Reviewed by Kimberley
TITLE: The Rogue Wolf
SERIES: Sapphire Ranch Wolves #3
AUTHOR: Sue Brown
PUBLISHER: Love Lane Books
LENGTH: 142 pages
BLURB:
Shifter Owen Pope is a bitter man, a lone wolf, banished by his pack for defying his Alpha. He survives day by day, working as a laborer, sometimes living for months as a wolf. On the borders of Sapphire Ranch, he catches a scent that calls to his wolf as he hunts.
Then he’s cornered, trapped with nowhere to go, and Owen realizes to his horror that the delicious scent belongs to the human pointing a gun right between Owen’s eyes.
He escapes, only to be confronted by two wolves, and his world is turned when he realizes one of them is a shifter from his former pack. Owen has so many questions but he’s not sure he’s going to like the answers.
Zeke is huge and fierce to his co-workers in the Cavalry, but he has one desire; to protect Owen and create a life together. Will Owen submit, or will the lone wolf run?
REVIEW:
This is the third book in the Sapphire Ranch series and it’s a pretty good continuation of the storyline. Paranormal in general and shifters in particular is one of my most favored categories in this genre.
Owen Pope, a distant cousin of Cal’s was scarred and banished from the pack some years earlier for defying the alpha. He escaped with Cal’s help when the alpha ordered him to be hunted from the land.
Angry and bitter, Owen wanders, working as a ranch hand for various ranches and living as a wolf, not really able to settle anywhere. Hungry and desperate, he steals clothing and money and ends up in the local diner where he meets other wolves and the human who smell appealed to his senses earlier. He sees that it belongs to the same human that pointed a gun at him earlier.
Owen isn’t thrilled when he figures out that Zeke is his mate. Owen was raised to think that humans and wolves couldn’t mate and that humans are weaker. He’s taken to the ranch where he’s thrown smack into the ongoing conflict with the hunters.
I had to go back and re-read the last book in the series to familiarize myself again with the characters but I didn’t mind at all as I enjoy the series.
The author has a solid writing style that I like. Her characters are engaging, her storylines are clean and easy to follow and the editing is pretty good. There are quite a few characters but the story flows nicely so you’re able to keep up with them. I particularly like how she’s now spreading out and creating storylines for the rest of the Calvary team. I just wished that the only cat shifter in the story would’ve remained a part of the story. I felt that he wasn’t a bad guy, he felt that he had no choice. Even though I would like for the characters to have a few happy, peaceful moments but I understand that with the hunters in the loose, that just won’t be possible for a little while.
This series is shaping up and flowing along nicely; the books transition smoothly from one story to the next with no plot holes. I would however, like to see different species of shifters introduced into the series; to broaden the horizons of the storyline a bit. I think that a feline or maybe even a bear shifter introduced into here or there would be nice. Like maybe more shifters can be hired to work for the Calvary or help out on the ranch. Sort of like an extended family of human and shifters.
The author did a lovely job with this book; this series and I am looking forward to seeing what happens next.
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