Alpha Damon, the unmated Alpha of the largest pack in North America, is facing a reality where Elders are pressuring him to marry a bride of their choice. A marriage of convenience. A marriage for power. Damon is aware that Elders want to use him in their schemes, and he is determined to show them that he is no one's pawn. No one can force him into marriage, not even the Moon Goddess. “I don’t need a woman in my life to obstruct me. A girlfriend is a nuisance, a wife would be a problem, and a mate would be a disaster.” Will he give in? Which one will he choose? Will he have a choice once he finds his mate? Join Damon in his journey during which he will broaden his horizons and change in the most unexpected ways when the right woman enters his life.
I did not read the Amazon.com version of this story, which is good because apparently, those would collectively cost well over a hundred dollars! Rather, I got sucked by a misleading ad into a nearly interminable audio version on PocketFM, which at least makes so many episodes free on a daily basis that it's not a problem yet to simply wait for those. However, I have no idea where what is called one book here ends and the next begins.
I chose to try to access this particular story because it looked like it was going to be about a romance between two equally powerful werewolves, and the ad suggested that that the female character was the daughter of the moon goddess herself, to which recognition she was quickly going to awaken. While it's possible that that could still be true (I only finished about 245 of 521 episodes), the quick awakening didn't happen, and at some point I realized that what I skipped at the beginning to catch up to the point where the ad had ended may not have matched what I'd read in the ad. I had no interest in going back.
However, what that means is that the main attraction of this story has not been present for me at all.
The story unfolds unforgivably, ridiculously slowly. The typical obtuseness of the central couple is especially maddening when dragged out for so very, very long. I did not end up bothering to finish. Instead, I got to a point where I was satisfied enough with how far the couple has gotten, and it started to feel like the story was shifting to other characters. Such moneygrab writing that has no respect for the reader is incredibly off-putting.
Ok, this is the oddest review I’ve ever left in my life. 1. Spicy books are normally not my genre, but I was intrigued after seeing the stories on tik tok. Total let down as the book was nothing like the Tik Tok stories. 2. The story itself is pretty entertaining and enjoyable. I will continue to read the series. 3. Why the two star review then?? I would love to tell ya! 4 Who is editing these books? Is it the authors dog? Perhaps an illiterate prisoner is getting money on their books to edit the book? I have never in my life read such a poorly edited book. In one chapter, the author writes the name “Talia” approx 30 times in just three pages. The spelling is atrocious and the structure of the book is totally wrong. While I enjoyed reading it, I was equally as annoyed by the editing. 5. So many insertions of “don’t steal this book” paragraphs. I paid for the damn book. Take that crap out of it. 6. When I read a book, I instantly imagine the characters looks. The author is such a control freak that they want to tell us in constant “authors notes” to go and see the pictures of the characters. 7. I’ll keep reading the series but after that, I will never read anything by this company or person again. Very sophomoric
Talia has always been treated with cruelty. She does her best to stay hidden and busy not catching attention of her alpha. When Alpha Damon comes to visit though she doesn't know that his wolf knows she is meant to be his mate.
Alpha Damon has no interest in an arranged marriage especially to an Alpha's daughter. His wolf though catches the scent of his mate and Damon is not thrilled with this turn of events either. Finding Talia though has Damon acting out of character, the man who only sees women as a nuisance wants to protect and covet Talia.
This was fun and a cliffhanger to boot. Looking at the other notes on this one looks like it will be an expensive journey to finish all the books. I will definitely read the next one tough as I was roped in. I do wish this was edited better because about every 2-3 pages you get a blurb - the same blurb about written content that is distracting to the flow.
The underlying story is entertaining, but it’s so poorly written that I thought several times it was just created with a basic idea and lots of AI. Excessively repetitive language, most chapters with little narrative beyond very descriptive spicy scenes to the point of make you avoid reading them. The whole bunch of books could be reduced by half if properly written and leaving only the story…
I listened to this on Pocket FM and ate it up! It’s a bit cheesy at times, but thoroughly addictive. I love a good werewolf romance! This genre is what got me back into reading a few years ago.
