Feral Sins

“Love is giving someone the power to completely destroy you, and hoping that they won’t”

I’m pretty picky when it comes to Paranormal Romance, preferring Urban Fantasy, but I have to say this one surprised me with how good it was.

The small pack dynamic worked well and the characters blended to fit. Taryn is sarcastic and fun, and Trey is…just awesome. I even dug his aged relative who Taryn enjoyed arguing with. The angle with her father and his disapproval of her was interesting too – pack dynamics can be annoying in some books with the politics involved, but once we got over the forced marriage with one particular cruel alpha, it wasn’t annoying in this book.

There’s some intense steamy moments that seriously work, but show more after a while it gets way overdone and starts taking over the story too much – a sad curse many PNR have. I think some of that could have been trimmed later to make the story work better, but the plot for a shifter paranormal romance novel rocked --- they come into a contractual mating because of an oncoming battle, but find out that they had misconceptions about a few things.

Sounds simple enough, but throw in that both of their former true mates are dead, and it gets even more interesting. Not something I’ve seen done before.

Apparently there was a version that had a ménage of some sort, but that’s not the version I read so I can’t comment on that. Looking at comments about it – apparently I seriously missed out!

Well written and sassy, highly recommend this one if you like paranormal romance. show less

Feral Sins
3.5 Stars

In order to circumvent her father's plan to mate her with an abusive alpha, latent wolf shifter Taryn Warner, enters into a "mating of convenience" with Trey Coleman, a domineering alpha well-known for his feral wolf. Irritated by pack politics, Trey is eager for the alliance to protect his pack from an uncle eager to usurp their territory. What starts out as an arrangement quickly turns into something more when Trey and Taryn's instincts and desires awaken and threaten to disrupt their well-ordered plans.

This was recommended to me several years ago, but there were just too many PNR wolf shifter series on my TBR at the time. After seeing the audiobooks on Scribd, I decided to give it a try. While the world-building show more is creative, and the plot and characters are entertaining, there is nothing truly groundbreaking about any of these elements. Moreover, Wright's writing is overly wordy and repetitive at times.

The world of the Phoenix Pack has some interesting conceptualizations of pack hierarchies, mating and imprinting. There are, however, no indications of the geographical region for the setting, and other than one character, who is obviously Irish, there is no information on nationality. The author is British, but the narrator is American, so this is also no help in creating a sense of location and/or atmosphere.

Trey and Taryn are likable characters. He is a typical domineering alpha who fears forming emotional bonds with a woman, whose loss would destroy him. Taryn is also very appealing and her snark leads to many laugh-out-loud moments. That said, this sarcasm wears thin after a while. They have excellent chemistry and the sex scenes, of which there are perhaps too many, are sensual and intimate.

The plot involves several threads including Taryn and Trey's arranged mating and their conflicts with the wolves who threaten them. While Taryn's concerns are resolved early on, Trey's develop throughout the book. The villains are all fleshed out well, and there are some suspenseful moments, but there is never any real feeling of threat or danger.

One final note on the narration, Jill Redfield is a pseudonym for Christina Traister, who narrates some of Nora Robert's earlier works. Considering the different heat levels in these works, this was a bit jarring. Nevertheless, Redfield has a good vocal range for both male and female characters.

In sum, this is a promising beginning to the series and the secondary characters are interesting enough to continue. show less

Contrary to many other readers I did enjoy this book - yes the editing could have been better - many errors; incorrect words;duplicate words; use of "his" when it should have been "her" type errors.... etc.

The overall story had a plot,strong female lead, Alpha male, had some suspense, conflict, and personalities that were interesting and some great one liners (Dominic & Taryn).

yes the group sex scene did seem out of character with Trey's possessive nature of Taryn - but several times it was eluded that Trey would have sex with Taryn while others watched, I was just surprised at the level of involvement that Trey allowed from the other men with Taryn.

I loved that Taryn was finally able to shift,and enjoy the life of the wolf... but I was show more not satisfied with the ending - it seemed up in the air, open...I wonder if this means there will be a follow on book? I would like to know what happens - and would happily read more with this cast and crew. show less

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To say I loved this story is an understatement! It just doesn't do it justice to how much I 100% enjoyed every second I spent reading it. I was completely invested. I laughed. I cringed. I gasped.
The writing is exceptionally fantastic. The flow of the story, the world build and ALL the characters are amazingly well developed and complex.
The main lead female character, Taryn is a hoot!! You can't help but love her. Her energy and show more determination. Her snarky attitude. Her strength. The things that came out of her mouth made me laugh and cheer her on.
Trey, the main male character, was intelligent and strong. As you read the story you get to see all the different layers to him unveiled. show less

On the one hand, I want to kick myself for not reading this a LONG time ago. On the other hand, I think I waited just the right amount of time, because I got to read the newer version, without the gangbang or orgy or whatever it was. Because I agree with everyone that said these two sleeping with ANYONE else would have been totally OOC.

