"Alpha attacked" is your average spicy werewolf story. We have the alpha who is a big muscly guy (in this case a drug dealer) and a heroine (weirdly not in the twenties) who is dedicated to making good and healing people.

The story was short, spicy, with a good plot, and the writing was good, but it wasn't anything spectacular. 4 stars, because it was actually good, and I didn't have to deduct stars, but it certainly wasn't perfect, and didn't fall into my 5* reads, and respectively in my "favorites" bookshelf.

And because this was an ARC audiobook I have to comment on that point as well. As much as I wanted to enjoy it, I think the narrator did quite a bad job. If the book was duet would've been so much better, because the female narrator during the male scenes (especially the spicy ones) made me cringe so hard, I wanted to burrow my head in the sand. It's more of a producer's bad, than the narrator, because in the female parts she was dedicated, and actually showed a reaction, but her male voice was what make the book so unbearable at times.

However, if you want to read a short and somewhat spicy werewolf read, this is the story for you. And I do recommend you READ it, not listen to it.

NetGalley provided me a free copy of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review ( )

Alpha Attacked by Eve Langlais
Big City Lycans series #1. Paranormal wolf shifter romance.
Maeve is a doctor in the ER. Things get crazy when it’s a full moon. That night she saves a man with multiple gunshots and bullets still inside him. Once she’s removed the bullets, he’s out the door. No sutures, no pain reliever. Weird. Probably drugs. Someone reports seeing a massive dog leaving through the automatic doors a short time later. Someone else says it was a wolf. What a night.
Griffin, as alpha of his pack, is strong and in charge. Getting shot was a nuisance but meeting his mate will change his life. The sweet smelling doctor seems to be in the middle of a war. Griffin will protect her. And more.

Danger for Maeve escalates and Griffin is there to help and figure out all the twists and connections. He’s a little bossy and dominating, but he is alpha.
Maeve is smart. She deals with most of the surprises with practicality. The heat and lust between her and Griffin is hot.
Maeve is a little too accepting at times. Bullet wounds don’t heal in a couple of days and as a doctor I would have expected her to question that more. She acknowledges it and then buries it in the back of her mind.

As usual with this author, there is a tease for the next book in the series as part of the text on the last page. If you don’t want to know whose book is next, skip the last paragraph.

It’s not deep. It’s not profound. It is a hot, werewolf shifter romance and fun to read or listen to. Entertaining escapism. I look forward to reading more of this series.

🎧 I listened to an audiobook version of this book narrated by Juniper Young. The performance was fantastic as there are very distinct voices for the male and female roles. The male voice is a bit husky and I want to say, suave, but not quite hitting the mark of sexy male. There is a lot of innuendo in the tone. The female voices were strong and on point. Overall, I enjoyed the narration as a good alternative to reading. I did speed up the narration to 1.5 after a chapter or two at 1.0 which was too slow for me conversationally.

I received a copy of this book from NetGalley and Tantor Audio. ( )