reviews_and_ramblings | Runaway by Amanda Steiger

Runaway is a quite “classical” M/M paranormal romance: Keith and Taylor are both runaways, Keith from an abusive pack and Taylor from an abusive past. Keith is a lone wolf, both since he doesn’t trust other wolves and also since he doesn’t really trust himself; he tried to have an “ordinary” relationship with another man, not a werewolf, and it ended in a quite tragic way, something the author let it pass, but that actually has destroyed any chance to normality for him. Taylor instead was a runaway teenager whose father disowned him when he came out at 15 years old and he spent the rest of his youth as a kept boy for an older man; when he was probably trying to rebuild his life, he was bitten and turned in a werewolf, something that was pushing him towards suicide. When Keith brings Taylor home, he wants to help the younger man, but indeed Taylor is also a very pretty boy, and Keith finds himself with a living temptation in close quarters.

The novella is pretty much about an erotica tale, even the few non sexual scenes in the end resolved in a prelude to sex. When Taylor is around, Keith is a one minded werewolf and mating seems his only purpose. Truth be told, he tries to be unselfish and detached, but I had the feeling that Taylor well know the effect he has on the other man and he manages to use it to his own good. In the end Taylor has always used his body in exchange of shelter and false security, and he is only lucky that this time Keith is probably the right man for him.

What probably distinguishes Runaway from similar stories, is the very primal tone of sex; the wolf nature of both men, but above all Keith, is pretty strong, and there is even a sex scene that can be considered in “shifted form”, even if it was not voluntary and so quick that the reader almost doesn’t realize it.

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