This book had it all- a little bit of angst, a lot of humor, a LOT of really hot sex, and now I'm going to be checking out all this author's other work. I can't think of a single complaint that I have about this story, and that's rare.

3-1/2 stars. This book was mostly fun and fulfilling. The heroine was snarky although the author did seem to be trying too hard occasionally to make her so. But all in all I liked her sass since it seemed to fit a person who had been denigrated all her life and who had constructed this hard shell of sarcastic protection. I liked her interactions with the hero's grumpy old grandmother. The hero was fun in a possessive you're mine sort of way. I know some people don't like the whole possessive thing but I like it. It's one of the payoffs of reading shifter stories for me. I thought it was fun to have an alpha wolf who everyone thinks is psychotic for a hero. It would have been nice to see him being psychotic a few times so that we could show more really buy into it though. More show less tell.

The story and plot made sense on the whole. There could have been a bit more description of what people looked like. I have no idea what color the hero's hair was for example. Also, there was a lack of world building that bothered me just a bit. The how did the whole shifter thing work elements were weak. I gathered that humans knew about shifters but there were no human characters in the whole book and there was no other explanation of how shifters fit into the human world other than humans forced shifters to have what amounted to arbitration councils. I needed some explanations of are shifters only born, how are they viewed in the rest of the world etc. I did like that it was explained that shifters could be true/born mates or that they could choose to mate and imprint on each other.

The two biggest problems for me were an odd and very long scene late in the book where they all go to an amusement park. The rides they take are explained in intricate detail etc. It just bogged the story down as tension was building to the climax. I get that the heroine was teaching the hero to loosen up and play but we had really already gotten that idea with the playing in the woods where the hero had emerged smiling. Enough said right there.

But the thing that really bugged me the most is, and this is going to be spoilerish, there was a weird menage scene right after the amusement park scene. It's not that I have anything against menage stuff but only if it's set up that way from the first. By that I mean, the hero here is super alpha and super possessive and super into everyone knowing that she is his, dammit. Then suddenly, 3/4ths of the way through the book, he decides that all of his BFFs can do her one night? Because they stuck with him as boys? One of the things that has been set up throughout the entire book is how alpha she is. Here he has her totally submissive not just to him but to all of these guys, there were 6 or so of them. How could her alphaness survive that? How in the morning are they going to, pardon the old schoolness of the thought, how are they going to respect her again as alpha? That just sort of spoiled my pleasure in the whole possessive alpha wolf thing he had going.

So on the whole it was fun and worth reading. Baring the 2 odd scenes at the end, the whole of it was pretty well done. If the author writes more of this series I will be happy to try them. show less

Actual Rating: 3.5 Stars

This could have been a four star read if it hadn't been for the fact that the first few sexy scenes did strike me as coming under 'dubious consent'.

I bought this because I was sent the fourth book by Netgalley and actually really enjoyed it. Overall, I liked this book even more.

Latent Shifter Taryn Warner, daughter of an Alpha who is ashamed of her inability to shift, finds herself in an arranged mating with a twisted motherfucker, also an Alpha, who wants to break this alpha female's spirit and make her into his little bitch. Oh noes! Whatever will she do?

Trey Coleman is a big, bad alpha male who is cold, calculating and incapable of falling in love. But his evil uncle who helped banish him from his old pack show more has decided he wants Trey's new pack. In an attempt to protect his wolves and territory from the clutches of the evil uncle, he enlists the help of Taryn; mating with her will offer him an alliance with her father whilst at the same time rescuing her from the clutches of slimeball Roscoe.

This is only a temporary arrangement, of course. Three months of pretending to think they're true mates and then they're both free to go on their merry little ways and mate with whoever they want.

I'm sure everyone can see where this is going.

Again, another fun book that I couldn't put down. I loved the interactions between Taryn and Greta - Taryn is such a sass-pot and she is so much fun to read. The book is action packed, full of banter, sexual tension and humour.

Do recommend if you aren't squicky about dubious consent. show less