction merits rather than my personal degree of enjoyment of it.

The book centers on a group of shifters, people who have an "inner wolf" into which they can shift. The primary protagonists are Taryn, an alpha female who is latent, meaning she has her inner wolf, but she can't actually shift, and Trey, an alpha male who has her kidnapped, then convinces her to act as his bonded mate for political reasons. Predictably, this mating of convenience does not stay that way as real feelings between the two emerge.

For most of the story, Taryn is a very aggressive, very confident, very alpha character. She makes her will known, and she fights off the dominance attempts of Trey, also an extremely strong alpha. Accepted initially only as a political expediency by the rest of Trey's pack, she quickly wins over most of the pack's members.

The author's version of lycanthropy is a different view than most. The inner wolf is essentially a separate being, one who can come forward when needed into the physical form, but who also roils beneath the surface, making feelings and emotions known. This leads to one problem I have with the setup. If the person and the wolf are separate, and the people are mostly "normal" when not in wolf mode, then how do the people versions get some supposedly wolf-like powers? How can an alpha somehow projects waves of "alphaness," for lack of a better term, to cow strangers? How can a person smell a pregnancy, especially given a human's comparative lack of scenting ability?

And while this book was purportedly about shifters, very little of the book had them actually shifting. And when they did shift, they weren't particularly wolf-like. In a fight scene, for example, the wolves used their claws rather like cats, something real wolves do not do.

Initially, I rather liked Taryn's characterization. I like a strong, female protagonist. However, as things progressed, I found her sarcasm getting old, her threats against other's genitals boring, and her back-and-forth with Greta, Trey's grandmother, inane. But the final orgy scene destroyed most of whatever remaining respect I had for her.

And therein is the white elephant in the room. Sex. A rather large portion of this book is very graphic, very in-your-face sex. For me, it went beyond simple erotica and more into porn. I am not castigating porn here, but the heavy dominance theme, where men are masters and women sexual chattel, bothered me, especially as Taryn was created as such a strong character.

The dialogue between Taryn and Trey read more like a cheap porn movie. I hope I am not just naïve, but I don't know if people really continually speak to each other like that. Maybe there are Trey's out there who do, but a Taryn, as characterized, probably would not accept that.

Trey's continual erections, even over innocuous statements, did not ring true to me, either. His recuperative powers were pretty impressive as well.

Frankly, I got tired and bored with the constant "I am going to do this to you and you are going to like it" and "No you wont or I will bite it off" (written in much cruder terms in the book). I realize that the main component of the literary tension in the book is Trey's attempt to dominate and break Taryn, but I never felt comfortable with the blatant violence and domination. It was celebrated in the storyline, but when Roscoe, to whom Taryn's father promised her, expressed his desire to break Taryn, it was obviously written about in a critical manner.

My biggest problem with the sex was the orgy scene. Trey is pathologically jealous, telling Taryn in no uncertain terms just what is allowed, and more importantly what is not allowed, into her orifices. Wolves do exhibit this type of behavior when a female wolf is in estrous, so I can accept that characterization. Yet he invites the male members of the pack to come in and essentially force themselves orally on her, to relieve themselves on her? This scene was so out-of-place, so gratuitous, that it completely destroyed much of what the author had tried to do in building up just who Taryn was.

I enjoy werewolf stories, and I can enjoy well-written erotica. But this story was basically an adult novel first, a lycanthropic story second. And as an adult novel, it bothered me. The heavy dominance theme will undoubtedly appeal to some readers, and I understand that. But putting aside my personal predilections, I feel that there are some craftsmanship weaknesses which would preclude this book from being really considered a great read, even for people who can appreciate the sexual tone.


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Feral Sins The Phoenix Pack Suzanne Wright Books Reviews

<b>Narrator Review</b>
Jill Redfield did a great job with narration. My biggest hard sell is when a female impersonates a male voice. Jill won me over. I did not mind her male voice at all. That’s a pretty big deal for me. I will say a few of the sex scenes were just a tad bit cringe worthy but I think that has more to do with how dominant these two main characters are to each other in the book and less to do with narration. You’ll understand if you’ve read it.

<b>Story Review</b>
I’m a big fan of Suzanne Wright’s books. I love how faithful and fully committed she makes her main couples, but she doesn’t always get you there right away. In this case, we did have to wait a bit for Trey to accept that he wanted a mate for life.

Trey’s old pack wants him to submit and combine their packs. He’s never bothered with alliances in the past and he realizes he needs them now to win this battle. This is where Taryn comes in. Her father and alpha of her pack wants to hand her over to Roscoe, an abusive alpha from another pack. Trey offers her a way out by mating with him temporarily to get away from Roscoe and thus providing him with an alliance with her fathers pack.

I wasn’t thrilled that Trey wanted to mate temporarily. Yes, they were both getting something out of it, but they both kept stressing how hard it would be to part ways. There was really nothing standing in the way of them staying mates. Typical male thinking he didn’t need a woman in his life.

