Author: MorganSkye

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Anya Byrne Mate Meet Online Series

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A matchmaking community for werewolves? Ridiculous. Or at least, that is what Alpha Ford Knight believes when his mischievous brother comes up with the idea of Mate Meet Online. Sadly incapable of saying no to said sibling, he still ends up making a profile, even if he knows his chances for finding his other half are very slim indeed.

Fast forward one year—and MMO has become one of the most popular social networking websites in existence. Disgruntled human florist Rainbow Rose wants nothing to do with it—who needs that nonsense anyway?—but his best friend Emmie is of a different mind.

The end result is the unlikeliest meeting possible, and the story of river_wolf51 and the_pouty_leprechaun.

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What could a feisty IT programer who is often the target of reindeer jokes and a werewolf Latin teacher desperate for a mate possibly have in common? Quite a lot, apparently… At least according to Mate Meet Online.

Rudy is coaxed into joining MMO by the beauty of the coding and the cause his friend Cam believes in. Giovanni begrudgingly agrees to register due to his cousin’s encouragement. Neither of them expect it to actually work.

The result? A mix of misunderstandings, hot coffee, sweet nothings whispered in Latin, frantic sexy times… and the first romance of Mate Meet Online—the story of not.a.raindeer and lupus_sapiens.

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emmieemmie_potofgold and lonely.lycaon  (Mate Meet Online Book 2)

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For many years, Lydell Barlow has been convinced he isn’t normal. Unlike other werewolves, he has no mate. There is no other half waiting for him out there. His pack even banished him because of it.

When he learns of the new matchmaking platform for shifters—Mate Meet Online—he tries to ignore it. But soon, it becomes obvious that the deception behind the website is unforgivable. After all, how many shifters just as lonely as him are being given false hope? He cannot stand for it.

He joins the website with a vague plan of sabotaging it from the inside. But when the MMO search engine does find him a match, his plans change drastically. Because Emmie Lemaire—emmie_potofgold—is everything Lydell has ever dreamed of, and so much more.

Can it be true? Can a website truly lead two mates to one another? And if it is, how will Lydell confess his original intentions to the beautiful human who has stolen his heart?

One thing is certain—this Internet dating thing isn’t easy.

Tags: anal sex, erotic, erotic romance, explicit adult content, gay, gay sex, mm, paranormal, shapeshifters, werewolves

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Review

These are the (first?) three books in an adorably sweet little shifter series about wolves who join an online dating service that promises to find them their fated mates using a scientifically proven method. In all three instances there is the obvious doubting of the system and the amazement that it works, but they are all three super cute with zippy dialog and cute MCs and fun smexy times.

They’re all related but can be standalones, but I’d recommend reading them in order.

I love this author and this little online series and hope to see more in the future.

Highly recommended!

4 of 5 stars

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Stormy Eyes Audiobook (Brac Pack #5) by Lynn Hagen Narrated by Johnny East

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When Storm Wishfall is sent on an errand for his alpha, he doesn’t expect to discover two young Asian men hiding on a boat in fear for their lives. He definitely isn’t expecting one of them to be his mate. After encountering the young men’s captors, the alpha devises a plan to rescue the three other men who were kidnapped along with his mate, Kyoshi, and Kyoshi’s cousin, Keata, and the pack must band together to curtail a human trafficking ring before any more innocent lives are ruined. In the meantime, Kyoshi must come to terms with his new life. Storm searches for a way to convince the cynical human they’re destined to love each other, but something lurking deep inside Kyoshi is forcing its way out. Are these two as different as they believe, or can they find a way to share their lives?

Review

In this series, a “warrior” – a wolf shifter who is almost always super alpha and super huge- finds a “mate” – usually much smaller and quirky – and then proceeds to have some kind of adventure.

In this case, Storm finds and mates the feisty Kyoshi. Storm is all wolf but has mage blood in his lineage so his eyes change colors. Kyoshi is a rescue from a sex slave ship, tiny, spunky and full of protectiveness for his cousin Keata.

