Prey (Coveted Prey #1) by L.V. Lane
This review is going to start out with a confession... I am not an omegaverse girlie... I know that seems like something I would just have to be to also be in this line of business, and I do enjoy several stories that are extremely omegaverse adjacent, but straight up omegaverse like the above is not my cup of tea. I try to be fair in my reviewing, so I have not allowed the 269 pages of in-your-face omegaverse content from this book skew me too much... it’s just so much omegaverse ㅠㅠ (note, I should not have brushed off the usage of omega in the book description like I did and also should have just paid more attention to the description it is a very clearly labelled omegaverse story) (another note I must make after finishing this review... This book had like one sort of werewolf in it so... honestly, not really monster fucker worthy but I’ll do the review anyways)
Carrying on, this is quite a potentially interesting story, with plenty of gut-pummeling smut, and characters. I will say leading into the book I really like Belle, our female lead... up until she’s taken by her mates. She starts out with this really interesting character right off the bat who I would have loved to get to know more before she becomes a brainless sex-drunk omega... Especially her notion of being able to get through any menial task as if her life is dependent on it, I think that gives us a really good idea of how tough it has been for her and how she’s only been able to get through, even the smallest things, by making them huge ordeals that directly tie to her fate. I would have been interested to see what she would have done if she’d managed to run away or literally done anything more than what she got to do before those three showed up.
So, the potentially interesting female lead doesn’t last long... The moment she’s subdued by alpha pheromones this character no longer exists, and especially after she gets a cock (or three) stuffed in her this girl no longer has any thought on the mind other than constantly being fucked. Which like... fair, but her being like that for the rest of the 200 or so pages just makes her fucking boring honestly, and I ended up more interested in reading from the male leads perspectives than hers cause 9 out of 10 times she is just figuring out what she needs to do to get plowed (spoiler; not much).
I liked the male leads, I guess (did not like the idea of a human penis with a knot). Silas is the lead alpha, he’s in charge, no nonsense, and less of a stick in the mud than Dax. Dax is the next after Silas, he’s even more stoic than his brother, doesn’t talk much, and has a, to quote, “log between his legs.” Nate is their half-brother who is a half-shifter. He likes to whine, eat a long, and anal sex. Oh, and surprise... there is a fourth brother, Brams. He is fine, not around for most of the book but basically like Silas except a little bit cleaner cut and a little bit better at seeming like a gentleman. Oh, and he is also the firstborn which means him and Silas have beef since he is not also the lead alpha.
For what it was this book had decent writing, an okay but lacking plot, and literally buckets on buckets of smut. Unfortunately, it also had an infantilized female lead, male characters who were overbearing, and did I mention they have human penises with knots. Overall, I found myself physically tensing up and holding my breath as I read this, I was uncomfortable for the majority of it, and I had to give myself a two-day break between finishing it and writing this review for recouperation time. I blame a lot of physical reactions to this due to the omegaverse nature of it and the rest to characters I deem overall mediocre leaning towards bad. Had I gotten more out of Belle I think I would have enjoyed this more. 5/10
Would I read again? No, god please don’t make me ㅠㅠ
Would I recommend? To someone who is looking for a smut-heavy omegaverse read - yes. To anyone else? No.
