My Personal Review for Salad on the Side by Karenna Colcroft

When I first read the blurb I was like "A vegan Werewolf??" This I had to read and once I opened it, I was sucked into the story. I loved the angle of a vegan werewolf and the relationship Tobias has with Kyle.

My Rating for Salad on the Side: 3.5 Stars

Kyle Slidell has a good job, a new apartment and lusts after his next door neighbor, Tobias. He has only met a few of his neighbors so when Tobias invites him to a ‘Welcome to the neighborhood’ BBQ, Kyle decides to enjoy himself. Until a few nights later he is attacked in the garden and finds out that Tobias and his neighbors are also werewolves. Now Kyle is one too. Can a vegan werewolf find a way to survive in a world where blood, alpha males and more are the norm?

Karenna Colcroft takes the paranormal werewolf myth and turns it on its ear with a vegan man turned werewolf who has to figure out how to stay true to himself even as Kyle tries to adjust to being a werewolf-a vegan one at that. The writing is tight, the story flows smoothly and the author does a great job in letting the reader see how the packs live & work. At times, though, it got to be a little repetitive to read everything on what Kyle was experiencing over and over.  But after awhile it smoothed out and it got really interesting as Kyle found his feet, so to speak, in Tobias’s pack and as he fell in love with him. This was one of the first books I have read by this author and by far not going to be the last. With humor, romance, simmering sexual tension and action-in and out of the bedroom- this first book in Karenna's Real Werewolves Don't Eat Meat Series delivers a fun, sexy tale of two people finding they are perfect for one another. 

Kyle and Tobias were perfect for one another though in the beginning I was eager to thump Tobias on the head for being so mysterious around Kyle and he only admitted the truth when Kyle became a werewolf. Tobias was a people pleaser and though I enjoyed his ‘no violence’ way of running his pack, it did get a little annoying in the story to see his indecision at times in key plot points. I actually wanted to shake Tobias and yell ‘get on with it, man and stop talking.’ But thankfully, the author does a good job in the end to get Tobias into the action of the storyline. The secondary characters were enjoyable and moved the story along nicely.

If you enjoy a story with a hero with hang ups, a strong alpha werewolf who melts at the sight of his mate and simmering sexual tension, then I highly recommend Salad on the Side by Karenna Colcroft. I can't wait to see the further adventures of Kyle's introduction into the werewolf world and all that it entails. 

Find Salad on the Side at MLR Press HERE

 

Real Werewolves Don't Eat Meat Series includes:

 

You can check out these and other books by this author at her website HERE