Alpha Attacked

Big City Lycans #1

by Eve Langlais

This wolf is biting the bullet of love.

Working in the ER, Maeve has seen some weird stuff, like the guy with numerous gunshot wounds who literally hops off the operating table and walks out. Which isn’t as strange as the people who claim they saw a wolf running out the main doors of the hospital. All par for the course on a full-moon shift.

What Maeve doesn’t know is she saved the life of the local Alpha.

Griffin is tough, and those who tried to kill him will regret their failure, because he is now out for revenge. The problem is identifying the enemy. Is it the rival wolf gang over the river, or a stranger trying to steal his Pack?

The answer appears to be tangled up with the doctor who operated on him. A woman with a delectable scent—and secrets.

What does Maeve have to do with the violence targeting his Pack?

And what will the sexy doctor say when she realizes he doesn’t just howl in bed?

Genres: Paranormal, Romance, Paranormal Romance, Fantasy, Shapeshifters, Audiobook, Urban Fantasy

164 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 8, 2023

About the author

~ New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author

Hello, my name is Eve Langlais and I am an International Bestselling author who loves to write hot romance, usually with werewolves, cyborgs or aliens .

I should warn you, I have a twisted imagination and a sarcastic sense of humor something I like to let loose in my writing. While well known for my shifter stories, I am also extremely partial to aliens, the kind who like to abduct humans and then drive them insane...with pleasure. Or do you like something a little darker, more serious? Then check out my cyborgs whose battle with humanity have captivated readers worldwide.

If you'd like to know more, read some excerpts or find out what I’m working on, then please visit me at http://www.EveLanglais.com or sign up for my newsletter at http://www.evelanglais.com/newrelease .
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Reviews

[Mikky]

DNF At 22% (Audiobook)

I don't know something about the characters or maybe it was the way the story was written really rubbed me the wrong way. I disliked the heroine right off the bat after she introduced herself as a doctor and then proceeded to shame people who went to her ER in pain and seeking pain relief as drug addicts. The hero is just meh. Granted at 22% he had maybe 10 minutes of scene time. Overall, I thought I would love this and ended up DNFing it. Life is too short to push myself to read books I don't enjoy.

[Madison Warner Fairbanks · Rating 4 out of 5]

Alpha Attacked by Eve Langlais
Big City Lycans series #1. Paranormal wolf shifter romance.
Maeve is a doctor in the ER. Things get crazy when it’s a full moon. That night she saves a man with multiple gunshots and bullets still inside him. Once she’s removed the bullets, he’s out the door. No sutures, no pain reliever. Weird. Probably drugs. Someone reports seeing a massive dog leaving through the automatic doors a short time later. Someone else says it was a wolf. What a night.
Griffin, as alpha of his pack, is strong and in charge. Getting shot was a nuisance but meeting his mate will change his life. The sweet smelling doctor seems to be in the middle of a war. Griffin will protect her. And more.

Danger for Maeve escalates and Griffin is there to help and figure out all the twists and connections. He’s a little bossy and dominating, but he is alpha.
Maeve is smart. She deals with most of the surprises with practicality. The heat and lust between her and Griffin is hot.
Maeve is a little too accepting at times. Bullet wounds don’t heal in a couple of days and as a doctor I would have expected her to question that more. She acknowledges it and then buries it in the back of her mind.

As usual with this author, there is a tease for the next book in the series as part of the text on the last page. If you don’t want to know whose book is next, skip the last paragraph.

It’s not deep. It’s not profound. It is a hot, werewolf shifter romance and fun to read or listen to. Entertaining escapism. I look forward to reading more of this series.

🎧 I listened to an audiobook version of this book narrated by Juniper Young. The performance was fantastic as there are very distinct voices for the male and female roles. The male voice is a bit husky and I want to say, suave, but not quite hitting the mark of sexy male. There is a lot of innuendo in the tone. The female voices were strong and on point. Overall, I enjoyed the narration as a good alternative to reading. I did speed up the narration to 1.5 after a chapter or two at 1.0 which was too slow for me conversationally.

I received a copy of this book from NetGalley and Tantor Audio.

[Micky Cox · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you like a handsome hero that is all alpha male and big all over then you are going to love Griffin! Do you love your heroine to be smart and sassy, then you are going to love Maeve! Add in an entire pack of witty, rough and tumble werewolves combined with a sharp tongued and outspoken best friend and you have the makings for a fun read or listen in my case as this book is meant to entertain! You've got opposites attract and verbally spar situation right from the start and it goes on right up to the end. Lots of twists and turns to the plot to keep you entertained with plenty of action in and out of the bedroom so this one should go on your list. I'm hoping that we get to see a bit more of the best friend and Detective Gruff in a future book so let's cross our fingers for that one to come out soon!

[Emily · Rating 3 out of 5]

It wasn't anything but usual in the ER when Maeve is called in to work on a gunshot victim. It all changes though when her patient wakes up and hightails it out of there. Maeve has no idea Griffin is a shifter or an Alpha. When she becomes involved in the war that is building around his pack, Griffin steps in to protect her. What neither plan on is the attraction between them.

