TORI AND HER WOLF
Zara Doyle
Release Date: October 25
Meet Zara Doyle:
Zara began writing when she could hold a crayon. She’s had articles published in several magazines over the years and teaches English. Her true love for writing romance began when she decided that perhaps love, and all its foibles, was humorous enough to start taking notes about.
She is the writer of the series The New York City Werewolves. Zara writes about perfectly normal women; beautiful, a little bit flawed, a little bit deluded, and a lot psychotic, but only when required. She enjoys letting her characters morph from self-doubting pessimists into women who would flip their hair casually and walk away without looking back, no matter how much chaos they leave in their wake.
When Zara isn’t writing, she’s taking walks along a beach, fishing off gnarled and weathered piers for snapper, and cutting flowers in her garden.
Just kidding.
She’s normally contemplating going to the supermarket to find her favorite chocolate, but can’t be bothered getting dressed to do so. Or contemplating going for a walk around the block, but worried the rain might come, and so she can’t be bothered to do that, either. Or watching a cooking show and contemplating learning how to cook, now that her sons have left home and her husband would like a hot meal occasionally. But that would be far too much work. So, because she can’t be bothered, she picks up the phone and orders pizza.
She lives in Connecticut and is originally from New Zealand, which is why her writing sometimes sounds a bit kiwi-ish.
Connect with Zara Doyle:
https://www.instagram.com/zaradoylewriter/
Blurb:
I’m approximately 90% certain my mate, Hunter, is going to reject me. Apparently the pain is unbearable. So I do the most sensible thing any sane woman in my position would do. I run, in my beat up Toyota. I hide, in Scranton. I Google Hunter, while I ignore the world. The internet says around 200 attractive, rich, suitable females want Hunter.
Good. They can have him. So long as he doesn’t formally reject me.
My life changes for the better when I’m in New York City with an unexpectedly generous new job. There’s no way Hunter will find me in the masses, right?
Wrong.
I stumble upon him, literally, in a gym. I try not to ogle his wide shoulders and muscled pecs. But my traitorous eyes obey my ovaries, not my brain.
Tragically, the gym is in my new job’s building. I don’t want to be unemployed but, and I can’t stress this enough, Hunter is not only my boss, he owns the company.
I’m positive I’ll be fired and rejected by him. And it’s only Saturday.
I should be able to avoid Hunter because the company is huge. I’ll hide in the bathroom if need be.
Hunter’s an arrogant, rude, and absolutely, gorgeously frightening werewolf.
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Tori and her Wolf is the first book in Zara Doyle's new The New York Werewolves series and the first book I've read by this author.
Firstly, I LOVED that this book started off set in Connecticut, where I originally grew up! It's so rare to find books set in that part of the US and I was so excited. I also loved that it transitioned to NYC and Manhattan. I related to Tori when she transitioned from a small town in CT to the big city as I also moved from a small town to a big city, albeit in another country!
Tori's character did get a bit on my nerves with her refusal to accept her mating with Hunter but I easily got distracted from this with the goings on with Tori's brother, Dillon and the things that started happening which peaked my interest.
I enjoyed the fact that this book didn't just stop at Hunter and Tori discovering their mating but it continued on to hidden secrets from Tori's past. It was unique but also very intriguing and definitely kept me reading well into the night.
I really enjoyed the characters in the book and how Tori is a bit feisty but still enjoys the protectiveness of Hunter and his wolf. Hunter's character showed a lot of growth and I enjoyed getting to know the more pleasant side to him than was initially portrayed.
I also really liked that the story world had werewolves as an active part of the real world. They aren't hidden from humans but exist alongside one another.
Overall, this book was really well written and unique enough to stand out from other wolf shifter books that I've read in the past. The character development was great and I liked the unique story world that Ms Doyle created. I look forward to reading the next book!
