Stefan by Eve Langlais

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

For her, he’ll unleash the tiger within.

Stefan’s getting married for the good of his family, because if he doesn’t, the local werewolves will run them out of town. He’s not exactly happy about it, but it could be worse. His bride is quite beautiful when she’s not completely off her canine leash. As beta for her pack, she’s used to giving orders and has a bite to go with her bark. However, if she thinks he’s giving in to the beast within, then she’ll be waiting a long time.

Stefan’s spent the last decade keeping his tiger caged. Past experience has shown him he can’t lose control. Yet, when he’s captured by the company that created him, he’ll realize he doesn’t have a choice.

He’ll have to learn how to growl if he wants to protect those he loves.

Stefan

Much more suspenseful than the first book!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌎
Character development: 😚☹️🥹😉
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Solo Narration

The Hero: Stefan – he is a tiger shifter and was born in a lab. The scientists were experimenting on children, but if the kids didn’t manifest an ability by a certain age, Mr. X, the guy in charge, told the scientists to terminate them. The lead scientist refused to do that, so he found them a home with his sister. Stefan and his eight adopted siblings grew up on a farm with their “mom”, Nannette Hubbard, who was a wonderful lady who risked a lot by taking in all of those kids.

The heroine: Nimway – she is a beta wolf from the pack that kidnapped Dominick’s girlfriend Anika in order to get him to admit he is a cat shifter. The wolf pack is territorial, and they were not happy to find out that other shifters are living in their area, especially cat shifters. They also were a bit worried because one wrong move on their part could expose all shifters in the area.

The Story: Unlike his brothers, Stefan found out he was a shifter (or huanimorph as the scientists called them) when he was a teenager. He found himself addicted to both catnip and other drugs after thinking he was a freak. Catnip was the initial problem, since he and his cat shifter brothers are allergic to it in a way that the catnip drugged them and made them shift. He started getting high from catnip and he ended up waking up naked in the woods with blood all over his mouth. He ended up filming himself shifting and that was how he figured out what he was.

I loved this book. Stephan and Nimway were bickering with each other from their first meeting, and the chemistry between them was explosive from the start as well. When Nimway’s brother, the alpha of the pack, decided to align their families through marriage between Stephan and Nimway, the story got even better. I loved the fact that they got married so fast and that Stephan had one demand and that was that the marriage not be in name only like Nimway had first proposed. This book had a better plot than the first book and much more suspense.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via solo narration and was narrated by Grace Grant. I usually hate solo narration but was able to get this book as part of a box set, so I picked it up. Grace Grant is a pretty good narrator; she has a nice voice and her voice for the male characters isn’t bad either.

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