Heir Apparent Reject Mate Cate C Wells

3 Stars

He rejected me for “reasons.” Too bad for him. No take backs.

Rosie

Fate made a huge mistake when she mated me to Cadoc Collins. He’s the heir apparent. I’m a scavenger. My people are so low in this pack, we don’t even rank.

I should have known better, but for one night, I let myself forget the facts of life in Moon Lake. Cadoc Collins might be powerless to resist me, but he’s not going to claim me, either.

A pink line on a stick makes it a much bigger problem than my bruised heart.

I’m eighteen, knocked up, and publicly rejected by the future alpha. And this baby in my belly? It might as well be a target on my back.

Lucky for me I’m a scavenger. My kind are good at finding things, but we’re great at getting lost.

Cadoc

The fate of Moon Lake rests on my shoulders. I can’t claim the scavenger female.

The pack is on the verge of a revolt, and a mating so controversial could push our warring factions into open conflict.

All I need is time. I’ll do what’s expected of me as our future leader, and when the politics are sorted, I’ll do right by the odd little scavenger.

I’m the heir apparent. She’ll be there when I’m ready.

Right?

So slow to begin plus limited world building led to a hard read. It is a part of a series so book one might have what I need. I did get through it and I liked how it ended but it took me a while to get there.

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Knot Your Past by Jarica James

2 Stars

I swore off mates years ago, yet they have me reconsidering...

After being rejected by a chosen mate and losing everything, I vowed I would never let anyone make me feel that way again.

Since then I’ve enjoyed the single life. My weekends were full of random hook ups and enough booze to forget how lonely I am.

Until someone starts following me.

I quickly find that not only did my ex hire someone to tail me, it was his brothers and childhood friend.

And all three of them are my mates.

In a day that seems hellbent on tearing my world apart I find that the Sulley Pack has come to town. It takes one meeting to realize that fate wasn’t done with me yet.

Now two packs want to claim me as theirs. They’re all far too caring and understanding for a jaded omega like me. At least that’s what I’m telling myself.

Can I put my past aside and give these men a chance?

There was way too many partners with this book. I struggled to track who was who. None of them were developed at all. It also felt like the story was unfinished. Just overall, a miss for me.

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Dark Prince by Raven Storm

 

4 Stars

A SWITCH AT THE ALTAR. A CURSED PRINCE. A CURSE SO DARK IT WILL BRING A KINGDOM TO ITS KNEES.

Slave to her step-father and his daughter, Isadora longed for the day when she could leave her manor for good. Little did she know it would come sooner than she thought.

When the Dark Prince comes to claim her step-sister as his bride, she forces Isadora to switch places with her, thinking no one would want to claim Isadora as their own.

The Dark Prince disagreed. He is the king's favored assassin, and the hand of justice that's an extension of the king's will. And now Isadora must share his bed.

Yet something is wrong back at the Dark Prince's castle, where his people gaze at her with a lingering darkness in their eyes. A beast roams the woods at night, but no one seems to care. A witch in the woods admits the Dark Prince and his people are under a curse, and Isadora might be their only chance to undo it before it consumes the entire kingdom.

I loved this book. FMC is so strong and kicks so many butts to get her HEA. It’s an interesting take on a fairytale. There are so many trigger warnings that should be added but it is on the darker side. By the end of the book, I wanted more so downloaded the bonus epilogue. Even with that I want more with them. It just hit all the right notes for me.

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Captured by the Dark Commander by Ellie Pond

4 Stars

Four hearts, one destiny.

Mermen mate in pods and one just claimed me.

I thought finding out my two best friends were mermen would be the weirdest thing about grad school.

Until a dangerously handsome man from the Mer army kidnapped me. He wants something from my friends and he’ll use me to get it.

I can’t escape him. He visits me in my dreams. He won’t let me out of his sight.

As a battle rages around us, the mysterious merman looks me dead in the eyes before commanding me to bite him if I want to live.

So I sink my teeth into his neck, not expecting him to bite me back.

Next thing I know I’m thrown through the icy surface of the Boston Harbor.

I thought I was drowning until I hear his voice in my head telling me to breathe–under the water.

Now my Dark Commander has taken me as his mate, but mermen mate in pods which means he’s not the only man who wants to claim me.

This book came up as an ad for me on insta and they always draw me in. I loved this one so much but it ends on a cliffhanger ending that made me so freaking mad. Luckily book 2 was out so I dove right in but book 2 ruined my love of book 1. This is a combo review because I couldn’t get through book 2 at all. It’s like the author put all this effort into book 1 and then was lost with how to continue the story. Which made book 2 drag so much. I read all the spoilers and said life is too short to force myself to read this and DNF.

