{"id":12514,"date":"2020-02-15T20:48:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T01:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=12514"},"modified":"2024-01-29T20:09:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T01:09:01","slug":"thrown-to-the-wolves-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/12514","title":{"rendered":"Thrown to the Wolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2u5AfaK\">Thrown to the Wolves<\/a><\/em> (2019) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/Adhara_Charlie.php\">Charlie Adhara<\/a> (Big Bad Wolf)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2u5AfaK\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ThrownToTheWolves.jpg?resize=190%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Thrown To The Wolves\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ThrownToTheWolves.jpg?w=1675&amp;ssl=1 1675w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ThrownToTheWolves.jpg?resize=190%2C300&amp;ssl=1 190w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ThrownToTheWolves.jpg?resize=768%2C1215&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ThrownToTheWolves.jpg?resize=647%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 647w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a>Cooper has spent the past several months recuperating, and being taken care of by Oliver, who has been on suspension (both the result of Cooper&#8217;s visit home to see his father and brother). <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Every official communication was carefully uninterested about the private lives of their agents but reaffirmed their stance that BSI agents engaged in a personal relationship could not be partnered together in the field.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although Cooper is tired of being on medical leave, he still is unsure about going back to BSI. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the end of the day, the BSI was a government agency struggling to be better while built on a faulty, problematic and hole-ridden system, and under the financial control of a broken and immoral government. The thought of going back in a couple of weeks was almost as bad as the thought of not going back at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then Cooper and Oliver have to head up to Canada, because Oliver&#8217;s grandfather has died. And things are far far worse than Cooper could have expected.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cooper put the guidebook down and cleared his throat. This was getting ridiculous. \u201cDid you tell them I was coming?\u201d Park blinked slowly, like he\u2019d been dragged from deep in thought. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, of course,\u201d he said after a long moment. Then, \u201cDon\u2019t be nervous.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not,\u201d Cooper said. <em>Well, I wasn\u2019t until you said that<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I say things don&#8217;t go well, I mean that they go badly.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Park said. \u201cWe need to get you to the hospital.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo!\u201d Cooper groaned against his own arm. \u201cNo more doctors.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou lost consciousness.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDidn\u2019t. I was just closing my eyes,\u201d he muttered. Park was silent. \u201cI can sense your disapproval from here. Surely that means I\u2019m not concussed.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019d have to be dead not to.\u201d Park sighed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although Cooper has gotten better to talking about his feelings and his past, there is still so much he doesn&#8217;t know about Oliver, and all of that is about to bite them both in the ass.<\/p>\n<p>As with the previous two books, there is a murder mystery, and like book two, there is also a good deal of family drama, but this story also has an arc about the problems of werewolves remaining hidden from the public, with a secret government agency that exists only to protect humans from the werewolves.<\/p>\n<p>I like so very much about this story, and you really need to read all three books. (Despite the boinking.)<\/p>\n<p>Publisher: Carina Press<br \/>\n<strong>Rating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thrown to the Wolves (2019) Charlie Adhara (Big Bad Wolf) Cooper has spent the past several months recuperating, and being taken care of by Oliver, who has been on suspension (both the result of Cooper&#8217;s visit home to see his father and brother). Every official communication was carefully uninterested about the private lives of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,292,2,207,8,742,42,148,41,26,56,16],"tags":[202,50,201,617,544,212,525],"class_list":["post-12514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-10","category-ebook","category-fantasy","category-mental-health-rep","category-mystery","category-physical-health","category-police","category-queer","category-reread","category-romance","category-sexual-content","category-supernatural","tag-big-bad-wolf","tag-boinking","tag-charlie-adhara","tag-injury","tag-mm","tag-ptsd","tag-werewolves"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-3fQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11954,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/11954","url_meta":{"origin":12514,"position":0},"title":"Thrown to the Wolves","author":"Michelle","date":"June 14, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Thrown to the Wolves (2019) Charlie Adhara Cooper is (again) recuperating, having had his leg badly broken in their last adventure--the one that got Park suspended for a month. 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