Glad you are enjoying the series!

It’s because I can’t get the grin off my face after reading this newest Alpha & Omega book. I’m so pleased that your review of the first two books made me seek them out and I soooooooooo loved this newest one!

On your list of to be reviewed?

The way he wooed her, protected her, but didn’t dominate her. Yes, he’s an uber alpha male, but with her he shows his humanity and that is so incredibly fabulous.

Briggs is really good at characterization and there’s a vividness to her writing that just draws me in. I like her books as well as I like any romance novel, and I generally prefer romance as a genre over anything else. (I don’t even miss the sex [much].) She’s one of the writers that I think of as Romantics in the art movement sense.

PS. “Bran is a little too cold” – In the Mercy books, I found him fascinating but wasn’t really won over until Cry Wolf where he has more “screen” time and we get to see his internal motivation.

But for the moment, I love Charles more. I love his blend of tenderness and ruthlessness. I have a thing for assassin heroes, and Anna and Charles’ relationship is a lot like a marriage of convenience too, in the way they got sucked into it by their wolf aspects in a day and a half. I love the way the conflict in their relationship is set up — not just that Charles is patient with Anna’s need to take things slowly, but that his patience costs him and exacts a toll. The way he reigns in his wolf’s possessiveness for her is soooo romantic to me. And then there is his moral conflict in regards to the killing he does for Bran. The fact that he hates it but still does it makes him so much more interesting than the majority of heroes who kill without any regrets.

I can’t say he managed to steal the book.

Well, I’m a sucker for heroes who are deceptively beta-like. :) Then there’s the marriage of convenience, not to mention the beserker issue. (Remember Warprize?) ;) You get the idea. Don’t get me wrong, I love Charles. But Bran pushes more of my buttons.