Product Description

What's the most pleasurable way to be made into a werewolf? By having sex with one ... and surviving. Something Dr. Connor Jacy is about to find out after spending a long, lust-filled night of wild, animalistic and sensual lovemaking with the mysterious Native American trapper who rescued him from a snowmobile accident site in the Alaskan wilderness. It's only a few days until the full moon and once back at home, Dr. Jacy is sure it was all a dream compounded by his head injury. Unfortunately for Connor, the powerful spiritwalkers of an ancient Indian tribe have already decided to mate a modern man of medical science with a mythical creature and guardian of the night.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #187253 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 236 pages

Customer Reviews

Disappointing
I like werewolves, I like erotica, and I'm fine with m/m sex. Why didn't I enjoy this book, then? The plot was, frankly, a bit more nonexistent than I was expecting -- the sex begins on Page 5 and continues almost unabated until Page 129. Most of it's quite repetitive. Adam finds Connor unconscious, takes him in and cares for him, and they start having sex about twenty minutes after Connor awakes. When they're not having sex, there's some talking, but Adam reveals little (he gets few lines other than "you are in my heart, adada [an endearment in his people's language]." It's not utterly bad sex. It's even interestingly werewolfy sex, to a point. But I can only read the same scene repeated over and over so long before I start flipping forward and wondering if anything else is going to happen. Are we going to meet Adam's people or understand what it means to be him? Not really. Are any epiphanies going to happen with less expository subtlety than a sledgehammer? Not really. ("In his heart, Greg knew the man was right. The scarf was his constant reminder of his responsibility and obligation to the clinic and the people of his adopted town.") Greg, Connor's insensitive ex, also eventually learns the joys of being on the receptive end of werewolf sex, which turns the person so involved into a werewolf himself. The werewolves seem careful about obtaining consent for the sex, but don't actually mention the bit about turning furry until much later (and for all the dramatic "...and surviving the experience" talk, there's no actual implication that werewolves are in the habit of killing their lovers). We don't learn much about what being a werewolf is like, in any case; the book cuts off as soon as Connor transforms for the first time (and has some more sex).

Reviews mentioning 'plot' and 'character development' influenced my purchase of the book. I wish they hadn't. These are cardboard characters, and the prose has all the cliched grace of a lead balloon ("Greg let enough sarcasm into his voice to let her know her opinion wouldn't faze him in the least one way or the other."). Blood runs cold, someone takes a deep 'breathe,' and people say things like, "I never noticed how muscular your arms were before." We're repeatedly told the sex (and the relationship) are meaningful without being shown any actual closeness developing between these two men who've known each other for just a few days by the end of the book.

I appreciate a well-written sex scene as well as anybody, but at nearly ten cents a page, this wasn't remotely worth it. The book reads like fanfiction, and so I'm not terribly surprised to read in the biography that that's where the author 'got her start,' or that her credits include "unsold screenplays." Know what you're buying.

Excellent!
This book being only 130 pages, it is more of a novella than a novel. That being said, the author packs a lot of punch into those pages. This is fantastic paranormal erotica, or "slash." The author must have done a good bit of research on Native Alaskans to give such a feeling of realism to the culture and rituals (even the imagined ones). The idea of a Native American skinwalker (werewolf) is richly explored here, and even the secondary characters are well developed. The love story between Connor and Adam is believable and there is plenty of sex. Overall, well worth the money.

Lower your expectations... no, further. Further... Further... That's it!
If you're going to read this book, take a buddy. You'll need them to keep you from clawing your own eyes out.

Besides the pseudo-bestiality, what else has gone wrong? Hmm. Flat characterization. Men with all of the emotional depth of twelve year old girls. Sex scenes that defy all physical possibility. Yes, it's fantasy. I mean, BESIDES the part where the guy turns into a wolf partway through coitus. I'm talking about "channels" that are apparently self-lubing, because the author doesn't help him out. I'm talking about non-existent refractory periods. There's also just something about the book that makes me think that the author hasn't 1) met many gay men, 2) doesn't know much about gay sex, 3) watch any gay porn, 4) know many men at all, or 5) done any research on Alaska or lived in a cold climate. Apparently the author spent all of her research time on dog wang.

Futhermore, the author totally Otherizes the Native American protagonist and reduces him to the object of some kind of jungle fever. It's kind of offensive. Oh! Oh! Oh! And she actually uses a phrase that's like, "It's the female in you that allows you to be attracted to men," so she's TOTALLY conflating transgenderism with homosexuality, and THAT'S pretty offensive, too.

Anyway, this book reads like bad fanfic, so if that's what you're into, you should enjoy it. But if you're into bad fanfic, why pay for it? Great gag gift, though.