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Hardwood Pack #2

by Jane Perky

I never expected for things to turn out like this.

To be summoned by a group of powerful wolves.

Presented like a sacrificial offering, a gift, to a powerful Beta capable of setting my body on fire.

To be wanted so badly. Be good enough to be a worthy mate. If Ray Torres wants me to howl for him, all I can do is ask: how loud?

Genres: M M Romance

32 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 19, 2015

About the author

During the day, Jane is a teacher, wife, and mother. At night, Jane's a scribbler of erotic gay romance. She can't get enough of demanding alphas, werewolves, and happily-ever-afters.

(Source: Amazon.com)

Reviews

[Mae Hanley · Rating 2 out of 5]

Third story in this series yet it's the first time there is any mention of hormone suppressants for the Omegas to use to hold off on their need to breed.
The characters are fine, Joey the omega mentioned, is summoned by Ray the Beta of the back to be his mate. The story is too short to have the characters fully developed.

[Nicole · Rating 2 out of 5]

MM
Short quick read. 25 or so pages.

[Beth · Rating 1 out of 5]

Only 1.5 for this one. It's the longest so far, but still not really complete for me. And hits a couple hot buttons people might have.
Joey is basically being forced to mate.
Then we Insta-mating between two total strangers who are doing the deed within what appears to be minutes of meeting each other for the very first time.
And this is after Joey had to change a bunch of things about himself(what he eats and getting a haircut are two that are mentioned) so that he will be what the Beta wants.

One thing about the Hardwood Pack books, they may all supposedly be about the same pack but other than mentioning in this book that the Alpha had recently found his mate(which happened in the second book), there is absolutely no shared info or characters between the books. In fact, It almost seems like they are two different world to me with all the differences in how the mates get together and what the Omegas experience with their bodies.

I probably will not waste anymore of my money on books by this author as they actually got worse for me by the third one instead of getting better.

[blub · Rating 2 out of 5]

I've been reading the series out of order. Which is fine since none of them really link together.

This is an alpha omega shifter story and seems to follow along as most of these types of stories do. With an alpha (err..beta in this case, which when you think about is still more dominant than a omega) aquiring a fertile omega and mating him.

It's such a short read that there wasn't much romance in it. Most of it was Joey sequestered and worrying about meeting his mate-to-be, Ray, who mated him in his office. The only real detail of this story that set it apart from others of it type was that Ray was a beta wolf who got to mate an omega.

[Sarah · Rating 2 out of 5]

These books seem to have a theme to them,from all three Ive read i'd say they are more of a mating scene than a story per say. Even though the books/scenes are a good little read they needed to be longer and more of the characters/story line.

[Kattz · Rating 3 out of 5]

There isn't a lot of character development but this is a short story. Is a good story.