Dapper Animals guest review for Once Upon a Twilight
I had the pleasure of meeting Leydy (Once Upon a Twilight) at a South Florida Bloggers event at Books & Books. It was book love at first site 🙂 We were discussing one of our favorite genres, Young Adult Fiction, and I mentioned that one of my issues with this genre was the lack of sex. Lo and behold, Leydy whips out a blue paperback book out of her tote bag and gives it to me. The book was an ARC of Wild Cat by Christine Feehan. She said if I wanted to, I could guest post a review about Wild Cat on Once Upon a Twilight. I was honored and excited to read this new ARC. Specially since it seemed to be a shifter book and I love me some shifter romance action.
The book started off with a BANG! As in banging. The main characters were already getting it on in the first 20 pages. I happened to start reading this book during my lunch break and trust me, I did not want to go back to work. I just wanted to keep on reading! The storyline started strong and reeled me in.
Leopard shifter, Siena, does not know she is a shifter or part of a leopard crime boss family. Siene is used, unbeknownst to her, as a decoy to kill the family’s enemies. Her latest target is Elijah, who happens to be her childhood crush. She has also been promised to her grandfather’s sadistic second in command.
These premises could have made for a great book. Unfortunately, the book sizzled out after the main character’s got together which is pretty much at the beginning of the book. There’s no tension or chemistry between the characters. The characters are flat and one dimensional making them boring and not likable. Also, the heroine has no backbone and lets herself be bossed around all the time by her alpha mate.
Believe it or not, I also had an issue with the sex scenes. I know, I know! I’m of the camp that believes the more sexy time there is in a book, the better. This book went way overboard with the sex scenes. I think they were trying to hide the fact that the book has no good storyline/plot. It got to a point that I was bored with the sex scenes, mainly because I didn’t care about the characters and was not emotionally invested. Also, there was A LOT of oral action going on. A LOT.
If you’re looking for an erotica book where the main female character is submissive in every way and not just in bed, then this might be the book for you. If you are looking for a good shifter romance novel, then I would not recommend you pick this book. Specially if it’s your first time reading this genre. I would recommend Patricia Briggs’ Mercy Thompson series for a strong and kick ass heroine and Nalini Singh’s Psy-changeling series for loads of steamy sex scenes.
Thank you Leydy for letting me guest post and for giving me this ARC! I really wanted to like this book and get hooked on another shifter romance series. This wasn’t the book for me, but if you’re still interested in reading Wild Cat it is available for purchase on November 24th, 2015.
I give this book a 2 stars out of 5.
Happy readings!
<3 Izzie