Willing Prey by Allie Oleander: My Book Review

Check out my book review of Willing Prey by Allie Oleander to see what I think of this exciting new romance that focuses on primal play kink!

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Willing Prey Summary:

Post-divorce and buried in student loan debt, Claire Collins eagerly enters a spicy business agreement with an acquaintance who wants to explore his primal desires. The deal is simple—thirty days as his sexual prey, $30,000 in her bank account. All she has to do is give Shane Underwood the hunt of his life.

Claire’s a physical education teacher and perfectly happy to spend her summer having wild, kinky sex instead of working her usual serving job. But once they cross the tree line, she realizes how little she knows about the corporate lawyer paying her to be his prey.

Shane is different in the woods. Brutal. Devastating. Feral.

That’s okay with Claire—she is, too. And she’s sinking her teeth a little deeper into Shane’s heart every time he catches her.

Willing Prey: My Review

Consider me WOWED! Allie brings the heat with her hunts and now I’m constantly dreaming about Shane whispering “little deer” in my ear. This is a must-read!

As soon as I heard that this was a book about primal play I was all in. Not that I knew much about it or had read about this kink before but man did Allie hook me right in and I finished it in one sitting!

Right from the start Allie kicked off a great story that has fantastic writing, intriguing characters, and interesting kink to explore that she moved along expertly.

Claire is a recent divorcee who is stuck with loan debt. Rather than waitress the summer between teaching gigs, she accepts Shane’s offer to pay her $30,000 for the summer to move in and become his willing prey at his beck and call.

This was such an interesting set up but what I loved most about this story and the characters is that Allie did not make Claire this weak, innocent heroine who reluctantly had to accept Shane’s offer. Nor was she this doe-eyed (pun-intended) virgin who was new to this form of kink because I feel like that version of Claire would have diminished my enjoyment of this story.

Instead, Allie made Claire this mature, strong heroine who is the one who came into this arrangement knowing, experiencing and loving this kink. She was ALL IN, especially on that first hunt which was AMAZING and that made me love her and this story even more.

Of course the hunts themselves where hot, steamy and so much fun to read and after the first one I was left thinking… “oh this is going to be so good.” This could have easily been just a book of hunt after hunt, but there was so much more to the story.

Shane was such a surprise. He is a total alpha on the hunts and I loved that about him, and yet underneath the alpha exterior is a man who I’d almost describe as a cinnamon roll in the way that he was such a newbie to kink and his obsession with Claire.

There isn’t a ton of backstory to either main character but just enough to understand who they are.

While this story is filled with edging, mild choking, Dom/sub interaction and switching to make it a really hot read, I just loved how Shane and Claire came to find their better half.

If you’re looking for a fun (and steamy!) book about primal play, then this is the book for you!

*Thank you to Berkley for the advanced reader copy. All opinions are my own.

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