Review: Winter’s Truth by Leta Blake
SYNOPSIS:
Winter-fox brings Viro some surprising truths for the holiday
Viro Sabel is eleven years old and still entirely innocent about life. This year winter-fox brings him some surprising truths that alter the way he sees the world and his place in it.
Learn more about the character of Viro, Slow Heat’s Vale and Jason’s son, in this winter holiday-themed novella. This medium-sized bonus book features spicy scenes between Vale and Jason, family scenes, and emotional moments. While the novella’s epilogue teases a relationship for an adult Viro, it ends with a mystery regarding this person’s identity.
REVIEW:
Disclaimer: This story needs to be read with the other books in the Heat of Love Series. It is not a standalone and while the book is marked as 2.6 in the series, I would suggest reading it after book 3.5.
I didn’t like this story one bit. Viro seemed like the worst kind of person, honestly he seemed brainwashed by his grandparents which is a shame because Jason and Vale were such a dynamic couple that I had high hopes for their kid. Unfortunately, Viro’s grandpater is ill and when Viro sees him turning to religion, Viro does the same. Grandpater is held on some magical platform, can do no wrong, and Viro believes in ridiculous bullsh*t like religion will save us all. To the point where Viro starts making promises to the wolf-god and becomes a priest.
And honestly, this was not the direction I was hoping his character arc would go. Also for a supposed ‘alpha’ Viro is dense as a brick wall. He just really had no redeemable characteristics. In contrast, I enjoyed seeing Vale and Jason together again and the fact that their relationship and bond are thriving, even after all these years. But they weren’t enough to save me from hardcore religion, hero-worshipping of grandparents, and Viro’s blatant naïve-ness.
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