Reviewed by Becca
TITLE: Wolf, WY
SERIES: Wolf #1
AUTHOR: A.F. Henley
PUBLISHER: JMS Books LLC
LENGTH: 211 pages
RELEASE DATE: September 4, 2019
BLURB:
There’s nothing like a fresh start, and for Randy, still nursing wounds left by a cheating ex and harboring a deep mistrust for all things corporate, Wolf, Wyoming seems like the perfect place to start over. Secluded, quiet, and self-sufficient, Wolf is bound to not only inspire, but to bring Randy the peace he needs. The view’s not bad, either.
Vaughn O’Connell and his family are Randy’s only neighbors for miles, and while Randy knows it’s somewhat unlikely that a man with three kids is gay, it doesn’t hurt to look. When a misunderstanding brings Randy face to face with both Vaughn and his eighteen-year-old son, Lyle, Randy’s not sure what to feel about either of them.
But things are not what they appear in Wolf, and the closer Randy gets, the stranger the O’Connell family seems.
REVIEW:
Well this was definitely interesting. It’s a slow burn story, but there are complications that cause things to be secret. And when the secrets come out, boy, do they come out.
All Randy wanted was some peace and quiet while nursing his wounds from his cheating ex and all that was going on around him. He finds one of the quietest places there is in Wolf, WY. Not but one neighbor around him, and those neighbors don’t seem to want anything to do with him. Well, the father anyway. The three children seem to want to talk to him and stuff, but the father seems more like a tyrant than a father. At least, that’s how it seems at first. The more he gets to know the family, the more he thinks things are strange. And whatever the deal is between the neighbor’s oldest son, Lyle and the father, Vaughn, are just making things stranger. And whatever peace and quiet he wanted, it seems he’s not going to get. Especially when everything comes out in the open and not in a way he wanted. Or Vaughn, for that matter. And all Randy can think to do….is run.
Sometimes there seems to be a time and place for standing your ground and running. I can understand how Randy feels. With things getting too much and his cheating ex, he needed somewhere to run and lick his wounds. Maybe not going so far as to buying a house in the middle of nowhere. Maybe just a vacation or something. But sometimes you have to just move somewhere and start over. But when you get neighbors you don’t quite expect, it makes you wonder if you were smart in your thinking. But those are the times you just have to sometimes roll with it and see what pans out. It’s not always what you expect, but it could turn out to be a good thing. For Randy, it was iffy. It seemed good with Vaughn, once he got some of those walls broke down, but when things changed with him and his oldest son, it no longer seemed copacetic. And that’s when it all went downhill. And Randy, instead of staying and listening and finding out the truth, did what he always has done. Run. It took someone creepy and his own father to make him see the error of his ways, and realize, just maybe, he acted irrationally and he needed to step up and make it right.
It’s a good book. Like I said. It’s a slow burn. It’s got good characters, good writing. The two youngest kids are the best and just make the book that much more special. I’m anxious to see how book 2 is going to go.
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