Grace Dawson doesn’t have it all. Hell, she doesn’t even have half of it. Her life is spiraling into decline and all there is for her is selling paddleboards on a Florida beach.
That is, until she gets a little drunk and wakes up in a cage.
Billionaire shifter Karl Norman has a problem with pirates coming to Siesta Key and kidnapping girls. Karl has other problems: his life is filled with danger, and he’s a werewolf.
So are Grace’s pirates.
After a pitched battle, Karl discovers Grace among the captives, and she steals his heart. But can Grace cope with the truth of Karl’s existence?
This is Book 1 of the Sons of Thunder Trilogy: A BBW Billionaire Shifter Werewolf Romance.
Please note this the first book of a paranormal dark and steamy romance series with hardcore evil villains. This book includes vampires, a werewolf who imprints on his mate, a submissive curvy bbw heroine who is mated by the wolf, an alpha male biker hero into BDSM, and pirates.
I read this for a challenge and thank goodness it was short and free because I think I would have stabbed myself in the eye if I would of paid money for this garbage.
I think this author tried to hit every single popular romance subgenre and completely missed the target...just look at all the tags I had to use.
We have a plus size virgin who gets kidnapped by pirates then rescued by 2 hot guys. She keeps talking to her imaginary "angel" and "devil" sitting on her shoulders to decide what to do. So annoying.
Mystery man ends up being uber rich, a biker, a dominant, oh yeah and a shifter!!!! All this and I don't even remember his name.
A @#$&* cliffy! I cannot stress strongly enough how much I hate the influx of serials and the apparent acceptance of breaking a SINGLE story into several chunks that don't have endings. Beyond that, this is standard erotica. A sexually exploratory and nympho-like virgin (of course and that's not at all a contradiction apparently) gets kidnapped and then rescued. Sex ensues almost immediately, full of pointless bondage (the day after she's been kidnaped, tied up and traumatized to boot) and sudden paranormal elements are thrown in at the last second. Oh, and her internal angle/devil talking to her all the time was horrendously intrusive to the narrative. Nothing in this was anything but bog standard.
The first thing I have to say is that this book irked me because some of the chapters were not in order. The chapters went from 1, 4, 5, 2, 3 ,6, then in order from there. It was bothersome skipping to the right chapter.
This is the story of Grace. A woman who is trying to make a career for herself with her best friend. She also has issues with her body since she is not the traditional size 4. She is a little thick.
One day she is working to sell products for one of the advertisers of her paper. She gets drunk and in the process gets kidnapped. She was being shipped when she hears another boat comes along containing Karl and his brother, Jack. The situation escalates to where the brothers know that Grace is on the boat against her will and they save her and the others girls.
The character of Karl kind of made me mad at the beginning because he was asking too many questions before saving this girl. What man asks a woman for her name and number before he unties her? That didn't make sense.
Through all that Grace felt a sexual attraction to him. Due to what happened on the boat during the rescue, some people died. So in order for the brother Jack not to be arrested they need Grace to talk to a detective. Karl invites her to his suite at the Ritz. She is still attracted to Karl. Not getting into too much detail they are getting intimate. In the moment Karl starts to shift. She gets scared and runs away.
What did this book in for me was that after Karl stopped shifting Grace wanted to go back and continue with Karl. She was rationalizing about her not being tolerate about him being different. She thought about how he looked when he came and all other bull. Not believable.
Also I believe some of the story was incomplete. There were some questions. Was she so drunk that she didn't see a big boat coming up next to her? Are shifters that common that she wasnt that scared of him? If I didn't already have the second book I would not buy it. But I will read on just to complete the series.
I liked the humor in the story and just to let readers know, there's a cliffhanger here and just one hot scene. The story was told in bits, like a spiral format but it worked. Karl is a shapeshifter and a biker and the author has yet to explain how he became a billionaire.
All she wanted was to really get off, not knowing that in itself would be complicated. The man would growl and the kit Kat would just purr. We should all hope to come across someone like that just once.
The ending is not an absolute cliffhanger, but the teaser excerpts of the next two of the series are. These characters are okay, but as it is only the first of the trilogy, I don't feel anything for Karl and Grace is in her head a lot. Okay as a freebie.
Short, slow beginning... Did not like how the author went from present to past and the background story of the girls was bland. I dig pirates and kidnapping but even that didn't grab my attention. The mention of the man rescuing her as Thor did intrigue me, but the first date was missing a whole lot of foreplay. Where was all the dirty talk and sexy whispers? And... did I mention it was short? Too short. I read a portion of the next two books in the series and didn't get a warm fuzzy to even want to finish them. Then the werewolf just popping out was weird. I wanted to love it, I was looking for some shameful heat... I just didn't find it.
Update-6/14/15
I should mention I did actually enjoy the angel and the devil sitting on her shoulder... that was humorous but I really wanted the date to be longer and the author should think about merging all the short stories together.
This a three part story. So there is a cliffhanger at the end of this one. In the begining Grace finds herself kidnapped off the Florida coast where she had been helping to sell paddleboards. Along comes Karl, a shifter billioniare, who sets her free. Very straight forward so far. They get together.How will she cope when she finds out his secret? But thats where this part stops. This is written by Deva Long. Have all the parts now so I will read the rest. I gave this four stars after reading all the parts as a whole.
I propose that you pick up this entire Trilogy (which includes Alpha Fangs and Alpha Howl) and buckle up for the ride. It’s a unique take on the shifter series that everyone else is putting out there. Alpha Heat (and the other installments) have a well developed plot, steamy intimacy and a nice twist. Pick up the trilogy – you will love it. I think I devoured the entire series in a sitting. Awesome read!
For such a short first werewolf paranormal book, it had a lot going on. From the BBW main character, Grace, her kidnapping rescuer, Karl, to her then encounter with her hero, Karl, as a rich motorcycle club leader werewolf who's into BDSM. These books are too short, that's the only reason I didn't rate it a five.
It started out interesting then moved really quick and was over before you could blink. I was going to buy book #2 but to be honest I wasn't willing to pay $2.99 for such a short series book. It didn't list number of pages. Good sexy alpha. So enjoyable to read if you like alpha stories.
I have never read this author before but I'm very much intrigued. She has a flair for the paranormal with a little bit of sexiness thrown in I can't wait to read book 2 and 3.
Promising! Storyline was captivating from the beginning. Draws you in and leaving you hanging with a cliffhanger ending. Interesting characters and hot scenes.
She doesn't think she is good enough for a alpha male. She just dreams about the 🔥 hot bodied alpha male that is like Apollo. With golden hair & tanned body, hard abs & lots of muscles. He did things to her that pleased her. But something happened that made her 🏃 run from him.
BBW trying to get ahead with her business. Sacrifices have to be made. Then captured. Thanking her saviors May take more than she though. Good story but needs more meat.
This was one short story. It was an OK read. The characters were definitely interesting. The plot and storyline were just ok. It seemed to me it was cut short, missing something. The heat was there.
The internal fat phobia is a real downer for me, the FMC whole personality is have negative feelings about her body and having multiple voices in her head. The fat the she talks to her self without it being edited to clearly show this was why I ended up DNFing.
Really fun quick read! The author kept my attention and the character building between the MFC & MMC is really good for the start of a series. Looking forward to the next installment to see where things go!
I think this book is a great concept, and it had potential. However, the writing flow, the ‘angel on the shoulder’, certain plot points, and some of the vocabulary choices really put me off on this read.
Didn't care for this story it felt rushed at parts and other parts were confusing. The story ended abruptly and they didn't bring up the fact that this is a shapeshifter story until the very end