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Showing posts with label Kristen Miller. Show all posts

Tuesday, 5 May 2015

{Review} The Werewolf Wears Prada (San Francisco Wolf Pack #1) by Kristin Miller

25323002Posted by Melanie
Release Date: April 28th, 2015
Finished Date: April 25th, 2015
Publishers: Entangled Covet
Genre: Adult, Romance, Paranormal
Source: For Review
Format: eBook
Pages: 230
Buy: Amazon UK Amazon US 

Melina Rosenthal worships at the altar of all things fashion. Her dream is to work for the crème de la crème fashion magazine, Eclipse, and she'll do much anything to get there. Even fixing up the image of a gorgeous, sexy public figure who's all playboy, all the time. Even if he's the guy who broke her heart a year ago...

Even if Hayden Dean is a werewolf.

Since his father's death, Hayden's the heir apparent to the San Francisco Wolf Pack—well, once he settles down. Hayden isn't interested in giving up his partying ways, except he's pretty sure he's found his fated mate, and the fact that she's a non-shifter is bad news. Now he must find a compromise between the traditions of his wolf world and his certainty that Melina is his...before fate (or another werewolf) bites them both in the butt.

The Review: The Werewolf Wears Prada was a really enjoyable read and a great start to the new series.
Melina Rosenthal is a reporter and has her eye set on working the fashion column in the best fashion magazine around – Eclipse – she has the offer handed to her on a plate but it comes with a cost….. She must shadow Hayden Dean for a month and change his playboy image so that people will think he is a good bet as the new boss of his late father’s empire. There are a couple of issues though – she is really attracted to the handsome man but…. He broke her heart a year earlier.
Hayden Dean has a secret…. He’s a werewolf and is heir apparent to the San Francisco Wolf Pack but there’s trouble brewing amongst the pack and most don’t believe he is worthy enough for the title of Alpha so he reluctantly agrees to have Melina follow him around for a month to show the world a different side to him. There are a couple of issues on his side too – Melina doesn’t know that he’s a werewolf, Melina feels like his Luminary/fated mate and if the pack can’t accept him as an Alpha, then there is no way they’ll accept a non-shifter as his mate.
As tensions mount and the stakes become higher, a threat is issued and Melina becomes a target. Just who is behind everything though? And can Hayden keep his spot as Alpha at the same time as keeping Melina safe from harm.

So, I really enjoyed this book and thought it was a great start to the series. I loved the premise and the way it started made you empathise straight away with Melina. She was a cool character and had a great attitude, I loved how she would look at the situation and come up with ideas on how she could use it in her articles, even coming up with headlines, she was fun too and I loved the way she challenged Hayden a lot – he needed someone like her to kick him into shape. You could tell they were attracted to each other and it was a relationship that was believable and filled with chemistry. Both tried to deny their bond – Melina out of hurt and his reputation but Hayden had a more valid reason for why he kept her at arms length and I liked waiting to see how they would sort it out. There was still plenty of hot moments between them as they battled against the pull to each other and it was very satisfying to see them come together.
The storyline was great and I liked the scenario – werewolves on the brink of war because an Alpha who is different is in charge, extremist wolves who will stop at nothing to get their way, Hayden’s projected image and what he is really like – but what it all boiled down to was werewolf politics with two opposing sides. The danger came from one of the sides as they begin to murder people and take others captive whilst issuing threats towards Hayden. Then as the relationship progresses, more danger is aimed towards our MC’s that bring some intense moments and also so LOL moments keeping the story both serious but with humour. I liked the misconceptions of Hayden and how they unravelled as the story went on and the outrage we felt for Melina in the beginning is seen in a different light. I loved where the story went and the eventual outcome, it had all of the elements that make a good shifter book plus a nice dose of sexytime too and I will definitely be looking out for more!. 

4.5 Flowers!


Thank you to Entangled Covet for giving me the opportunity to review this book in exchange for an honest review. 

Monday, 28 July 2014

{Review + Giveaway} So I Married a Werewolf (Seattle Wolf Pack, #3) by Kristin Miller

22670816Posted by Donna
Release Date: July 28th, 2014
Finished Date: July 19th, 2014
Publishers: Entangled Covet
Genre: Adult, Paranormal, Romance
Source: For Review
Format: eARC
Pages: 260
Carter Griffin, enforcing officer for the Seattle Wolf Pack, has a problem. He's been offered the promotion of his dreams…if he can find a wife to prove he's over his playboy ways. But Carter's already walked the matrimonial road and bought the stinkin' T-shirt. Besides, a werewolf only gets one fated mate. Been there, done that.

All werewolf dog trainer Faith Hamilton wants to do is earn enough green stuff to put her younger brother through college. Okay, okay, so she also totally wants Carter, her sexy next-door neighbor, to look at her as more than a friend. It's too bad size 12 and plain isn't his type. At all.

The two friends strike a deal to help one another out. They must face a variety of challenges from a psycho ex-girlfriend to a Yorkie with a shoe fetish...and that pesky problem of only having one-fated mate in a lifetime. Will a relationship ruin their friendship…or spark a love neither anticipated?

The Review: So I Married a Werewolf is the third book in the Seattle Wolf Pack series by Kristen Miller and brings us the well-loved scenario of friends to lovers with a nice marriage of convenience thrown on for good measure, giving a very satisfying story.
I loved both of our characters and they are definitely a couple who belong together –even if they can’t see it and everyone else can- and share a beautiful chemistry based on a strong friendship. Faith is a girl who is comfortable in herself, her life is all about making sure her brothers college dreams come true and making enough money to make that happen. She doesn’t need to make an effort with herself and isn’t bothered about a boyfriend because of past experiences, but that doesn’t mean that she isn’t crushing on Carter – hard! She has a tragic past that left her with a visible scar that makes her feel unattractive so hiding behind baggy clothes is the norm for Faith, so no one ever really sees just what she has to offer in the curves department until she starts dressing for her part as Carter’s ‘fiancee’ and he sees her in a whole new light. Carter propositions his best friend into agreeing to a sham marriage in exchange for funding her brothers college tuition and hopefully Carter finally getting a promotion to detective. He’s worked hard for the place and has a rival for the position who is engaged which is really what his bosses are looking for – a mated man- showing them a stable, settled wolf who can focus on the job. Faith has feelings for him in a big way and has doubts that she can ‘pretend’ when her feelings are already involved but Carter is determined to keep this as purely an arrangement between two friends, he isn’t after a relationship because he married his Luminary (his soul mate) who unfortunately died and knows he won’t find another….. or will he?
I can’t resist storylines like this and as I mentioned, the friends to lovers and marriage of convenience are always winners for me especially when you get the paranormal element too. The storyline is very much devoted to the relationship development and obtaining the promotion, it was soooo good and it flowed so well making it an extremely easy read. It also helped that the characters were so easy to connect to, they had great chemistry before the intimacy and reading about the change in the relationship dynamic was great. I enjoyed reading about Faith blossoming into a sexually confident woman and Carter letting down his defences to let love in, they complimented each others character a lot making them better people together and you could really get behind their cause and I’m a sucker for HEA’s.
When I first decided to review this book I was unaware that it was part of a series let alone the third and decided to read it anyway hoping that it would read as a stand alone and it does! Nowhere throughout this book did I feel like I was missing any parts of the plot or bigger picture nor was I introduced to characters that I thought I ‘should’ know, so feel free to do as I did and dive right into this fun, sexy, sweet read – I myself will be adding the other two books to my ‘to read’ pile. 

Thank you to Entangled Covet for giving me the opportunity to review this book in exchange for an honest review. 
 
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