This was fun, I thought the chemistry between Maeve and Griffin was not as sizzling as I had hoped. Had a ton of characters I wanted to know more about. Would pick up the next book.

[Lindsay De Cuyper · Rating 2 out of 5]

I received an advanced reader’s copy (audio) of Alpha Attacked by Eve Langlais in exchange for an honest review.

This book sounded like something I would absolutely love. Werewolves protecting a doctor, romance, ... The plot definitely has promise, however the execution just isn't that great. Both the story and characters lack depth and development.

TI did however really love the narrator for the audiobook.

[LJane · Rating 1 out of 5]

1/5 stars, listened as an audiobook. This was pretty bad ahaha the plot moved way to fast and wasn’t very plausible. Also Maeve, is kind of not a great person either (i.e. talking poorly about addicts, etc).

[Sandra R · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun action romance drama with our hero being an Alpha wolf in the city. Well written as usual by this author. 3.5 stars.

[Talie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Let me preface this by saying I’m a fan of paranormal romance, but not necessarily mafia romance. This one definitely feels a lot like a mafia romance. The hero is an overly protective drug dealing (legally) alpha werewolf. I listened to the audiobook and he sounded really smarmy. And honestly his actions bordered on stalkerish. Not over the top but it did raise my eyebrows at first.

[Christina's Library · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really enjoyed this urban/ modern paranormal romance. So many times paranormal romance books are set in older times which is much less entertaining. I am impressed. Even Dexter is mentioned. Things like this make the story so much more realistic. Thank you

[Aly · Rating 2 out of 5]

I know this is a novella and so there isn't really time to develop things a whole lot, but having Maeve go from crazy guy she operates on, to her stalker, to sleeping with him in a couple dozen pages is too much. I didn't think there was any chemistry between them and found Griffin to be an asshole. I wish this could have just been even fifty pages longer so we could see a relationship unfold.

The lycan parts weren't explained that well and I don't understand why Maeve doesn't get to know about them (as far as I understood anyway.) I think there was an okay idea here, but it needs some revision and more content added to be good.

The audiobook narrator was fine with Maeve's parts, but terrible at Griffin's. Read the ebook instead.

I voluntarily read and reviewed this book. All opinions are my own. Thank you to Tantor Audio and NetGalley for the copy

[Dar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Woo hoo, a new shifter series, and one with some grit! Loved meeting these new characters, finding out the new lore, and finding out what problems they face. Maeve and Griff meet unconventionally, but he soon realizes his problems are the same as her problems, just in different ways. Convincing her to let her help her, in conjunction with their growing attraction, he definitely has his work cut out for him. Another awesome aspect was, that while out couple most definitely get their HEA, everything isn’t all tied up neat and tidy, and there are still some messy stuff to come 😊

[Lacy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Juniper Young narrates Eve Langlais’ paranormal werewolf romance Alpha Attacked, book 1, in her new Big City Lycans series. I thoroughly enjoyed this exciting, action-packed, steamy romance from beginning to end. An ER doctor, Maeve, has seen a lot of weird and crazy things. But a man jumping off her operating table while she’s trying to remove six bullets and leaving the OR is new. That full-moon shift is topped off with claims of a wolf running out the hospital’s main doors soon after.

It turns out that the man whom Maeve saves is Griffin, the local Alpha. Fortunately for his Pack, Griffin’s a resilient wolf. Not so much for whoever tried to kill Griffin because he survived and will get his revenge when he discovers who’s responsible. Is it someone trying to steal his Pack? The rival wolf gang across the river? Or someone unknown to him and his Pack? After saving Griffin’s life, unknown assailants threaten and attack Maeve. Who is his beautiful, sexy, and delicious-smelling savior? What secrets is she hiding, and are they connected to the attempt on his life and the danger and violence threatening his Pack? Griffin has secrets, too, like how he howls in and out of bed. But it’s one that he and his kind try to keep closely guarded.

Young wonderfully brings Langlais’ original story and deftly developed, fascinating characters to life with vibrant and expressive narration. She’s a fantastic narrator whose chosen voices and narration perfectly fit the characters, especially Maeve, Griffin, and the villain. With accents, dialects, pacing, tone, intonation, and emotion, Young gives the characters distinct voices, revealing their personalities, feelings, quirks, and state of mind throughout the novel. Her dramatic narration that captures the characters’ emotions drew me into the story from the first scene, and before I knew it, I was halfway through the novel. Young does such a great job voicing the men that it’s easy to believe there are different narrators. The novel’s tone ranges from humorous, dark, and thrilling to intimate, sizzling hot, and angsty, and Young deftly shifts between these tones. She brilliantly expresses Maeve and Griffin’s attraction, desire, and passion for each other. And she uses her full vocal range to express/portray the intimacy between characters and their chemistry, sensations, and moods during the novel’s intimate scenes. The narration for the characters is distinct, so it’s easy to tell which characters are speaking in each moment, scene, and chapter.

