When He’s Dark
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Average rating3.7
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Ratings5
Average rating3.7
Cat shifter Bree Dwyer doesn't fear much. Ironically, what she fears most is the person who was put on the Earth just for her. Your true mate wasn't supposed to be cruel and twisted; wasn't supposed to be someone who’d never love or want to claim you. The rumors that her true mate is dead bring her only relief. Bree's intent on moving forward with her life and building a future with someone else. Sadly, the male she wants most is one she can never have—a hot-as-sin wolverine shifter who happens to be her boss … and the cousin of her predestined mate.
Aleksandr “Alex” Devereaux detests being bullshitted, but he’s been lying to himself for years—pretending he thinks of Bree as extended family; that he doesn't want her so bad he aches with it; that he can't feel himself weakening against her pull. The night they spend together changes everything. He's done fighting himself on what he wants. Someone isn't happy about that. Possibly the same 'someone' who's playing mind games with Bree, trying to scare her. They're succeeding, because too many leads point to the possibility that the culprit could be the one person that she's determined to believe is dead.
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2 primary booksThe Olympus Pride is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2021 with contributions by Suzanne Wright.
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This was...kind of perfect. Such a refreshing change from Suzanne Wright's Dark in You and Deep in Your Veins series. There wasn't really an insta-love (insta-possessive?) thing here like there are in many of Wright's other books (cough, Jared...cough, Knox); Bree and Alex had known each other since Bree wasn't legal. And even after Alex started becoming sexually attracted to Bree (and she became legal...), Alex doesn't feel the need to act on that until much later. Additionally, Alex wasn't some CEO, next high prince, or an official uber-scary and prestigious(? for lack of a better word) enforcer. He was just a guy with animal magnetism (see what I did there?) who's got a wolverine sharing headspace with him. I also particularly liked the juice from Bree's plan to move to greener pastures without telling anyone except her best friend and her Prime. That deliciousness will stay with me for days. And I simply adore how many domestic and silly moments there were here that don't really appear in Wright's other stories that I also love. Usually it's all about, “Who's trying to kill me? There's like 10 possibilities,” and, “We need to have sex now because the tension is ripping the reader into shreds.” That's in this story, too (and might I say, I thought they were done especially well here), but I love me some loving downtimes.
Well, I'd totally hold in my farts for you.
Love of the highest order with a healthy dash of realism to give it that extra oomph. 10/10
