Elizabeth's Wolf (Wolf Breeds)

'Elizabeth's Wolf' was my first Breed novel and, to this day, still makes me smile.
While the book is about Elizabeth and Dash, Cassie is the show-stealer with her secrets and her innocence. Be prepared to become intrigued and addicted!

Should really be called. Elizabeth's Coyote. The most outrageous Breed plot yet. Although this is one of Lora's earlier Ellora's Cave books.

I'll start with the spoiler. The daughter Cassie turns out to be a Breed child. One of the evil coyote Breeds. And she knows it. So she makes endless efforts to be good. Poor kid. Only 8 yo. She'll have a breakdown for sure when she gets to her teens. Probably. She's been keeping a lot of secrets from her mother. I could have done without evil adults calling sweet damaged Cassie a 'monster' to her face too. Also. Readers need to ask themselves. What on earth is an 8 yo doing in a piece of erotica? Strictly speaking. This novel is more about her than about Dash and Elizabeth.

Amazingly. The smut totally gets in the way of the excellent plot that surrounds Cassie. Despite what she repeatedly says. Elizabeth entrusts the care of her hunted child to acquaintances of a man she has known for about 1 day. I understand completely that the demands of the plot made that a necessity. Not least because she and Dash could hardly consumate their relationship in the usual noisy Breed manner with an 8 yo around in the next room. But it just meant there was a huge discontinuity between her intentions and her actions.

The novel ends rather abruptly. Like many of the books. In addition the author seemed to have to struggle to fit in the required anal scene. Ok. The heroine faints from the resulting ecstacy. But there should have been at least one more bedroom scene just to show that she felt happy in the relationship following that weird event.

I bought Elizabeth's Wolf as a $15 paperback. From the smut point of view. I don't think it was worth it. Not enough. Because understandably it can't really get going until Cassie is off-loaded at around page 170. From a 'good story' point of view the price was not a problem. On one level I suppose you could call this book 'good edgy fiction.' But I found it a bit too scary to enjoy as a novel. Obviously I guessed quite early on that Cassie was Breed. It's just that the details, and especially the ending were just too sad for me to cope with comfortably.

The Breed books are all incredibly good, but so far Elizabeth's Wolfe is at the top of the list. The book can be read alone or fits in with the series of Breed books. I can recommend anything Lora Leigh has written. Talented, talented writer and storyteller.

This book was extremely good. This is definitely a keeper! The action is intense as well as the romance. Dash's search and subsequent rescue of Elizabeth and Cassie is the stuff of dreams. He is the ultimate 'white knight'.

I really enjoyed the intensity and chemistry in this book. And the way Cassie helped to project such depth into the whole family concept. I am a firm believer in showing how great families can be even without blood ties.