I have received this ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Trouble with Wolves was just .. frustrating. It had some good and interesting parts but others just annoyed me. I don't know if it's the version of this shifters romance or if it was the characters I read about - just know that I somehow ended up annoyed.

Okay, so maybe I do know the reasons. One would be Embry. Ugh, I hated him so much and just didn't get why everyone was on his team. It's cool and all that he wants to become Alpha of the pack but hot damn.. if she doesn't like you then don't force the mate on her.

Then there's Lindy, the alpha's daughter. She wanted to find a way to create a peace treaty with humans before her pack dies out. The day she meets Red, she has hope that this dream could become a reality. Now them, I liked together. It was obvious that they had a spark but maybe they have the potential to be mates?

I'm only going with that because I've read it before - a shifter and a human. So, it's possible in my eyes and I would've rooted for them. Then that ending just, ugh, frustrated and confused me. It didn't make sense to my brain and now I have no idea what the heck the second book will give me. Or if I even want to dive into it.

Maybe I will if everyone stops making horrible decisions.. maybe.

I enjoyed this book, it was a quick, fun read. I felt like it was really fast paced and rushing to get somewhere, I would have liked more. I wasn't aware when I first started reading it that it belonged to another series/world. That being said it would have been nice to have a bit more world building in this book. I liked both points of view, it gave a great insight to the internal conflict of both characters.
The only real problem I have with this book is the lack of research I felt in this book. The author chose a city within Alberta, Canada that is about 6 hours away from myself, the reader. It kept being called a 'small town' with 'small town people' and the writing shed the country in a bad light. I found this slightly ignorant or perhaps naive, as there are many other actual small towns that could have been researched and used appropriately.
Just something to think about.
I rate this book 3/5

This was the first book I've read by Danielle Annett. Although I did enjoy this book I found that everything went to fast for my taste. I enjoyed the double perspective I felt it was need to help create the two sides of the the animosity from both the humans and the werewolves. I would have like there to have been more time spent learning about the pack and how they interact, as well as on the wider world building. A good start to the series but I don't feel that it is too unique yet, hope it develops more in the sequels.

I didn't realize this was a spinoff series, but it really didn't matter one way or the other (other than to say that I will immediately be checking that other series out). There's wolves and all all sorts of other creatures roaming around in the open, and I absolutely could not put this book down once I started!

This book has an old timey feel - with guys in cloaks hunting down wolves, but is apparently contemporary (I think). We join Red as he navigates the town dynamic to make a possibly lucrative deal. He's amassing cash to use to track down his missing sister. That make him somewhat morally flexible. Working with some town drunks/bullies, he is tasked with finding the pack den in the woods. Creepy, right? But Red has some skills and is less a bully and more a strategic thinker. All of that goes out the window, however, when they are attacked and he meets Lindy.

Lindy is the daughter of an alpha who has a rapidly declining health. Apparently pack rules are still set in olden times, because she can't inherit the leadership without a mate. The most likely candidate is a bully and sets off all sorts of warning bells in his aggressive behavior, especially when he is wounded. Lindy is put in an even worse position when she finds herself drawn to the mystery stranger, Red. Sexy times and action times ensue, with lots of miscommunication, injuries, and bad positions for everyone involved. While this book doesn't wrap everything up, it certainly left me wanting to know what happened next! The pacing was so great that I tore through this book super quick. This left me enough time to start the first book of the other series by this author.

I have read the first series by this author (binged it actually] and enjoyed this first book as well.

It is about Lindy, daughter of the alpha wolf shifter, who knows she should mate with one of the wolves but hesitates as she knows he is not her real mate. Then she meets Red, who is searching for his lost sister. Both want peace between humans and shifters, but that goal is not easy to reach.

Strangely enough this book felt quite different from the Blood and Magic series. There was a certain disconnect from the characters. Maybe it was the changing POV or the writing itself. I cannot pinpoint it. But on to the next.