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Whiskey and Werewolves: A Vampire Werewolf Fated Mates Romance
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Expected publication September 30, 2026
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Carly Spade
31 books835 followersAn adult romance writer who has been writing since she could pick up a pencil. After the insanity of obtaining a bachelor’s and master’s degree in cybersecurity, creating worlds to escape to still ate at her very soul. She started writing FanFiction (which can still be found if you scour the internet 😉 ), and soon felt the need to get her original ideas on paper. And so the adventure began.
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⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4/5 Stars
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ 5/5 Peppers
I received an ARC/review copy of Whiskey and Werewolves in exchange for nothing more than my honest opinion. As always, any opinions or thoughts expressed here are entirely voluntary, 100% my own, and were not influenced in any way. This review reflects the version of the manuscript I received and read as it was written as of September 15, 2026. Any edits or changes made to the book after that date are not reflected in my review.
Whiskey and Werewolves was my first book in this interconnected standalone series, so I went into Aurora and Harkin’s story knowing absolutely nothing about this world or anything that may have happened in the first two books. I wasn’t really sure how much I would feel like I had missed by starting with Book 3, but I was able to follow the story just fine. If anything, it had the opposite effect because I finished this one curious enough about the world and some of the other characters that now I want to go backward and see what the heck I missed in Books 1 and 2.
I had fun with Aurora and Harkin almost immediately. Aurora is a vampire who owns a bar, refuses to feed on humans, has a zombie pug named Waffles, and has absolutely no interest in having an Alpha werewolf tell her what she can and cannot do. Harkin is a very large, very protective Alpha who is quite accustomed to people actually listening when he tells them what to do, so putting those two personalities together went about as smoothly as you would expect. They irritated the hell out of each other, and I thoroughly enjoyed watching them do it.
Their back-and-forth was probably one of my favorite parts of their relationship because both of them could give as good as they got. Aurora would poke at Harkin just to watch him growl and then look entirely too pleased with herself afterward, while Harkin had no problem giving it right back to her. There were definitely moments that made me laugh, but I wouldn’t necessarily call the book a comedy. The humor felt more natural than that. A lot of it came from Aurora’s internal commentary, the strange collection of supernatural characters running around this world, Ash happily stirring the pot whenever he got the chance, and some of the ridiculous situations Aurora and Harkin found themselves in. And honestly, having a zombie pug with mismatched body parts named Waffles wandering around certainly didn’t hurt.
More importantly, I actually became invested in Aurora and Harkin and wanted them to work things out. Their history from twenty-five years earlier gave the enemies-to-lovers and second-chance parts of their relationship more substance than simply having two people who hate each other but think the other one is hot. There were old assumptions, jealousy, attraction, hurt feelings, and a whole lot of unfinished business sitting between them. The more I learned about what had actually happened all those years ago, the more I understood why they behaved the way they did now, and there were definitely times I wanted to knock their heads together and tell them to just TALK to each other already. But I was rooting for them.
Aurora was probably my favorite of the two because she can need help without suddenly becoming helpless. Harkin can go full protective Alpha all he wants, but she never stops making her own decisions, challenging him, arguing with him, or reminding him that being Alpha of his pack does not make him Alpha of her. That steady, stubborn “you do not get to control me” streak has me rooting for her every freakin’ time. There were several moments where my reaction was basically, Yes, girl! You tell him! I especially liked that falling for Harkin never required Aurora to suddenly become a different woman or give up the independence that made me like her in the first place.
Harkin grew on me too. He has plenty of that possessive, protective, touch-her-and-die energy, but there was more behind his need to protect Aurora than him simply being an overbearing Alpha. The supernatural bind between them complicates things because at first he has an actual obligation to keep her safe, and then his feelings start getting mixed up in it. I liked watching it become harder for him to tell where protecting Aurora because he had to ended and protecting her because he genuinely cared about her began. Of course, trying to protect a woman who is constantly reminding you that she can protect her own damn self probably wasn’t doing that poor wolf any favors.
What surprised me was how invested I became in everything happening outside of the romance. The more I learned about Aurora’s past, Harkin’s unusual abilities, the history between vampires and werewolves, the pack, the supernatural bonds, and the threat connected to Aurora’s past, the more I wanted to understand all of it. Some of my questions may very well have answers in the first two books, since these are interconnected standalones, and others may be things that are going to matter in future books. But reading this one on its own, there were definitely places where I found myself thinking, Wait… tell me more about THAT.