Young’s lively narration complements Langlais’ snarky, introspective, emotional, and dynamic narrative style, delightfully bringing her exciting novel and fascinating characters to life. For a somewhat short book, Langlais’ worldbuilding and character development are skillful, and her mythology for the wolves is a bit different. But she leaves you wanting to learn more about this intriguing world and its characters. I love Griffin’s smart-mouthed, sexy, aloof, grumpy alpha, don’t mess with me vibes. Maeve’s a good match for him. She’s so self-sufficient, independent, sarcastic, and unbothered by Griffin’s alpha, controlling tendencies. And despite being super suspicious of his motives, she doesn’t get all up in his business trying to figure out the oddities of his biology or lifestyle beyond thinking he’s a mobster/drug dealing criminal—he runs a business legally selling marijuana. It’s interesting. I love their banter and sexy, sweet, funny, and steamy interactions. Langlais nicely rounds out the novel with a fascinating supporting cast. I like Maeve’s best friend and co-worker, Brandy. She’s sharp, funny, and way more curious and savvier about the supernatural world than Maeve. Griffin’s Pack mates are also intriguing.

While Langlais’ suspenseful story has one or two surprising twists, the ending feels more like the beginning of an intricate and exciting journey, which I look forward to experiencing. Alpha Attacked is a sexy, fast-paced, entertaining, and quick PNR read with a nice blend of steamy romance, action, suspense, and humor, exploring themes of family, soulmates, following your dreams, crime, and vigilantism.

Advanced review copy provided by Tantor Audio via Netgalley for review.

[Bookish Venturess · Rating 4 out of 5]

Honestly, it's a very good book. It is a short story. The narrator's are amazing, and you feel like you are right in the story. I loved how the book starts and ends. It is an interesting listen. I did have a point where I was like, wait, what, and I had to rewind to listen to it again. I heard this is supposed to be a series, and honestly, I'm excited and can't wait to see what comes next.

[Megan (sporadic hiatus due to law school) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kind of read like more of a mafia story where the head bosses can turn into wolves.

Fun, and definitely a different take on most werewolf books I’ve read. The epilogue was too rushed though and I’m pretty sure Maeve still thinks she was dreaming the wolves?? I don’t think Griffin ever explained things to her??

[Shasta · Rating 3 out of 5]

I listened to this via audiobook.

The overall story was good. I love the kick ass doctors, the weed store owner, and the who-done-it aspect.

It's fast paced with action and the 🥵 scenes were done pretty well.

I do feel like the book was very rushed at the end and I feel like there were some things missing that would have brought closure to the story.

[CoCo 🇬🇭 · Rating 3 out of 5]

To be fair, The beginning was okay, but after a while not so much. It felt flat, nothing special about it. maybe because I had so much expectations for this book…
I’ve not read a book about werewolves in a while so you can imagine how excited I was.

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for an advance copy for an honest opinion.

[Cheyyleigh · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book made me mad. So much potential and it just fell short. There is this entire plot that could have been great and we pushed fast forward and brushed through it.

[Casey Rhea · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy to listen to and follow along. No substance just quick and mindless.

[booksandT · Rating 3 out of 5]

Underwhelming, not horrible

[riz · Rating 1 out of 5]

fell asleep

[Michelle v · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great

A great new series! This book is quick witted and extremely well written. She always makes you fall in love with the characters.

[Angela · Rating 1 out of 5]

“This wolf is biting the bullet of love.“

Listen, no one expects deep characters, a well-crafted plot, nor inspired prose from a shifter novella, but also:

I EXPECT DEEP CHARACTERS, A WELL-CRAFTED PLOT, AND INSPIRED PROSE FROM A SHIFTER NOVELLA.

It’s probably obnoxious of me to want a paranormal romance to have any basis in reality, but to have her go from “I’m your doctor, and you are my stalker patient.” to “We should bone.” in the matter of a couple pages of bad dialogue was too much of a stretch.

I couldn’t even get into the sex scenes, as lines like, “the fat head of his big d*ck” caused more rolled eyes than clenched thighs.

This looks like it’ll be the start of a series. I’ll be passing on any further installments.

1/10

NetGalley and Tantor Audio traded this ARC for an honest review.

[Janalyn, the blind reviewer · Rating 3 out of 5]

When Meeve has to work on an u on anesthetized man with six gunshots she fears he may wake up due to pain but when Griffin wakes up during surgery he seems more aggravated than anything else. Then when he decides to get up and leave the surgery ward she doesn’t know what to say. The next day gangster‘s approach her asking about a package and wanting to know the last time she spoke to her dad but the problem is she’s never met her dad and never received any package. It seems the effects of the full moon will last days because strange events continue to happen and It leads back to Griffin but what does this all have to do with Meeve’s dad? She met him trying to save his life but he will save hers in the end and much much more. I love the shape shifter books and I enjoyed this one but found they use profanity way too much and I found it unnecessary. Even the elderly security guard use the F word and I don’t want to be a prude and I’m not trying to be one of those people but growing up I was always told people use those words for lack of better words to use and in the real world not every person you meet use as suck profanity. Okay I said that let me say this I love detective Groff… Don’t like his name but love him and thought they had some really lovable characters in this new series and I would definitely be looking forward to the next book but hope the author can tone down the unnecessary use a bass vocabulary. As for this book I highly recommend that if you love Shapeshifting books an abnormal romances you should definitely read alpha attack. Juniper Young adds a whole new layered texture to the text she has a great voice and one I enjoyed listening to a total five star performance from her.I received this book from NetGalley and the publisher but I am leaving this review voluntarily please forgive any mistakes as I am blind and dictate my review.

