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Zack Bluestone thought he was being mugged when he was ambushed by several huge men. He didn’t expect to wake up in chains in a creepy basement, or to be naked, or for there to be a naked man with him, who is also in chains, and looks pretty vicious.

 

Brian Lauren is so angry with himself that it’s hard to keep his inner alpha from taking over and tearing everything apart. He can’t believe he was kidnapped and put in a pit, but it happened, and he has to find a way out of here before he goes wild and attacks the only other person locked up with him.

 

The problem is that person happens to be his mate, and if Brian wants to get them out of this alive, he has to convince the man that they need to mate with each other so he can have the strength to escape before their captors return and kill Zack.

 

Book Review

The tenth book of this very entertaining series is all about a human, Zack, suddenly realizing that not only werewolves exist, but that there are also several factions that are at war with each other. He gets caught right in the middle of it, and worse, he's locked up with one of them who is about to go feral from the torture he's been subjected to. As for Brian, the one about to go crazy? He'll have to fight to remain rational enough not to kill his mate, but he also wants revenge against Lawrence, the alpha of Roarke's pack's biggest and most dangerous enemy.

Zack works at the diner in town, and has no idea that his brother has been changed into a werewolf, nor that there are several packs of them living nearby. He has no idea that supernatural creatures even exist. And when he gets captured as "food" for one of them, his reaction is purely instinctual, but not what you'd think. Yes, he panics at first, but he also has some sort of "feeling" that the creature with him isn't going to harm him, and, in fact, needs help. I thought it was pretty cute how he supports Brian in his luna form, and is actually disappointed when Brian has turned human by the next morning. Zack takes the whole situation pretty much in stride and decides to hang on until Brian gets tired of him.

Brian, on the other hand, is stunned to have found his mate, of all people, thrown in the cell with him. He knows he needs Zack's help to create the energy he needs to escape – via making love. I think Brian is very lucky to find Zack willing and interested in exploring some "physical activities" with him, but the energy gain is mutual, so that gives Zack reason to believe more is going on than he previously thought possible. Of course, Brian is completely smitten by now…and any thought of ever letting Zack go is totally unacceptable.

This story is pretty much an adventure for both partners. Zack gets to know a whole new world and, being curious rather than timid, takes it all rather well. Brian may be afraid he'll scare Zack, and is relieved they end up exploring each other rather than one of the fighting the mating – as happens so often. Their situation and how they dealt with it provided a nice change of pace for me, while still adding more information to the series story arch. With Leon and Eli, the strange shifters with all sorts of weird information, still around, I'm sure this series will remain interesting for a while.

If you like shifter stories where the human mate is curious rather than scared, if you enjoy reading about mates who do well together from the beginning and decide to fight their enemies together, and if you're looking for a book with lots of hot action between the sheets, and everywhere else, then you will probably like this novella.

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook
Length	Novella, 35297 words
Heat Level
Publication Date	05-October-2013
Price	$5.50 ebook
Buy Link	http://www.bookstrand.com/locked-in-a-room-with-a-werewolf