Shadow of a Wolf by Jez Morrow

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Despite the matters dealt, FBI agents, Navy officers, drug dealers, Shadow of a Wolf is a very funny book for me. Not overly funny, but with bits of humor here and there that make it a very relaxiting and enjoyable read.

Jack is a near thirty Navy officer, works for Intelligence and has inherited a lot of money from his mother. The perfect life. But not so perfect since he has discovered during his teen years to be a werewolf and no one around him seem to know that. His parents dead, he seems to be the only of his breed. Than he meets Martin, an FBI Agent. Also Martin is a werewolf, even if a bit slightly than him. Probably from different races. But also Martin is alone, and so they make a strange alliance: Jack is very willing to be Martin's friend, he has the attitude of an All American Boy, open and friendly, and always with a smile. Martin instead is brooding and skittish.

When Martin disappears without sign, Jack understands that what he feels for the man is not only friendship or need to be with someone like him, it's love. And so when a frightened and even more than before skittish Martin arrives on his doorstep one year later, Jack knows that it's time to take their relationship to another level.

Both Jack than Martin claim to not being gay, and to desire only each other and no other man. Martin is the more reluctant to engage in a sexual relationship, but he will be always on the received end of it: quite selfishly Jack declares to love Martin and that he has given the right to his life to him, but he will never be a submissive during lovemaking. Mmm... only for this I should find him nasty, but truly he is the alpha man in the relationship, and then Martin seems to like so much their lovemaking, that here and there you manage to forget that phrase.

When I say that I find this book more funny that suspence, it's cause all the scenes usually devoted to the suspence part (the interrogation, the unveiling of the villain, and so on...) are seen with an amused eye by the author, and the nasty things (like Martin's captivity) are overlooked without digging in detail. 

All in all this one is a very rest and relax reading and I will reccomend it to who is searching some light moments and nice characters (even if I'd like to hit Jack on the head for that phrase...)

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Amazon Kindle: Shadow of a Wolf
Publisher: Ellora's Cave (November 1, 2009)

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