The Phoenix Pack series starting with Feral Sins, by Suzanne Wright - beginning April 2nd, 2019

[Jennifer]

Book One Description: If your inner wolf and your body react rather enthusiastically to a psychotic Alpha male who’s own wolf has a tendency to turn feral, it can’t be a good thing, can it? Entering into a bargain with him wouldn’t be good either. Unfortunately, Taryn Warner, a latent wolf shifter, doesn’t have many options open to her right now. Okay, she has no options. Basically it comes down to whether she’ll do what it takes to escape the arranged mating with the sick SOB that her father set up. As the answer in this case is yes, it looks as though she’ll have to agree to Trey Coleman’s deal… she’ll have to mate with him instead.

Having always disliked shifter politics, Trey Coleman hadn’t bothered trying to form alliances with other packs. Now that his uncle – a wolf with many alliances – means to take Trey’s territory and his pack, he has no option but to form some alliances of his own very quickly or he’ll be easily outnumbered in the upcoming battle. He figures that the easiest way to do that would be to mate with a female whose Alpha is powerful and influential. There’s only one problem with that – he would then be stuck with her, and the last thing Trey wants is a mate. When he hears of Taryn’s situation, he offers her a deal – if she falsely claims he’s her true mate and allows him to claim her, he’ll save her from her arranged mating and then let her leave after the battle with his uncle is over.

Sounds like a pretty straightforward deal...but soon Taryn and Trey realize they got more than they bargained for. Their mating instincts to protect and possess are weighing on them, they crave each other’s touch and company, and their inner wolves don’t like it whenever they’re apart. Add in that they’ll have to deal with this for an entire three months until the day of the battle finally arrives, and they’ve got themselves a recipe for disaster – or maybe for something quite the opposite.

Warning: This novel contains an extremely sarcastic Alpha female, a broody possessive Alpha male, bitter in-laws, voyeuristic enforcers, a whole lot of dirty talk, and steamy bedroom battles for dominance. Reader Advisory: This book also contains a graphic ménage scene - not for the faint-hearted.

[Jennifer]

Ch 5 (26%) - (view spoiler)[ OMG the bickering between Greta and Taryn is hysterical. So much has happened already. While at the moment they are clueless, I get the feeling that Taryn and Trey are going to find out that they are really true mates. It should be interesting to see how that unfolds. (hide spoiler)]
Ch 10 (55%) - (view spoiler)[ I have some theories: 1) It's totally Greta that is doing these terrible things to her. I bet no one even questioned her the first time around with the car. 2) this bond that Taryn is able to make with birds in general - could it be an unusual power she has, like maybe the ability to shift into a bird? Perhaps the confusion over forms is why she is latent to begin with? (hide spoiler)]
Ch 14 (77%) - (view spoiler)[ Damn these two have a lot of sex! I'm not worried that Trey will be able to say "I love you" to her eventually. It will come by the end, I'm sure. (hide spoiler)]

[Tiera]

Jennifer wrote: "
Ch 5 (26%) - [spoilers removed]
Ch 10 (55%) - [spoilers removed]
Ch 14 (77%) - [spoilers removed]"

Right Greta.. that old hag lol.

[Jennifer]

Finished - (view spoiler)[ I think the thing I am most happy about is that she was able to break her latency. Now her wolf can frolic with his - aw!

This had a lot more smut in it than I anticipated for a shifter fantasy (although, where was the menage scene that the synopsis mentioned - I don't remember one??). Not that I am necessarily complaining. I liked that Taryn's character wasn't a submissive type. She really battled it out for dominance and I even liked her bitchy sarcasm. I had it all wrong in suspecting Grandma as the informant. I wonder if we will get more of their banter in the next book even though it is about different characters. (hide spoiler)]

[Tiera]

Jennifer wrote: "
Finished - I think the thing I am most happy about is that she was able to break her latency. Now her wolf can frolic with his - aw!

