Reviewed by Vicki

TITLE: The Wolf and His Diva

AUTHOR: Chris T. Kat

PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press

LENGTH: 216 pages

BLURB:

George Owens is comfortable with his life just the way it is. A wolf- and fox-shifter, George leads a reclusive lifestyle with his energetic and diva-ish mate Billy, a fox- and squirrel-shifter.

George has no desire to take over leadership of the pack, despite his father’s wishes. Edward Owens is feeling his age and wants to make sure the pack is in good hands should he not be able to win his next challenge. However, George is adamant that he wants no part of it.

But events rock George from his complacency, and he realizes he has to take a stand and fight for what he cares about. If he remains in the past and cannot change in order to do what he must, he risks losing everything he loves.

REVIEW:

I’m having a hard time with this review…. This was a cute story, but I just didn’t get much out of it, unfortunately. When I’m reading a book I look at the story, the characters, the writing, and the connection between the characters. I don’t have to like all of those aspects to enjoy a book, but I need to like some. But with this one I didn’t like enough of the parts to make it work for me. Others may like it just fine, I have read other books similar to this one, and had the same issue, so it may just be me.

This story starts with George and Billy in their animal forms, having a vacation in the snow… Billy is kind of a spoiled brat and doesn’t like being wet and sleeping in a cave. They play and argue a bit, then head home. The banter and playfulness between them was cute to start with, and I had high hopes. Both have the ability to shift in to multiple forms, wolf and fox for George, Fox and squirrel for Billy. They are an established couple, so we only get their backstory in glimpses. They are cute together, but the longer I read, the banter got old very fast. Billy was just annoying, and George is odd. I didn’t love either of them, and didn’t really care one way or the other about them.

The main plot of the book involves George’s father and his demand that George take over the pack. George doesn’t want to be alpha, it seems like he’s concerned the pack won’t let him keep his male mate, and will want him to produce offspring to continue his family line. At one point it is suggested that a witch can change Billy so he can get pregnant. Luckily that was shot down, that concept just never works for me. I did like the idea of this story, there was the possibility for good action and drama, but it just never happened, too much time was spent on the internal bickering and banter between George and Billy, drama and whining, emotional issues, but not much action. They have an emotional connection that turns physical and makes one or the other sick. And have really good orgasms. There was finally some action and the end of the story, but it was too little too late.

There is certainly a strong physical and emotional connection between George and Billy, it was nice to see that, and I do like to read about an established couple. There was a decent amount of sex, although it did get excessively emotional at times, and the writing was a bit flowery for my taste. But it was ok.

So overall it was an ok book, I didn’t really like it, but didn’t hate it, I just didn’t feel much for the characters. It was a little too overdone and dramatic for my taste, especially Billy. He was definitely a diva with a capital D!

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