Saying that book 1 was so good. Annabelle was an interesting character who is trying to go with the flow after being kidnapped by mermen. She ends up mated to the commander who has some issues. Basically it would be PTSD so his BFF has to tie him up every night and he sleeps in the room with them. He will become one of her mates. All of this was done really well. The relationship built nicely between the three of them until they reach the mer community and the book ended on a cliff. I am skipping the rest but I gave them all the HEA they deserve.

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Fated to the Alpha by Jessica Hall

2 Stars

Katya has always been an outsider, shunned for having no wolf and unable to live up to the reputations of her Beta father and infamous warrior mother. Just before her 18th birthday, her family is stripped of their titles and shunned from the pack.

They have only two options: go rogue or seek refuge in a Black Creek Pack. Katya suddenly finds herself caught up in a web of lies her parents told. Now not only does she need to prove herself to her new Alpha, but she has to keep him from finding out her secret.

However, Katya finds keeping her secret harder than she thought when the Alpha shows a keen interest in her. She is forced to move into the packhouse. And with nowhere to hide, she is forced to go to extreme measures to keep him from finding out she has no wolf.

But darkness looms, and secrets come to light, more than she ever imagined. Now Katya doesn’t know who to trust or who to turn to when everything she thought she knew was just another lie of a bigger secret kept.

Just when she believes she has all the pieces of the puzzle, does she learn the Alpha is keeping a secret of his own. She is his mate. There is just one issue: Katya has no wolf, and if he figures that out, will he keep her or shun her as her last Alpha did?

I wanted to like this book so much. It hits all the tropes I love but I just couldn’t get past the grammar and typos in the book. Events in the book also need to be fleshed out more. World needs to be better explained. I also struggled with the Katya a lot. I got it from my library so I wasn’t out anything and they did have book 2 but I just couldn’t force myself to read it.

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Boulder Bear by Sophie Stern

3 Stars

We were mates, but then he left. Now I know that I'm better off without him.

Or am I?

It's been six years, eleven months, and four days since Dante left Boulder. I know this not because I've been hoping he'll return, but because I've been counting how many days I've been fine without him. I am, too. I have my clan. I have my company.

And I have my son.

Our son.

Dante never needs to know about Wilder. If he finds out that he's got a son, I just know he's going to come back to town, but I've moved on. We've all moved on.

But all of that is about to change...

Dante comes barreling back to Boulder acting like everything is the same, but I'm different now. I don't need a husband. I don't need a mate. I don't need anything he could possibly have to offer, but my bear is begging to disagree.

And I don't know if my heart can handle it.

I enjoyed this but it is very lacking on world building or character development. I enjoyed the plot and you will be angry with the people in FMC and MMC who screw them both over. It is a quick and easy read.

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Light in Us by Evelyn Flood

3 Stars

“Welcome to Ink & Quill, Fallon.” Teddy leans back in his chair and grins at me. “This feels like the start of a beautiful friendship.”

Fallon wasn’t expecting to land a job at the best publishing house in the city. But Teddy, golden-eyed omega and CEO of Ink & Quill, is strangely insistent that he needs her.

And Fallon really needs this job. Any job. More than Teddy could possibly know.

But when she walks through the doors of Ink & Quill, she’s not expecting them. The Quill pack are charming, protective as hell, and oddly interested in her. Not to mention, they all smell delicious.

Teddy, Fox, Wilder, Zeke and Rowan are almost too tempting to resist. And as Fallon gets to know them, she begins to wish that things could be different.

Because there’s just one problem.

Fallon already has a pack. A pack who are Ink & Quill’s biggest competitors.

And she’s only staying until she can earn enough money to run as far away from them as possible.

This was gearing up to be a 4 star read for me until the end. It was too abrupt. I loved the FMC and the pack she ends up with. They were all in and wanted to take care of her from the get go. The guys she was with need consequences and we don’t see them getting that in the book. Which with what they did was so not ok for me. Overall, the writing was good, the characters were good, but the plot needed some work.

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Bound to the Alpha King by KA Iris

4 Stars

An evil alpha is coming to kill me for revenge.

And to top it off,

I’m pregnant with Alpha Jax’s pup.

But our entire pack's livelihood is at stake,

And I have an ultimate choice to make:

Do I hand myself over to the enemy in order to save the lives of my pack?

Do I take my pup and run, alone?

Do Jax and I try to escape and start a new rogue life for our family?

Or do we stay and fight, knowing that we may lose everything…

Still not a huge fan of Jax. He again screws around in this one without finding out any consequences and I am frustrated by this. I do love all the other characters. I also loved how everything plays out with the overarching plot from book 1 to 2. There are more books in the series and I will be checking them out.

