I received an advanced listening copy of this title. This is my own opinion.

I went into this expecting it to be spicy and it’s not? That’s totally fine, but I definitely thought Gena Showalter’s adult romances were spicy. Not sure if they are and this one isn’t, or if I’m wildly mistaken. This part is kind of irrelevant to the review but I wanted to include my ramblings in case anyone else was confused or expecting spice.

Anyway.

Elizabeth Darcy (the name is a big part of why I requested the ALC) is about to return home to Oklahoma from a Scottish vacation when she’s kidnapped and body swapped with the fiancée of a Berserker King. What follows is a lot of miscommunication (necessary on pain of death), lying (see previous), and a whole lot of “would he love me if he knew I were really me”.

I think the book as a whole was a lot of fun; I never really found myself missing spicy scenes, despite expecting them 🙃 and it had a lot of sweet relationship building between Elle and Callan and his daughter. There’s a lot of court (pack?) politics and betrayal.

A list of readers I’d recommend this for:
-histrom fans looking to get into contemporaries (despite the modern setting this has the sort of flavor of the old school highland historical romances)
-people looking to get into paranormal/supernatural romance but are intimidated by werewolves. This is sort of like werewolf lite (NOT omegaverse)
-paranormal fans of non spicy romance

I enjoyed this one a lot, and I’d definitely read the next in the series.

Thanks to Netgalley and Dreamscape Media for the ALC!