That was probably the biggest thing keeping this from being a five-star read for me. It wasn’t that I wanted the story to become something completely different. I wanted more of the story that was already there because those were the parts that had gotten me invested. Aurora’s history especially caught my attention, and there were things about what she had lost and what she discovers about herself that felt pretty significant. Harkin’s more unusual werewolf abilities also made me curious, as did the mythology surrounding their bond and the pack dynamics. Some of those bigger developments happened quickly enough that I wanted the story to hang out there a little longer and let me really take them in.
I wasn’t bored with Aurora and Harkin themselves. I liked them together, I enjoyed their chemistry, and I was rooting for them. Where my attention did start wandering a little was through parts of the middle when more time was being spent on their physical relationship while the supernatural story I had become really curious about stayed in the background. This is definitely a spicy book at 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ 5/5 peppers, with plenty of explicit sexual content along with biting, blood play, marking, claiming, and knotting. Those things made sense for a vampire/werewolf pairing and fit their relationship, so the spice itself wasn’t the problem for me. I just reached a point where I would have happily traded some of it for more plot because, apparently, the story had managed to make me more nosy about its supernatural world than interested in watching those two get naked again.
The pacing was a little uneven for me because of that too. The beginning pulled me in pretty quickly, the middle slowed somewhat as more attention shifted toward the physical side of Aurora and Harkin’s relationship, and then the final conflict and several pretty important developments seemed to happen much faster. I especially wanted a little more breathing room toward the end because some of what happens means a lot for Aurora personally. I understood what those moments meant to her, but I wanted enough time with them to really feel that right along with her.
I enjoyed the supporting characters too. Ash was fun and gave Aurora someone outside of Harkin to bounce off of, while the pack helped show another side of Harkin and reminded me that he had responsibilities beyond his relationship with Aurora. There were also characters who seemed to know more about the supernatural world than Aurora and Harkin did, which only made me more curious about the larger series. And then there was Waffles. I loved that Aurora’s strange little zombie pug wasn’t introduced as a funny gimmick and forgotten once the romance got going. She genuinely loves that ugly little undead creature, and watching Harkin gradually realize that getting Aurora also means accepting Waffles made me love the whole thing even more.
Overall, Whiskey and Werewolves was a fun read for me. I laughed, I was invested, I rooted for Aurora and Harkin, I loved Aurora’s stubborn ass, and Harkin definitely grew on me. I also became much more interested in the supernatural world and Aurora’s history than I expected when I started. What kept it at ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4/5 stars instead of five was mostly wanting more depth and clarity from some of those story elements, a little more balance between the plot and the sexual side of the relationship through the middle, and more time for the final conflict and bigger emotional moments to breathe.
Basically, I wanted more story because I actually liked the story, which isn’t exactly a bad problem for a book to leave me with. And considering I walked into an interconnected series at Book 3 and came out wanting to go back and read Books 1 and 2 while also wanting to know what comes next, I’d say Carly Spade got me.
Review By: SASSY
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🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ 5/5 Peppers
I received an ARC/review copy of Whiskey and Werewolves in exchange for nothing more than my honest opinion. As always, any opinions or thoughts expressed here are entirely voluntary, 100% my own, and were not influenced in any way. This review reflects the version of the manuscript I received and read as it was written as of September 15, 2026. Any edits or changes made to the book after that date are not reflected in my review.
Whiskey and Werewolves was my first book in this interconnected standalone series, so I went into Aurora and Harkin’s story knowing absolutely nothing about this world or anything that may have happened in the first two books. I wasn’t really sure how much I would feel like I had missed by starting with Book 3, but I was able to follow the story just fine. If anything, it had the opposite effect because I finished this one curious enough about the world and some of the other characters that now I want to go backward and see what the heck I missed in Books 1 and 2.
I had fun with Aurora and Harkin almost immediately. Aurora is a vampire who owns a bar, refuses to feed on humans, has a zombie pug named Waffles, and has absolutely no interest in having an Alpha werewolf tell her what she can and cannot do. Harkin is a very large, very protective Alpha who is quite accustomed to people actually listening when he tells them what to do, so putting those two personalities together went about as smoothly as you would expect. They irritated the hell out of each other, and I thoroughly enjoyed watching them do it.