While they were together, he was the protective and possessive alpha I love to read about and well, he did learn the error of his ways before it was too late, so I still fully enjoyed this book. The only other issue I had was that Taryn’s tough attitude could be a bit too much at times. I do like a strong and sassy heroine and enjoyed some of her banter when she didn’t go overboard.

Overall, a great start to the series. On to the next book...
Disappointed, to say the least. I like to read fantasy novels and don't object to a few sex scenes and colorful language, as long as such things are incidental to the story. Nicky Charles, for example, has a great series of shifter novels and I thought this might have been similar to those, so I purchased the first two in the Phoenix Pack series. Unfortunately, this book, although it might have had an interesting story-line, was mostly about sex. Whole chapters were devoted to descriptions of almost brutal sexual encounters. One chapter would have been sufficient, since subsequent chapter descriptions were minor variations of the first. If the characters weren't having sex, they were thinking about it. It eventually became tiring and I found myself skipping past the sex scenes so I could get to the story. In the end, I asked for a refund of the second book because there is no way I want to endure reading another waste of my life like this was. This book has a lot of good reviews, which is another reason I thought it would be good reading. What a shameful deception.
This is a difficult review for me, so take it with a grain of salt. I was extremely bothered with some of the recurring themes in the book, but I realize that the very things which bothered me might make this book appeal to others, so I am going to attempt to review the book on its wordsmithing and construction merits rather than my personal degree of enjoyment of it.

The book centers on a group of shifters, people who have an "inner wolf" into which they can shift. The primary protagonists are Taryn, an alpha female who is latent, meaning she has her inner wolf, but she can't actually shift, and Trey, an alpha male who has her kidnapped, then convinces her to act as his bonded mate for political reasons. Predictably, this mating of convenience does not stay that way as real feelings between the two emerge.

For most of the story, Taryn is a very aggressive, very confident, very alpha character. She makes her will known, and she fights off the dominance attempts of Trey, also an extremely strong alpha. Accepted initially only as a political expediency by the rest of Trey's pack, she quickly wins over most of the pack's members.

The author's version of lycanthropy is a different view than most. The inner wolf is essentially a separate being, one who can come forward when needed into the physical form, but who also roils beneath the surface, making feelings and emotions known. This leads to one problem I have with the setup. If the person and the wolf are separate, and the people are mostly "normal" when not in wolf mode, then how do the people versions get some supposedly wolf-like powers? How can an alpha somehow projects waves of "alphaness," for lack of a better term, to cow strangers? How can a person smell a pregnancy, especially given a human's comparative lack of scenting ability?

And while this book was purportedly about shifters, very little of the book had them actually shifting. And when they did shift, they weren't particularly wolf-like. In a fight scene, for example, the wolves used their claws rather like cats, something real wolves do not do.

Initially, I rather liked Taryn's characterization. I like a strong, female protagonist. However, as things progressed, I found her sarcasm getting old, her threats against other's genitals boring, and her back-and-forth with Greta, Trey's grandmother, inane. But the final orgy scene destroyed most of whatever remaining respect I had for her.

And therein is the white elephant in the room. Sex. A rather large portion of this book is very graphic, very in-your-face sex. For me, it went beyond simple erotica and more into porn. I am not castigating porn here, but the heavy dominance theme, where men are masters and women sexual chattel, bothered me, especially as Taryn was created as such a strong character.

The dialogue between Taryn and Trey read more like a cheap porn movie. I hope I am not just naïve, but I don't know if people really continually speak to each other like that. Maybe there are Trey's out there who do, but a Taryn, as characterized, probably would not accept that.

Trey's continual erections, even over innocuous statements, did not ring true to me, either. His recuperative powers were pretty impressive as well.

Frankly, I got tired and bored with the constant "I am going to do this to you and you are going to like it" and "No you wont or I will bite it off" (written in much cruder terms in the book). I realize that the main component of the literary tension in the book is Trey's attempt to dominate and break Taryn, but I never felt comfortable with the blatant violence and domination. It was celebrated in the storyline, but when Roscoe, to whom Taryn's father promised her, expressed his desire to break Taryn, it was obviously written about in a critical manner.

My biggest problem with the sex was the orgy scene. Trey is pathologically jealous, telling Taryn in no uncertain terms just what is allowed, and more importantly what is not allowed, into her orifices. Wolves do exhibit this type of behavior when a female wolf is in estrous, so I can accept that characterization. Yet he invites the male members of the pack to come in and essentially force themselves orally on her, to relieve themselves on her? This scene was so out-of-place, so gratuitous, that it completely destroyed much of what the author had tried to do in building up just who Taryn was.

I enjoy werewolf stories, and I can enjoy well-written erotica. But this story was basically an adult novel first, a lycanthropic story second. And as an adult novel, it bothered me. The heavy dominance theme will undoubtedly appeal to some readers, and I understand that. But putting aside my personal predilections, I feel that there are some craftsmanship weaknesses which would preclude this book from being really considered a great read, even for people who can appreciate the sexual tone.