Her Lone Wolf

by Paige Tyler

• ISBN10: 132215225X
• ISBN13: 9781322152257
• Publish Date: 1 January 2014
• Publish Status: Active
• Out of Print: 4 March 2015
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Sourcebooks
• Format: eBook
• Pages: 353
• Language: English

Reviews

This series bothers me. The world building around the romance and nature of shifters is just iffy. The romance is so juvenile for all there are actual sex scenes. I have so many issues with the romance aspect of this series. Everyone has a crush on someone else. It's just not very romantic to see them all hung up one another only for that person to get with someone else and then they choose someone else - it's too much like they're settling and that bothers me. For instance, Clayne is hung up on Danica but she leaves him so he decides to settle on Ivy, who ends up hung up on Landon and so he bothers Landon. Even though Clayne isn't supposed to even really want Ivy. It makes it hard to believe in the romance of a relationship when it's so lacklustre.

Are there soulmates? It's consistently referred to and then it just fizzles. Danica and Clayne can sense each other? How? Why can't Ivy and Landon? Has Clayne biting her actually marked her and changed her DNA? Clayne was able to sense her from day one so did he mark her prior to their breakup? Except she says he's never left a mark so what the hell? I find it very frustrating that such an obvious plot hole is not addressed. I like my world building to make sense. And Danica and Clayne sensing each other when shifters are supposedly genetic mutations does not make sense.

The drama between Danica and Clayne was okay. It made sense but it was pretty thin reasoning - although shouldn't a covert agent be better at reacting? She just caved to the blackmail? Surely a spy can think of something better to remedy the situation?

Kendra baffles me. I have no idea why she even likes Clayne. He barely speaks to her and usually it's not all that civil. And why on earth would you think a guy that barely acknowledges your existence would then hit it off in bed?

Ivy and Landon getting married makes no sense. How could they possibly manage to legally get married without it being flagged? It just seems ridiculous that it would be possible to hide something like that when they actually had a wedding that their coworkers attended? And how the hell does Layla (Ivy's sister) know what Ivy does? I thought it was supposed to be a huge secret and they're only supposed to know she's Homeland? Do they have permission to tell other shifters? It's just very unclear with the details. Plus since when was she a full character? She shows up and all of a sudden she's supposedly with Jayson? When did all this happen? I mean showing is great but sometimes tell can be just as important to things like my sanity.

This book was hard to read because I hate Clayne. I hated him in the first one. He was such an absolute jerk and I have no idea why Ivy and/or Kendra defended him as a decent bloke when he was just an ass. He's not as bad in this book but I already hated him and it's hard to go back from that. Danica annoyed me. She was badass but all her whinging about how hard it has been and guilt over what she did was boring. She made a stupid choice. (Caving to the blackmail.) Get over it. I don't need to keep hearing about it. And they discuss her choice for like two seconds without any real arguments and then just start calling each other babe and honey.

Adam was mentioned in this - not that I get how it fits in but it's nice that the storyline from the prequel hasn't been discarded and ignored.

The mystery was enjoyable and I didn't see the twist coming. The murderer has an identical twin brother! But the world building is iffy. This would be stronger if the paranormal abilities were fleshed out further and the plot and writing was tightened. 2 stars.

[Melanie]

Review originally posted at RabidReads.com.

This is the second book in Paige Tyler’s X-Ops series. I have to admit, I think this one is even better than the first. I read the first X-Ops book last summer. Then I listened to the SWAT books on audio at the end of last year. Now, I’m going back to the X-Ops books. I’m glad to be back in the world of X-Ops world.

While the SWAT and X-Ops books are similar, they are also different. SWAT, is all werewolves. X-Ops has an array of different shifters. SWAT, mostly just the males are in the police. X-Ops both partners are part of the federal government unit (Department of Covert Affairs, called DCO) that is unknown to most of the public. X-Ops, is always a human partnered with a shifter. And if the shifter is about to be compromised, the human has to eliminate them. There are people who want to see the shifter program fail. They also don’t allow partners to have sexual/romantic relationships with other members of the unit.

The story starts off when FBI Special Agent Danica Beckett realizes that she and her team are dealing with something that is more than human on her most recent serial killer case. She makes a call to her former boss that she thought she would never speak to ever again, but she didn’t know who else to call. She hasn’t talked to anyone at DCO in the two years since she left. But she knew that the local police and the FBI would not be able to catch this killer on their own.

Clayne Buchanan is a wolf shifter, one that is always on the verge of going over the edge. He was brought into the DCO when he was caught surrounded by a bunch of mutilated dead bodies. He is one of the reasons why some of the people think that the shifter program should be shut down, or at least shifters like him. He is like a time bomb, always on edge and quick to agitate. He doesn’t have a partner since his partner and lover walked out on him and crushed him two years earlier, so he’s sent out to help with this shifter. He’s a great tracker and great dealing with shifters who’ve gone off the rails.

This is a story that is full of action, heat, romance, politics, police procedure and much more. If you like crime dramas filled with action and you like shifters, this series will bring those two aspects together into a great story with fun characters. While this story does stand alone, there are aspects of the first story that I think will add to this story. I don’t think you will be lost if you read this one first, but you will get more if you read Her Perfect Mate first. Plus, it is great story too, so you have nothing to lose there.

[Cocktails and Books]

Her Lone Wolf is the second in a fantastic and unique shifter series from Paige Tyler, and it didn’t disappoint. I loved the first in the series because it introduces these new and unique shifters. They’re unique because they don’t shift into full animals but they have the all the advantages of their animal side and a lot of the quirks too.

Danica is now a FBI agent, and working really hard to forget about Clayne, a wolf shifter that she came to love, but of course fate, with a little help from Clayne’s supervisor throws them back together. They’re hunting a serial killer in California, he’s very obviously another shifter who enjoys hunting humans.

So while Danica and Clayne fight their attraction they also battle to find the killer and stop him. I really loved the action in this story, while they are in some ways falling in love again, the action of finding the killer keeps this story moving at a fast pace.

There is a great twist at the end that I didn’t see coming and I really look forward to more in this series, there is a bit of the storyline from the first book, and I imagine that particular storyline will continue throughout the series, but even with that little bit, this could easily be read as a standalone. It does a good job of reintroducing the shifters without boring someone who has already read the first book.


Reviewed by Sheri for Cocktails and Books