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Title: The Given & the Taken
Subtitle: Tooth & Claw, Book 1
Author: L. A. Witt
Narrator: Jason Winters
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-02-14
Publisher: Insatiable Press
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 47 votes
Genres: Romance, Erotica
Publisher's Summary:
Loves compass is never wrong - even when it points in two different directions. After pleading his case to his wolf clans Elders, Levi is granted the right to bond with Ian, his male human lover, on one condition: They must spend one year apart. Then Levi must use only their spiritual connection to find Ian, or the deal is off. Tracking down his lover is easy, but Levi isnt prepared for the changed man he finds. The agony of separation was too much for Ian. In a moment of weakness, he reached out - to a vampire. Now hes a vampire himself, and Levis devastation - and rejection - is like a stake to his heart. But its nothing compared to the fury of the clan that wants Ian brought to justice for desecrating their most sacred ritual.
Afraid for Ians safety, Levi puts the pain aside and races to get to Ian first, but he faces unexpected competition: Darius, Ians maker. When they come together, all hell breaks loose, Ian is on the runand the only way Levi and Darius can save the man they love is work together. If they dont kill each other first.
Warning: Contains two vampires and a werewolf who really, really, really want to hate each other. Except when they want each other. And have violent, sweaty, angry sex with each other. But they still hate each other. Mostly.
Members Reviews:
Cautiously optimistic about this shifter menage
Levi and Ian fall in love, but Ian is human and Levi a werewolf- is not allowed to mate with a human without special trials being met. In this case, once the pair has bonded, they must separate for a year and then Ian must find Levi on his own exactly one year later.
That year apart is pure torture for both men, but Ian doesnt handle it well at all. Ian ends up finding Darius, a vampire, and becoming lovers with him. When Ian and Levi re-connect, Levi is devastated both because he was betrayed by Ians cheating and that hed cheat with the wolves most hated enemy- vampires.
So Ian runs off and of all things Darius and Levi end up pairing up to find him.
During that trip the two end up you guessed it.hooking up! So now, when they finally find Ian, nobody knows what will happen next and who will end up with whom
On top of all that, Levis clan wants both Ian and Darius (and probably Levi by extension) dead so the three of them must all re-connect, sort out their relationship and evade the clan.
**
WOW. On the one hand this is exactly the type of ménage I hate. I strongly dislike the idea of an extra man screwing up the relationship between two loving partners. Ian is VERY hard to like here because he really betrayed Levi. Its sort of explained and justified, but . Its still hard to accept.
Then add in Levi and Darius getting together thats almost impossible to accept but it somehow makes sense. But again, its hard.
The story is so compelling and LA Witts writing is so engaging that despite my concerns I was driven to finish and move on to book two so well see how this crazy ménage works out.
4 of 5 stars
Audio
Jason Winters does a great job of trying to keep all these guys separate. They dont have any really strong accents but I felt like I could mostly tell who was speaking at all times. Hes good with the emotion and easy to listen to.
3.5 of 5 stars
Overall I give this a cautious 4 of 5 stars for both the audio and the book and move on to book 2 with a bit of excitement and trepidation both.
Great Story...
I loved the story.