I really enjoyed the difference in werewolf society. I loved the somewhat uncommon character names. I was pleasantly surprised by the differences from traditional werewolves. ( )

This is my second Skye book, bought after I read the very good Feral, and this one was even better. So Skye is a definite new author for me, always lovely to find! Marked is heavy on plot, has erotic moments but they are certainly not the core of the book, though the relationship between Alec and Liam is. Alec is human with a weird experience in his past, and Liam, well Liam is odd. Alec doesn't know that Liam is a werewolf and Liam doesn't know that Alec has meet a terrible pack of wolves who marked him for prey/evil play. However they meet and with beautifully written difficulty manage to connect. One consistent criticism I have read of Skye is that she finishes her books too abruptly and with that I agree, she needs a 10 page epilogue rather than bang, now the book is over. But her world is fascinating, her men haunted and longing for connection, and their way of relating feels entirely real, within the heightened reality of the book. I'm going to buy up her backlog asap! ( )

This is I think the most unusual werewolfes story I have ever read. Alec is a young gay man. We don't have much physical description about him, but I can imagine him like a nice guy, handsome but not stunning. And he has had a very bad experience one year before with a quad of rogue werewolfes which has left him with scars on the body and in the mind. He fears anything and anyone. So when Liam, the older brother of a child he has known in the library where he works, begins to approach him, Alec react badly.To be true Liam is not much of a word, and his sexual approach are a little rough. But Alec, despite his mind screams abuse, finds his body react to this man.

Liam is a very young (24 years old) and very hansome man. He could have anyone he wants but he has a strange behaviour and most people don't stay after the first encouter. And now he has a little brother to take care and so it's almost two years that he hasn't met no one. But what he draws him to Alec, is not only sexual need, it's also the calling of his mate. Cause Liam is a werewolf and now he has to protect not only his little brother from the rogue quad, but alsohs new-found mate.

Liam is an alpha male but he really doen't act like that. He is tender and uncertain. He has strong feeling and hard reaction, but he is also very young, so he really doesn't understand all what happening around him. Alec is somewhat more adult, but he has fear. He doesn't trust no one, but he is not a bad man, so when Ian approaches him more like a wrestler than a lover, his first impulse is to refuse him, but then he maybe sees the need of physical contact in the eye of the younger man.

I really have some problem to well describe what has drawn me in this book. It's maybe the writing style, or the strong connection I can feel between the two characters. It's maybe the fact that both men are really strong but at the same time they show weakness and a need to be hold into the arms of a lover. The sexy is very hot, but 'realistic': they fight and then they make sex and after sex they are too tired to continue the fight... a really good way to stop the fighting!

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