A Hearts On Fire Review

Charlie Richards' "Catching a Bit Of Irish" is book lucky number 13 in her Wolves of Stone Ridge series. For a reader who has yet to read any books from the series...I can safely say I was not lost.

I do think reading the previous twelve books might have helped but it was not necessary for me (there was only one other couple the author focused on as well as Reb and Daithi)

The author made all of the described obstacles in the blurb disappear fairly quickly (like Daithi's boyfriend, the mate bond problem, the question of moving to a new country, etc) all are resolved in minutes. There's the standard case of insta-love/ you are my mate. The story was a little fluffy, a smidgen of cheese factor and overabundance of standard 'my mate' talk. (Seriously I got it the first time, no need to continuously refer to your mate as...'my mate'. I got he's claimed.)

There were some unanswered questions like how did the phooka get summoned? Daithi's family is just going to easily get away with what they did?

All in all, it was a quick, decent paranormal read. I'll probably re-visit the wolves when I am in the mood for low angst, paranormal M/M fare." ( )