literaryfeline's review
3.0
Review originally published on my blog, Musings of a Bookish Kitty:
http://www.literaryfeline.com/2017/11/mini-reviews-from-fantastic-beasts-to.html
Forbidden (Never After Dark #1) by Elle Thorne
Barbed Borders Press, 2015; 105 pgs
Continuing in my phase of desiring short--and this one steamy (sizzling) hot--I turned to Elle Thorne's Forbidden, featuring a family of weretigers in Italy. Another novella which had gotten lost on my Kindle. Rafe believes himself to be in love with his half brother's mate and is not looking forward to their visit. But then he meets Jax and helps her out of a bind with her parents. One thing leads to another, and it becomes clear that the two are fated to be together. Will Jax be able to accept Rafe's animal side?
This one is a bit more sexually graphic than my usual romance reading fare, admittedly, but I can't say I wasn't warned going in. Jax seems like a smart woman, although I question her taste in men. Rafe is definitely a step up--several steps up, in fact, from her old boyfriend. Because this story is so short, everything happens fast, and it really did feel like it was too fast. I would like to have had just a little more conflict between the two main characters, perhaps. I would not mind reading more of Thorne's work. Maybe just something longer next time.
http://www.literaryfeline.com/2017/11/mini-reviews-from-fantastic-beasts-to.html
Forbidden (Never After Dark #1) by Elle Thorne
Barbed Borders Press, 2015; 105 pgs
Continuing in my phase of desiring short--and this one steamy (sizzling) hot--I turned to Elle Thorne's Forbidden, featuring a family of weretigers in Italy. Another novella which had gotten lost on my Kindle. Rafe believes himself to be in love with his half brother's mate and is not looking forward to their visit. But then he meets Jax and helps her out of a bind with her parents. One thing leads to another, and it becomes clear that the two are fated to be together. Will Jax be able to accept Rafe's animal side?
This one is a bit more sexually graphic than my usual romance reading fare, admittedly, but I can't say I wasn't warned going in. Jax seems like a smart woman, although I question her taste in men. Rafe is definitely a step up--several steps up, in fact, from her old boyfriend. Because this story is so short, everything happens fast, and it really did feel like it was too fast. I would like to have had just a little more conflict between the two main characters, perhaps. I would not mind reading more of Thorne's work. Maybe just something longer next time.
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