The Hunt by Susan Bliler

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Title: The Hunt
Author: Susan Bliler
Series: The Hunt #1
Published by: Indie
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Pages: 354
Genres: Paranormal Romance
Reading Challenges: CC's Goodreads Reading Challenge
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My rating:

Blurb:

Kidnapped, corralled, and marked, Vesa Watson refuses to break. A nameless face in the sea of a dozen or so other women who were snatched off the street just like her, Vesa refuses to show any sign of weakness. She can’t. There’ll be no hope of escape if she loses it now. Unsure what is going to happen, she knows one thing for certain. She’s going to fight! No matter what, no matter who, no matter how, she’s going to fight with everything she has even if the captor who’s had her marked is some sexy, dominant, beast of a man who can’t keep his eyes off her.

The Hunt has been a part of wolf shifter history for as long as anyone can remember. Still, it doesn’t keep Haddix BloodMoon from fuming at his forced participation. Tantamount to an arranged marriage, The Hunt is the Council’s way of controlling the packs. Worse, the crying, sniveling women who were taken and transported to the event’s mountain site aren’t his type. No, Haddix needs a dominant female. A strong-willed, no-nonsense, take no sh*t woman is what his wolf needs. When he finds a little fighter among the offerings, both he and his wolf take notice.

Vesa thought that being kidnapped and forced into marriage with a wolf-shifter was the biggest threat to her future, but it’s not. It’s falling for her new mate, Haddix BloodMoon.

My Review:

I liked the alpha-ness of this book but one thing that really bothered me was how Vesa got a serious case of Stokholm Syndrome.  Like, really? He straight up kidnapped you!  Then he sent one of his goons to ‘watch’ your sister and make sure you didn’t escape.  Basically he wore you down till you didn’t want to leave.  Uhmmm, no thanks.

I bet you are wondering why I still gave it 4 stars….Well, I know its fiction and overlooking that real life deal breaker, I am a romantic at heart and Haddix wasn’t completely unreedemable. Wait for it, he makes it better.

He was sincere in his feelings for Vesa.  He didn’t physically hurt her and he did all he could to buck the system for her.  I guess you could say he chose her instead of his people in the end.  He was caught up in the politics of his culture’s backward ass traditions and finally saw the error of his ways.  It was pretty bad ass.

In the end, I was so compelled to like Haddix and his merry band of alpha rebel shifters that I snatched up the second book as soon as I was done with this one.  So, yeah, I liked it.