Jump to ratings and reviews
Rate this book

Daybreak

Rate this book
Weldon finally has it all.
A good job, personal freedom, women, and a motorcycle that thrills the untamed beast within.
His life is complete. Until he meets her...
Tania has searched for Mr. Right. Now she only dates casually
When Weldon arrives for a date with her roommate, she’s inexplicably drawn to him.
Yet, she’s been warned about him...
Can they secure their happiness? Or will they live separate lives, never knowing what might have been?

114 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 27, 2021

9 people are currently reading
43 people want to read

About the author

T.K. Lawyer

43 books353 followers
International Bestselling Author, Tamara K. Lawyer, writes under the pseudonym TK Lawyer and was born in Colon, Panama. She moved to the United States with her family to pursue her post-secondary education aspirations and found her love of writing shortly after.
She writes sexy, heartwarming, paranormal, and contemporary romances. Her books often toe the line, straying from traditional ideas to open reader's minds and hearts to unlimited possibilities.
When she isn’t reading or writing, she is likely spending time with her husband/best friend or catering to their lovable American Foxhound, Misfit, who steals all the attention in their house.

Connect with TK
Newsletter
https://tklawyerauthor.com
Twitter
www.twitter.com/tklawyerauthor
Amazon
www.amazon.com/author/tklawyer
Facebook
www.facebook.com/tklawyerauthor
Website
https://tklawyerauthor.com/

Ratings & Reviews

What do you think?
Rate this book

Friends & Following

Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!

Community Reviews

5 stars
6 (28%)
4 stars
1 (4%)
3 stars
2 (9%)
2 stars
3 (14%)
1 star
9 (42%)
Displaying 1 - 8 of 8 reviews
5,704 reviews39 followers
August 12, 2021
so good... interesting story.. good characters.. sweet storyline.. i enjoyed it.
488 reviews7 followers
Read
October 1, 2025
I have mixed feelings. this feels like a second or third book in a series but there was nothing to indicate it when I started the book. there was nothing bad about the book, but I spent more time confused than not.
376 reviews6 followers
March 5, 2023
I like the title of this book. It holds so much promise. Daybreak. For a vampire or a werewolf, it might be the perfect word encompassing day (light) and break (pain). For someone making it home after a night of debauchery, it also might be a perfect word for the same reasons.

The book opens up to a debauched paranormal creature, aka “our hero.” He is Weldon, and he has an enormous ego, and a grand sense of entitlement. He cares for no one the way he cares for himself and his own needs. Everyone in his needy, lust-filled life is a supporting character, including the one-and-done woman he is in the process of doing when the story begins. Affronted by the woman faking her sexual enjoyment and, perhaps her orgasm, he is outraged that she would display such perfidy as faking her pleasure. He is just that good at sex. He tosses her out and is immediately at a loss for what to do with himself next.

What he does is odd. He pesters his brother. No reason given. Supposedly, he’s pranking his happily mated brother, but it falls flat. Our ego-filled hero is a nuisance, nothing more. From the story’s perspective, it serves no purpose. I suppose it further highlights our hero’s sense of his own importance.

We follow this anti-hero’s exploits where he remains with an ex-lover because she’s always available and puts out, finds his true mate and cheats on her because, well…because he can. He’s gorgeous, is totally aware of it, and cannot stop finding and using women to add fuel to the fire of his maniacal ego.

His true mate, Tania, believes deeply that all men cheat, lie, and make false promises. She also knows that “a man who knew the effect he had on women was never a good thing.” She is 100% right and our hero, Weldon, sets out to prove it to her. He’s a liar, a cheat, and he knows the effect he has on women.

Most of the book is taken up by Tania going back and forth in her mind about Weldon. She likes him. She doesn’t trust him. She enjoys his company. He has a history of moving on. She thinks he’s great in bed. He’s just notching his bedpost. And so on…and on…and on…and on. It’s too much with way over the top idiocy between Tania and Weldon and no down time to find out who they are as individuals. They are caricatures, without depth. And the yes-no-maybe-no-better not-yes went on for so long, that in the end I really didn’t care if Weldon and Tania ever got together.