Their back-and-forth was probably one of my favorite parts of their relationship because both of them could give as good as they got. Aurora would poke at Harkin just to watch him growl and then look entirely too pleased with herself afterward, while Harkin had no problem giving it right back to her. There were definitely moments that made me laugh, but I wouldn’t necessarily call the book a comedy. The humor felt more natural than that. A lot of it came from Aurora’s internal commentary, the strange collection of supernatural characters running around this world, Ash happily stirring the pot whenever he got the chance, and some of the ridiculous situations Aurora and Harkin found themselves in. And honestly, having a zombie pug with mismatched body parts named Waffles wandering around certainly didn’t hurt.
More importantly, I actually became invested in Aurora and Harkin and wanted them to work things out. Their history from twenty-five years earlier gave the enemies-to-lovers and second-chance parts of their relationship more substance than simply having two people who hate each other but think the other one is hot. There were old assumptions, jealousy, attraction, hurt feelings, and a whole lot of unfinished business sitting between them. The more I learned about what had actually happened all those years ago, the more I understood why they behaved the way they did now, and there were definitely times I wanted to knock their heads together and tell them to just TALK to each other already. But I was rooting for them.
Aurora was probably my favorite of the two because she can need help without suddenly becoming helpless. Harkin can go full protective Alpha all he wants, but she never stops making her own decisions, challenging him, arguing with him, or reminding him that being Alpha of his pack does not make him Alpha of her. That steady, stubborn “you do not get to control me” streak has me rooting for her every freakin’ time. There were several moments where my reaction was basically, Yes, girl! You tell him! I especially liked that falling for Harkin never required Aurora to suddenly become a different woman or give up the independence that made me like her in the first place.
Harkin grew on me too. He has plenty of that possessive, protective, touch-her-and-die energy, but there was more behind his need to protect Aurora than him simply being an overbearing Alpha. The supernatural bind between them complicates things because at first he has an actual obligation to keep her safe, and then his feelings start getting mixed up in it. I liked watching it become harder for him to tell where protecting Aurora because he had to ended and protecting her because he genuinely cared about her began. Of course, trying to protect a woman who is constantly reminding you that she can protect her own damn self probably wasn’t doing that poor wolf any favors.
What surprised me was how invested I became in everything happening outside of the romance. The more I learned about Aurora’s past, Harkin’s unusual abilities, the history between vampires and werewolves, the pack, the supernatural bonds, and the threat connected to Aurora’s past, the more I wanted to understand all of it. Some of my questions may very well have answers in the first two books, since these are interconnected standalones, and others may be things that are going to matter in future books. But reading this one on its own, there were definitely places where I found myself thinking, Wait… tell me more about THAT.
That was probably the biggest thing keeping this from being a five-star read for me. It wasn’t that I wanted the story to become something completely different. I wanted more of the story that was already there because those were the parts that had gotten me invested. Aurora’s history especially caught my attention, and there were things about what she had lost and what she discovers about herself that felt pretty significant. Harkin’s more unusual werewolf abilities also made me curious, as did the mythology surrounding their bond and the pack dynamics. Some of those bigger developments happened quickly enough that I wanted the story to hang out there a little longer and let me really take them in.
I wasn’t bored with Aurora and Harkin themselves. I liked them together, I enjoyed their chemistry, and I was rooting for them. Where my attention did start wandering a little was through parts of the middle when more time was being spent on their physical relationship while the supernatural story I had become really curious about stayed in the background. This is definitely a spicy book at 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ 5/5 peppers, with plenty of explicit sexual content along with biting, blood play, marking, claiming, and knotting. Those things made sense for a vampire/werewolf pairing and fit their relationship, so the spice itself wasn’t the problem for me. I just reached a point where I would have happily traded some of it for more plot because, apparently, the story had managed to make me more nosy about its supernatural world than interested in watching those two get naked again.
The pacing was a little uneven for me because of that too. The beginning pulled me in pretty quickly, the middle slowed somewhat as more attention shifted toward the physical side of Aurora and Harkin’s relationship, and then the final conflict and several pretty important developments seemed to happen much faster. I especially wanted a little more breathing room toward the end because some of what happens means a lot for Aurora personally. I understood what those moments meant to her, but I wanted enough time with them to really feel that right along with her.