This had a lot more smut in i..."

hmmm (view spoiler)[ I don't remember any menage scene either.. they were way to possessive for that.. I don't remember any menage in any of these books I've read.. though to be fair I've read alot of books in between lol. (hide spoiler)]

[Jennifer]

Ch 5 (26%) - (view spoiler)[ I had to go back and reread the flashback to what happened with her parents and I still am unclear why her wolf is so traumatized by a "black wolf" in her dreams. Did one of the attackers rape her or something and she doesn't remember it? (hide spoiler)]
Ch 10 (51%) - (view spoiler)[ While I'm glad that he is feeling a little guilty about how he has treated her recently, I hope she tears him a new one when she wakes up. He is the only one getting any benefits out of this relationship and she needs to point it out to him in a way he will understand it. (hide spoiler)]
Ch 15 (77%) - (view spoiler)[ WTF is Laurie's deal? I don't get it. She is mated to his brother but she wants Dante too? And NOW is when she resurfaces? And poor Lief - not only does he have a horrible name for wolf but there is something strange going on with his relationship with his mother. It wouldn't surprise me to find out that she is the one that is abusive. (hide spoiler)]
Finished - (view spoiler)[ Well. I sure as hell didn't expect the baby to save the day! I really thought that either Jamie would have to uncover repressed memories about the night that her parents died OR Dante would figure out how to get her wolf to trust him (like the story was headed with the abused dog stuff). I didn't see a magical baby coming. And does anyone else think that Laurie's punishment of confinement to a nice cabin on pack land is a little too lax? (hide spoiler)]

I'm so excited to get to Nick and Shaya's story!! As much as I like Dante, I really wanted their story to be #2.

[Tiera]

I think I’m on book 3? Maybe. I’ll have to look and see!

[Jennifer]

Ch 5 (27%) - (view spoiler)[ Uh, oh, now there are more people Nick cares about in danger from this preserve thing. I don't understand why he hasn't told Shaya - she's not stupid. Surely if she knew the exact nature of the danger, she would leave with him. (hide spoiler)]
Ch 10 (53%) - (view spoiler)[ They are so hot together. I do want to kick Amber in the shins though. Something tells me that she might have held back on the healing in order to make Nick dependent on her. I don't like her. (hide spoiler)]

[Jennifer]

ch 14 (75%) - (view spoiler)[ Hmmm, he needs healing and she is best friends with a healer - why hasn't anyone realized that yet? Also, does anyone else think that it is funny that they are in Arizona right now and the local pack is named "Sequoia" (when Sequoia National park is in California), but the Phoenix pack is the one in California? (hide spoiler)]

[Jennifer]

Finished - (view spoiler)[ I think I liked that ending the best of all the books so far. I like that she got a job that will use her specific talents and that they formed a new pack. I am especially glad that Amber got what was coming to her. I'm vindictive like that - no more of this banishment shit, that bitch needed to die. (hide spoiler)]

I just realized that Dominic's story isn't until book #8! I don't think I can wait that long!!!!! You guys might have to hear me whine about it until we get there.

[Tiera]

Lol. I think now we might be on the same book! I'll go hunt it up!

[Tiera]

I'm starting the audio for book 4!

[Tiera]

Jennifer wrote: "
Finished - [spoilers removed]

I just realized that Dominic's story isn't until book #8! I don't think I can wait that long!!!!! You guys might have to hear me w..."

Yea Dominic and his cheesy lines... I can't wait either lol.

[Tiera]

... Is this a different narrator than book 3? I can't remember but she doesn't sound familiar.

20% - (view spoiler)[ I freaking love Roni!!! Shes such a bad A! (hide spoiler)]

[Tiera]

50% Nope its not a different narrator.. its the same one I'm recognizing her now. (view spoiler)[ This author has a habit of rounding her characters out nicely... and then rerounding them over and over. She is a little overzealous with the character personality descriptions.. We have heard over and over now about how different Roni is.. we get it shes a tom boy stop going on and on about it in every scene... I swear I've heard how tough, vengefull, vicious, and awkward socially she is a million times now.. I get it ... I like her too. (hide spoiler)]
70% (view spoiler)[ I'm so glad Roni gives Dominic her own cheesy lines.. I'm pretty sure we are going to run out of cheesy lines before book 8.. going to have to start recycling them or something lol. (hide spoiler)]
85% The pranking.. OMG (view spoiler)[ All I can say is poor Eli lol! That dude can't catch a freaking break! (hide spoiler)]
Finished: Alight I'm pretty sure the Mercury Pack book 1 fits in next somewhere.. in the timeline that is. (view spoiler)[ How is it that these people have so many run ins with bad and murderous people? Its like every book has its own war, instead of like an ongoing enemy this author creates a new enemy for every book. That' has gotta be rough. (hide spoiler)]

[Jennifer]