Some of the worst writing I’ve read in a long time, yet so compelling! If the author had an editor, she’d be unstoppable. Even though every sentence had at least one grammatical error and most contained at least two different tenses, I couldn’t put it down!
Or at least, I couldn’t until I hit the pay wall and realized it would cost over $150 to unlock all the chapters on WebNovel or $205 to get the full series on Kindle. I wouldn’t pay that for the best book in the world, let alone this trash.
I am really impressed by the author’s ability to make me want to keep reading despite the godawful writing, though! That’s a superpower. I’m not even into werewolves or romantasy, but I would have binged the shit out of this book.
Strangely, according to the author, someone stole the book, stuck a new AI-written beginning on it, used an AI voice, and created an audiobook out of it. I got here from the ad for that, which if anything was even worse than the original yet still so compelling! What gives??
I’m not interested in supporting stolen work, nor listening to a very slow story eight minutes a day for the rest of my life, so write me down as a “nope” for that. But so weird to steal something so shitty and make it even worse, yet have it still somehow turn out so compelling!
You really feel for Talia and hope the Alpha stops being so stupid. There are alot of ways the Alpha could of handled the different situations but he just froze and did nothing.
This is the only ppc novel I have ever let myself get willingly sucked into. Yes, the grammar is bad. Yes, the editing is absolute horse shit. Yet somehow, none of that mattered to me because I absolutely loved the story. It’s a very lengthy story and very slow moving. However, I never found it to be boring. I loved the slow burn and all the twists and turns. There are a lot of fantastic side characters along with some you love to hate, and the world building is pretty impressive. But the main draw for me were the two MC’s, Damon and Talia. I loved them both equally. Their love story is too precious for words. They face a lot of challenges, as a couple and individually, but their strong love always prevails. This is not a rejected mate story. Damon may have been a man-ho before he found his mate Talia, but after they meet, he very quickly realizes that he has eyes for her alone. He falls first, and he falls HARD. Damon loves Talia fiercely. He finds her in a bad situation while at another pack. She is an orphan and has been abused by her pack for 19 yrs. Because of this, she has lost her wolf and can’t feel the mate bond like Damon can. He rescues her, gives her a home at his pack, and helps her recover both physically and emotionally. They grow close, fall in love, and eventually her wolf slowly starts to wake up and she can finally feel the bond. Their strong bond and deep love for one another is what made this story so beautiful. That, along with all the fully fleshed out side character friends/allies, and the exciting high stakes plot lines with lots of twists, made it a very enjoyable read.
Like others, I read the sample from an ad for Web Novels. It was very interesting and after reading a sample from an ad for Web Novels, I wanted to see how it turned out.
I went to the site hoping to buy the whole book but found out I had to buy coins just to read pages or chapters.
I was glad to find it on Kindle and thought $5 was the standard for a paperback. It was a fast and easy read.
After finishing, I found out there are 36 books in total at $5 each. If the syntax and grammar were better and there wasn't so much repetition, I might've considered buying more books as I've done with the Brotherhood books by J.R. Ward.
Along with the grammatical errors, constantly seeing blurbs about how the author's real work is featured on the Web Novels site. I understand that not only is piracy illegal but it also takes profit away from the author. However all of these annoying blurbs just seem like ads for Web Novels. I also don't think these books were pirated from Web Novels to Kindle.
I think if the author had a good editor, corrected and, polished her writing skills, she wouldn't need 36 books to tell this story.
Can't even keep tenses correct, read as if I was in a grammatical rollercoaster. Already in the first few chapters there's a major break in character of an important side character; whot??! MMC's "cruel reputation" and the reason for it not explained, nor ever shown in any of the interactions he has with other people. The story itself, in as far I read it, was not the most original either. Unfortunately, that's often more the case than not in current PNR, alas.
A shame, as I always like to 1. discover new, good self-publishing authors and 2. be able to give them some support. Neither was fulfilled today.
This title is an excellent cautionary tale when you want to show the importance of (creative) editors, or even well-versed beta readers, and what happens when you don't use them. How this scores as high as it does...mind-blowing 🤔.
