Chantal’s review of Close Contact by Rebecca Airiess.

Geneva’s having a bad day. With a spell put on her by an angry witch, the last thing she needs is a werewolf claiming she’s his mate even if he is gorgeous and she can’t get enough of his kisses.

Evan’s happy to have found his mate and even the spell keeping them within close proximity to each other doesn’t bother him. He’s more than eager to stay near her sweet body and satisfy his craving for her, but her protection is his first priority.

But the witch isn’t satisfied with the results of the spell. Geneva and Evan have to stop the attacks before they lose their chance to be together.

This should have been a book that I loved, unfortunately, it was not. I mean, it had the makings of a very good story, it just wasn’t written well enough.

The blurb is correct. A mysterious bad witch puts a spell on a Geneva. Said spell forces Geneva to stay within 8 feet or so of Evan, an alpha were-wolf or else she is inflicted with such pain that she can hardly breathe. That’s where the title comes from… Close Contact. It’s fitting.

My first obstacle with this book was that it’s the second in a series, and having not read the first book it took me a bit of time to get my bearings. I’m sure that if I had read the first book, then this one would have made sense a lot faster than it did.

Even was your typical alpha male. Sexy, dominating, stubborn, etc. I enjoyed him.
Geneva I liked less. She was also stubborn as well, but in a “even though my actions are going to hurt me or those around me I’m still going to do it because I am TSTL” type of way.

Along with an unlikeable heroine there were other issues that made it difficult for me to enjoy this book.
-Geneva’s bra was removed twice in one scene.
-Evan put on a second condom without removing the first.
-Evan the were-wolf hero didn’t hear windows in his house being smashed until the job was almost done. What kind of were wolf doesn’t have super duper hearing?
-Close Contact lacked a good reading flow. The sentence structure was choppy to the point of distraction.

I could go on, but you get the point.

One thing I did like were the love scenes. (Minus the first one which I didn’t believe for a second) They were sexy, and I wanted to pull Evan out of the book and let him have his way with me.

In the end I’m going to go with a 2 out of 5. I’m not interested in reading anything else from this author, but for those who don’t care much about the editorial issues, the story isn’t bad. Personally, I got so fed up with the little things that were wrong that it made it increasingly difficult to want to finish the book,so in the end it didn’t matter to me who put the spell on Geneva.

This book is available from Ellora’s Cave. You can buy it here in e-format.