Wolf Mates (Collection)

Dakota Cassidy
Paranormal romance
Available from Changeling Press
ISBN: 978-1-60521-686-7
December 2011

Wolf Mates is a collection of short stories chronicling the lives and loves of Max and Derrick Adam’s pack of misfit wolf shifters.  There’s Hector, the vegetarian who raises rabbits as pets, Jerry who gets stuck mid-shift into a half man/half wolf form, and Beau who was neutered by animal rights activists. It all comes together in a hilariously sexy book that is just too good to miss.

An American Werewolf in Hoboken
Max Adams was in Hoboken because of his grandmother Eva’s ability to read prophecies from a can of soup.  That’s why J.C. Jensen found him in a pound. Hoboken has very talented Animal Catching Engineers and Max had met his match., in the Animal Control squad and in his new “owner” JC. His grandmother was never wrong. Now he just had to convince JC that the huge, smelly dog she just adopted is the love of her life.

Sexy, zany and hilarious! This book has started strong and with guns blazing. The reader is guaranteed a least a dozen smiles and a couple of good chuckles along with extreme temperature fluctuations Dakota Cassidy isn‘t pulling any punches when it comes to the erotic content of her stories. I think I’ll just get cozy and enjoy the rest of the ride.

What’s New Pussycat 
Grandma Eva is at it again, and this time it’s Derrick Adam’s turn. As second -in- command of this pack of misfits, he was content to remain single. But the soup must be obeyed….. or else. Imagine his horror when his life mate meows! Martine Brooks was bound to the warlock, Escobar, so she had no time for whatever these idiot canines were talking about. She was New York penthouse and caviar and he lived in Clampetville with no way to get decent hair product. Soup or no soup, she was so out of there.

Derrick was such a typical man in this story, furry or not. Incensed over the thought of losing his footloose life style until he finds out she wants nothing to do with being his life mate. So very wolf in the manger.  An excellent follow up to Max’s story and we get to meet a few more of the misfits who make up the Adam’s family(only with fur and claws). I did get a few really good guffaws out of Martine’s feline antics, her demeanor was spot on for a pampered house cat. 

Moon Over Manhasset
Julie Lawrence was an anathema in the Adam’s clan. She was sophisticated and preferred an urban surrounding. She was also moderately wealthy, which was how she met financial plaaner, Xavier Wolf, who in spite of his name, was a lion shifter. A bigoted lion shifter, who had no intentions of becoming romantically involved with a dog. Well, best laid plans….

I think this was the hottest of some extremely scorching stories. It maintained the humorous tone of the book and even through in a bit of suspense and intrigue.  In the first two stories, the couples were complete opposites, Julie and Xavier were mucho simpatico except for species. Both were very urbane and neither one was interested in anything long term or more than physical. This was what I felt was the best of the bunch.

Ruff and Ready
Lassiter Adams has swooped in and stolen the Adam’s homestead by paying some nefarious back taxes. He supposedly is going to build high end condos but as of yet all he’s done is dig up the land. Emerson Palmer (another Adam’s relative) is an environmental activist  determined to put a stop to the destruction of an untold number of bunny homes.

I learned so many new swear combinations from this story. I laughed through the whole thing. Bringing just sheer genius to a tale absolutely rife with absurdity, Dakota Cassidy was at her very best and her very raunchiest when she penned this little snippet. She also managed to tie up all the loose ends nicely and leaves the reader with a taste of what to expect in the future from these hilariously unique and over sexed shifters. Excellent job! 

Overall rating:
Sensuality rating: Explicit

Reviewer: Wendy Mitchell
January 23, 2012

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