I enjoyed the supporting characters too. Ash was fun and gave Aurora someone outside of Harkin to bounce off of, while the pack helped show another side of Harkin and reminded me that he had responsibilities beyond his relationship with Aurora. There were also characters who seemed to know more about the supernatural world than Aurora and Harkin did, which only made me more curious about the larger series. And then there was Waffles. I loved that Aurora’s strange little zombie pug wasn’t introduced as a funny gimmick and forgotten once the romance got going. She genuinely loves that ugly little undead creature, and watching Harkin gradually realize that getting Aurora also means accepting Waffles made me love the whole thing even more.
Overall, Whiskey and Werewolves was a fun read for me. I laughed, I was invested, I rooted for Aurora and Harkin, I loved Aurora’s stubborn ass, and Harkin definitely grew on me. I also became much more interested in the supernatural world and Aurora’s history than I expected when I started. What kept it at ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4/5 stars instead of five was mostly wanting more depth and clarity from some of those story elements, a little more balance between the plot and the sexual side of the relationship through the middle, and more time for the final conflict and bigger emotional moments to breathe.
Basically, I wanted more story because I actually liked the story, which isn’t exactly a bad problem for a book to leave me with. And considering I walked into an interconnected series at Book 3 and came out wanting to go back and read Books 1 and 2 while also wanting to know what comes next, I’d say Carly Spade got me.
Review By: SASSY
Owner • Creator • Queen of the Chaos
SassyReviews.com
Read, Reviewed, & BookDragon Approved… or Not.
September 14, 2026
This book is a rare find. In a world that is about instant gratification and the next quick fix we often don't see this kind of writing. I am so glad Carly Spade reached out and introduced me to this book.
This is a slow burn romance and I was hesitant to accept reading this book as slow burn are hard for me to get though but hold on a minute... can slow burn be done right? YES,YES it can and Carly did right by low burn. The first 1/4 of the book is slow, but has great character development. The kind that draws you into the characters back story. The kind that sets up the love to hate and hate to love relationship with the characters themselves. It took me the better part of a week to get though the first chapters and it was slow but not once do I regret not carefully reading every word. The back story and delicious hints of what was to come, the inner turmoil was astounding. Knuckle under and read it, you wont regret it.
The story opens up as the romance takes flight and at this point I read the book in a day. I didn't want to put it down. I wanted the next words, the next sentence and the what's next. The twists and turns of this book are amazing sometimes you are expecting them and then there are ones you just don't. One day from page sixty-something to the end and IT WAS WORTH IT!
The plot of star crossed lovers (in this case moon crossed) is some of the best. Its a Vampire and Werewolf scenario that Carly absolutely made work and work well. All the details seemed to be so fitting and I found myself saying, "that makes sense." even when you know historically these two types of beings do not co-exist in the same space at all in books. Carly bridged that gap so seamlessly in Whisky and Werewolves that it just works. These seemingly impossible lovers are captivating.
The wording, the sentences and even the paragraph structure make this book a book of substance. That is something the romance genre really needs. Carly clearly can deliver a well thought out and executed novel that won't disappoint.
The world building in this book is equally as well done. Its not too complex that you have to take notes. Its just enough to round out your reading experience. The supporting characters Carly created really do add to the world building that is supportive rater then over baring. It really makes for an easy to read book, that you want to pick up.
Watch out this book has some spice! Its done very aptly and not in a vulgar way. It really fits with the moment and the pace of the book. Even though some of the spice is in trigger warnings, it really does not need to be, in my opinion. After all we are talking about a human/K-9 hybrid a.k.a. a werewolf. The writing that included a K-9ish appearance to certain body parts is absolutely warranted and not done in a vulgar manner. The thoughtfulness in how the spice was placed in this book and how the spice moments played out was well done. Not once did I feel it crossed a line but rather added to the depth of the story.
If you have a TBR list or this is on a list of yours. READ IT! If its not on your read list yet ADD IT. It is so worth the time.
Thank you Carly Spade for inviting me to read this book. I was gifted and ARC copy for an honest and unbiased review.