Kyoshi and Keata have some pretty exciting reveals coming up which help explain their easy acceptance of wolf shifters in existence and there continues to be a threat from their first captors.

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These Brac Pack stories are so much fun! Sure, each of them is VERY SIMILAR to the other, but they are also each unique and full of humor.

There is always a fairly quick insta-love portion, a “rescue me” portion and a “HEA” portion. But in between we get laughs, fun and hot smexy times. Since they are meant to be read in order, we also get to see the previous mated couples frequently and by the end we not only have over 30 books in this series but at least three other off shoots that also intertwine with this series making nearly 100 books that are all somewhat related and now we get the new generation which includes the kids!

I’ve loved this series and it’s companion series and I recommend reading them in order of release for the most benefit.

  1. Maverick’s Mate – Brac Pack
    2. Hawk’s pretty Baby – Brac Pack
    3. Sunshine’s Savior – Brac Pack
    4. Remi’s Pup – Brac Pack
    5. Stormy Eyes – Brac Pack
    6. Oliver’s Heart – Brac Pack
    7. Keata’s Promise – Brac Pack
    8. George’s Turn – Brac Pack
    9. Loco’s Love – Brac Pack
    10. Lewis’s Dream – Brac Pack
    11. Mark’s Not Gay – Brac Pack
    12. Nutter Nero – Brac Pack
    13. Heaven’s Hell – Brac Pack
    14. Nicholas’s Wolf – Brac Pack
    15. Murphy’s Madness – Brac Pack
    16. Montana’s Vamp – Brac Pack
    17. Carter’s Tryck – Brac Pack
    18. Joshua’s Law – Brac Pack
    19. Dagon’s Ride – Brac Pack
    20. Jasper – Zeus’s Pack
    21. Hondo – Demon Warriors
    22. Avanti – Zeus’s Pack
    23. Snooke – Demon Warriors
    24. Steven’s Journey – Brac Pack
    25. Knox – Zeus’s Pack
    26. Torem – Zeus’s Pack
    27. Rainerio – Demon Warriors
    28. Hunter – Zeus’s Pack
    29. Alexi’s Secret – Brac Pack
    30. Christian’s Menace – Christian’s Coven
    31. Sully – Zeus’s Pack
    32. Tater’s Bear – Brac Pack
    33. Nija’s Temptation – Christian’s Coven
    34. Curtis’s Dads – Brac Pack
    35. A Brac Crazy Family Christmas – Brac Pack
    36. Bald Eagle – Zeus’s Pack
    37. Eli’s Way – Christian’s Coven
    38. Takeo- Demon Warriors
    39. A Cold Winter’s Day – Brac Pack
    40. Nazaryth – The Exiled
    41. Memphis – Zeus’s Pack
  2. 42Vaughn’s Vampire Hunter – Christian’s Coven
    43. His Imperfect Mate – Brac Pack
    44. For the Rest of Eternity – Christian’s Coven
    45. Rave – Zeus’s Pack
    46 Seth’s Chance – Brac Pack
    00. Mating Thomas – Short Story
    47. The Dark Side of Love – Christian’s Coven
    48. Take My Hand – Brac Pack
    49. Riley’s Downfall – Brac Pack
    50. Wolf – The Exiled

51. Panahasi – Demon Warriors

52. Melonee Brac’s Mistletoe Madness-Brac Pack
53. A Man’s Worth- Brac Pack
54. Sweet Delight – Brac Village
55. Silent Secrets – Brac Village
56. Kissing Reno – Brac Village
57. Rio’s Fire – Brac Village
58. Heat Rising – Brac Village
59. Keaton’s Lessons – Brac Village
60. Frisco James – Brac Village
61. Forged in Steele – Brac Village
62. Jordan’s Desires – Brac Village
63. Valentino’s Cowboy – Brac Village
64. Kobe – Demon Warriors
65. Fighting Temptation – Brac Village
66. Loving Styles -Brac Village
67. Polar Opposites – Brac Village
68. Brac Pack Halloween Murder Mystery
69. Ceri- Christian’s coven
70. Teaching Angelo – Brac Village
71. Firehouse Rescue – Brac Village
72. Christmas at the Lakelands – Brac Pack
73. Forever Yours – Christian’s Coven
74. Rakeym – Shadow Tribe
75. Red Spanking – Christian’s Coven
76. Edge of Control – Brac Village
77. Dorm – Zeus’s Pack
78. A Christmas to Remember – Brac Village
79. A Vampire’s Touch – Christian’s Coven
80. Paine’s Pleasure – Brac Village
81. Einarr – Demon Warriors
82. Winter’s Caress – Brac Village
83. Claimed by a Cougar – Brac Village
84. Black Diamonds – Christian’s Coven
85. Seduced by Twins – BPNG

