Reviewed by Cindy

TITLE: NOX

AUTHOR: Adrienne Wilder

PUBLISHER: Self-published

LENGTH: 463 Pages

RELEASE DATE: April 2, 2019

BLURB:

A nude man invades Luca Suarez’s home and protects him from creatures who cannot exist.
Creatures hunting him.
The stranger can’t tell Luca why. He can’t even tell Luca his name.
He remembers nothing until the moment he sees Luca.
The only hint Luca has to the stranger’s identity is a tattoo on his wrist: N o X

Nox doesn’t know who he is, but he’s sure of three things, his memory loss is temporary, the monsters chasing Luca are called Anubis, and his Alpha, Koda, sent Nox to protect him.
There’s just one problem… Koda is Luca’s brother who was murdered five years ago.

With each passing hour, Nox fills in the pieces painting an impossible truth. And with each passing hour, both men find themselves unexplainably attracted to each other.
Something Luca is willing to embrace because he has nothing left to lose.
And one Nox can’t let happen because it could get Luca killed.

REVIEW:

NOX is an extremely interesting character. So lost but his sense of purpose leads him where he needs to be the most. I couldn’t help but love him from the very beginning.

Luca is just as wonderful. He’s braver than he even knows and its really fun to read along and figure out what’s happening to him before he does.

The author does a great job with the sci-fi part of this story. The plot-twists are very entertaining and leads the reader to places they didn’t expect to go, but I was really happy to get there. They get all the little details just right and it’s a thrilling roller-coaster of a ride that I absolutely could not put down.

I really loved how they give the reader the back story in bits and pieces, slowly putting together what’s happening while making us cheer for Luca and NOX. There are some truly heartbreaking moments that only serve to make the happy ones even more sweet.

There is a lot of sex in this book, but it works because of the nature of the genre. I don’t want to spoil anything, but I will say that it’s extremely graphic in some places and might make some people feel a little uncomfortable. But I really didn’t have a problem with any of it.

Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, another angle will come at you and turn your ideas completely on your head. I loved it.

The masterfully builds a world for their characters to inhabit, where the unthinkable can happen and usually does. I will admit to figuring out the whole deal about two thirds of the way through, but I still needed to see how it was going to play out.

The author hints at the end that they are thinking of this being the first in a new series and all I can say is that I really hope so. In the meantime, I’ll be standing over here, patiently waiting (and looking to see what else the author has written).

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