Embracing Fate by C.C. Dado

Embracing Fate by C.C. Dado
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Genre: Contemporary, Paranormal
Length: Short story (91 pgs)
Other: M/M
Rating: 3.5 stars
Reviewed by Fern

Sometimes you just have to embrace your fate.

Seth has a secret: he has a crush on the human next door. His brilliant plan to meet Jack, the man of his dreams who happens to be an animal trainer? Take wolf form and ask his best friend, Max, to take him next door for training. Seth is the only one surprised when things go horribly awry.
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Still, can this shy wolf and a human meet their fate as mates?

Seth might be a werewolf but he’s a pretty shy guy. When a hot new guy moves in next door Seth has an amazing crush on him and doesn’t know what to do about it. Seth has what he feels is a brilliant idea and gets his best friend, Max, to introduce Seth to Jack while Seth is in his wolf form. Things understandably get rather crazy from there, but can Seth and Jack find a way to make it work between them?

I was a little surprised at how slow moving the pace of the romance was considering this is a short story. While the chapters are short, Jack doesn’t even come onto the scene for the first few chapters, and then Seth takes another few chapters to work up the courage to ask Max to introduce him to Jack. Usually I’m a big fan of a slow-building romance – two people just jumping directly into bed normally doesn’t feel very real or believable to me – but it’s the build up, sexual tension and to-and-fro that I love to read, all the preliminaries helping to make the romance itself seem real and sexy. Instead, with this short story, a lot of the beginning of the book is spent showing Seth and a number of the other pack members interacting before Jack moves in. While this was some great world building – and likely excellent for readers interested in other stories in the series – it felt a little wasted to me since I was mainly interested in Seth and Jack’s story and their romance.

While I felt the romance really does move slowly – especially for an erotic story – I did enjoy the fact that this wasn’t a simple “two men meet and fall in lust” style of story. Seth has a complicated history and a number of layers to his personality which I really enjoyed learning about in a slower manner. A part of me would have loved to see at least some of this relationship progress from Jack’s perspective – even though for most of the story Jack had no real idea that it was Seth he was getting to know. While there is an abundance of paranormal world-building I honestly did enjoy the fact this wasn’t a simple or easy book – it was complicated and full of all sorts of real-life struggles and more than a few laughs.

I don’t feel that readers looking for an intensely erotic story will find enough heat to be satisfying here. While there’s oodles of chemistry and quite a few sweet and tender getting-to-know-you moments, there’s no actual consummation between Jack and Seth in the story. Personally I was satisfied with this not being a graphic story – so much of the plot was Jack and Seth working out how they could come together and fit when they were both from vastly different worlds. But as an erotic romance story I would well understand if other readers might not be as happy with the lack of sex in the story.

A heavily plotted and strongly paranormal story this book is full of great, multi-layered and interesting characters and a well thought out shifter pack and small town. With plenty of funny and tender moments I enjoyed this story and would happily read more by this author.