I realized at that point that I no longer trusted that the authors really cared about what they were writing and as a result my heart was no longer in the story. At one point he gets basically raped by about 7 or 8 men in rapid succession until he literally passes out, all for the good of his female wolf and their connection and so that she may get pregnant. He had a girlfriend at the beginning of the story before he left, he slept with countless women within the wolf camp, and he got a local village girl PREGNANT! (Why was all this even in a “gay-themed” piece of literature?) And in-between all of that he was basically getting rammed in the butt by his male peers, none of which encounters did he actually initiate or want (though it was easy for the authors to say that he got erect once it started happening, as though autonomic response truly equals desire). Sure it was generally consensual (emphasis on the “generally”) but he basically just feared and tolerated being buggered by men. I felt that the sexual aspect was totally unnecessary and, as a gay reader, I felt that the homosexual element was insulting in a number of ways, chief among them being that it was never portrayed as something the main character actually desired. I feel as though the authors asked a whole lot of the reader in the way of suspending disbelief but gave very little pay-off for it. I hate to be this negative, but I’ll get right to the point, I simply did not enjoy this story.
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