“Look at you! Such a healthy flush.”“You’re positively glowing! Luminous, even.” Katherine didn’t think she had ever heard so many creative ways of being called fat before. Except she wasn’t fat, of course. Even worse, she was pregnant.When Katherine begins experiencing seemingly random physiological changes a few months after being claimed as Bastian’s mate, she’s terrified that she may somehow … she’s terrified that she may somehow be losing her supernatural abilities – her “inner wolf”, so to speak.
In many ways, though, the truth is even scarier: she’s pregnant.
Amidst dealing with morning sickness, wondering how she’s going to push a baby the size of a melon out of her you know, and, oh yeah, figuring out a way to tell Bastian the life-altering news, Katherine finds herself shedding her initial apprehension over her pregnancy and becoming enamored with the idea of a baby.
Unfortunately, in a world where fertile wombs among werewolves are as rare as they are revered, envy and covetousness abound. Evil – both the kind that lurks in shadows, and the kind that blatantly rears its ugly head – threaten to rip away from Katherine everything she never knew she wanted.
Who could know that her uterus, and the little life growing inside it, would ever cause her so much trouble?
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This ended up being my favorite of the series. I suspected it would be too.
I didn’t like how the synopsis gave away the book’s subject. If I didn’t read it, then when starting the book I wouldn’t have known about the pregnancy and given the subject, it would have been a lovely surprise. I think the quirks of the pregnancy was very well done and unique to the series.
I really enjoyed this book. Again, the protectiveness of Bastian was stomach curling, but was also well done considering the occurrences in the novel. When she didn’t tell him right away since he said that he didn’t want children, I was worried that this would be carried into pointless, annoying nonsense but I was happy to see it wasn’t. It dragged on for what I think was an appropriate amount of time and then ended.
I was torn over the plot of this novel, despite enjoying it. I think having Katherine get kidnapped…again…and be threatened to be raped….again is a little annoying. Cute but after the first two books, it’s tiresome. At the same time, I did enjoy it, especially since they spoke about the Western colony. And because I loved seeing Bastian be how he was. In fact, having a chapter or two in his perspective would have been perfect.
I’m also going to give a bit of a series review here:
One thing that annoyed me was the “flashbacks”. And I use quotes around it for a reason. They were long, frequent, and less of a flashback. For example, this would occur: fight breaks out. Katherine gets hurt. End chapter. New chapter. Three days later and Katherine is healing. And then instead of a summary of what happened, or even a short flashback of something important that happened in that last few days, we get a 2-5 page italicized flashback. Why? Why not just make that a chapter. I.e.: Katherine gets hurt, end chapter, new chapter, what happened right after. End chapter. New chapter. Three days later and is still healing. During the first book, I learned to ignore it, but at the halfway point of it, it just became too much. Because they’re quite frequent, and always long and a similar situation that was just presented.
I found the writing could also use a once over.
I think with this series it was the author’s writing/how she chose to write it that bothered me more than the series itself. Because i did really enjoy the story. Understanding that it is a YA, so I don’t judge it for certain YA qualities. It was a fun werewolf romance story. And I suppose despite the issues I had with all 3 books, the author still wins, because I would like to check out her other books.
An excellent 3rd and last book in the once bitten, twice shy trilogy. Absolutely worth the read. The story line was excellent, the characters were superb. I couldn’t get enough of this series.
I’m honestly disappointed when it comes to the execution of this book and that sucks because I really wanted to love it. I’ve read every single book Noelle Marie has written and I love every single one of them, especially the first two books in this series. That’s what makes me so sad that I couldn’t love this book. I was honestly expecting more romance and more werewolf moments and the fact that Noelle reduced this because of the head character’s pregnancy (no spoilers. I mean, just look at the book cover) and her kidnapping just took away the excitement and experience I got from the first books. Still, it’s not all bad. There is romance and drama and werewolf. Just not enough to live up to the standard of the whole series. I still love this authors work and I will keep reading the books she publishes. I believe this was a one time thing and that she will keep writing great stories for us. I’m looking forward to her next book!