[Jaime · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book. I really liked the female lead. She is intelligent, strong, and independent. The male lead left a bit to be desired. He's hot and a alpha. That's it. He doesn't have much of a personality. While it's understandable that he would fall for her, there is no reason why she would fall for him. He's uneducated, a "mobster", and she repeatedly calls him a drug dealer even though he own a very legal weed dispensary. Even at the end of the book she still regards him as a gangster. It was very much unearned instalove, but I guess wolf magic made her love a complete stranger who she looks down on. I also thought it was silly that she doesn't seem to know he's a wolf, but her best friend does. I did like the world building, and I am very curious about what is in that grimoire. If the next book follows her bestie I am all in.

[Amanda Borbe · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 Stars
This Shifter Gang Romance transported me to the early 00s wandering the Mass Market Paperback shelves of a Barnes and Noble. While predictable, it was also comforting, almost making it a cozy romance experience.
I will totally read the rest of this series.
Thanks NetGalley and Tantor Media for the audiobook edition!

[Lisa · Rating 1 out of 5]

Wow, this book was downright horrifying. I'm really just speechless with the things wrong with the H and h's relationship. With the world building. Just all of it. And the plotting was just all over the place. Nobody's actions really made any sense. The villain's motivations were never explained.


The story starts off really well. The heroine, Maeve, is an ER doctor and the hero, Griffin, is brought in riddled with bullets. In a series of VERY unbelievable contrivances, Maeve starts operating on Griffin to remove the bullets with no anesthesia. He wakes up during the process and acts like it's no big deal to be getting sliced apart. In fact, he insists she continue. And she does! Once she's gotten all the bullets out, Griffin gets up and leaves, against her protests. He was kind of a dick to her during this whole interaction, too.

Given the fact that Griffin got shot so many times and definitely did NOT want to stick around to talk to the cops, Maeve assumes he must be a criminal of some kind. She reports the shooting, as required, and the cops come question her. She tells them what little she can and then heads to her car. But when she gets there she's accosted by a couple of thugs who demand she hand "it" over. She doesn't know what they're talking about but they don't believe her. They say that her father, Theodore, sent her a box and they want its contents. Maeve says that she never even met her sperm donor and certainly doesn't have anything of his. She manages to call hospital security, who come to her rescue and chase the guys off.

Meanwhile, Griffin has gone back to his place. We soon learn that he's the alpha of his werewolf pack and he runs a marijuana dispensary. It's all legal and above board...now. They live in Ottawa and Mary Jane is legal there for recreational use, but just a few short years ago it wasn't. And Griffin and his crew sold their weed out of the trunks of cars and things. So they were, in fact, criminals very recently.

They're also vigilante killers.

Yeah, that escalated quickly, right? The whole book Griffin lectures us in his inner monologue about how the justice system sucks and just puts criminals back on the street with only a slap on the wrist. He and his pack put people down for good so they can never hurt anyone again. Hoooly shit. This is never explored in anything even resembling nuance. There's no examination of this mentality. It is never, EVER suggested that Griffin's way of doing things is maybe not the right way to go. He never feels even SLIGHTLY conflicted about all the murders he's done. He's named himself judge, jury, and executioner and he sleeps just fine at night.

And this isn't even some "werewolves live by a different code and they all know the rules" kind of thing because not all of the people Griffin has killed were werewolves. In fact, MOST of them were humans. And what's more, Griffin personally tortures people in the course of the story. And he REVELS in the chance to do so. He's not some "tormented soul who has to go to the dark place to save good people from true evil but it costs him a piece of his soul each time" kind of hero. Nope, he's a 100% bloodthirsty killer and he's just fine with that.

Jesus. But what makes it even worse? Maeve is just fine with it too, when she finds out. You would think that a fucking DOCTOR would find that kind of behavior completely abhorrent but no, she's cool with it. And there's no explanation for this mentality coming from her. We don't see her warring with herself over whether the ends justify the means or anything like that. There's never a time when she sees someone truly, pathologically evil who has killed and maimed hundreds of people and admits to herself that, even though it goes against everything she believes in as a healer, killing this person really IS for the greater good. Nope, she just doesn't give a shit. She assumes that everyone Griffin kills must have deserved it and even blithely thinks that Griffin is "Like Dexter, but with better hair."

