| Genre | Gay / Historical / Paranormal / 20th Century / Warriors/Soldiers / Blue-Collar Workers / Shifters / Interspecies / Romance / Mystery/Suspense/Thriller |
| Reviewed by | Serena Yates on 03-June-2016 |
Renny knew the risks when he started working for the Résistance, but he never expected to be captured and branded as a loup-garou and traitor to the State of France by the occupying Germans. Now on the run and wounded, he needs a place to hide and heal. A blacksmith’s on the edge of a small town looks like the ideal place.
At first Marc doesn’t want to believe Renny is a shapeshifter, but his curiosity and desire to help outweighs his caution. It feels good to lie to the soldiers. Better to see the heat in Renny’s eyes.
One night together makes Marc realize he wants more from life than hot coals and cold nights, but with no end to the war in sight, neither man can make promises.
A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2016 Daily Dose package “A Walk on the Wild Side”.
Animals have been used in battles for as long as humans have been fighting wars - at least as far as I understand. Beyond transportation, be it warhorses, camels, or elephants, there are sniffer dogs for bomb detection, and even dolphins and sea lions have not escaped this sad fate. But in ‘A Wolf’s Resistance’, the author has taken it a step further and presents the idea of werewolves carrying messages across enemy lines in World War Two. What better way to hide your spies than to let them cross the border in wolf form, as part of a natural pack, then return to human shape to pass on the information once they are safe back in Allied territory? I am sure that if werewolves were real, that is exactly what would have happened!
In this story, Renny is a werewolf, or loup-garou, working for the Résistance in France of 1944.He has been caught by French collaborators and branded as a traitor, but managed to escape. He is at the end of his tether, wounded and ready to give up when he finds a blacksmith’s small farm at the edge of a small town. Best of all are the chickens the man raises, they are just what he needs as he is starving. But the blacksmith is vigilant and Renny is too exhausted to run when the blacksmith shoots him.
Marc cannot believe his eyes when the wolf he tried to scare away turns out to be a human. A very attractive man, no less, and one who needs his help if he is to survive the hated collaborators who are hunting him. Marc is not normally a risk-taker, but there is something about Renny that makes him reconsider. To Marc, fooling them and helping Renny feels as though he can finally do his part in winning the war.
Marc’s disgust with the soldiers when they return to search his home in more detail is palpable. The ease with which they eat his food and try to terrorize him is depicted really well. And Marc’s quiet resistance and determination through it all are admirable. But all Renny and Marc have is a couple of days and one night together, before a more thorough search is sure to reveal Renny.
If you like unusual stories about werewolves in a historical setting, if brutally realistic stories that look as if a happy ending is impossible are your thing, and if you’re interested in a read that is realistically depressing until it snatches happiness from the jaws of almost certain defeat, then you will probably like this novella.
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| Format | ebook |
| Length | Novella, 47 pages/15120 words |
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| Publication Date | 01-June-2016 |
| Price | $3.99 ebook |
| Buy Link | https://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/books/a-wolfs-resistance-by-tj-nichols-7138-b |
