Genre: Adult Omegaverse
Spice: 3/5 🌶️
Tropes & themes: MMFM omegaverse, snowed-in forced proximity, sneaky heat, build-a-pack, diverse representation (Sri Lankan, Chinese Singaporean, & a big boy), filthy mouthed pack beta, cunnilingus cum pants, care & spoiling, meddling cat, female friendship, cozy small town vibes, breeding (🔥) & more!
This is book two in the Cozyverse, a shared universe between Eliana Lee and Emilia Emerson. Each book may be read as a standalone, but I highly recommend the entire series.
Spoiler-Free Summary:
Ivy dedicated her life to being the best teacher imaginable, forgoing the needs of her omega. Then, one fateful snow storm traps her with three men that make her body sing: Rome, the music teacher, James, his bonded veterinarian, and Logan, the grumpy giant. They help her through her first ever mini-heat, but just when Ivy expects them to disappear, they court her. All the while, Felix the meddling cat revels in his cleverness.
Thoughts:
A Pack for Winter is like a freshly baked Christmas cookie straight from the oven: sweet, gooey, scalding hot, and deliciously satisfying.
Every moment of this book feels like the perfect holiday romcom, complete with banter, smut, and snowed-in forced proximity. I was smiling and kicking my feet the entire time I was reading, literally giddy with delight.
Of course, it would not be an Eliana Lee omegaverse without her masterful weaving of romance, culture, food, and depth. I was especially drawn to Ivy, the FMC, who struggles with anxiety, people pleasing, and otherwise finding a healthy balance in her life. I can 1000% relate. I also found myself feeling a kinship with Logan, Ivy’s bigger bodied alpha, who uses his grumpiness as an invisibility cloak. As always, Eliana has such a gift for handling her characters with care while allowing them the space and support to grow.
One thing that I love about Eliana’s style of writing is the absolute feralness in her characters. I am obsessed with the way she plays with omegaverse designations and their more primal natures to write characters that feel so fierce in their love.
As for Pack Winter, each character was artfully developed and expressed on page. I want to thank Eliana for the representation she brings to this genre; it is an honor and a pleasure to read about different cultures and experience how they interact with the Omegaverse.
I especially want to talk about how happy I am that Eliana wrote a big boi MMC. I loved Logan and I thought his representation was so endearing and relatable. In addition, the way Ivy was written as a woman that loved Logan’s body because it was *his* and not because of anything specific was so fucking emotional for me. Body diverse omegaverse characters are very important to me personally, and I really loved Logan. And don’t get me started on the body hair rep 🙌 I feel like Eliana wrote Logan for me, even though I know that’s not true 😂
I could continue to write a giant love letter to Eliana’s work, but you’ll have to take my word for it. This book is absolutely amazing and the Cozyverse is absolutely becoming my favorite omegaverse series I’ve ever read.