Audio

So far Johnny East has narrated all the books in this series and that’s wonderful. He does a great job with the deep Alpha growly voices and he tries at the various accents (in this case a vague Asian) and tries to modulate between all the different characters as best he can given the vast number of men involved in these stories!

I was a bit … confused… when he chose to give both Keata and Kyoshi rather deep, masculine voices when they are clearly shown as being small and rather effeminate… but… I loved his “accent” and attitude for them so I quickly got over it!

If you put your mind on pause and just enjoy the fun that is crazy shifter romance – you’ll enjoy this series very much!

Highly recommended in both book and audio format.

4 of 5 stars

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Rory Ni Coileain Soul Shares Book 6 Book Blast!

 

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Fiachra Dubhdara is a Fae living a stolen life, in a stolen body, and the newest detective on the D.C. Vice squad. Peri Katsura is the newest and hottest masseur at Lochlann Doran’s Big Boy Massage, inexplicably drawn to the gorgeous cop assigned to bust him. And the owner of Fiachra’s body has a plan to get it back – a plan that may cost Fiachra his SoulShare.

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Categories: Erotica, Fantasy, Romance, Urban Fantasy

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The human’s laughter was completely unFae.

And it made everything perfect.

But then it faded. “Let me turn around.” Peri’s gaze dropped.

“Why do you —”

“Please.” He slid his legs off Fiachra’s shoulders, easing up onto his elbows. “Don’t treat me like something I’m not.”

Fiachra’s eyes narrowed. “Am I not allowed to treat you like a male whose smile I would give my left nut to see just because money changed hands?”

Peri stared.

“We agreed I’m not renting you, right? So I’ll do everything I can to make you pass out from pleasure if I fucking well feel like it.” Fiachra could feel his face flushing. Where is all of this coming from? Fae didn’t act like this. Didn’t feel like this.

Then he remembered Conall, looking at Josh. Cuinn and Rian, both of them Fae to the core, every breath either one took all wrapped up in the other.

Peri’s my SoulShare. Or I’m insane. And I don’t think I’m insane.

 Meet the author:

Rory Ni Coileain has been writing almost as long as she’s been reading, and reading almost as long as she’s been talking. She majored in creative writing in college, back when Respectable Colleges didn’t offer such a major, so she designed it herself—being careful to ensure that she never had to take a class before nine in the morning or take a Hemingway survey course.

She graduated Phi Beta Kappa at the age of nineteen, sent off her first short story to an anthology being assembled by an author she idolized, received the kind of rejection letter that fuels decades of therapy, and found other things to do for the next thirty years or so, including nightclub singing, working as a volunteer lawyer for Gay Men’s Health Crisis, and studying ballet in New York City, until her stories grabbed her by the shirt collar and announced they were back.

Now she’s a legal editor, a soprano in her church choir and the St. Mark’s Cathedral Choral Society (unless they’re singing Mozart, because she’s decided that Mozart didn’t like second sopranos very much), the mother of a teenaged son and budding film-maker, and amanuensis to a host of Fae, Gille Dubh, and shapeshifters who are all anxious to tell their stories, and some of whom aren’t very good at waiting their turns.

