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Secret Desires by Stormy Glenn

Blurb:

Everyone has secret desires, especially werewolf, Leyland Summers. He dreams of two sexy mates to bring all of his fantasies to life. When he encounters a sexy cowboy who wants to take him for a wild ride, what does he say? Hell yes!

Coming to ranch country for a picture shoot, Leyland was shocked to find not one, but two mates. Being a tri-omega, he had always known that he would have two mates. He just never expected to find them in the same place. Or to find out that they had been lovers for years.

Having two mates is no big deal for Leyland. He grew up with two fathers. But having two mates that were already in love is something all together different. How is he supposed to share Lucas with Jake…or Jake with Lucas? And where does that leave him?

Review:

Leyland’s neon green VW breaks down on his way to a photo shoot and he’s rescued by a smoking hot cowboy. When the cowboy, Jake, decides to initiate Leyland to the joys of sex on horseback, Leyland is all about learning new things. He has no qualms about Jake’s ascertain that he’s keeping Leyland, instead happily snuggles in until he realizes that Jake is already in love with someone else, Lucas. Considering happy wolves don’t like to share, this causes some angst among the trio until they can work things out.

Jake is the alpha male of a pack of gay wolves and in love with his best friend and lover of more than a decade, Lucas. Both Jake and Lucas are strong willed, stubborn men who never expected to have a mate, let alone have to share one. Leyland for his part has no problems with being mated to two men, yet he wants to make sure he has a place amongst them. Complicating matters are Leyland’s supernatural powers such as telepathy and telekinesis.

While certainly entertaining at parts, this book unfortunately fell flat despite hints of interest. The opening scene involving Leyland with amusing and witty, but too quickly fell into the erotica trap with detailed sex between Jake and Leyland, virtual strangers. Although Jake has pursued Leyland for months without the latter’s knowledge, it’s still a bit much to pounce on them and mate at the first second. Leyland is amusing and quirky with enough of a feisty personality that he’s not overwhelmed by two alpha men. His struggle to find a place in an already established relationship elicited real emotion and was a brief highlight amongst more sex and arguments.

Although there is a lot of sex between the men, who are horny at the drop of the hat, the ménage relationship is tricky at best and given neither enough attention nor depth to fully develop. The resolution to any doubts and problems is simply to have sex until one or all of the men walk funny and ensure they love each other. While the sentiment is certainly lovely, the actual characters and their emotions were sadly lacking.

Additionally, Jake and Lucas make the mistake of treating their omega and mate like a child. They discipline Leyland by grounding him to their room, a punishment they learned from Leyland’s fathers.  While this no doubt was effective for a child, it’s unbelievable for an adult and their mate. Further compounding the issue, they leave him locked alone in the room for almost a week while they go about their lives, even leaving to get a night away from the ranch. The utter neglect and lack of care for Leyland unfortunately colored the remainder of the book.

While the pace was quick and the book was an easy, fast read, the characters were one-dimensional and given easy outs to real conflicts instead of adding depth to their situation. The resulting relationship still centered on the two men obviously in love with Leyland almost a sexual plaything. The sex was certainly hot and plentiful and while I didn’t hate the book, I was disappointed in the characters and their actions. However, I also didn’t connect with them to really care so this simply ended up as an easy, forgettable read about some hot cowboys/wolves.

 

*There are however, multiple reviews loving this book and that was the reason I initially bought it. I do love cowboys, yet I simply had a different response than other reviewers.

You can read the other reviews and get the book HERE!

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