Wolf Tales

I am not really sure what I expected this book to be, but it was ... not this. "Bisexual polyamorous matriarchal werewolves" seems like an OK premise, and I figured if it was successful enough to have become a 10 book series, I should probably give it a try. (I'm not the kind of librarian who gets to do readers advisory, but because sometimes I pretend I might be, I do try to keep on top of what's happening in urban fantasy and paranormal romance.) Long review short: I did manage to finish this book, but I'm definitely going to stop there.

It turn out that there's at least one scene where one character is human and the other is not, and that is, it turns out, very much Not My Thing. I can't even recommend this book to you if that Is Your Thing, though, because the author is also really big into rape, not only as major recent backstory for one character, but as something two of the characters arguably do to each other "on camera," so to speak, within the story. And it isn't as though the plot is especially compelling, or the metaphysics especially satisfying, either of which might (maybe, potentially) be a mitigating factor. I've got nothing to base a recommendation of this book upon.

This is a funny thing to admit, given how many romances I read, but lately, I find myself skimming or mostly skipping sex scenes in a lot of books. Anyway, it turns out, if you do that for this book, it is a VERY quick read. Which might be a recommendation, for some readers? But I know it's an anti-recommendation for others.

I'm happy this was a library read and not something I bought, at least.