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Twitter: RoryNi

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Coming Home (First and Forever Book 9) Audiobook by Alexa Land Narrated by Greg Tremblay

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For 26-year-old rent boy, Chance Matthews, surviving day-to-day in San Francisco is difficult enough. Then an ill-fated road trip to Wyoming to search for his biological father throws his life into a tailspin. When a string of catastrophes leaves him stranded and desperate, help comes from the last person he’d expect. His knight in shining armor is everything he could want and then some, but Chance is sure a man like that would never want someone like him. That’s the stuff of fairy tales, and he stopped believing in those a long time ago.

Coming Home is the ninth book in Alexa Land’s best-selling Firsts and Forever series, but each book can stand alone, so jump in anywhere. Includes graphic sex and explicit language and is intended for adults only.

Review

Chance left home at 14 after being molested by a prominent citizen (and his mother’s boss) in his small town. When nobody – even his mother – stands behind him, he decides to cut his losses and moves to San Francisco. There, like so many runaways, he finds only prostitution to help him pay the bills.

Now, 12 years later, he’s still a rent boy, and figures that’s all he’s good for. When he meets Finn at a party of a mutual friend, nothing strikes up between them. It’s not until Finn hires Chance to be his “first time” that the two really become acquainted and it’s clear from the beginning that they’ll never just be john and rent boy to one another.

Finn is in the closet and on the fence about his sexuality. He’s seen what happens in his house when his brother came out to his parents and he worries about being an out police officer, even in San Francisco. Something about Chance captivates him and he can’t resist both his company and helping him.

Chance has just decided that the relationship that is brewing between Finn and himself is getting too “real” when his life takes a nose-dive. He ends up calling on Finn for help and from that point forward their lives are inextricably entwined.

**

I’m not sure why they started the audiobook series on book 9, but… It’s a good book and technically you don’t have to have read the series to like and appreciate this story. (Though it’s a great series and I do recommend reading them in order simply for the nuances.)

The hallmark of this series is both humor and usually something of an underdog story. Usually one, if not both MCs have a seriously hard life and the presence of the other MC helps one or both of them to rise above their problems.

In the meantime they usually have lots of hot sex, interact with the crazy Nana, find themselves in love and always in a HEA.

Chance’s and Finn’s story is really lovely. Both have some growing to do and when Chance’s story bleeds into Wyoming, there’s even more healing to be done.

I loved these guys as a couple and always enjoy seeing the previous MCs and catching up with them.

Audio

Greg Tremblay does a TREMENDOUS job of voicing all the many, many different male characters in this story – there’s a LOT. I love the southern accent he gives Chance’s brother and his boyfriend as well as the ridiculousness that is Nana.

I highly recommend this series and this audiobook and give it 4.5 of 5 stars.

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Full Domain (Nice Guys Book 3) by Kindle Alexander

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Honor, integrity, and loyalty are how Deputy US Marshal Kreed Sinacola lives his life. A former SEAL now employed by the Special Operations Group of the US Marshal Service, Kreed spent most of his life working covert operations and avoiding relationships. Never one to mix business with pleasure, his boundaries blur and his convictions are put to the test when he finally comes face-to-face with the hot computer geek he’s been partnered with. Hell-bent on closing the ongoing case for his longtime friend, he pushes past his own limits and uncovers more than he expects.

Aaron Stuart strives for one thing: justice. Young and full of idealism, his highly sought after computer skills land him a position with the National Security Agency. Aaron’s biggest hazard at his job is cramped fingers, but all that changes when he is drawn into the middle of a dangerous federal investigation. Aaron gets more than he bargained for when the FBI partners him with a handsome and tempting deputy US marshal. His attraction to the inked up, dark-haired man provides another kind of threat altogether. Aaron tries desperately to place a firewall around his heart and fight his developing feelings, knowing one misstep on his part could ultimately destroy him.

The solution isn’t as easy as solving the case, which is treacherous enough as it is. But the growing sexual attraction between them threatens to derail more than just Kreed’s personal convictions as he quickly learns temptation and matters of the heart rarely fit easily into the rules he’s lived by. Will Kreed be able to convince Aaron to open his heart and face the fact that sometimes the answers aren’t always hidden in code?

