Reviewed by Annika
TITLE: Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
SERIES: Big Bad Wolf #4
AUTHOR: Charlie Adhara
NARRATOR: Erik Bloomquist
PUBLISHER: Tantor Audio
LENGTH: 11 hours, 17 minutes
RELEASE DATE: March 10, 2020
BLURB:
Agent Cooper Dayton is almost relieved to get a phone call from his former boss at the Bureau of Special Investigations. It means a temporary reprieve from tensions created by house hunting with Oliver Park, his partner both in work and in life. Living together in a forever home is exactly what Cooper wants. He’s just not keen on working out the details.
With a former alpha werewolf missing, Cooper and Park are loaned to the BSI to conduct the search at a secluded mountain retreat. The agents will travel to the resort undercover…as a couple in need of counseling.
The resort is picturesque, the grounds are stunning and the staff members are all suspicious as hell.
With a long list of suspects and danger lurking around every cabin, Cooper should be focusing on the case. But he’s always been anxious about the power dynamics in his relationship with Park, and participating in the couples’ activities at the retreat brings it all to the surface. A storm is brewing, though, and Cooper and Park must rush to solve the case before the weather turns. Or before any more guests-or the agents themselves-end up dead.
REVIEW:
There’s something about this series that just draws me in. I love the world building, the fact that everyone has a past with details that we aren’t fully aware of. It makes the story and the characters richer and more relatable, well in the sense where a mere mortal could relate to a shifter I guess. The point I’m trying to make is that Adhara has created a wonderful world with her words and it’s one that draws you in, hook line and sinker.
For the past three books we’ve been there when Cooper and Park danced around each other, when they fell for each other and through that new and shiny relationship that burned so bright and hot. When we catch up to them, the shine has dimmed a bit. They are still deeply in love, but the honeymoon phase seemed to be over. And they were now entering into the terrifying part where they had to start communicating their wants, needs and fears with their words. I don’t know if there is a scarier part of a relationship, and both Park and Cooper felt that deeply.
I actually loved this part. I love it when my fictional couples go through stuff like this, where things aren’t always walk in the park, or problems are magically fixed. More than that I’m ecstatic about the lack of drama. It wasn’t anything huge by any means, no great blow up, but it shows that they needed to work on the foundation if they want to last.
Cooper and Park are really great together; they are so alike yet so different. They each are exactly what the other needs and they both have this innate understanding of the other. Not about everything, far from it, but deep down they know who they are and what they want and I love watching them grow into it and each other.
As with the previous books, Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing doesn’t focus only on Cooper and Park. Just like always they are investigating a mystery and this one takes them undercover to a couple’s retreat where they don’t only have to investigate a disappearance, but also take part in the couple’s therapy the retreat offer. Also like the previous books, Adhara have created the perfect balance between the mystery and the romance where neither overshadows the other and where you just want more of both.
Like the previous books, this was narrated by Erik Bloomquist. This wasn’t as an effortless listen as the previous books have been. At times I had a hard time keeping up with scene changes, I would have liked a tiny bit longer pause between them. However, full disclaimer that might have been just on my part with my migraine-addled brain not being able to keep up in the changes. So don’t pay too much attention to that, and do give this book a listen you won’t regret it. I loved how Bloomquist delivered Copper’s sarcasm, it was spot on and made me smile every time. He also makes you feel so much emotion, the fear of being caught somewhere you shouldn’t bee, snooping into things you definitely shouldn’t see. How Cooper felt out of control, and the rollercoaster of emotions. But more than that, he made you feel the love between Park and Cooper, and it brings such warmth throughout the entire listen.
This series has quickly become one of my favourites and I can’t wait for the next one.
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