Ch 5 (25%) - (view spoiler)[ What the heck is up with these people that create/frequent these sites? It makes me sick to think that the real world is equally capable of something so despicable. (hide spoiler)]
Ch 10 (52%) - (view spoiler)[ I think Roni has an idea of who could be behind this. What I don't understand is why she won't even speculate. (hide spoiler)]
Ch 15 (77%) - (view spoiler)[ Why does this shifter world have all these horrible women characters? The author keeps telling us over and over about how many people wait for their true mates, but then we have all these needy vindictive women (like Kerrie) that try to manipulate these men into a relationship but would likely drop them if their true mate ever came along. I just don't get it. (hide spoiler)]
Finished - (view spoiler)[ So they linked their packs just so Marcus and Roni wouldn't have to decide where to live? Seems like an intense decision. So does that mean that the alphas won't need to use their cell phones to call each other anymore?? (hide spoiler)]

[Jennifer]

Tiera wrote: "50% Nope its not a different narrator.. its the same one I'm recognizing her now. [spoilers removed]
70% [spoilers removed]
85% The pranking.. OMG [spoilers removed]
Finished: Alight I'm pretty sur..."

Agree with all the writing critiques and that there is no way she will still have one-liners left by book 8.

[Jennifer]

Ch 6 (26%) - (view spoiler)[ Aw, I like Makenna and Ryan together. (hide spoiler)]
Ch 12 (54%) - (view spoiler)[ I don't understand why she is fighting this so hard. You would think with all her superstitious mumbo jumbo that she would have a little more faith in fate and what they've found in each other. (hide spoiler)]
Ch 18 (77%) - (view spoiler)[ Hmm, so we have a new way that people cannot recognize their mates - external blockages. Interesting. BTW, I love this little viper, Savannah. I hope the pack adopts her and she keeps biting Greta. (hide spoiler)]
Finished - yeah, yeah (view spoiler)[ that was a cute story and all, but did we miss how Darren and this girl, Ally got together? Did I miss a novella or something? I liked Darren, I want to hear his story. (hide spoiler)]

[Jennifer]

Ch 7 (25%) - (view spoiler)[ Riley doesn't put up much of a fight with him does she? LOL.

And we were totally wrong about the one liners, though not all of them are coming from Dominic. My favorite so far: "she gives away more pussy than a cat shelter" and the one about Tao's dick being as big as the dick in his head. Too funny! (hide spoiler)]

[Tiera]

Look at you trying to make it to book 8 still lol. I'll try to start book 5 today if I have time!

[Jennifer]

I can't help myself! It's too tempting with all these audios available.

[Jennifer]

Ch 11 (53%) - (view spoiler)[ OMG it was so cute how the girls were trying to convince Riley to hold onto Tao because they balance each other out, and the guys wanted Tao to keep Riley because she only shops online. Too funny! (hide spoiler)]
Ch 15 (72%) - (view spoiler)[ I am just as confused as they are about who could be doing this. My money is on Wade's mom. I don't like that she hated Riley's mom for an unknown reason, and I have a hard time believing that Riley's mom was killed by a bald eagle or whatever. There are just too many weird things in Riley's past that don't add up and Wade's mom is linked to them. Now, she might have an accomplice in Cynthia too. I wouldn't rule out her power hungriness as a motive for killing off everyone in her age group to leave her as the heir to the flock. (hide spoiler)]

[Jennifer]

Finished - (view spoiler)[ Uh, well.....I guess I was right about Wade's mom, but wrong about Cinthia. I would have lost money on that - I thought it would come out that she had been the one to manipulate Wade into doing that. We knew Tao and Riley would end up as mates, but does that mean that any babies they have could be flying wolves? Just wondering.

I liked this book a little better than a couple of the last ones. I think integrating a different type of shifter group was a good choice, and I love how the unapproachable Tao ended up with a snake and cheetah kid at the end. So sweet. (hide spoiler)]

[Tiera]

25% (view spoiler)[ I am liking the whole lone wolf thing. The shelter seems more like a pack of its own just with multiple shifter types.. (hide spoiler)]

[Tiera]

45% (view spoiler)[ Ugh good grief Remy and his mom are disgusting and messed up! Not going to lie I hope there ends up being a not so horrible reason Remy is after the shelter.. (hide spoiler)]
83% (view spoiler)[ Why is their bond not in place yet I don't understand!!! Maybe its because to Kenna the shelter is the most important thing to her soon maybe she will come to realize Ryan is more important and it will snap in place? (hide spoiler)]

[Tiera]

Finished: Lol I guess I never put my finished update on here. I'm done.. lol. Think they drug out (view spoiler)[ McKenna not accepting the mate bond waaaaayyyy too long. Otherwise it was pretty good. (hide spoiler)]

Starting probably tonight or early tomorrow.