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Alpha (Ghost Mountain Wolf Shifters Book 1) by Audrey Faye.

I love werewolf books.
I dislike shifter books.

Shifter books take werewolves (or werecats or were-whatevers) and makes them into a romance novel. Soulmates are the norm in these books. They have alpha wolves (or cats or whatever) which aren't even really a thing in wolf (or cat) groups.

This is a sad time for werewolf fans, since shifter books are really, really popular. If you like love at first sight stuff, shifter books are for you.

Anyway, I picked up this one knowing it was a shifter one, but it seemed maybe not like other shifter books. Luckily there were no soulmates, but there sure was love at first sight (sigh).

These shifter books make werewolves so... soft? There's no angst or pain. The moon controls nothing, shifters can shift whenever they like. It's just magic. Poof! Wolf. Poof! Person again.

Also, every shifter is sexy and they all walk around naked half the time.

All that being said, I didn't hate this book. It was, for a shifter book, not bad at all. I liked the characters and the plot, just not the setting or any of the world building (since it was all shifter stuff).

I'm not unhappy I read this book, I even got lost in the story at times, but I don't have plans to continue with the next eight books in the series.


[edit: Ah ha. While reading the Goodreads reviews on this one, I discovered there's a name for what I was trying to describe. These shifter books are called "paranormal romance", which perfectly fits what I was trying to say.]