Title: Bear Persuasion
Series: Bear Memory, #2
Author: Eden Cole
Genre: Paranormal / Shape-shifter
Length: Novella (81 pages)
Publisher: Amira Press (December 2th 2014)
Heat Level: Explicit
Heart Rating: ♥♥ 2 Hearts
Blurb: Noll is determined to bring down Harrison using any means necessary. He miscalculated letting Orion escape, but he won’t screw up with Harrison’s human friend, Evan. Evan is ripe for Noll’s seduction. Noll must first get over the fact that he himself is a virgin when it comes to men.
Confident that he will get his way, Noll plays the abused victim to lure Evan to care for him. His second big mistake comes when he takes Evan home to his compound where no one wants the human there, and they are determined to defy their alpha for his own good.
Warning: This is the “bad guy’s” story. The book contains explicit male/male sexual content from a dark-hearted anti-hero, graphic language, and situations that some readers WILL find objectionable.
ISBN: 978-1-62762-085-7
Product Link: http://www.amirapress.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=474
Reviewer: Lisa
Review: I have read many paranormal love stories and most I find intriguing. This particular story had great potential but it is still far behind many others. I was not impressed with it, other than it would have made a good story had the darkness and confusion been out of it. It moved all over and made it hard to truly get into.
You don’t have any good guys at all in these books and that in itself was disturbing. They start off with one attitude, then their personalities change.
Evan had been with Harrison, so much in love that he would allow Harrison to be married to a woman. Then Harrison mates, but Evan doesn’t know that part all he knows is Harrison doesn’t want him in that way. Although Harrison does want something it is not said throughout the rest of the story. Then Evan meets Noll and things get even more bizarre.
Noll wants Harrison dead. He wants them all dead and he plans on using a human to do it. Evan is just a play in the mix. Then by forcing a mating Evan gets more than he bargains for. Now see he was so in love and even angry at Harrison but now all of a sudden he is mated and wants Harrison dead. Yet Noll doesn’t show any love, compassion or positive attitude towards his new mate. It doesn’t come off as a love story but more of a dark sense.
I did not like this story and hate to see what the next book will be like. I was quite disappointed in it. Noll is an ass but Evan seems to be even worse. He is taking everything from Noll including his spirit. He took Noll’s Alpha position and forced his mating which to me is a death sentence in any story. I didn’t much care for this story and would hope that the next one is a bit better.
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