After reading Heat Clinic a few weeks ago—which I loved—I decided it was time to pick up the next book in the Heatverse and read Rut Bar. 

 

I don’t necessarily like to rank books in a series that I’ve enjoyed, but I think I liked Rut Bar a little more. I think the fact that Vee has a dominant streak was the thing that won me over. I have a soft spot for books where the FMCs are domme and/or switch, and the fact that there was some sort of role reversal in the story made it even more interesting. An Omega with domme tendencies and an Alpha with sub tendencies… it’s not every day you find that kind of situation in the Omegaverse. 

 

The two Alphas in the pack—yes, two Alphas in the same pack—Jamie and Brendan were very interesting characters. Where we think of Alphas as big, confident ‘beasts’, we see from their point of view that they also live with insecurities, Jamie about his intelligence and his place as a sub-Alpha, and Brendan about his age and his physical condition. Furthermore, if we look more closely at Vee and Anthony—respectively the Omega and Beta of the pack—we see that they also face their own insecurities linked to the fact that they are not the perfect example of what society expects of their ‘role’. 

 

Just as in Heat Clinic, the smut scenes written by Alexis B. Osborne are absolutely incredible. My only problem with this book was the times when the lines of consent were blurred—especially with the secret ingredient Anthony puts in Vee and Brendan’s drinks. 

 

I’m not going to let several weeks go by this time and will now immerse myself in Donation Clinic.