Review

Kreed – Mitch’s partner from book 2 – is still after the guy who shot Cody (Mitch’s lover) and is after Colt and Jace (from book 1). He and Mitch convince Aaron to physically join in the mission instead of remaining behind the screens of his computer.

Aaron is a modern day Robin Hood who does his work through his amazing abilities to hack and REALLY doesn’t want to be physically involved in this mess but absolutely wants justice to prevail so he reluctantly agrees – hoping it’ll be a short mission.

Little does he know that he’ll end up actually going under cover – and loving it! – in the face of true danger in order to bring the bad guy down. AND – along the way he and Kreed who strike sparks off each other before and after they’ve met – will become frenemies then lovers then true partners in every aspect of the word.
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I wasn’t going to review this book because it’s already gotten like a million reviews of it – but I loved it so much so I had to put in my two cents!

There is SO MUCH TENSION in this book. There is some seriously hot and potent sexual tension between Kreed and Aaron and then – mixed in – there’s some serious tension because the mission is so dicey and dangerous. Normally, I do not like the “other part of the story” – ie the mystery, the mission, the quest – to get in the way of my romance – which is what I read these books for – but in this case I didn’t mind ONE BIT!

This is a LONG book (434 pages) and I was a bit daunted because – what are all those pages gonna be filled with and do I want to read it? Well – mostly of course I do because I’ve yet to read a Kindle Alexander book that I didn’t like and most of them I ADORED so – I dove in and trusted and OMG! My only warning – don’t start this at ten o’clock at night – you will find yourself unable to put it down and the next thing you know it’s three in the morning and you’re not done and you CAN’T PUT IT DOWN!

Getting to see Jace and Colt and Mitch and Cody again was fantastic! I loved seeing them fight with each other and play pranks on one another – that was hysterical. It was also great seeing their love and tenderness, too.

Aaron is my favorite character amongst these six – hands down. He’s complex and unique and captivating – I just loved him! Kreed comes across as pretty superficial and less interesting – at first – but as the story develops we see his hidden character traits and unique qualities come out, and he becomes quite worthy of Aaron by the end.

The evil that was the Church was awesome and I felt that it went far to demonstrate that it wasn’t religion that was evil – just this crazy brand of fanaticism that really couldn’t even claim to be true to it’s religious base after it’d been twisted for use by the powers that be. So, if you’re worried about it bashing religion – don’t be – it really doesn’t do that.

I highly recommend reading these in order. I’m sure you’d enjoy this on it’s own, but there’s a lot lost if you’re not keeping up with the series.

There aren’t many books that can be this long and still make me wish for more when I’m done – but this is one of them. Bravo Kindle Alexander – this was a truly wonderful ending for our boys and I’m sad to see them go but I was so happy to see them get their HEA here.

(And that cover – WOW!)

6 of 5 stars

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Rock Star Baby (Bad Oak Boys #1) by Erin M Leaf

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Ryan Oakley, lead singer of Bad Oak and heartthrob extraordinaire, isn’t looking for a girlfriend. He’s definitely not looking for a boyfriend, but after the explosive encounter he has with a guy he meets backstage, he realizes he’s more flexisexual than he’d thought. Of course, suddenly being able to shift into a wolf is an unexpected side effect he didn’t expect and can barely control.

Bardulf Forst is Alpha-Heir to his pack, but he can’t resist his little sister when she begs him to meet Ryan Oakley. When he realizes the sexy singer is his mate, he can’t deny instinct. He claims the famous rock star even though he knows his father won’t approve: heirs are supposed to have children and two males can’t reproduce.

Little do they know that they’re about to experience an ancient shifter biological imperative: when two male Alphas mate, unexpected miracles sometimes happen.

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Ryan is the hot lead singer for a rock band. The PR folks come up with a contest where some lucky girl can win a kiss from him. Unfortunately, the lucky winner can’t make it, so she sends her brother, Bardulf, in for a photo-op instead.

Not to be out-challenged, Ryan goes ahead and kisses the guy and sets off a string of events neither man could have predicted.