I kept reading, thinking Weldon’s going to change, there’s a character arc here somewhere, he’s being portrayed as totally self-serving, and Some Big Thing is going to kick him into gear. It doesn’t. He remains unchanged. He meets his mate, Tania, who doesn’t want him. He rescues her a few times. She still doesn’t want him. He reveals his true nature and now she really doesn’t want him. Argh! So tiring.

We spend 98% of the book with Weldon and Tania doing the on-again/off-again tango and then the book abruptly ends. It stops. It’s over. A few sentences and everything is hunky-dory and Weldon and Tania go off into the sunset to live eternally forever and ever together, uh-huh. When I closed my Kindle, all I could do was shake my head. The book leaves a reader non-plussed.

There are so many errors in this book, I’m doubtful that an editor or proofreader looked at it. It seriously needs some strong editing. And proofreading. Much of the book is dry storytelling. We’re told how each character is portrayed; we aren’t allowed to see it. The writer spends her time telling us, rarely showing us. A little light dialogue would go a long way. Instead, we get paragraphs telling us what the characters are going through and how they will respond to one another. Page after page of words builds walls that are tiresome to read.

Here are some examples of problems in the book – and these occur before the reader is at the 50% completion mark:
Punctuation is a big problem, and it forces a reader to either pause or begin to speed read in order skip over these roadblocks.
 “Right now,, you’re an intruder….” One comma too many.
 “He definitely, lost Tania.” The comma is superfluous. This should be, “He definitely lost Tania.”
 “She had, recently, been with someone….” The commas are unnecessary. This should read, “She had recently been with someone….”
 “Well,, Kara’s my roommate….” Again, too many commas.
 “He lifted an amused eyebrow. “ Tractor-trailer? Yeah.” Unusual spacing around the quotation marks. Not to mention the odd image of an eyebrow being somehow amused.
 “Eva piped up, first, cutting off Weldon’s chance to mess things up.” There is an extra comma here and I’ve no clue which one to omit. Commas do a good job of helping to convey a message. Removing one or the other comma will change the meaning of the sentence, and yet one should be removed.
----- “Eva piped up first, cutting off Weldon’s chance….” Here, Eva is piping up before Weldon does.
----- “Eva piped up, first cutting off Weldon’s chance….” Here, Eva is the first to cut off Weldon.
 “She, badly, wanted them to work.” More superfluous commas, this should be, “She badly wanted them to work.”

Some words are used improperly, for instance:
 “There weren’t many who lingered in his presence, and even less he trusted.” The word, “less,” is used incorrectly. The decision regarding the use of “less” vs. “fewer” can be tricky. Here, however it’s pretty straightforward. When the noun being compared is countable, then use “fewer.” People are countable; we’re able to count the number of people Weldon is talking about. Therefore, this should read, “…and even fewer he trusted.”
 “Current technology made it too easy to survey anyone.” Unless Reid was being asked to participate in a survey, the word is “surveille,” as in using technology for surveillance.
 “The sensual perfume wafted across his taught nerves.” This one made me laugh. Is someone teaching his nerves to do something? “Taught” is a homophone of the correct word, “taut.” The sentence should read, “The sensual perfume wafted across his taut nerves.”
 “Sticking a handout to shake didn’t seem good enough.” This was pretty funny, too. Is he giving or taking a handout (a flier, or brochure, maybe) from someone? Another homophone. This should read, “Sticking a hand out to shake….” Reid is sticking out his hand. I think the sentence would be more meaningful if written as, "Sticking out a hand to shake...."
 “…having her heartbroken years ago….” I believe the writer means, “…having her heart broken years ago….” Otherwise, she should have written, “…leaving her heartbroken years ago.”
 “Kara hanged her head.” This is unintentionally funny, I think. “Hanged” is used only to refer to someone’s death by hanging. When hanging one’s head, the past tense is “hung,” as in “Kara hung her head.”
 Reid is talking about paranormal beings called “lot lizards,” apparently, not very nice. The writer says of Reid, “He’d never been with a lot of lizard before.” Since Reid has never been desperate for sex, he’s never used the services of a lot lizard. The sentence should read, “He’d never been with a lot lizard before.”

