I'm a huge Joanna Chambers fan, so even though I had issues with the story I still enjoyed the beautiful writing style. It remained a 'strangers who are drawn to each other' type of dynamic in my mind. Lindsay is drawn to Drew right from first meeting, and though I have a pretty high tolerance for that in a shifter romance, the pair didn't spend enough time together for the romance to develop. I personally find suspense to be stressful, and this book stressed me out greatly. I also didn't quite get the relationship between the MC and his friends/fellow wolves. I wasn't feeling the story, and the torture-punishment vibes weren't working for me. The book had a ominous beginning, and I honestly wanted to DNFed it at 25%. Just know going in to the story that it is more of a paranormal/historical fiction story than a romance.

I was feeling pretty irritated at 95% in when I realized that it wasn't coming. The plot clearly continues on to the next in the series, but I was expecting some sort of HFN at least at the end. By definition, a romance has a HEA or a HFN. I think I liked it in the end, but it wasn't at all what I expected. I'm not sure what to make of Gentleman Wolf. Note: This is the first book of a duology – the story continues and will complete in the second book, Master Wolf.

Is he just moonstruck, or is Nicol bonded to him in ways he doesn’t yet understand? Somehow though, Lindsay can’t seem to accept Nicol’s rejection. Although the attraction between them is intense, Nicol seems frustratingly determined to resist Lindsay’s advances. But Cruikshank may not be all he seems, and there are others who want the papers.Īs if that were not enough, while tracking down the Naismith Papers, Lindsay meets stubborn architect Drew Nicol. It should be a straightforward mission-all Lindsay has to do is charm an elderly book collector, Hector Cruikshank. While he’s in Edinburgh, Lindsay has been tasked with acquiring the “Naismith Papers”, the writings of a long-dead witchfinder. Lindsay cannot take the risk of being recaptured-he may have been free for a century but he can still feel the ghost of his old chains under his fine clothes. When Lindsay Somerville, the most elegant werewolf in Paris, learns that the man who held him in abject captivity for decades is on his way to France, intent on recapturing him, he knows he must leave the Continent for his own safety.

Gentleman Wolf by Joanna Chambers