Wolf Hunger

by Ella J. Phoenix

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The wedding of the millennium has taken place. There are few alive who remember a time when all the supernatural species got along in harmony, and now the vampire king has taken a dragon bride, bringing hope that their world can truly return to a time of peace. This should be the beginning of something wonderful but when Zoricah suddenly becomes ill, the only thing that can help her is an herbal concoction that Yara learned as a young witch. Unfortunately, most of the ingredients can't be bought at your local supermarket.

Yara will need to return to the jungles of the Amazon and try to get reach the herbal gardens which the Water Witches keep just outside their secret world. The Water Witches are a tribe of female warriors. As a young girl, Yara chose the love of a man over her warrior sisters. She lost everything she knew to be with a man who only wanted to use her magic.  As a banned and forsaken witch, Yara's sisters would not be happy to find her robbing their gardens so she will need to be very careful.

Meanwhile, the forces that are working against a vampire/dragon alliance want to make sure that Zoricah doesn't get Yara's concoction and they have sent the wolf shifter, Rafe, to follow her and stop her. Rafe failed to killed the vampire king, more like he decided he wasn't interested in starting a war, so now he is being pressured to "pay up" or lose everything.

Rafe starts to get too close to his target and now those same powers want Rafe to stop Yara permanently. Rafe has to quickly figure out how to get out from under their control because his wolf has finally realized that Yara is his and he will need to risk his pack and everything he has built to save the one woman perfect for him.

While Rafe plays cat and mouse, or wolf and panther, with Yara, Zoricah is getting weaker and Yara needs to get back to the vampire compound before it it too late.

THOUGHTS:
This is a very enjoyable series. We were distracted from the prior storyline of finding secret experimental laboratories in this book since we were quite busy with Zoricah's illness and Yara returning to the Amazon as well as setting up the romance with Yara and Rafe. Truthfully, it wasn't missed at all since there was so many other things going on to focus on and there was plenty of action and romance.

We know from the prior novels that Rafe was the one who took the dangerous Nuke bullets from the lab and that he is trying to sell them on the black market. While he is smart enough to know that Yara is going to be more than just angry that he had them and he hasn't told her, he is still willing to risk his relationship to get the money that he needs instead of telling Yara and maybe selling them to the vamps. Stupid move wolf because we know that Yara has trust issues with men, especially growing up in an all-female society.

My one complaint which I have complained about before, it makes me crazy when the language doesn't to match the characters. Yara goes back to the jungle and of course, has an encounter with her former friends. My issue starts when Yara is fighting her cousin, the cousin says "Bring it." I doubt a tribe of warriors deep in the Amazon jungle are saying "Bring it." Nor, when one returns with Yara to the U.S., should that witch jump right in making cocktails for the group. Where would she have learned cocktails? The closest dirt village is quite a hike away from the witches and I doubt the witches go there to have drinks and watch American TV to be up with the latest slang. If you want to call it "Hiad" instead of "Hell", I'm with you on the world building. But American slang and references should not be part of their speech if they are a hidden jungle society.

The next book in the series appears to be a flashback story to Tardieh's father, the prior vampire king, and I am guessing this will give us the real reason why the vamps and the draco originally went to war. I already have a review copy of Book 5 which is Dyam's story. Right now my interest is going forward rather than looking back and I think I am going to cheat and come back to the flashback story afterwards.

This review was originally posted on EBookObsessed