Reviewed by Tammy
TITLE: The Last Dire Wolf 
SERIES: Bloodlines, #1
AUTHOR: Kelex
PUBLISHER: Twisted E-Publishing
LENGTH: 142 Pages
RELEASE DATE: January 25, 2016
BLURB:
Their love is taboo. The crossing of wolven bloodlines is forbidden. Yet Eirik, supreme alpha and king of the wolves, is tired of hiding his love for Gunnar. The last of his kind, he’s cursed to be without a mate during his long life. He refuses his destiny and seeks solace with one of those closest to him. King’s guard Gunnar knew he could never expect to stand at the king’s side when he let the man take him to bed, no matter how much he began to crave it over the decades. He’d given his life to be a member of the elite warriors, not a king’s consort, but he can’t stop wishing the king could be his. Moments before Eirik can change the laws governing their world, an old enemy comes bearing a unique gift. Perhaps Eirik’s not the last of his kind after all.
REVIEW:
King Eirik is the last Dire Wolf now that his foster-father Uffe has died. Uffe saved the Kings life raised him after the Hokkaido, an Asian branch of wolves attacked and slaughtered Eirik’s father and remaining family members. Uffe searched for other surviving Dire Wolves for centuries but he never found another one.
The werewolves in The Last Dire Wolf are all male and as such they only ever mate with other males of the same species; it is forbidden for any of them to mate or breed with another species. The bloodlines must be kept pure. Every two-thousand years or so one of the males will fall for the charms of a woman and mate with her and then they’re banished from the pack. Eirik has been in love with his Guard Gunnar for decades but he hasn’t ever been able to acknowledge him publicly. Gunnar knows why they can never be together officially but that doesn’t mean it hurts any less.
After Uffe dies and the realisation that he really is all alone in the world, that he really is the last Dire Wolf Eirik decides it’s time for things to change and sets about to change the laws he has previously gone along with because it was always easier not to rock the boat with the councillors. Just as Eirik is about declare that you can mate with whomever you love regardless of species or bloodlines so that he can mate with Gunnar, he is presented with a “gift” from the Hokkaido, in the form of Leif a Dire Wolf who turns out to be his blood mate!
Gunnar is devastated when he realises that Leif is Eirik’s blood mate as all he can see is him being abandoned now that another Dire Wolf has been discovered. Eirik is determined not to do anything with Leif because there is something incredibly suspicious about the fact that their enemy, the Hokkaido just happens to ‘find’ a Dire Wolf who turns out to be his blood mate?
Together they all try to find out exactly who Leif is and where he came from. Not to mention they had to get to the bottom of how the Hokkaido come to have Leif to hand him gift him to Eirik. Is he a spy, an assassin? Exactly who and what is Leif? You do get the answers to these questions but I was disappointed with the minimal amount of interaction between the three MC’s.
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