Wolf Unleashed (SWAT: Special Wolf Alpha Team, #5)

by Paige Tyler

[Melanie]

My review and an extended sample of the audiobook are posted at Hotlistens.com.

3.5 stars

I love this series that is based upon a SWAT team that is made up entirely of werewolves. In this world, you aren’t turned, but born a werewolf. However, you might not ever know it. It takes a traumatic event to actually activated the werewolf gene. Each book tends to start off with a prologue going into the past to tell you how they became a werewolf.

Alex is an ex-Marine. He has also the main person that cares for the team’s new mascot, a former fighting pitbull. When he takes her into the vet, his normal vet isn’t around and has to see someone different in the office. He was hesitant at first (I know the feeling, while I know my vet hires only great vets, I still want the one that knows my animals). That is until he sets his eyes on Lacey.

Lacey is an amazing woman. She is a vet and put herself through school to get there. She’s also raised her little sister as their mother wasn’t alway mentally in the picture. She also volunteers as a local animals shelter. She’s even gone on calls with the police to perform triage on animals that might be so bad off, that even the drive to the animal hospital is too much for them. She also has some issues with men, based on some stuff with her mom. So when Alex tries to ask her out, she balks.

So, in this book, we have the slow building romance between Alex and Lacey. Alex gets a little stalkerish when she first turns him down. He shows up at the vet office to buy dog food, toys, and everything else he can think of to visit. He is very loyal and wants to prove himself to her.
They are also both working on the same case of dog fights, though they don’t know it at first. There is also a lot more to this than just dog fights. There is also a new kind of heroine on the streets. Oh and then girls start to go missing. How does all of this tie together?

This is a fun series. There is a ton of action. The romance is okay, but not my favorite part of the stories (it rarely is, for me. Romance is usually the bonus to the story with the action or humor being the main reason I pick a book). I do wish that we would learn more about these werewolves. I love how Ms. Tyler has this lore, but I want to know more about it. I feel I should know more this far into a series. It is still a fun series. I look forward to the next book.

Narration
I love Abby Craden. She does a great job with this series. I love her male and female voices. Her pace and tone are always spot on. While I don’t think of this series as a “funny” series, it does have humor. Abby Craden does a great job adding to that humor. She does make you chuckle a few times in this book. I highly recommend her.

**I like to thank the publisher for providing me with a copy of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review.