A review by whatthefridge
Wolves Always Bite by Lori Ames

adventurous emotional hopeful tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

The plot does the job moving the overarching story forward, and the romance is fine.

Jeremy is hyper and way too meta, both with being obsessed with the idea of fantasy creatures and with being a novel writer of, his words, “Paranormal romance, specifically MM stories.” The fact that Adrian is the complete opposite, with zero genre savvy, stick out in an annoying way. Adrian’s tragic backstory would have been an easy handwave for why he is behind on pop culture references, but it just never comes up. 

I mean, I wish Adrian’s background was sprinkled in more across the novel instead of a single exposition. I say this because I was getting fed up with not knowing anything about him and was ready to assume we’d never learn it. 

While the ending was satisfactory for their romance, I do feel like the whole Jeremy being a writer bit was just an excuse for him to dig for exposition. 

This book wasn’t bad per se, but it felt tedious. There’s no novelty between a wolf shifter and a human in this series.
Obviously Jeremy is heavily foreshadowed to NOT be just a regular human, but with the majority of the story treating him as basically that, it is what it is.

When I was checking through the series, I learned that in the next book Jake (oracle with mysteriously fucked up magic) ends up with Gage (demon who could fix him), and THAT is something I really want to explore. So now I have stupid high expectations that will inevitably get shattered, and on top of that it makes the stuff happening between Jeremy and Adrian even less interesting in retrospect. 
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