Reviewed by Vicki

TITLE: Dancing Around The Cop

SERIES: Alpha and Omega #2

AUTHOR: Lisa Oliver

PUBLISHER: Self Published

LENGTH: 176 pages

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Terry Martin has an awesome life – good friends, loving parents and a job he loves designing all of the bright and wonderful costumes for the drag queens at Club Blue. Sure, no one but his parents know he’s an Omega wolf, but he’s okay with that. Unfortunately being a twink often means getting picked on and after a night out with friends, Terry has the misfortune to meet an Alpha wolf, Detective Zander Samuels – his true mate.

Zander can’t have a mate, especially a pretty, sweet little man like Terry. His friend of more than ten years, and partner on the force hates gay men with a passion and Zander won’t risk the only true friend he has, not even for a mate. So even though he’s scented Terry, Zander is determined to stay away from the Omega. Unfortunately the Fates are just as determined that the two men should be together and when Zander finds himself hit with the mating curse in more ways than one, he comes up with a plan to have Terry without upsetting his friend.

A nasty boss, a homophobic partner, some really jerky behaviour by Zander and another Alpha wolf keen on claiming Terry for his own, all conspire to stop any chance these two have of finding true love. But did I mention that the Fates are really persistent?

Warning: This book is about male wolf shifters, it includes coarse language, mm sex scenes, a gorgeously cute Omega who will melt your heart and an Alpha wolf you will just want to slap around the head.

REVIEW:

Oh Terry and Zander, what a couple you are!

This has one of the things I really like, big alpha male paired with a smaller physically weaker mate. Paranormal or not, I just like that pairing. Especially if the smaller man is mentally a strong match for his alpha mate. That is exactly what we get with this book.

Zander is an alpha werewolf, a loner, a cop, and a jerk. He really is. He’s gay, but his best friend and work partner is a homophobic ass. So Zander fakes it, dates girls just to get sex, occasionally sneaks off to be with a man, and listens to Sully talk his brand of shit. This actually made me like Zander even less. He may be big, but he has no backbone. On a call one night to a bar fight, Zander meets his mate.

Terry is little, sweet, a romantic, and feisty. He is a male omega wolf, a virgin, packless, and flamboyant. His wish in life is to find a lover, a mate, that will love and cherish him. He’s quite happy to smell his mate after he and his friends get in a bar fight, but then devastated to realize his mate wants him only for sex.

So there is really two halves to this book. The first half is Zander being a jerk, trying to convince Terry to be his little toy on the side, and even attempting a hook up with a girl after finding his mate. Terry gets in a bad situation, instead of rescuing his mate, Zander is even a BIGGER JERK and Terry is devastated.

Then things change. Zander turns in to a pussy cat, loves Terry, and wants to worship him forever. I get why this happened, (I am avoiding giving anything away) but it was a little abrupt for me to accept. I wish Terry had stood up a little bit longer, I wish Zander had needed to work harder. Zander goes from jerk to sweetheart a little too fast…

But overall I liked this book! The plot moved quickly, I liked the drama between Zander and Terry, and the sex was nice and hot. I like a big guy with a small guy, and physically they worked very well. I liked Terry’s crazy friends, his group of gay friends certainly, but also the drag queens. They all added to the story, helping and interfering. The writing was pretty good, still some editing issues, but I’m just coming to accept that with this author. There was some drama with a bad guy that I liked, well I didn’t like what he tried to do but I liked what he added to the story. Sully grew on me as the story progressed.

If you are a fan of shifter stories, I’d give this one a try. It is the second in the series, but there are no common characters between the two books. Just know there will be the occasional typo, and odd sentence. We also won’t talk about the cover…. But other than that, it was a good book!

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