The Wolfing Way
By Susan Laine
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Lifting the Veil: Book One
Kris Ellis thought that the time of arranged marriages was long past—but that was before the Great Unveiling revealed creatures of myth living among humans. Now a routine medical test has determined that Kris has a mate, a werewolf named Rafael King.
Kris is fresh out of college and has plans for his life. None of them include being tied forever to someone he’s never met. But then Rafe calls him, and Kris starts to reconsider. After all, what must it be like to wait for your soul mate for two hundred years?
Rafe is patient, strong, and kind, not to mention attractive. True to what Kris has heard about mates, sparks fly the second they meet. But Kris and Rafe are very different, and the werewolf way of life is dangerous. Is the fight for love really worth it?
Susan Laine
Susan Laine, an award-winning, multipublished author of LGBTQ erotic romance and a Finnish native, was raised by the best mother in the world, who told her daughter time and again that she could be whatever she wanted to be. The spark for serious writing and publishing kindled when Susan discovered the gay erotic romance genre. Her book, Monsters Under the Bed, won the 2014 Rainbow Award for Best Gay Paranormal Romance. Anthropology is Susan’s formal education, and she could have been happy as an eternal student. But she’s written stories since she was a kid, and her long-term goal is still to become a full-time writer. Susan enjoys hanging out with her sister, two nieces, and friends in movie theaters, libraries, bookstores, and parks. Her favorite pastimes include singing along (badly) to the latest pop songs, watching action flicks, doing the dishes, and sleeping till noon, while a few of her dislikes are sweating, hot and too-bright summer days, tobacco smoke, purposeful prejudice and hate speech. Website: www.susan-laine-author.fi Email: susan.laine@hotmail.com Blog: www.goodreads.com/author/show/5221828.Susan_Laine/blog Facebook: www.facebook.com/Susan-Laine-128697277229180 Twitter: @Laine_Susan
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Book – The Wolfing Way (Lifting the Veil #1)
Author – Susan Laine
Star rating - ★★★★★
No. of Pages - 114
Movie Potential - ★★★★★ (This would make an awesome movie!)
Ease of reading – very easy to read and follow
Would I read it again – Definitely!
I'm a sucker for a good series, especially when it involves fated mates or supernatural creatures. This one didn't disappoint. I've been in love with the book covers for this entire series ever since I first saw them. They are magical in their own way and supremely tempting.
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For those who follow my reviews, you'll know that I generally divide up my notes into Plot, Characters and an Overall sense of the story. I don't need to do that here. In fact, I don't need to say very much.
The story was fantastic, from beginning to end. There wasn't one thing I didn't love about it. Kris, our human MC, reacts the way any other sane person would react to finding out that they were mated to a werewolf against their choice. He's angry, he's irritable and he fights it for as long as he can. In the same way, he's feisty and smart enough to figure things out in his own time. Rafe is just as uncertain, but more trusting in the mate bond and what it can do for people. Having spent two centuries searching for his mate, you an really feel his desperation and sadness, when Kris doesn't want anything to do with him. Then they have their phone conversation, which had me smiling all the way through to the end, and you see a spark of hope for Rafe and Kris readjusting his preconceptions.
I kind of love Isaiah's protectiveness towards Kris, as his brother, but I also cringed every time that he caused more problems, just as Kris was starting to figure things out. I think the idea of the whole two families getting together for a week and hashing things out between them is genius.
The entire concept of the plot, the way it's written and executed, the chemistry that is so simply but well portrayed is excellent. I could feel every moment of excitement, hope, sadness and pain from both main characters. There were no information dumps, because this strange new world was introduced to use gradually, in a way that meant information was given only as and when it was appropriate. The world building and characterisation was unique and wonderful.
Quite honestly, I was so hynotised by the entire story that I barely made any notes as I went along. Everything I highlighted was quotes of brilliant writing moments or amazing dialogue that had me laughing or crying.
This is a true gem and one I'll be turning to again, whenever I need a pick-me-up.
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FAVOURITE QUOTE
“Nearly fainting at the tender taunting in Rafe's voice, Kris was dying to exclaim that Rafe was all that Kris had ever dreamed of – and more. But surely it was too soon for declarations of that sort...”
“Tonight he had almost lost his mate.
No. He had almost lost Kris – and lost him because Kris was his mate.
The thought crushed all the hope he had within his soul of ever being with his mate.” - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book is the first in a series set in an interestingly different and very imaginative paranormal world, and I really enjoyed getting to know some of the “rules”. Apparently the veil between worlds has been lifted - nobody, at this point, seems to know why – in an even referred to as the Great Unveiling. The formerly Unseen has collided and mixed with Common Earth (this made me smile as it reminded me of Tolkien’s Middle Earth), leading to all kinds of issues. Of course, the government got involved and has regulated certain interactions – don’t they always – so that now the NFL, the National Fellowship of Lycanthropes, is in charge of negotiating between werewolves and their human mates. And the list of interesting, sometimes amusing, little details goes on, but I’ll leave you to discover those yourself.
The two main characters, Rafe the werewolf and Kris the human, are a mix between “the expected” and some nice variations. Yes, they are mates and there is a mate bond, but their relationship does not happen in the seamless way you’d expect. They may be mated, but communication is still an issue, and their very different backgrounds (Rafe is over two hundred years old, and Kris is about to turn twenty-one, just for starters) mean that nothing comes easy to them. This bit of realism, the vast age difference causing them to have a different outlook on almost everything, is the main cause for their problems, but by no means the only obstacle they need to overcome. With interfering family members, obnoxious NFL agents, and humans determined to mate with a werewolf at any cost despite the fact they are not true mates, Rafe and Kris have their hands full trying to determine if they have a future.
Kris is about to graduate community college and has his future all mapped out. Being told he has a mate, found when his bloodwork from a recent hospital visit is passed on to the NFL, is not part of that future, and knowing that there is no legal escape from his obligation to at least meet his mate does not help. Since there are many examples of humans being forced to mate against their will, at least Kris thinks there are, he realizes any resistance is probably futile, so to speak. That doesn’t mean he gives in easily, but once Rafe calls him so they can talk, at least Kris begins to consider the possibility of meeting a man he is already attracted to. But Kris fears losing his free will and never being able to love someone “Fate” has chosen for him, never mind that a remote location, where Rafe and his family live, is not where he wants to spend his life.
Rafe is fascinating. He is both the quintessential werewolf (tall, strong, gorgeous, amazing voice, you name the trait, he has it), and refreshingly different. He has been waiting to find his mate for two hundred years, and is ecstatic to have finally found him. He can feel the bond, and wants nothing more than to live with Kris as soon as possible. Rafe is also very tied to the land, the territory, of his pack and cannot see himself moving to accommodate Kris’s idea of going to some yet-to-be-determined college so he can get a bachelor’s degree. But he is patient, doesn’t want to force Kris into anything, and is ready to sacrifice his own happiness for Kris’s. Also, he meditates – which I found very amusing.
If you like unusual werewolf courtships, if men with vastly different backgrounds trying to figure out if and how they might live together pique your interest, and if you’re looking for a read that is full of humor, discoveries, and the touching emotions of beginning love, then you will probably enjoy this novella. I look forward to finding out what else Susan Laine has in store for me in this series.