Getting back to the story, Griffin talks to his pack about the shooting but is amazingly chill about his attempted murder. He doesn't really make plans to find out who did it, but then some info just falls into his lap. Apparently, one of the other packs' alpha was just killed by his nephew. This is part of the werewolf culture and it would have been acceptable for the nephew to challenge his uncle and, if he won, take over the pack. But he didn't challenge the uncle and fight in front of the pack so everyone could witness it. He killed the uncle in secret and disposed of the body, then came back and claimed he'd done it as a legitimate challenge. The pack didn't believe him because he was known to be a sneaky little shit. He's physically weak for a werewolf and makes up for it using guns, which is frowned upon in their "might makes right" culture. So the pack assumes he cheated and killed his uncle with a gun, probably in an ambush, and they refuse to follow him. He is apparently now in Ottawa and they suspect he ordered the hit on Griffin in an attempt to take over his pack instead.

Griffin also decides that he's super into Maeve, which kind of comes out of nowhere. His behavior when they were together was mostly rude, and even he admits that he couldn't really see her since she was wearing a surgical mask. He also couldn't really get a good whiff of her scent since all the antiseptic and such clouded things. But he's suddenly so enamored with her that he asks the tech genius member of his pack to do a background check on her. He also alerts his plant in the police force, another pack member, and that cop made sure to be the one to go and question Maeve at the hospital. Afterward he mentions to Griffin that she's attractive and he gets all growly and territorial, as if their relationship is somehow in the place where this makes sense. If he'd recognized her as his predestined "one true mate" like you see in so many shifter romances then I would have accepted this behavior as believable, but he hasn't. So what gives?

Next thing we know, Maeve has gotten home and found a box sent to her by her father's lawyer. He explains that the father is, in fact, dead and although he told the lawyer not to send this box to her, the lawyer has decided to do so anyway because of plot contrivance. Maeve puts the box in the trunk of her car, smokes some weed and goes to bed...with Griffin underneath it.

Yeah, he broke in. His cop buddy gave him her address and he just decided to....go stalk her like a crazy person. He doesn't really have a reason to be there. And he could have just, like, knocked on her door or something, but instead he breaks in through the window of her bedroom. Then when she almost immediately comes upstairs to go to bed, he has to hide, lest she freak out. Then he's stuck laying there, under her bed, waiting for her to fall asleep so he can leave. This is super creepy.

Luckily (I guess?) for Maeve, though, that's the night the bad guys decide to break into her house to retrieve the box. Griffin hears/smells them come in and manages to slip out of her room before she wakes up. But it must have been REALLY close because she wakes up and thinks she hears someone in the hall. Then she hears that one squeaky stair on her steps and knows for SURE that someone is in her house so she calls 911. We later find out that it was actually Griffin who made the step squeak on his way down to confront the bad guys. So she must have JUST missed seeing him creep out from under her bed.

Griffin is able to subdue the lone intruder and then drags him into the garage or something because he doesn't want to hand the guy over to the cops. He wants to take him back to the pack and torture him for information. What a great hero we've got here! Lucky for him, when the cops arrive his pack member is among them. He smells Griffin as soon as he arrives and is able to run interference with the other cops that allows Griffin to slip out, and even to put the intruder's unconscious body in the trunk of the cop's patrol car.

Cop member speaks to Maeve and says the intruder's are gone. Maeve says that she thought she heard fighting but had been too scared to come downstairs to see what was up. The cop says the criminals must have fought amongst themselves and then ran off when they heard the sirens approaching. They board up her broken window and leave. As soon as the werewolf cop is far enough away from the crime scene, Griffin pops up from his back seat and is chuckling about what a close call all that was. The cop is horrified to learn that Griffin was actually INSIDE THE HOUSE ALREADY when the break-in happened and that Maeve had no idea. He's even more horrified to find out Griffin put the the criminal in his trunk. And almost immediately after he finds this out, his car alerts him to the fact that his trunk is now open. They stop the car and jump out but the criminal throws himself off a bridge to his death rather than be questioned. Which seemed a little dramatic at the time, but when I later found out about Griffins passion for torture, it made the criminal seem pretty smart.

Griffin keeps stalking Maeve and is waiting for her at her car the next time she comes out of work. This freaks her out a bit and he's kind of an ass to her and acts like she's being ridiculous for finding his behavior strange. He makes it clear he's interested in sleeping with her, though. He starts making a habit of hanging around her neighborhood and even breaks into a neighboring house that's unoccupied so he has a place to spy on her. He even tells his pack to buy the house, because apparently he's settling in for some long-haul stalking.

Maeve goes home that night and opens the box from her father. It's got some pictures of her and what's described as a binder with strange writing in it. She doesn't know what it's all about and is confused as to why people would be threatening her in order to obtain it. Then Griffin shows up (or something, I forget exactly why he was there) and she basically tells him to get lost. He acts like she's being ridiculous, as usual, and expresses his interest in her again. She tells him that she's never going to sleep with him...and immediately grabs his head and mashes her lips to his and they immediately proceed to sex. It was so bizarre.

