Wolf Shunned by Laurel NightMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
A Strong Alpha Female
I’d probably give this book 4.5 ⭐️ if I could.
Kaliya is a warrior. She’s faced down more wraiths than she can count. She is a captain for her Alpha and is more dominant than all the females and probably all of the males in her clan. Clan rules dictate that all wolves must be mated by age 20 or they are thrown out of the clan. Their species is endangered by the constant threat of the wraiths and shifters don’t live long healthy lives unless they are very lucky, which is why they are forced to find a mate so young. Kaliya only has a few months left to find a mate or find herself without the resources and support of the clan.
Kaliya has only one friend, Emory, a very submissive male, who is nonetheless intelligent and creative, a very strategic thinker and valued for his knowledge of the ancients. He adores Kaliya and she feels the same, but he isn’t dominant enough to make her wolf submit so they can’t mate.
Going to the Clan meeting, that happens every 5 years, is Kaliya’s last chance to find a male who is dominant enough to force her wolf to submit and allow the mating. She hopes she can tolerate the man who makes her wolf submit, but she has little choice if she wants to stay in the clan.
This is a multiple POV novel. I liked the way it was written allowing us to see into the minds of all the main people involved. Kaliya doesn’t really know anything about the alphas from the other clans but we get to find out how they see her and little about their clans from their POV.
I really enjoyed the world-building in this book. The author has very carefully built a world in which everything hangs together well. The history, culture and society of the shifters are constructed in an interesting and believable way.
What I especially enjoyed was that Kaliya is a very dominant female, who fights her own battles. She is competent, fierce and self-contained. She takes her responsibilities very seriously but still has a loving and tender side. I like that she’s not angry and in your face, snarky or volatile, which is often the case with these sorts of characters. I like how practical she is, whilst at the same time hoping she can find something to care about in the mate that she will be forced to accept if her wolf tells her to.
This book is a great set up for the rest of the series and I can’t wait to see what the author does with it next.
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