The Wolf King

I am on a never-ending quest to find more well-written werewolf romance books. They are surprisingly hard to find, especially when you're extremely picky about how werewolves work.

The Wolf King hit almost all of my favorite werewolf tropes in such excellent ways that I'm honestly wondering if the author can read my mind. This was so much fun to read. The Wolf King takes place in a fictional UK (I think it's fictional? I can't remember if they say any real places, but I'm fairly certain the author used mostly vague terms.) The werewolves are seemingly Scottish (which I looooove), while the “bad guys” are mostly English. I think. So yeah, just picture a bunch of werewolves running around in kilts and saying things like ‘wee lass'. [shrug]

Completely unashamedly, it does it for me.

ANYWAY, I absolutely adored Callum, our MMC. He hit all the high points – alpha, big and scary looking but with a soft gooey center. He rescues our FMC, Aurora from what would have been an absolutely horrible abusive marriage. Aurora is kind of a wimpy damsel in distress until she finally gathers herself together and becomes BOLD. They run away up to quasi-Scotland and there she learns what it's like to live around a bunch of wolves who hate humans. It's great. They slowly fall in love, and then things get steamy and yada yada yada. The usual romance stuff.

The characters are just perfect. I would read about a thousand different versions of this same type of story. Please just inject this into my veins. Five stars.