By Lana Ferguson
Star rating: ★★★★★
Blurb
Two wolf shifters agree to be fake mates but unexpectedly find something real in this steamy paranormal romantic comedy by Lana Ferguson. Mackenzie Carter has had some very bad dates lately. Model train experts, mansplainers, guys weirdly obsessed with her tail—she hasn’t had a successful date in months. Only a year out of residency, her grandmother’s obsession with Mackenzie finding the perfect mate to settle down with threatens to drive Mackenzie barking mad. Out of options, it feels like a small thing to tell her grandmother that she’s met someone. That is, until she blurts out the name of the first man she sees and the last man she would ever date: Noah Taylor, the big bad wolf of Denver General. Noah Taylor, interventional cardiologist and all-around grump, has spent his entire life hiding what he is. With outdated stigmas surrounding unmated alphas that have people wondering if they still howl at the moon, Noah has been careful to keep his designation under wraps. It’s worked for years until an anonymous tip has everything coming to light. Noah is left with two options: come clean to the board and risk his career—or find himself a mate. The chatty, overly friendly ER doctor asking him to be her fake boyfriend on the same day he’s called to meet the board has to be kismet, right? Mackenzie will keep her grandmother off her back, and Noah will get a chance to prove he can continue to work without a real mate—a mutually beneficial business transaction, they both rationalize. But when the fake-mate act turns into a very real friends-with-benefits arrangement, lines start to blur, and they quickly realize love is a whole different kind of animal.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Read if you Like:
🐾 Omegaverse
🐾 Fake dating
🐾 Grump sunshine
🐾 He falls first
🐾 Shifter romance
🐾 Doctor romance
My Thoughts:
I pretty much knew I was going to adore this book. Fake dating and grumpy sunshine are two of my all-time favorite genres. Throw in shifters and spice and really this book couldn't be bad. However, I loved it more than I expected to!
I have read A LOT of paranormal romance and this one was really creative and different from anything else I have read. I found myself being like yes this is how real shifters would be (don't question my brain). Lana Ferguson asked the question of how would modern society have affected shifters if they had been public for a while. We get things like hormone suppressants and controversy about shifter designations and hiring. I think this book will really appeal to both readers of paranormal romance and readers of spicy contemporary romance.
Also Mackenzie and Noah are both great characters and I love them as a couple. I am completely won over by any story where a sunshine character brings a reserved or grumpy character out of their shell and this book is very much that.
, I highly recommend it and would like to formally apologize in advance to the people in my life who will be hearing about this book repeatedly for the next few months. Lana Ferguson I hope you will write more books set in this universe!
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