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Altered Heart (2008)

by Kate Steele(Favorite Author)

3.72 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1596328576 (ISBN13: 9781596328570)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Loose Id, LLC

review 1: This story started rather dark but quickly turned into mushy romance. It was interesting enough but not exactly best shifter romance there is. Mick was a headstrong and bossy shifter enforcement who rescued Rio, just turned into werewolf teen abducted by psychotic alfa. With all the use and abuse Rio was through I expected more problems on his part with adjusting to normal life again. But the story doesn't dwell on it much. As I said, it's mostly sweet and candy.
review 2: Not as over-the-top as other werewolf books I’ve readWarning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS. Rating: 8/10PROS: - I’ve been reading a lot of stories lately with one character who’s endured physical and/or mental abuse and is thus wary around the other main ... morecharacter when they first meet. This story is one of my favorites so far in this hurt/comfort subgenre. Rio is nervous around other people but never struck me as pathetic (perhaps because he’s so young--I guess I’m more forgiving of the tendency toward tears in an 18-year-old than in someone older and wiser). And Mick is gentle and sweet and understanding when Rio gets frightened.- Other readers have voiced regrets that Steele didn’t add anything new and unique to werewolf lore with this book; but since I’m not all that familiar with werewolf lore, I really appreciated the explanations about how the earth and moon fight over wolves’ bodies and why the change takes place once a month and so on. I also enjoyed reading about the other paranormal characters in this fictional world: vampires, pixies, trolls, sylphs (although I must admit, I had to look that one up), etc.- The description in this book of what it feels like to change from human form to werewolf form seemed particularly well done to me.- I was a little frustrated at first by the sexual tension that keeps building and building because Mick refuses to act upon it, but once the characters finally DO have sex, it’s pretty hot. They wait long enough to get going with that phase of their relationship that there are only 2 or 3 actual scenes, but they’re sweet and tender.CON:- Mick begins the story desperately attracted to Rio, but for various reasons (Rio’s too young, Rio’s just been turned, Mick’s jaded, Mick is Rio’s protector and shouldn’t take advantage of him, etc.), Mick refuses to give in to Rio’s suggestions that they enter a sexual relationship. And then within the space of a single page--literally--Mick decides to throw all his reasons out the window and they end up having sex that night. From then on out, none of those previous “we can’t do this” excuses even occur to Mick again.Overall comments: This is a hurt/comfort storyline that contains just the right balance of drama and realism for me. Rio is skittish without being utterly stereotypical, and Mick is strong and wonderful and soothing. I did think Mick transitioned from “I won’t touch him” to “he’s mine forever” rather abruptly, but that wasn’t enough to spoil my enjoyment of the book overall. less

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