Marked by Joely Skye

[reviews_and_ramblings]

This is I think the most unusual werewolf story I have ever read. Alec is a young gay man. We don't have much physical description about him, but I can imagine him like a nice guy, handsome but not stunning. And he has had a very bad experience one year before with a quad of rogue werewolfes which has left him with scars on the body and in the mind. He fears anything and anyone. So when Liam, the older brother of a child he has known in the library where he works, begins to approach him, Alec reacts badly.To be true Liam is not much of a word, and his sexual approaches are a little rough. But Alec, despite his mind screams abuse, finds his body react to this man.

Liam is a very young (24 years old) and very hansome man. He could have anyone he wants but he has a strange behaviour and most people go away after the first encouter. And now he has a little brother to take care and so it's almost two years that he hasn't met no one. But what he draws him to Alec, is not only sexual need, it's also the calling of his mate. Cause Liam is a werewolf and now he has to protect not only his little brother from the rogue quad, but also his new-found mate.

Liam is an alpha male but he really doesn't act like that. He is tender and uncertain. He has strong feeling and hard reaction, but he is also very young, so he really doesn't understand all what happening around him. Alec is somewhat more adult, but he has fear. He doesn't trust no one, but he is not a bad man, so when Ian approaches him more like a wrestler than a lover, his first impulse is to refuse him, but then he maybe sees the need of physical contact in the eye of the younger man.

I really have some problem to well describe what has drawn me in this book. It's maybe the writing style, or the strong connection I can feel between the two characters. It's maybe the fact that both men are really strong but at the same time they show weakness and a need to be hold into the arms of a lover. The sexy is very hot, but "realistic": they fight and then they make sex and after sex they are too tired to continue the fight... a really good way to stop the fighting!

http://samhainpublishing.com/romance/marked

Amazon Kindle: Marked

Series:
1) The Strength of the Pack
2) The Strength of the Wolf
3) Marked

Reading List:

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Comments

[joelyskye.livejournal.com]

It was wonderful to read this, Elisa! Thank you for reading my book and writing about it. I hope it was unusual in a good way!

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Yes, unusual in a very good way, it's a good surprise. Elisa

[leeteng.livejournal.com]

Sounds great. Having a hard time catching up on my reading. But your review has prompted me to read this next. Thanks Elisa.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Thanks to you. I'm very glad to read comment on my reviews. Elisa

[maxfromathens.livejournal.com]

>It's maybe the fact that both men are really strong but at the same time they show weakness and a need to be hold into the arms of a lover.

Does it sound strange for you?

>they fight and then they make sex and after sex they are too tired to continue the fight...

I do fight even after... Sometimes we find fighting foreplay. It's true.
I have to read this book.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

> Does it sound strange for you?

Well yes, cause in an alpha/beta context, the alpha should be strong and not show weakness. But I like when a character is uncommon, it's more real

> Sometimes we find fighting foreplay

Oh well, could be exciting...

> I have to read this book

Mind you, it's written by a woman, so it could surprise you!

Elisa

[maxfromathens.livejournal.com]

Since I have CCV problem on cards, I won't be able to buy this until March :(

This guy of the cover reminds me a German-Greek actor!(I was wondering since yesterday)

I read again B.Michaels and thought:They have to ban girls from reading his books ;)
(Do you know what I mean?)

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

> Do you know what I mean?

No I don't know, why? he unveal too much secrets?

Elisa

[maxfromathens.livejournal.com]

Yes. He is dangerous. But fortunately girls haven't noticed it... at least at this very moment, I hope!

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

> But fortunately girls haven't noticed it...

Oh, I don't know. He is published by a very girly epubs, Loose Id: the three owner are all women (writers actually) and his best friend is another woman author, Kate Steele.

Elisa

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

> I read again B.Michaels and thought

Maximilian, do you know that Bobby Michaels has a LJ? he post mostly of politics and gay right, never of his writing, but maybe you could find it interesting. It's

rimpig

Elisa

[maxfromathens.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'll check it.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

At the end of the year, knowing me, you will have a lot of link! I'm a link spammer!

Elisa

[maxfromathens.livejournal.com]

Indeed!