Whew! I finally finished this one… took me nearly a MONTH, given that this webnovel was 1,072 chapters long (and the website so riddled with ads that I had to put my phone on airplane mode every time I started a new chapter)!!
But honestly? One of the best written wolf shifter novels I’ve read so far. Literally! I mean, the tone is more on par with fanfiction, but otherwise the grammar and syntax were all there. There was a consistent substitution for 2 words that I noticed ‘how’ instead of ‘what’ and ‘keep’ instead of ‘put’ but was only present in dialogue. Kinda weird, but overall, such a huge upgrade from previous shifter web novels I’ve read. Not to mention that the plot was complex and engaging, with a full cast of interesting characters who were all adequately fleshed out for a story of this size.
Meh. After seeing so many previews of this story on Facebook Reels, I searched and found the entire story on freewebnovel.com. I read all 1072 chapters and honestly wanted to stop at 300. It is nothing like the misleading teasers on Facebook. The possessive jealousy of these characters is utterly ridiculous - if there’s a mate bond so strong that you can feel your mate’s feelings, then you KNOW your mate is not interested in the person looking at them, so beating them up, smashing plates, or demanding their pack pay you a tribute is dumb. This entire story could have ended in 300 chapters if not of the random “Could he be any sweeter?” “…right? Right!” “Isn’t he the sweetest?” As well as all the repetition, the 50-some chapters about their daughter, who is just as big a bitch as Talia.
Ah so we are all probably here after the tiktok short.... This is definitely serial web novel, wattpad material. It's long, drawn out, and full of angst. But like every soap opera we need closure. This closure is finally found over 900 webpages later. The story has everything you'd expect from an omegaverse magic story. There's also a good amount of spice. An addicting way to kill time for sure and could be a cohesive story if its polished up and summarized.
This book is a slow build that leaves you hanging. Bad editing and just not well written. You get to the end of the book and the story just stops in what I assume the author thought was a cliff hanger to make you purchase the rest of the story. Will not be buying the rest of the story!
3 stars. I don’t know when I started it but me and my mom read it together. Good overall story but 27 BOOKS TOTAL. It kinda moved slow but it had its good parts first fantasy book but the series seems dragged out. Good Talia and Damon need to grow as individual and I hope Talia doesn’t stay this shy weak girl the whole time. Also what is this age gap 10-20 years?
The sample I read in an ad was better (yeesh, I should’ve known). It’s possible this is a completely different story, but all the names were the same as in the ad sample (which had a slightly different story and much better grammar). I won’t be buying any of the other books.
A great book 1 with amazing female lead and male lead, that is filled with action, fun, romance and humour. All characters really come alive and you meet many different types.
Looking forward to see the next part of the book being on Amazon and read how it goes on.
Confused because this first book doesn’t match the ad I read. So I need to read the next books to see what happens Other than that I am Enjoying this story very much.
The story itself is good and the characters are interesting. A decent editor would have caught the many spelling, grammar and false auto correct words allowing for a better flow.
I love the story line. English is obviously not the author’s native language so this one definitely needs an editor but I’m trying to ignore that and I’m on to book 2.
Very intriguing book. I don't normally read supernatural books but I started it and couldn't put it down. Well written and a story that I hope will turn around and end well
Loving this book, too bad it’s so short. Got tired of waiting for it on a book app and bought it for 5 bucks. There are a few of these titles out there with the same names but all jumbled. Talia has white hair then coppery… so confusing. However, I found the correct one by RedSonja
Good book until I realized that 36 books at close to $5 a book is around $180. I didn’t pay that much for all the Harry Potter books and most of them were hard cover books!
I read part one and was forced to download an app called Webnovel. The beginning of this serial is spicy and violent. I will try to read the rest because I want to see if the wolf that Talia has comes out.
The books could have been longer as 36x£5 is a lot. Make it 5-10 max. In the beginning it was interesting but after that it became just too much of Talia and Damon. When George rejected Marcy I stopped reading it. Happy end only for “poor Talia”.