Werewolf in Alaska by Vicki Lewis Thompson
Review by reacherfan1909
Series: Wild About You; can be read as a stand alone
Rachel Miller inherits a small cabin on a lake in Polecat Alaska from her grandfather. It comes with an all too handsome, but anti-social neighbor across the lake, Jake Hunter. At least Grandpa Ike had left her an excellent pair of binoculars, so she had some wonderful views to enjoy of Jake skinny dipping each night.
He also was the first sale of one of her wood carvings. Working on becoming vet had been a dream, but dealing with the reality of death and pain had been harder than she ever realized. Taking this break let her try her first steps at seeing if the talent she had could be a way to make a living. When the first sale was a wolf she carved went to Jake, she was thrilled, but too shy to reveal she was the artist. That sale gave her the courage to quit vet school and pursue art.
Three years later Rachel was still in Polecat, still carving, and still watching Jake Hunter skinny dip –when he was home. Now though, Rachel was financially set, famous for her wolf carvings and sold pieces large and small all over the world. Little did she know most went to rick werewolves who recognized her signature wolf – Jake Hunter (or more correctly, Jake’s father).
Then one night, busy on a cell phone call and carrying a tube of sketches, she walked out of the workshop she’d had built without looking around first – and ended up between a mama grizzly and her cub.
For 3 years, Jake has been fighting his attraction to the very human Rachel Miller. As the founder of WARM (Werewolves Against Random Mating), Jake has spearheaded the movement to keep humans and weres apart, especially in the bedroom and most certainly NOT a mates. But living across from his biggest temptation, hasn’t been easy, and seeing her walk out of her shop, unaware of the bears has him shifting to wolf in daylight to try and communicate with the bear as a wolf. But Momma bear is too panicked and Jake end up in a fight with trying to save Rachel. And he might be a big wolf, but no wolf is a match for an upset mama grizzly and he gets hurt.
Rachel is determined to ‘save’ the brave wolf, ‘her wolf’ the one she’s convinced she’s been carving for 3 years, and drags Jake’s furry butt into her cabin to do her modified vet thing. If she’d just let him go, he could shift and the healing would speed up. Instead, he endured her painful ministrations …………. Right up until she tried to shave his fir with a PINK razor! He wiggles under the bed and refused to come out. Sometimes, it was kind of strange; it was like she could hear his thoughts. But that only happened with mates ……….. no, no, no. She was not his mate! When Rachel lets Jake the wolf go in the morning, her young assistant Lionel tracks him to Jake’s cabin.
From there, this slow paced romance finally gets moving, sort of, but with no pizazz or verve to speak of.
I’m a big fan of all kinds of shifter romance, especially Shelly Laurenston, and Werewolf in Alaska has its moments, but it’s a lightweight paranormal romance without much substance and kind in its polt or characters. No moments to remember. The romance part was okay, no real fireworks, just a sense of ‘been there, done that’. Overall, it got a C (3*) from me. The language and romance are at the PG level.
Recommend instead – Molly Harper’s Half Moon Hollow vampire/paranormal series or Shelly Laurenston’s Pack and Pride series.
