There was a lot I liked about this shifter romance but it was a bit uneven in some aspects. However, I enjoyed reading it!

The FMC (Halle) is a Black woman in a small town, working for a cafe where she meets the white MMC (Dade) who is from a neighboring town. In true shifter fashion, it is a case of one sniff and he fell head over tail (lololol). The existence of shifters had only recently been discovered so humans were intrigued but leery of the weres. Dade, for the most part, was sweet. He wanted to care for Halle and have a life with her. Both MC's had supportive families.

What fell short was some of the characterizations of the "bad" characters from Halle's past. These characters essentially exist to uphold Halle as "not like other girls". Also, as is common within paranormal romance, the alpha urge to be all like, "YOU WILL BE MINE SO I AM GOING TO TELL YOU WHAT TO DO" did pop up. Overall, Dade wanted Halle to choose him but he also had an entitlement mindset that doesn't always work for me.

CW's: explicit sex, biting, cheating (FMC has ex's that had cheated on her), primal play ( )