Next day, Maeve is rushing to get ready for work, but also feeling a bit embarrassed. She hasn't had sex in years prior to this (she's 37) and is a bit ashamed of the way she threw herself at him. Especially with him being "a drug dealer." She throws this in his face for pretty much the whole book, even though she knows perfectly well that his dispensary is legal. It was very odd. Both that she would say it despite knowing Griffin's business was legal, and that she would still keep sleeping with him if that's what she really thought of him.

But anyway, this morning after she's feeling embarrassed so she tells Griffin that she won't have dinner with him that night. They're not in a relationship. They had one night of sex, nothing more. Griffin, meanwhile, has already decided that she's his one and only. He makes a vague reference to "werewolf chemistry" and that he knows that there will never be another woman for him now that he's had a taste of her. This makes it sound like a predestined mate thing but it never gets explored. He knows she's not ready to hear that though, so he tells her to come to his dispensary if she wants to see him. And, even though it makes no sense, she does just that as soon as she's done at work.

Except when she gets there, some asshole kid is working the register and is super rude to her. He calls her desperate for coming in asking to speak to Griffin and she's humiliated and leaves. Griffin comes in a few minutes later and can smell that she's been there. He then attacks the kid for being an asshole to her and for not telling Griffin she was there. He then throws the kid out of the pack because he's a lazy shit who doesn't show Griffin proper respect and this was the last straw. The kid says that Griffin "will regret this" before leaving, making it INCREDIBLY OBVIOUS that he's either already working for the mystery bad guys or that he'll run straight over to them to offer his services now.

Griffin goes to Maeve's house and finds that she's been attacked. A guy slipped into her garage after she drove in and then punched her in the face, knocking her out. When Griffin arrives, Maeve is tied up and the guy is threatening to cut off her fingers one by one until she tells him where the box is. She tells him its in the trunk of her car but when he goes to look, it's not there. Maeve is baffled but he doesn't believe her and he gets out the carving knife. Griffin bursts in and beats the guy unconscious.

Maeve rather bizarrely starts verbally attacking Griffin, demanding to know how he got into her house. When he admits he climbed in through the bedroom window, she's pissed. Then she accuses him of stealing her package, which he denies. Then she runs off to vomit from the shock and is amazed that Griffin is kind to her about it.

Maeve wants to call the cops but Griffin said he already did. Which is half-true. He called his pack member cop, who will most definitely NOT report this to the rest of the police force. That cop comes and makes enough of a show to keep Maeve in the dark. Griffin insists Maeve stay with him that night and she agrees. They go there and even though Griffin tries to be noble and give her space, she demands to have sex and they do. Then Griffin tells her to go have a nice long soak in the tub. She agrees and happily skips off to do that.

AND THEN, Griffin walks down to his soundproof reinforced basement where his cop pack member has brought the criminal from Maeve's break-in. And Griffin proceeds to torture him to death for information. Jesus fucking Christ. What am I reading??? This is just so fucked up. This psychopath can go from tenderly kissing and caressing Maeve in one moment, and then give her something to keep her busy for a little while so he can go off and fucking torture and kill a man. Then he just showers off and goes back to cuddle her to sleep while she's none the wiser. That's some seriously fucked up shit. But it gets even worse from there. Maeve has a nightmare brought on by her ordeal and she worries that the bad guy might come back. Griffin tells her that he'll "never bother her again" and she seems to know this means that Griffin killed him...and she's fine with that. It actually makes her feel BETTER because now she won't have to worry, nor face him in court. I can't even, with this story.

Moving on, the tortured guy gave up the name and it's the little shit nephew from the neighboring pack. Griffin calls in his "hillbilly cousins" who are apparently the kind of pack members who aren't afraid to kill when people need killing. Griffin even explains that the pack he's built in town is nice. They're loyal and good men, but they just don't have the stomach for killing like he needs. That's why the hillbillies are needed on this task. They arrive while Maeve is still there and Griffin introduces them as family who are there to help track down the guy behind her attack. Maeve has already cottoned on to Griffin's preference to vigilante justice and now that there's a "family" involved, she assumes they're all actually mafia. She says as much to Griffin, that he's a Mafia Don and a drug dealer, and he says it's not QUITE like that, but close enough.

The hillbillies go out searching and come back with one of them shot by a silver bullet. Maeve says they should take him to a hospital but Griffin says they don't want to do that. This solidifies Maeve's belief that they're mafia and so she just goes ahead and operates on this guy, without anesthesia. And she has no issue with being a part of any of this. Not even a flicker of conscience.

Maeve does get mad at Griffin for something else. I forget what it was. She leaves and, though he's adamantly against her going, he decides not to push it. She goes to stay with her one and only friend, Brandy. Griffin and his crew keep searching for the bad guy and find the kid Griffin fired from the dispensary dead. Turns out he was working for the nephew guy the whole time. He was a plant in Griffin's pack and Griffin had no idea because he's kind of an idiot. But the nephew guy had killed the kid so the kid must have been trying to screw the nephew over or something.