Some sentences are awkward, often because of odd word choices.
 “Winding his car to the natural curves of the road….” This sounds as if Reid has a wind-up car. The road can be winding, but a car is not. Maybe, “Matching his car to the natural curves of the winding road…,” although “natural curves” is an interesting turn of phrase. Not wrong, just gives a reader pause.
 “Never getting enough hours of sleep last night proved different.” Such a strange sentence. “Never” implies a period of time, while “last night” is definite. And how is this different? Different from what? Since this is about Tania who had just spent a night of wild sex with Weldon, I suspect the writer is trying to convey that Tania didn’t get enough sleep the previous night. She’s very active sexually, so sleepless nights wouldn't be different for her.
 This is a horrible run-on sentence with punctuation errors and possibly bad word choices, depending on what the writer is trying to say: “At least that’s what RJ told Tania when she spotted him seated at the bar, searching for someone RJ had offered him a beverage, but he declined, asking who staffed the bar that night and then refining his questions to ask, specifically, when his favorite bartender, Tania, would be back at work RJ lightly teased hm about her capabilities of fulfilling the job instead.” Wow…just, wow.

I missed having a chapter listing to access. I like to go back to a previous chapter to refresh my memory from time to time, and that’s not possible here without jumping around looking for pages or locations. Kindle’s X-Ray feature is not active and that’s a shame, too. It offers more information about a book, something too many writers do not take advantage of.

These are not even half the errors I found, but I’m worn out documenting them. The errors take away any enjoyment the book might have provided; they are so numerous, they overwhelm the writing. At the 33% completion mark, I was fed up and put the book down several times, then picked it back up again, thinking there must be something HUGE coming. There wasn’t.

Daybreak had potential. As I mentioned at the beginning of this review, the title is rich with metaphor. The story didn’t live up to its title. The plot is worn and thin, but that isn’t always a bad thing in a character-driven story. A sub-par plot can allow a writer to focus on character development, and the reader can enjoy a richly portrayed cast of characters. Unfortunately, that’s not the case here.

I rated this book 1 star, mostly because of the errors that distract the reader from the plot and the characters. Without the errors, and with crisp writing, this may have been a 3-star book. I didn’t care for the hero, Weldon, and I couldn’t warm to the heroine, Tania. But…this could just be a matter of personal preference. As a paranormal thriller, the book was less than enthralling.
Profile Image for Tiblu.
1,255 reviews49 followers
August 8, 2022
Hat a F’ing D Bag!!!!!!!

