Bro and the Beast (The Wolf’s Mate Book 1) | Book Review

When musclebound frat bro Brad gets run off the road by a reckless driver, he thinks it’s game over. When he wakes up inside his twin brother’s favorite corny shifter romance novel, he realizes the real game is just beginning.

Desperate to get back to a world where he’s top dog, Brad finds himself in the crosshairs of Raul, the menacingly hot hero of The Wolf’s Mate, who’s intent on teaching Brad a whole new meaning to the word alpha.

Not only does Raul insist that Brad is an omega–his omega–but Brad is going to have to come to terms with the fact that he isn’t just a part of this fictional world. He’s a stand-in for the main character, and the only way out is to make sure he gets to his happily ever after.

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Author’s Note: This is the first installment of a new mpreg serial following Brad, a quintessential frat bro and Raul, the brooding werewolf love interest he never asked for–and, in typical ’80s alpha male hero fashion, is never gonna give him up. Prepare for hot shifters, snark and banter, gay awakening, found family dynamics, sassy (and intrusive) siblings, a villainous heroine, cliffhangers galore, and meta mayhem.

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Back with another TikTok book recommendation because apparently, I never learn my lesson. However, this time I liked it, so yay!

I don’t even know what to tell you guys, but I actually kind of loved this. The beginning is slow, and the writing is sometimes questionable and flat, but it’s also kind of hilarious.

The frat boy thing, personally, felt a bit too on the nose for me, but I think that’s exactly what the author was going for, bro!

It’s short and took me less than a day to read. I don’t know what I was expecting, but I was pleasantly surprised.

Why four hearts?

I think I’m going to switch to hearts for books like these. With stars, I feel like I’m trying to rate them critically, but with hearts, it’s just based on vibes~

It’s definitely satire, and it’s even a book inside a book. However, instead of the pretty delicate omega female main character, it’s now beefy frat boy Brad. Honestly, I was laughing out loud at some points, and that’s why I settled on four hearts.

“I let out a breath I hadn’t realized I was holding.”

Only one spicy scene in the first book, and it’s at the end, which, as the author mentioned, is a cliffhanger. However, there are currently six (I believe) books out in the series, and all are on Kindle Unlimited. So, you can binge the whole thing if you want.

“I guess there could be, like, weird vampire sex orgies I don’t know about, but as far as I know, that shit is all just fantasy, like cyborgs and reindeer.”

“Reindeer are real, Brad.”

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