Mason's Regret

Wolves' Heat #8

by Odessa Lynne

Once every three years, humans become sexual prey to a species that has no control over the urge to mate because of a devastating attraction to human scent.

It’s been three years since Mason and his twin brother were caught inside the American Protectorate and held as prisoners by the aliens everyone calls “wolves.” Mason’s brother hasn’t been the same since, and neither has Mason.

Now heat season has come again, and for reasons Mason doesn’t understand, his brother has gone back into the protectorate—and he needs Mason’s help.

Mason’s past is full of mistakes, but leaving his brother to deal with trouble alone isn’t one he’s going to make again—no matter the cost. But when wolves start howling nearby, there’s only one sane thing to run.

Except the only path to safety is through a terrifying alpha wolf who wants to claim Mason as his mate…

Book 8 of the Wolves' Heat series!

This story contains explicit sex, graphic language, and sexual situations that some people might find offensive. Male/Male sexual content. Romance for anyone who likes hot male/male loving, alien mates, and a strong dose of alpha romance!

Genres: Fantasy, M M Romance, Shapeshifters, Science Fiction, Aliens, Dystopia, Gay

419 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 11, 2017

Reviews

[Qin · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNFd at 43%. The English is a bit better than in her last works, but grammatical mistakes ("there was a story there but Mason barely cared what it might be", etc), infelicities ("his stomach roiled" instead of "rolled", etc) and hispid repetitions of the same word at a close interval, are far from scarce. If, like me, you fail to remember who on God's green Earth Jay is, why he gets described as a devil one should not make a bargain with, and what are his connections to the Wolves and Renegates alike, the first 10% of this book will not make sense; all the more so since Mason receives a mighty beating from two cronies of a newcomer in Mrs Lynne's universe, Stan (who quickly dies) only to pick up enough steam once Jay and his lackey Sebastian save Mason at the eleventh hour, jump on Stan's vehicle and speed up towards a laboratory to retrieve his brother Marcus' body (who turns out to be his twin and definitely not dead to boot). Confusion, thy name is Mrs Lynne's moniker when she begins any of her Wolves' Heat books. By the 20% bar, we understand that something has been done to both Mason and Marcus, since both recover in a few hours from life-threatening injuries. Yet the main intrigue still eludes the reader at 43%, the only concerns of the story being the tedious sexing and nigh-boring feeding and washing of Mason by his Alpha, Weketekari, a.k.a. Five (!), as the perks of his submission, on top of rehashing the human's 'regret' - nothing more memorable than his self-hatred for letting Marcus detract the wolf who wanted Mason for his heat mate, three years ago, and take Mason's place in said alien's bed. Instances of preposterous plotting and inconsistencies are going haywire : neither Marcus nor Mason seem to care for their cousin Matthew until they come at Five's den and Mason gets acquainted with a young wolf who is Five's cousin, thus reminding him of Matthew (!) ; Five has deep blue eyes and is very hairy, as if it had not been firmly established in the previous books that wolves as a rule were dark-haired, dark-eyed and glabrous, or at the very least smooth enough ; it is utterly crazy to read many pages of clumsy dialogue in which the Alpha and his mate trade barbs over free will or talk about Matthew and Brendan instead of Mason pestering Five for updates about Marcus, about whom by that point nothing has been declared for a least a hundred pages; and so on and so forth. This time, I could not indulge Mrs Lynne's insuferable habbit of non-stop throwing smoke screens at the reader in gross defiance of likelihood and I cut my losses early.

[Adrian Fridge · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ok so I'm heavily biased in my opinion. I've read every book in the series, so I'm more prone to be nitpicky.

The story is okay. Nothing special. Nothing that I haven't read before in the series. The author even has a list of tropes that they seem to include in each and every book like clockwork. Also because everything is exclusively from the POV of the human, be prepared for the human being left out of the loop and then heavy exposition to fill them in.

I'm just meh at this point. Will probably read the next book in the series, but my enthusiasm has gone down.

[Sherry F · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoy this universe and look forward to more. If you've read the series to date and liked them, then this one will be no different. Mason is beating himself up over past choices and how it has affected his twin, Marcus, as well as himself.

NOT a standalone book.

[Katie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love this series

I really really need to know what this prophesy is. I love this series. I'm definitely in it for the long haul. A's many of these books that Odessa Lynne would like to write that how many I'll read. I love this world she created.

[Celine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really loved this book. I am really hoping this wasn't the end for this series. Mason was great. It can be twisted at times, but the evolution of Mason is great to read. I loved Five. Had some good laugh.

[Pamela Raglin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Twins!

I'm so in love with this series. Seeing characters from earlier books step into the spotlight and tell their part of the story is awesome. Mason and Five have settled into my heart now.

[Jaycee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love this series. Imaginative, yet with a lot of depth, and possibly analogies, if one wants to go "there".

[Lbeesley · Rating 2 out of 5]

Lacking

I enjoyed the previous books so much more. This one was very ohh-hummm. You should read the other books they are so much better