What kinda shifter finds his fated mate and THEN STILL SLEEPS WITH OTHER WOMEN!!!!!!!
Like one day later ?
W. T. H?!?!?
Literally he goes to F the F buddy of a girl who cheated on him,and smells his fated mate.
BTW , he’s there to see roommate because even though women are easy peasy lemon 🍋 squeezey for him to get he’s going back to the cheater.
How ironic ,I guess.
See Weldon here ( sexy name ,right?) already felt like a d bag coming at me from the start, but I still didn’t see this coming. The book starts with him F’ing some anonymous,only caring if he gets off,not her,of course,but he kicks her to the curb w/out finishing because he can tell she’s faking . His pride can’t take that. Then he leaves to supposedly go for a run to relieve some tension . Instead he just annoys his brother ,pats himself on the back and calls said cheater “ex” for a sex romp in the woods. Kay.
Delightful stuff. Then suddenly two weeks have passed and he’s going to see cheater for dinner or something. Literally get knocked on his A by scent of his fated mate and later “breaks up “ with F buddy because he doesn’t want her now. You think ,right,of course, naturally. Makes sense. He then goes and has non witty banter with Tania and imagines spanking her once they are mates because she’s so “ feisty”.
Turn the page and suddenly he’s on the road traveling out of town . I was like,wait what ? Why are we out of town ? I went back a page. Nope. I hadn’t missed anything . We weren’t told he was a truck driver before then. Next things we know he’s talking about “lot lizards” 🦎 and I start to dread what’s next . Wasn’t liking the guy or the book much but still. Long,short ,next is about him skipping the “lizards “ deciding go with the 22 yr.old waitress who prepositions him. Gag. Doesn’t know her name just her age.
Next starts like this: Chapter Five
Weldon’s heart hurt. He hadn’t expected to feel any pain from his acts with the young damsel lying next to him. Granted, he still didn’t know her name, but it didn’t matter, for he’d never see her again. Yet, the fact that anything inside of him felt off or with discord was beyond his comprehension. They’d just engaged in several mind-blowing, fantastical sex acts he never knew possible. The girl was incredibly flexible. He was able to take her in positions he physically couldn’t with other females. It was the advantage of youth. Still, it made for an unimaginable, amazing experience he’d never forget”. Then he’s even egotistical to himself about it. “Weldon smiled. He knew he was good but damn. She was definitely inexperienced. Holding her in his arms, he pushed her out of his mind, imagining Tania.” He goes on to call “Tania the “mate” his just met his “true love” and he’s still cuddling this other girl. A girl so unimportant he doesn’t even want to know her name but important enough to F her brains out the night after he meets his supposed “fated mate”. This B.S. He’s not a shifter. He’s just a piece of garbage with a heart beat. No true shifter could do this . Even if monogamy was a completely foreign concept to him. He still could not do this. His animal wouldn’t let him! Gross 🤢. And supposedly Tania only has one night stands because she was cheated on. SMH 🤦‍♀️
Writing isn’t great . MLC is a worthless d bag,meets “fated mated” then next night F’s 22yr.old stranger multiple times in his rig coz supposedly ring faithful doesn’t matter till they’re mated. Awful.
959 reviews
August 26, 2025
Weldon is an interesting mix of paranormal beings and has given up on finding his mate. He has been playing the field for a while and has gotten a player reputation. He didn’t seem to mind until he catches the scent of Tania, his mate. Now he just needs to convince her to drop her walls and trust him. Getting Tania to trust him will be even more challenging when she finds out he has been keeping his paranormal side a secret.
Profile Image for Alexis.
837 reviews63 followers
August 14, 2021
First time reading this book. And I absolutely love it. Five star book. I do recommend it. Was a very instering book to read and honestly I plan on rereading it later on the year
Author 41 books144 followers
August 20, 2021
Great story, loved the dynamics between the characters. Weldon character intrigued me, he is the type you love yet hate, he shows is so many sides. Can't wait to read more by this author.
Profile Image for jennifer | offmyredcarpet.
559 reviews44 followers
November 5, 2022
3.5 // I really enjoyed this. Different take on the typical wolf shifter story. MMC is a womanizer then scents his mate who is the new roommate of his ex-gf; a woman he’s low key hooking up with again.

Neither of the main characters want to be in relationships preferring to have sex buddies. His reputation precedes him as a one and done type and she wants no part (having been previously burned), save for the part of her who is mate.

I liked the tension, the banter, the messiness of their feelings, how he gives her space while she sees other men even though it eats at him. Also the way the author uses the mate bond; less this all encompassing force and more a constant gravitational pull toward the other even tho the FMCs mind fights and questions.

The author has obvious talent for story telling and a writing style that held my attention. I would have given this 4stars with better editing; not sure there was any to speak of. The middle was repetitive with the FMCs internal monologue. Mostly it needed tightening up and some fixes with regards to grammatical errors (strange comma placement or nonexistent punctuation).
Displaying 1 - 8 of 8 reviews

Can't find what you're looking for?

Get help and learn more about the design.