This is a slow burn romance and I was hesitant to accept reading this book as slow burn are hard for me to get though but hold on a minute... can slow burn be done right? YES,YES it can and Carly did right by low burn. The first 1/4 of the book is slow, but has great character development. The kind that draws you into the characters back story. The kind that sets up the love to hate and hate to love relationship with the characters themselves. It took me the better part of a week to get though the first chapters and it was slow but not once do I regret not carefully reading every word. The back story and delicious hints of what was to come, the inner turmoil was astounding. Knuckle under and read it, you wont regret it.
The story opens up as the romance takes flight and at this point I read the book in a day. I didn't want to put it down. I wanted the next words, the next sentence and the what's next. The twists and turns of this book are amazing sometimes you are expecting them and then there are ones you just don't. One day from page sixty-something to the end and IT WAS WORTH IT!
The plot of star crossed lovers (in this case moon crossed) is some of the best. Its a Vampire and Werewolf scenario that Carly absolutely made work and work well. All the details seemed to be so fitting and I found myself saying, "that makes sense." even when you know historically these two types of beings do not co-exist in the same space at all in books. Carly bridged that gap so seamlessly in Whisky and Werewolves that it just works. These seemingly impossible lovers are captivating.
The wording, the sentences and even the paragraph structure make this book a book of substance. That is something the romance genre really needs. Carly clearly can deliver a well thought out and executed novel that won't disappoint.
The world building in this book is equally as well done. Its not too complex that you have to take notes. Its just enough to round out your reading experience. The supporting characters Carly created really do add to the world building that is supportive rater then over baring. It really makes for an easy to read book, that you want to pick up.
Watch out this book has some spice! Its done very aptly and not in a vulgar way. It really fits with the moment and the pace of the book. Even though some of the spice is in trigger warnings, it really does not need to be, in my opinion. After all we are talking about a human/K-9 hybrid a.k.a. a werewolf. The writing that included a K-9ish appearance to certain body parts is absolutely warranted and not done in a vulgar manner. The thoughtfulness in how the spice was placed in this book and how the spice moments played out was well done. Not once did I feel it crossed a line but rather added to the depth of the story.
If you have a TBR list or this is on a list of yours. READ IT! If its not on your read list yet ADD IT. It is so worth the time.
Thank you Carly Spade for inviting me to read this book. I was gifted and ARC copy for an honest and unbiased review.
Review of advance copy received from Author
Aurora had resigned herself to the life she has now. It wasn't the planned existence she wanted but no one plans to be turned as the result of a vampire attack. To be forced to feed of humans is something Aurora no longer wants so to find a safe haven like the Arcane Cove a place for all supernaturals is a blessing because there’s no humans so no temptation. However there is more than one downer though about becoming a vampire yes its a long life well if the sun doesn’t get you but there’s also no passion no lust and for a woman born long before this century that’s along time to feel nothing. Well there was that one very brief encounter with a werewolf years ago but nothing since then. That was until the repairman who arrived to fix the tap in the bar Aurora owns he would change everything for Aurora cause it’s Harkin the werewolf the only person who has made her feel something in many a year and it looks like he just might be the guy/werewolf to give Aurora the future she never ever thought possible. well once they sort the danger that suddenly appears but hey nothing like life or undead dead to spice up a relationship
Review of advance copy received from Author
I was so happy to receive an ARC copy of this book after reading Carly Spade's books for years. I first read the Greek mythos series a few years ago, and it's one that I reread annually (at minimum). I love how the story connects with previous characters, and Arcane Cove has been wonderful to learn more about.
Aurora is a badass vampire with a fascinating history, and Harkin is your typical broody Alpha wolf shifter with sexy tattoos and motorcycle riding, all wrapped up in a lot of muscle. Her Zombie pug is ADORABLE, I love Waffles, and the chemistry between Aurora and Harkin make this story so delicious. LOVE LOVE LOVE and can't wait to see what story unfolds next in Arcane Cove!
Aurora is a badass vampire with a fascinating history, and Harkin is your typical broody Alpha wolf shifter with sexy tattoos and motorcycle riding, all wrapped up in a lot of muscle. Her Zombie pug is ADORABLE, I love Waffles, and the chemistry between Aurora and Harkin make this story so delicious. LOVE LOVE LOVE and can't wait to see what story unfolds next in Arcane Cove!
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