Meanwhile, Maeve gets off a shift at work and goes out to her car only to, once again, be accosted. This time it's the Nephew guy and he wants the box. She tells him that she really doesn't have it. She doesn't know where it is. He kidnaps her. He asks her who else knew about the box and she says only Brandy, so they go to Brandy's house. Brandy admits that she did take the stuff from Maeve's car, which made NO SENSE AT ALL. I kept waiting for it to turn out that Brandy had secretly been a bad guy the whole time but no. We're expected to believe that she legitimately is Maeve's friend, but decided to STEAL the contents of the box from her trunk, without telling Maeve she was doing it, and take the binder to a professor she happens to know to see if it might be worth something. All for completely pure reasons. Sure, because that makes sense.

Nephew demands to be taken to the professor, which Brandy agrees to and they all roll out for there. Meanwhile, Maeve manages to call Griffin but he can't hear anything that's being said. Brandy texts the cop pack member what's going on and he actually is the one who sounds the alarm so that they can all go rescue the women.

The ending got kind of confusing but, apparently, the professor is actually Maeve's dad, who is the alpha leader that the nephew killed. Only he isn't dead, he was just hurt and the nephew, who is also Maeve's cousin, didn't confirm the kill. The "binder" is actually a grimoire that contains "recipes." We're never given any more detail than that so it could be anything from an immortality potion to chicken soup. And Maeve's dad didn't abandon her like she'd always been told. He actually paid child support her whole life and Maeve's mother lied about it for some reason.

He and Griffin both turn into wolves and kill the Nephew. Maeve gets shot in the leg in the process and passes out. When she wakes up, she assumes she dreamed/hallucinated the wolves and Griffin lets her go on thinking that. He proposes, she accepts, HEA. Seriously, that's the end.

He never tells her he's a werewolf. He's planning to marry her, but still keeps her in the dark about who he really is. This is not love. This is just fucked up.

[Serena Books · Rating 2 out of 5]

Inicio bueno, no me encantó el resto de la historia.




•Mi opinión puede contener Spoilers.
•Esta destinada a ser un descargo personal no para que alguien más lea pero si lo haces y te ofende, me disculpo porque sé lo que es que te guste un libro y otros lo critiquen.




Alpha Attacked de Eve Langlais serie Big City Lycans libro 1

Argumento:

Este lobo está mordiendo la bala del amor.

Trabajando en la sala de emergencias, Maeve ha visto algunas cosas raras, como el tipo con numerosas heridas de bala que literalmente salta de la mesa de operaciones y se va. Lo cual no es tan extraño como la gente que afirma haber visto un lobo corriendo por la puerta principal del hospital. Todo normal para el curso en un turno de luna llena.

Lo que Maeve no sabe es que salvó la vida del Alfa local.

Griffin es duro, y aquellos que intentaron matarlo lamentarán su fracaso, porque ahora busca venganza. El problema es identificar al enemigo. ¿Es la banda de lobos rival sobre el río o un extraño que intenta robar su manada?

La respuesta parece estar enredada con el médico que lo operó. Una mujer con un aroma delicioso y secretos.

¿Qué tiene que ver Maeve con la violencia dirigida a su manada?

¿Y qué dirá el doctor sexy cuando se dé cuenta de que no solo aúlla en la cama?



Mi humilde opinión:

Me llamó la atención la sinopsis, doctora salva a lobo de morir, creí que habría una historia emocionante alrededor, es un romance de fantasía urbana con acción, peligro y suspense.... pero con todo eso en la mezcla no fue una historia emocionante.

No entendí la dinámica del grupo o manada de Griffin, eran lycans/ shifters de lobos pero se computaban más como tipos de la mafia. Me pareció lógico que los humanos no se enteraran de su naturaleza pero no decirle a sus parejas? Eso no me pareció bien.

Creí que Griffin le diría a Maeve que era Lycan pero nunca lo hace. No me sentó bien que se lo ocultara y le pidiera que se casara con él. El padre apareciendo vivo de la nada fue desconcertante también y metiéndose en la vida de ella después de abandonarla de bebé.

Había un conflicto que nunca terminé de comprender con la caja que buscaban y todo el tema del primo loco.

No sentí la chispa con Maeve y Griffin. Hubo un intento de broma entre ellos y momento candente pero realmente no sentí que se terminaron enamorando. Entiendo que es atracción instantánea pero los he leído con más sentimientos que este. Por lo que no me convence Griffin de rodillas con el anillo.

Hacía el desenlace del libro todo sucede de golpe y quedan agujeros en la historia. Me molestó que me dejara con preguntas y que me contara más que mostrarme. Supongo que se contará más en el próximo libro pero el adelanto final con el policía y la amiga no me tienta lo suficiente como para seguir leyendo.

[Amber · Rating 4 out of 5]

Alpha Attacked is an exciting and thrilling adventure into the world of werewolves. We are dumped head first into a huge mess that already involves blood, so we know that lives are on the line. When snap decisions are required to move forward, we know what surrounds us is both life threatening and life changing in the most violent and ground-breaking ways. Nothing will ever be the same again and some truths will come to the harsh light of day at a steep price.

