REVIEWED BY CINDY
TITLE: Pale Light
AUTHOR: L.J. Hamlin
PUBLISHER: Torquere Press
LENGTH: 144 Pages
Blurb:
Elijah and his father Joshua find a young werewolf, Jayden, when his entire pack and family were murdered. They take in and train Jayden to hunt the supernatural with them. Elijah has a secret; he’s fallen in love with Jayden, but he dares not tell a soul.
Elijah’s sometimes lover, Chogan, is working a case with them. Chogan’s unexpected attraction to Jayden forces Elijah to confront his feelings. What does it mean for the three men’s lives? And just what is lurking in the woods?
Review:
If you’ve read my reviews before, you know that werewolf/shifter books are my favorite genre and so I started reading this book with lots of hope for a good story.
But, my hopes were dashed.
Elijah, Jayden and Chogan are all likable characters but the whole thing just never jelled for me. The beginning felt rushed and stilted. I felt like more attention should have been paid to the horror that happened in young Jayden’s life. But it was told as more of a recitation of facts than anything else and did little to entice the reader to continue reading the story.
In fact, I felt like the whole book was rushed. There was very little angst because everything happened so quickly that there was no time for anticipation to build.
My biggest complaint though is that it feels like the whole thing was written just to showcase the (admittedly hot) sex scenes. The story of the killer lurking in the woods had real potential to be something kinda scary but the bad guy is kind of obvious from the get-go. I would have loved to have seen the story focus on that aspect a little more and give our characters some time to grow and become more real to the reader.
Because everything happened so easily, I had a hard time staying interested long enough to finish this book.
On the plus side, like I said, the sex was hot. The premise had real merit and the characters were all men I could have gotten really attached to if I’d been given the chance to know more about them.
Joshua, Elijah’s father and Jayden’s adopted dad is about the coolest parent on the face of the planet, but then again, when you spend every day dealing with horrors that most people don’t know exist, it’s probably easier to worry about that than who your son is in love with.
I really wish the author had spent more time on character and plot development and less time on stuffing as much sex as possible into the story.
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