Turns out that though Ryan identifies as straight, Bardulf – who identifies as gay – realizes that Ryan is his Mate. Which can’t be, because Bardulf needs an heir and … well – ya know how that works, right?
But… there are some twists and turns to follow. How can a famous rock star keep secret that he will now turn into a wolf sometimes? How can these mates stay healthy when they must be separated for so long with their respective “jobs”? What about that heir? What about being gay? What about.. and so on.

In the end – with a few new truths dug up from the ancient records – we find our answers and then some!- and get our HEA.

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I just fell in love with this book. It was funny, moved along a good clip, had ROCKERS in it and it’s mpreg (no spoiler – it tells you that right away in the blurb). Sure, I got frustrated by the separation and I wanted them together for more page time. I also felt like we got some world-buidling stuff kind of dumped on us at times. But for the most part this was a great shifter book with the added bonus of mpreg and humor.

4.5 of 5 stars

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Mate of the Tyger Prince by Shannon West

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Diplomatic marriages between two members of different planets certainly aren’t unheard of—but for Prince Mikos of Tygeria and Col. Ryan Donnelly of Earth, it might just be a fate worse than death. The union is meant to end a devastating war that has lasted for over a hundred and fifty years, but when the female bride intended for the fierce, sexy prince runs away, her handsome brother is substituted instead. Men are for mating as far as the Tygerian prince is concerned, but the colonel also happens to be Mikos’s sworn enemy, not to mention being completely irritating.

Ryan is horrified to learn that the Tygerians not only expect him to take the place of his sister, marry the Bloody Prince of Tygeria, and go to live with him on his mysterious planet, but they also expect him to undergo physical alteration to have the man’s baby! And nobody is taking hell no for an answer. Ryan’s being asked to turn his whole life upside down and the handsome Tygerian gets under his skin like nobody else. But with the fate of the universe at stake, how can he say no? Can the two enemies put aside their differences and focus on making love and not war—not to mention a baby? As a powerful love struggles to take root, can they learn to trust each other and stand together against the forces that are trying to tear them apart?

Review

Mikos is set to marry the daughter of the enemy in order to facilitate a peace agreement between Earth and his planet. Marriage and mating mean a lot more than just a ceremony and rings to him and his kind, however. When he is “dumped at the alter” by the runaway bride her father and his offer up a solution – her brother!

Ryan is NOT on board with the plan his father has concocted, as a general in the army who has fought and killed the Tygerians, he’s absolutely opposed to marrying and essentially joining forces with one. But… if he doesn’t it could be costly to the peace movement and many more people could die. So he bucks up an agrees to the marriage.

Meanwhile Mikos is quite pleased with the alternative choice, now it’s time to convince Ryan that theirs will be a match more than on paper.

**

I had not read any of the other books in this series, so I can’t say how this fits in to the grand scheme of things, but I wasn’t lost and I felt like I had a good understanding of the world building, etc.

In this case I think that I both loved and hated the insta-love that occurred because both characters acted sort of bi-polar in that one second they loved each other the other they hated each other. This resulted in lots of hot angry-sex but not a lot of believable emotional connections.

I was also super disappointed that I didn’t get to see any action with Mikos as a tiger – though I understand it’s not a typical sentient shifter thing, but I do love it when we get to experience their animal natures.

There was a lot of super smexy times and a very satisfying HEA and that fit my expectations and was lovely. But… there was also a lot of melodramatic sub-plot that absolutely set my teeth on edge. I love mpreg and thought the device by which this happens was really clever, but having Ryan get pregnant and then making Mikos throw him over because he thought he conspired against him when ALL THE EVIDENCE points away from that made me want to punch someone.

I loved the “my two dads” thing but I never really liked Ryan and Mikos as a couple. Ryan was a bit whiny and Mikos was a bit of a dick and though there were lots of pretty words there wasn’t much time for them to really get to know one another or even like one another.

In the end, I would look at others in the series, but this wasn’t my favorite and if it represents the series as a whole, I will probably not read much more of it.

(I love the cover, beautiful!)

3 of 5 stars

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