Maeve is just having another day when she finds Griffin in her ER. He brings an ominous air with him that makes her hesitate to jump head first into anything involving him. However, she can't deny that some part of her knows that he would protect her and never let anything hurt her. Moving on rusty instincts, she reluctantly steps into his world in order to find some measure of safety and comfort. Griffin knows there is something about Maeve that he just can't shake, and when he figures out what it is, her life is never the same again. He steps up to be her protector, but she has to accept him and his help if she hopes to survive the coming storm. Will those who hide in the shadows take what is most precious to Griffin, or can Maeve move past the warnings of her mind to accept what her heart knows to be true before time runs out and she loses more then she ever thought possible?

Griffin and Maeve shouldn't work, but when they come together it is truly whiskey and roses mixed with the sweet strains of music. They have a wild and untamed passion that will no be denied, and once they have a taste, they are not able to fight against it. There is more to Griffin then she ever thought possible, and that truth is the only thing that saves them both. These two have more then just the present to fight against. They are also forced to confront their past and either accept it, change it, or walk on by and forget it.

Eve Langlais opens a wicked and wild glimpse into a world within our world that is sure to delight and entrance. I have only read a few books by this fabulous author, but I have sincerely and deeply loved each one. They dig into the very heart of the characters, and they don't let go until there is nothing but truth left. That singular obsession has endeared her work to me without fail. I truly cannot wait to read more books by her!

Juniper Young brought life and wonder to her narration of this wonderful story. I enjoyed her immense talent, and I look forward to listening to more books with her direction.

[Brit Andrews · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book seemed like it would be interesting werewolf getting shot and meeting a doctor and falling for her. It started out good but it was kinda a bunch of nonsense.... beware of spoilers not that it would matter much...

Maeve a doctor treats a man shot 6 times who gets up out of the emergency room and leaves once the bullets are out. She reports it but doesn’t really think much about it until the next day when some guys threaten her in the parking lot asking for a box from her estranged father that she does not have. Griffin the werewolf wants to know who shot him and why and how the doctor somehow seems mixed up in it. Basically that’s the story it doesn’t really get more complicated than that. People want the box that she eventually gets and keep attacking her for it. Which was rather annoying considering for most of the book she didn’t have it and yet these pitiful thugs constantly were threatening to cut off her fingers. Does it never occur to people that someone is answering you truthfully? Especially when they have no idea what it is you want? In fact Maeve points out to Antonio if he had just asked her for it she would have given it to him. Thus saving everyone from a bunch of nonsense because it really made no sense. If he didn’t send people to bother her prior to receiving the box then he could have just gotten it.

The most ridiculous part of the book was the fact that Maeve never found out that Griffin, her father and almost all the bad guys coming after her were werewolves. She thinks they are part of sone type of mafia and they just keep letting her believe that when her best friend knows they are werewolves. I get that Griffin had some bad experiences with revealing his secret before but Maeve is a doctor though to be honest her dumb butt didn’t ask enough questions. Like how could someone who was shot multiple times have no evidence of it happening on their body? Nobody heals like that it’s not possible so why did she just brush it off? So bizarre that made no sense and neither did not telling her but the whole story was one of complete nonsense. And any odd thing that can be hit or miss but it sounded interesting and was the first thing I saw on netgalley so I gave the audio a try. It’s not that long requires zero investment and full of nonsense so it’s something to listen to if you are bored. If you are looking for something with any kind of depth or character development or plot probably don’t read/listen to this author at all you will be disappointed. This was not by far the worst book of hers I’ve experienced.

[Ryan · Rating 2 out of 5]

I believe this book is self published. This is not one of those books that would get picked up by traditional publishing. It’s a decent effort from the author, but it is very basic storytelling. It tries to be spicy, but it fizzles more than it’s hot. And some of the word choices by the author are childish. If something about hearing a grown woman say dong when referring to a man’s general area that just is a massive turn off. Plus, the werewolf shifter war that the author chooses to use is lacking in credibility. Add that the main character is a drug dealer and is often referred to that way, even though he is currently a legal pot dealer is just another turn off. It’s a lot of high school style writing.
Let’s talk specifically about the audiobook. The narrator does a decent job, narrating women characters, and side characters. But the voice that she affects for the main male character is so annoying. I almost DNF this very short book. She gives the character a Matthew McConaughey draw mixed in with 1920s gangster. Heck maybe not 1920s maybe just jersey style gangster. Highly highly annoying because it makes the main character sound like a giant douche bag. I did make it to the end of this book. And while I like some of the characters, I can’t get past the flaws of the book as a hole. Some examples, particularly from the end, the doctor leaves their hospital to open their own clinic, but manage to open an entire health clinic in a depressed area in a month. I mean that shouldn’t be surprising since the entire book is Insta love. The entire book takes place in approximately three or four days and you know it’s pretty soon that they’re engaged and then have their wedding. I won’t lie. I’m a tiny tad bit interested in the next book for the one character that I really liked, but not enough to sit through this again. I think with more practice, more beta readers, more editing. The author can get better, but I don’t know if they can get better by the time this book series comes to an end.