Gennie’s Review – Wolf Line (Granite Lake Wolves #5) by Vivian Arend

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Description:
Into the best-laid plans a little chaos must fall…

Jared’s not sure how his quiet morning coffee near the harbour ended with him on a cruise ship impersonating one of his pack mates. Well, it might have something to do with a woman, but who can blame him? The female of the species was made to love, and he’s more than willing to share his considerable skills in that area. Especially since he figures the chances of meeting his own one-and-only are slim.

Keri Smith is positive the last-minute recruit sneaking aboard the Arctic Wolf Cruise Lines tour is her mate. Ix-nay on confirming that, though, at least for the next ten days. She’s promised her best friend to be overall troubleshooter for the shifter-only cruise. Getting tangled up in mating lust would reduce her skills to nil. Avoidance of the sexy wolf for the duration of the cruise, followed by jumping his bones, seems the logical solution.

But when libidos are on the line, “logic” and “wolves” don’t go together. Throw in suspicions of wrongdoing, and these two virtual strangers will need a lot more than luck to find their way through to forever.

Product Warnings
Really? You need to be warned about the hot nookie and sarcasm? Yeah, it’s in here. Also colourful cat shifters, lupine royalty, and wild adventures in cabins like you’ve never seen before.

The wolfies are back! I have loved Vivian Arend’s Granite Lake Wolves since I read the first book a few years ago. This book, Wolf Line, is this fifth of the series and introduces us to a new set of characters within the same pack. We even have some brief encounters with the core leadership of the pack.

The main characters in this story are Jared (who poses as Mark for a while) and Keri. Keri’s best friend, Tessa is leading a cruise for the first time. Keri is brought along on the cruise to keep her best friend sane and that is quite a job! Keri is a wolf shifter and this is an all shifter cruise, but shenanigans do occur and someone has to stay on top of things. The only chink in this great plan is when Keri finds her mate is a stowaway and potential thief!

Jared has his own issues, but up until this point has been skating through life and getting laid as often as possible. He gets on the ship in order to escape a small mix up with angry big brothers and ends up working as a maintenance crew member. However, once he realizes that Keri is his mate, he’s a goner.

I love paranormal romance books because even though there may be some rough sailing and lack of communication, we know that the forever mate gene will kick in! There were many times in this story where I was mentally yelling at the characters to TALK, however, they were too busy burning up the sheets to focus. I really liked both of the characters and I’m glad they got together and seem to be content. I would have liked more back story, but I sure that’s just because I seem to devour anything that Ms. Arend writes. As I said at the beginning, the wolfies are back and that makes me happy! I can’t wait for the next installment 🙂

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