stacey_is_sassy
Written on Jan 10, 2016
In What a Werewolf Wants the matchmaker, Josie, and the cynic, Ryder, arrive at the wedding week celebrations on opposing sides. Josie’s sister Carrie, is marrying the love of her life, Mitch, who is Ryder’s best friend. Josie, is excited for her sister, but it’s also an opportunity for her business to crack the big time. She has a special talent for finding perfect love matches for others, but struggles to find love for herself. Josie’s parents have passed, but she knew they loved each other and uses her parents as a guideline for what she wants for herself. Ryder is a private investigator who specializes in cheating spouses. He grew up seeing the devastation of his parent hurt by cheating and looks at the statistics as proof that no marriage can last. These two don’t particular like what the other stands for. They feel an attraction to each other but it’s not until they touch, that things change for them. You can’t stop FATE.
Ryder hasn’t been a werewolf for long. He and Mitch were attacked by a rogue werewolf and left to work things out on their own. Luckily the local pack helped them to adjust to the changes. He has a very bad experience when he first shifts, that made him feel like a monster. There are a lot of reasons why he thinks Mitch and Carrie are rushing into getting married and he feels like it’s his job to stop or at least slow things down.
Josie is determined that her business succeeds. If fighting Ryder’s objections will get the wedding done and dusted, Josie will take him on. In some ways she understands Ryder, but gets blinded by her possible success in making Carrie and Mitch her 100th successful couple.
Ryder thinks Josie's matchmaking shouldn't be based on what someone writes on a piece of paper, and Josie thinks Ryder is crazy to think that all marriages are doomed. In the end they both realise that there is no formula for love.
Why is What a Werewolf Wants, three stars? It was just kind of blah. Ryder was such a Negative Ned about love and pushes Josie away with his hurtful sentiments. He gets all hot and snarly when she’s around, leads her on, then reminds her not to get ideas for a future and to look elsewhere for love. Josie, on the other hand tells herself she’s heading for heartache, touches him and loses her mind…again and again and again. Her single minded focus on getting her sister married was completely selfish and made me think less of her. I also found her reaction to finding out about werewolves just a bit horrible. It was also a little too corny for me.
What a Werewolf Wants, is not a bad story, it just didn’t rock my world. There is a clinch, fumble and suck that is a little steamy and an intimate scene at the end, but even those didn’t get my heart pumping. Even though this was the first book I’ve read from the author, I didn’t feel lost or at a disadvantage not reading the first two in the San Francisco Wolf Pack series. This is a sweet story, but just didn’t completely work for me.
I received a complimentary copy of this story from Netgalley for an honest review.