Review: Releasing the Wolf by Dianna Hardy

Lydia Martin has always had dreams, the weirdest and hottest of them all involving a faceless, muscle-bound man that speaks like sin and smells like sex. Like any sane person, she always put the dreams down to an overactive imagination, coupled with a higher than average libido. 

One night, however, instead of their usual, erotic encounters, she finds him in her dream, chained to a wall and screaming in pain. Not only that, but she thinks she recognizes the building he's being held captive in as one that's just a few streets away.

Awaking with an irrepressible need to save her fantasy lover, Lydia decides to humor her dream self and head on over to where she thinks he's imprisoned.  

What unfolds is beyond even her wildest imaginings, as she's sucked into a dangerous and deadly world she never knew existed ... and it turns out that the man who inhabits her darkest fantasies, isn't the only one that needs releasing.

My Review:

This was an absolutely yummy read!  Dianna has a dark sense of humor and she uses it frequently to torture her characters.  Can you imagine having a sex dream every single night for ten years???  My libido would not only be on overdrive, but I would probably be out of this world grumpy..lol.  Those dreams have to equal: no sleep, especially as hot as they were!!  So Lydia basically becomes introverted and doesn't become close friends with anyone, to include long term relationships.  How can she be committed to another man when they will always be compared to her dream guy? And they will always come up lacking.

So we have 3 hot wolves in this story, one sweet and sensitive, one sexy as all get-out, and then we have the mystery wolf who doesn't truly have a place in the pack.  This is my kind of alpha male.  He carries his power with natural grace and just has you dying to fall down on your knees and submit..oh yeah..Him?  I want to know more about.  This was a great intro but prepare for the ultimate frustration in cliffhangers!!!!  I'm used to this because Dianna's other series left on the edge and had you counting down the days until the next release!  I can't wait for book 2!!