Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Plot/Storyline: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥
Humor: Yes
Perspective: First person from both hero and heroine in alternating chapters
Cliffhanger: No
Epilogue: Yes, 8 months later
Format: borrowed on Kindle Unlimited

Should I read in order?
I believe this is Catrina Bell’s debut!

Basic plot:
Blanca is a lawyer by day and a roller derby witch by night with a crush on the local cafe’s werewolf shifter.

Give this a try if you want:
- Monster/paranormal feel – This is Earth with various beings – shifters, witches, humans, orcs, demons, fae
- Texas setting
- Werewolf shifter/cafe working/tattooed hero
- Lawyer/derby witch heroine that has telekinesis powers
- Medium steam – 2 full scenes in a shorter novel
- Praise kink and dirty talking hero
- Skinny dipping

Ages:
- Heroine is 30, I’d guess hero is similar? There’s a mention of him being in his early twenties years earlier.

My thoughts:
I was so excited to read this one! Something about the cover really grabbed me (purple and orange are my favorite cover colors and a tattooed hero?? Yes please!) And I had so much fun with it.

This novel does a great job of building tension and giving some character depth in a shorter amount of pages. I think it’s hard to establish a strong relationship in shorter books but I loved it here. Our characters know each other when the book starts but they haven’t initiated anything further than friendship and I loved going through this journey with them.

Blanca has showed me I 100% need more witches in my romance life. I just loved her finding herself and her confidence in uniting both aspects of her life – her day job and who she is after hours. Her priorities are worth fighting for and I think Thorin was just the perfect match for her. Supportive and uplifting they are strong together.

Thorin was a joy as a hero. He’s protective and gentle and kind and funny and sweet and just SO DAMN ADORABLE. I will admit I love my dark, aggressive heroes that can be super dominating and maybe a bit too pushy but Thorin was just such a breath of fresh air to me – he fights against the toxic masculinity of being a shifter and doesn’t let the aggression take over. He’s hotter because of it, controlling himself to make sure his woman is comfortable and satisfied. His bedroom talk made me swoon and I am so in love with him. He’s such perfection!

Overall I adored this novel by Bell and am definitely eager to read more!

Cock/Hero Stats:

- Hero is a werewolf shifter
- To become a shifter, they consume a poisonous elixir and either live or die. If you survive you are not only human or orc or fae but a shifter too.
- Dark, clawed fingers
- Blackened veins show through your skin
- The toxin never leaves the system and in situations of anger or dominance it can flare up and cause rage and physical changes they have a hard time controlling
- Hair and muscles will begin to grow and veins turn darker.
- EVERYTHING gets bigger when he begins shifting *wink wink

Quotes/thoughts:

I adored how he was always counting her buttons! And the reference on the cover?? Swoon!

I have a little game I play every time I see her. It’s called Count the Buttons, where I imagine how many buttons it would take to undress her. Come on, it’s a fantasy, and I’m only a man. Sometimes she wears these fancy boots with nine little clasps on each foot. Those would be fun to work off. She also has this dress that goes up to her neck but the back is lined with twenty fabric-covered buttons down the spine. Delicious.
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He’s an exotic dancer? And he’s got to be wearing padding in those briefs because...Virgen Santa! My mouth feels dry. Oh, it’s open. I snap it shut.
 

Content warnings:

- Mention of discrimination/racism
- Strong themes of pro-choice and pro-life politics throughout including laws restricting body autonomy
- Allergic reaction requiring a hospital visit
- Police/protest violence 

Author given content warnings: 

pro-choice themes, microaggressions, parental pressure, allergic skin reaction, police violence, explicit sexual content, vulgar language/swearing, pregnancy 

Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:

 
Safe sex? [Condoms used but it does result in pregnancy even with use (hide spoiler)]
49% - kisses
59% - 🔥kisses, blow job (complete), oral for her, sex on the office table (him standing/her sitting)
87% - 🔥oral for her, doggy style with anal fingering