The Alpha's Mate

The Wolvers, Volume 1

By: Jacqueline Rhoades

Narrated by: Leah Frederick

Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins

Publisher's summary

Welcome to Rabbit Creek.... City girl Elizabeth Reynolds hopes to find peace and contentment in the small Appalachian town of Rabbit Creek. Okay, so the bucolic cottage she's rented turns out to be a dilapidated cabin without phone service, but the people she meets are wonderful. Friendly and down to Earth, they welcome her with open arms. It's just like moving to Mayberry...if Andy and Aunt Bea were wolves. Only an outsider would call them werewolves. They're wolvers, a community of man/beasts that have lived in these hills since their ancestors emigrated from Scotland three hundred years ago. And that gorgeous Chief of Police, Marshall Goodman, the guy she met while covered in mud and wearing granny underpants? The one who sends her heart spinning? He's their Alpha and his pack is under attack from outside forces. Elizabeth, being a sane and reasonable woman, wants no part of any of this, but if she refuses to risk her life and her heart, the people she's grown to care about will lose everything and she'll lose the one man she was born to love.

©2012 Jacqueline Rhoades (P)2014 Jacqueline Rhoades

Enjoyed the story

It was a well written story, but the narration was really bad. The pitch was so high it was hard to listen at times and the male voices had little distinction. The characters are compelling enough to keep me interested in the series. I especially appreciate the author's sense of humor

EXCRUCIATING NARRATION!!!!!!!

Any additional comments?

Wish I would have paid heed to the comments regarding this book's narrator. I have purchased/listened to many, many audio books and I have never had an issue with the narration of one until now. The narrator, Leah Frederick, has a high pitched voice and reads/narrates as though she's a newscaster. For those two reasons, I found her narration to be excruciating on the ears which made it very difficult to concentrate on the story being told. It was like trying to listen to a favorite song sung by an excruciatingly, horrible singer.

Loved it

I can not wait to read the other book in The series I loved how she did not drag it out too much it just enough to keep you reading.

Enjoyed!

I enjoyed the storyline from the beginning, but felt the ending should have been a bit less abrupt.

I was Impressed that the characters were well developed, captured and held my interest throughout the story. The sex scenes included sparked just the right amount of heat, and added to the excitement of the storyline without being used as filler.

I enjoyed the voices of the narrator for the characters, and look forward to listening to her talent again. In addition, I look forward to more books written by the author, and recommend others do the same.

Perfect!

This is the first book in the Wolvers series. Author Jacqueline Rhoades absolutely surprised me with her creation of this story. I was blown away with Jacqueline's imagination. I've listened to many stories about shifters but wow this was a new take on shifters and it shows pure creativity. I laughed out loud so many times and I even caught myself crying some to. The author really has written a perfect story.
Narrator Lea Fedrick did really good with this story. However, she could use some improvement with distinguishing accents, but that's just my opinion. Unlike some of the reviewers, I didn't find myself cringing. I thought she kept the story flowing rather well. I definitely recommend this story and the other Wolvers to everyone, especially those who are tired of the same shifter type stories. This one will blow your mind, in a good way.

Narration was a personal problem for me...

What did you like best about The Alpha's Mate? What did you like least?

It was a story I could enjoy with characters and a premise I liked.
Least? Probably the narration and the lack of emotion I felt.

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

The people and premise...the least interesting was lack of dimension...

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Leah Frederick?

I have no idea - and I am not against listening to her voice - I would happily listen to her voice in a bio or anything appropriate of her tone. But I felt like she was a sarcastic newsreader of a comedy show that was taking a really long time to get to the punchline. She has the 'go-to' tone of Amy Poehler and Tina Fey when they're being sarcastic about what they're saying - and it completely distracted me from the story - I couldn't even tune out the tone and continue - it was always there.
If I heard her read the Tina Fey bio for example, she probably would have been super funny...but not this genre...sorry.

Did The Alpha's Mate inspire you to do anything?

Nope, sorry. I like him well enough though...but that was about it.

Any additional comments?

Hasn't turned me off the author or the narrator though.

Adult book written as if read by children

This is obviously an adult book but everything is over explained as if for a child. The story line was interesting and could have been a five star if it was rewritten and read by a different narrator, this narrator was wayyy tooo whinnyyyy.

3.5 STARS ENJOYABLE BUT SADLY MISSING THE PASSION

It was a great plot and had lots of potential with good world-building and a full cast of interesting/weird/wonderful characters BUT the romance side of the story was very weak and the sex was tame or only hinted at. I like my shifters to be all Alpha and to let their wild side out when they find their mate but this was just a weak whine rather than a heated howl.

Worth a credit? There were exciting parts and humorous parts but, for me, it was lacking the sizzling chemistry and romance. I got it while it was on sale so just bought it but if I'd used a credit on it then I would have been disappointed.

Good and worth the cost

I enjoyed listening to this audiobook. It was entertaining and moved well although I don't much like the "southern "accents. Otherwise a good read/listen.

Love this and listen multiple times

This is one of my favorites and the narrator is amazing!!! I love her voice and often list to this to go to sleep at bedtime