Reviewed by Chris
TITLE: The Omega Objection
SERIES: San Andreas Shifters #2
AUTHOR: G.L. Carriger (Gail Carriger)
PUBLISHER: GAIL CARRIGER LLC
LENGTH: 317 pages
RELEASE DATE: November 4, 2018
BLURB:
Can a gentle giant with a trampled heart show a man who’s been running all his life that sometimes there are monsters worth running towards?
A werewolf walks into a bar.
Tank is working as a bouncer when he notices something odd about the new sexy-as-sin bartender. He’s odorless, he’s amazingly popular with shifters, and he’s terrified.
A man without a smell.
Isaac is trying to escape his past. He hides in San Francisco because everyone knows that there are no werewolves in the Bay Area.
Until one walks into his bar.
Can Tank figure out Isaac’s secrets in time to save him? And can Isaac forgive Tank for being a wolf in time to learn how to love?
REVIEW:
Tank has always known his place in the pack. He is to be the big scary werewolf, the muscle, the cannon fodder. That was the fate of his father and his father before him, and so it will be with Tank. He might not like it, but at least he has a purpose. When the pack’s newly created security/bodyguard service gets a job to help beef-up the security at a bar’s new shifter-themed night, Tank is the man for the job. He might not particularly want to play bouncer, but his pack needs the money so what can he do? His ability to be whatever the pack needs him to be, turns out to work in favor for once, though, when his eyes land on one of the bartenders. Scentless, and strange, and strangely attractive, Isaac is probably far out of Tank’s league. But that doesn’t stop Tank from hoping that his luck holds just a little bit longer.
I’ve been really looking forward to this second book (and third story) in this series. After reading The Sumage Solution last year, I fell completely in love with this world and was excited to see where Carriger took this pack.
Despite the fact that I enjoyed the first novel in this series, I will admit that it was a bit daunting as a jumping-off point to this world. There was a lot of backstory and world building to get thru in that book, and as a result it sometimes felt a bit confusing. That is not the case here. This story feels a lot more grounded. Yeah all the more fantastical elements with shifters of many shapes, and magic of many kinds, still exists…but a lot of it is pushed to the back so that Tank and Isaac can have center stage. It made for a much easier read, to be honest. It probably helped that this story mostly just focuses on werewolves, instead of the whole smorgasbord of magical and shifter elements. They still peep in, from time to time, but the story mostly stays with Tank and Isaac and their various interactions.
And speaking of interactions….woooh baby. I wouldn’t go so far as to say this book had full-on BDSM themes, but there is some really freaking hot D/s elements to their sexual relationship. Tank with his need to belong to someone, and Isaac with his determination to control at least one part of his life, fit together so damn well. Neither of them was sure of what the other wanted or expected, but despite all those doubts there was this underlying need in both of them that made every time they were on page together nearly combustible. And despite the fact that I’m not one, these days, to really enjoy a majority of the sex scenes in books, I didn’t skim a single one in this story. The sex felt absolutely necessary to who these characters were to each other and to themselves. To have missed that would have left something missing in the story for me. It never once felt like they were going to fuck because X-amount of pages had passed since the last sex scene. It felt organic and essential. Just as it should be, in my opinion.
While this was not a perfect story–the whole stalker sub-plot was rather underwhelming in the end–it was one that I had a lot of fun reading. The pages just flew by as I go deeper and deeper into the plot, and stopping was very much out of the question once things started to get going. These werewolves could have been very boring (I mean, what is this, the 800th werewolf book I’ve read?) but I loved Carriger’s various takes on the shifters and their culture. It was not exactly all new, but it was just different enough to make me always want to know just that little bit more about them.
I think that readers who enjoyed this series so far and going to end up really liking this one, and if they are anything like me, they are going to be clamoring for the next book. The pairing in that one looks to be very exciting. This book ended up being almost everything I was hoping for, and I can’t wait to see where Carriger can take these characters and this world.
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