The Gentle Wolf
Oct. 2nd, 2020 11:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alias_sqbrSo, disclaimer: not only did I read this book for free but I'm dating the author.
BUT I CAN OBJECTIVELY SAY IT'S REALLY GOOD AND YOU SHOULD BUY IT
My reaction to Pia while reading was "these two traumatised repressed self sacrificing workaholics are trying so hard and they need to kiss" And then they did and it was amazing :D
It's a m/m romance, set in an alternate Perth where a small proportion of the population are 'shifters': able to turn into wolves, with omegaverse-y biology where asides from regular gender there's also being alpha, omega or beta. I'm usually not super into omegaverse, but Pia writes it in a really interesting way, with believable worldbuilding(*), and they complicate biological imperatives without undermining the things that make the tropes fun.
The other thing this story explores thoughtfully is trauma, I can't think of a hurt-comforty romance about two people helping each other through their respective traumas that I've connected with more.
But also it's just a really nice romance about two really likeable but complex characters who I ended up shipping SUPER hard by the end: demisexual omega chocolatier Aodhan, and his quiet regular customer, the beta Thomas, who RUNS A LITTLE MUSEUM :D As a former museum science communicator, those parts were super cute and believable. The parts about being from a family of fucked up activists was believable and wrenching. And while I can't judge the chocolatier parts from personal experience, they certainly made me hungry, and Pia's love for Perth's bush shines through just as much as in the previous book.
(This is a sequel to the previous Perth Shifters book, Blackwood, but you don't need to read that to understand this one, and the dynamics are pretty different)
SO YEAH. GO PRE-ORDER IT.
(*)they gloss over the whole "people turning into wolves" thing pretty painlessly and if you can roll with that you're good.
BUT I CAN OBJECTIVELY SAY IT'S REALLY GOOD AND YOU SHOULD BUY IT
My reaction to Pia while reading was "these two traumatised repressed self sacrificing workaholics are trying so hard and they need to kiss" And then they did and it was amazing :D
It's a m/m romance, set in an alternate Perth where a small proportion of the population are 'shifters': able to turn into wolves, with omegaverse-y biology where asides from regular gender there's also being alpha, omega or beta. I'm usually not super into omegaverse, but Pia writes it in a really interesting way, with believable worldbuilding(*), and they complicate biological imperatives without undermining the things that make the tropes fun.
The other thing this story explores thoughtfully is trauma, I can't think of a hurt-comforty romance about two people helping each other through their respective traumas that I've connected with more.
But also it's just a really nice romance about two really likeable but complex characters who I ended up shipping SUPER hard by the end: demisexual omega chocolatier Aodhan, and his quiet regular customer, the beta Thomas, who RUNS A LITTLE MUSEUM :D As a former museum science communicator, those parts were super cute and believable. The parts about being from a family of fucked up activists was believable and wrenching. And while I can't judge the chocolatier parts from personal experience, they certainly made me hungry, and Pia's love for Perth's bush shines through just as much as in the previous book.
(This is a sequel to the previous Perth Shifters book, Blackwood, but you don't need to read that to understand this one, and the dynamics are pretty different)
SO YEAH. GO PRE-ORDER IT.
(*)they gloss over the whole "people turning into wolves" thing pretty painlessly and if you can roll with that you're good.
