Thor’s Unexpected Mate

Blake R Wolfe
Completed 11/11/2025, Reviewed 11/16/2025
3 stars

Fun M/M supernatural werewolf romantasy that easily engaged me.  It’s not as profound as the TJ Klune Green River series featuring Wolfsong, but it held its own.  It’s cute and steamy with an interesting story.  The prose is decent and the world-building a bit unusual.  But I enjoyed it and will read the rest of the series.  

Flynn has moved to Fenris to live with his grandmother for a while.  She’s a feisty widow living in the mountains.  She’s somewhat estranged from her daughter but gets along great with Flynn.  Flynn is out to his grandmother, who loves and supports him.  He often goes on hikes on the mountain to have some alone time, but Grandma always warns him to watch for wolves.  However, there haven’t been wolves on the mountain in years.  What is there, though, is a sprawling spa for the well-to-do.  On one hike, Flynn takes a fall and hurts his leg.  Before he passes out, he sees a great white wolf approach him.  It turns out to be Thor, the alpha of a pack of werewolves.  Thor and his brothers own the spa.  Flynn wakes up at the spa and is being healed by Thor.  The moon goddess has revealed to Thor that Flynn is his fated mate, despite not being a werewolf.  This causes commotion with the brothers, the rest of the pack, and most importantly, the evil alpha of a rival pack who is out to kill Thor.

The most unusual thing about this book is that Thor and his brothers own a fancy spa.  Their father recognized that to survive in the present, they must adapt and interact with humans.  The spa generates income so the pack can live “normal” lives instead of scavenging out in the wild like their rival clan.  That clan eschews anything modern and human.  Thor continues the family legacy of adaptation, especially in light of his fated attraction to Flynn.  

Like most M/M supernatural romantasies, the male characters are generally physically amazing.  Flynn is a twunk (hunky twink) and Thor is a hot daddy bear.  What made Thirsty stand out for me was that the gay main character is a little chubby.  It’s more realistic and the characters more complex.  This book is a very basic gay male sexual fantasy.  It’s not bad, just a little too typical.  As for character development, I was surprised that it was pretty decent.  There’s a big twist about Flynn’s ancestry which caught me off guard, and it enhanced the story nicely.  

I give this book three stars out of five.  It’s fun, quick paced, steamy, and exciting.  It ends rather nicely without a cliffhanger, but it is obviously set up to be a series.  I recommend this to anyone who likes steamy gay romantasy and werewolves.  Note:  my DnD character is a gay werewolf 😊