A review by _isabel_
The Alpha's Gamble by Eliot Grayson

adventurous challenging emotional fast-paced

5.0

GAH, this was addictive!
Incredibly steamy, highly enjoyable, absolutely bonkers and I was obsessed with it, from start to finish.

Is there anything better than a redemption story featuring a big, villainous dickish alpha who's brought low by an even bigger, domineering (but slightly less dickish) fellow alpha? I think not. 
Alpha/alpha stories are my weakness: the power struggle, the fight for control, all the "why does this feel so right, I'm supposed to be an alpha", the ultimate surrender, everything is my jam... and Eliot Grayson managed to absolutely exceed my expectations with this novel!

She also managed the impossible, and made me root for Blake, Brook's horrible brother, from the very start. 
He's a walking, talking disaster, a total brat, an self-loathing mess of an alpha and I found him both very frustrating and wholly endearing. 
I loved him, and I loved Declan too. 
Their relationship was perfect: deliciously dark and codependent with a side of dub-con, steamy and obsessive. Both Blake and Declan are inevitably drawn to one another, and the pull between them was so damn vivid. They also become, throughout the novel, inescapably devoted to one another and seeing their relationship progress, from hate to lust to obsession to love, was an absolute treat.

Eliot Grayson is, to the paranormal/UF m/m romance world, what Alessandra Hazard is to the contemporary romance one (so yes, both of them are geniuses), and she could write a million stories just like this one, and I'd devour them and rate them 5 stars, no questions asked. I'm soooo looking forward to reading her next masterpiece.

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