Good Bones Volume 1

by Kim Fielding

Bones: Book One Skinny, quiet hipster Dylan Warner was the kind of guy other men barely glanced at until an evening's indiscretion with a handsome stranger turned him into a werewolf. Now, despite a slightly hairy handicap, he just wants to live an ordinary—if lonely—life as an architect. He tries to keep his wild impulses in check, but after one too many close calls, Dylan gives up his urban life and moves to the country, where he will be less likely to harm someone else. His new home is a dilapidated but promising house that comes with a former Christmas tree farm and a solitary neighbor: sexy, rustic Chris Nock. Dylan hires Chris to help him renovate the farmhouse and quickly discovers his assumptions about his neighbor are inaccurate—and that he'd very much like Chris to become a permanent fixture in his life as well as his home. Between proving himself to his boss, coping with the seductive lure of his dangerous ex-lover, and his limited romantic experience, Dylan finds it hard enough to express himself—how can he bring up his monthly urge to howl at the moon?

• ISBN10: 1613724853
• ISBN13: 9781613724859
• Publish Date: 20 April 2012
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Dreamspinner Press
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 200
• Language: English

Reviews

[littleread1]

First off, I would like to thank Netgalley & Dreamspinner Press for approving me to read & review this book.

Let me start with something I didn't see until after I had read Good Bones, the cover. Oy vey. I probably wouldn't have picked it up based on that. It just looks ... amateur. I am not one to usually judge a book by it's cover, or even mention the cover, but just look at it. Ugh.

That being said the book was alright. This was my first m/m werewolf book, so I had no clue what to expect. It seemed to follow the trend of other basic romance novels; boy meets boy, one has a deep dark secret (werewolf), they work together, they sleep together way too soon (IMO), they get into a fight, make up, fight again, mope around, big event/fight scene/tragedy/misc. occurrence, they forgive & move on, book ends.

There just wasn't anything that wowed me. Even the sex scenes were average. And they seemed to pop up (pun kind of intended) in the most random places. Maybe it is just because I am not a gay man, nor have I been around a lot of gay men, but their conversations leading up to sex and after sex seemed off. And I totally pegged the wrong guy for the topper. I guess I don't know enough about gay men. :-)

The characters were believable and loveable. Dylan and Chris I wanted to scream at "Just be honest!!!" but I find myself doing that to most books, since that seems to be where most of the conflict comes from. Why can't we all just tell the truth?

All in all, there isn't anything wrong with ​Good Bones​, but I wouldn't list it in my favorites. It was a good, trashy romance of the m/m werewolf variety. It gets 3 1/2 stars.