Reviewed by Tara
TITLE: His Omega
SERIES: The Werewolves of Manhattan Book 1
AUTHOR: A.C. Katt
PUBLISHER: MLR Press
LENGTH: 186 pages
BLURB:
Armand LaMarche is head Alpha of the North American werewolf council and was in his limousine on his way home to his Manhattan brownstone. When the wounded boy stops his car, Armand recognizes three things—the boy is part wolf, an Omega with a great gift, and he’s Armand’s mate. Now all Armand has to do is claim his mate and keep him safe from the murderer.
REVIEW:
In the first book of The Werewolves of Manhattan, His Omega, we are introduced to Sean Quinn and Armand LaMarche. Sean Quinn is faced with a hard choice, starve for food or sell his body. After being beat up by the man he called his father, cut off from his funds, and losing his chance to continue his last month of art school, Sean is at his last rope. After starving for three days, he listens to a friendly rent boy named Leroy that he should sell his body. He doesn’t make it that far. A very large, dangerous man nicknamed as the Russian see’s him first and in an effort to hide him, Leroy is murdered. Sean barely escapes with his life from the man that can scent his very presence, and runs for the first car he sees.
Armand LaMarche, the head alpha werewolf of the area, stops for Sean and scents that the young man is his mate. After accessing his injuries, he takes Sean back to his home. Although Sean is leery at first as to why Armand is so nice to him, he can’t help but feel safe cradled in the older man’s arms. Armand has been waiting for his mate for over a hundred years and would do anything to claim his mate. As the doctor examines and runs blood work, you learn that Sean was hiding a secret unknown to him. He is more than half werewolf and an omega at that. Each omega is born with a talent and Sean’s makes him more desirable than most. For Armand that makes it even more difficult to keep Sean close. When a threat is unveiled within the council, the rush to claim Sean becomes paramount, and the Russian is dogging their every step.
I would love to say that I enjoyed this book but unfortunately it felt more like a history book than an actual book. There are a lot of grammatical errors and maybe because of that you have a disconnect with feeling for the characters. Although the plot had the possibility of being a good one, it got lost in the step by step feel to the book. It would have helped if it was written in first person view or if we got more insight into both mc’s thoughts. A lot of time was spent describing the surroundings, what kind of food they ate, how luxurious the house was, instead of making the plot more exciting. We learn a bit too much about the business dealings, and the werewolf history (not that it isn’t important) than we do about the actual characters. Sean’s personality did a 360 way too fast, in the sense that one second he is this timid, abused man, then in the next now he is this strong, smart alecky alpha mate. I believe if we could have seen him develop, have more on his struggle with the father and not have it glossed over. Armand also needed to be fleshed out a bit more. He came across as very spoiled and clueless about the world when he was supposed to be the head of the werewolf council. I also believe it would have been better if we could have spent more time talking about their mate bond instead of fast forwarding a few times and all of a sudden they are in love and he’s ready to be claimed.
There were some good aspects. Although rushed we do get the feeling of love, and desire that they both had for each other. Sean gets himself a family within the house, while Armand learns how to be more human. The sex scenes were definitely hot. A sweet moment is when they adopted a little wolf cub girl that was being neglected. But a lot of these moments just got lost because you were trying to make sense of certain things. For example, if no male wolves are born to alpha’s who used surrogates, and the birth rate was very low, how could certain wolves be descendents especially since a lot of the alpha’s were gay?
In the end I wouldn’t recommend this book to read unless you are incredibly patient. Perhaps the next book will be a better read now that the foundation is laid.
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