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Rejected by the Alpha King by KA Iris

4 Stars

I was the alpha king's fated mate.

Until he rejected me, banished me, and left me to die.

Years later he's back, and my wolf wants him more than ever...

I'm not sure why Alpha Jax came back into my life after humiliating me.

But I can barely control myself around him.

All my wolf wants to do is feel his touch, his bond, his everything.

But there's no way we could ever be together. I hate how much he hurt me, how much he made my heart suffer.

Jax offers me a deal to be free- in exchange for helping him with a dangerous mission.

But once he finds out the secret I'm hiding, I'll be killed.

I just have to escape him before that happens...

This book made me so mad, and I am still mad at Jax for not communicating and being a dick. I loved Anna and she should have made him grovel so much more than he did. This does end on a cliff but book two is out. It also wasn’t a major issue anyways as most of the storyline was wrapped up. Anna chooses to do something to save the pack even though they hate her. I loved seeing Anna’s growth in this book and see who all was the bad guys so far. Can’t wait to read the next one.

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Not Satisfied Dragon by Colette Rhodes

4 Stars

Once upon a time, there was a gold dragon who would have given her life in exchange for her revenge.

The conclusion we needed. I loved how Shira’s mates are willing to change to nor lose her. They are completely different mates from books one. Such a good conclusion.

Book 2 Deadly Dragons Duet

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Not Cursed Dragon by Colette Rhodes

 

4 Stars

I am a dragon who hates dragons.

The dragons murdered my family. The dragons stole me. The fae purchased me. My mates saved me.

My mates imprisoned me.

They think they're keeping me safe. They think they know what I need. What all delicate, feminine, gold dragons need. A comfortable den. A well-stocked pantry. Twenty children.

That's not what this gold dragon needs. This gold dragon needs blood. This gold dragon needs revenge.

I loved the premise of this book. Shira has had a crappy life because of dragons and she wants revenge. Her mates rescue her just to keep her locked up … for her own good. She finds a way out to get her revenge in the best way possible. I loved how she does it. It does end on the cliff but book 2 is already out. I do want more world building but still loved it.

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Midnight of Ashes by Tessa Hale

4 Stars

One moment changed everything. A split-second decision to try to save one of my five dragon mates nearly cost my life. And now nothing is the same.

Knox, Cáel, and Cillian treat me like I’ll break at any moment, while Maddox keeps a careful distance. And Easton won’t look at me at all.

We’re supposed to be fated by the stars, but we’re falling apart. Enemies still lurk around every corner, but the guys vow we’ll be ready when they come.

But evil has a way of striking when you least expect it. And none of us are ready for who might be pulling the strings…

Starts right where the first one ended. Some secrets are revealed, and more are introduced. The building of relationships was nice and I loved the connection between mates. The give and take was also nice to read. It does end on another cliffhanger. Not a bad thing but something I’ve noticed with all of Tessa Hale’s books is the FMC is always in danger at the end of the book until the final book. It’s not bad but it is something I’ve noticed she does.

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Twilight of Ember by Tessa Hale

4 Stars

I’d always wondered what it would be like to have a family. I just never expected to find it with five mysterious strangers who have more secrets than I could ever imagine.

Getting a scholarship to Evergreen University and majoring in premed means I need to keep my head down and focus on my studies. But campus is full of distractions…

The football god with his golden retriever charm. The tortured one with his vicious tongue. The broken boy with his determined protectiveness. The merciless billionaire with a penchant for spoiling me. And the genius professor with his brilliant mind.

They make me feel like I belong for the first time since my parents were murdered. And when they touch me, my whole world sparks to flame.

But they have enemies. Those who would give anything to harm what they hold dear. And while they’ll do whatever it takes to keep me safe, sometimes falling in love will put you right in the line of fire…

I really enjoyed this book and immediately started the second book. I liked the Hayden was unaware of what she was and who her mates were. It flowed nicely but does end on a cliffhanger ending but this is pretty standard for Tessa Hale.

Book 1 Dragons of Ember Hollow

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Broken Howl by Katie May and Ann Denton

4 Stars

As an omega, my job is to be the docile female—smile when they tell me to, do whatever the alphas say, and wait for the moon tide ritual when I’ll finally find my true mates.

Nobody can tell how truly broken I am inside.

When I find my perfect mates—two powerful, possessive alphas and one flirty beta—I decide to do the unspeakable.

Reject them.

Why would they want to be with someone as messed up and jaded as me? Someone who’s been used and spit out more times than I care to count?

But these shifter men? They refuse to let me go.

A twist of fate lands me on Reject Island, only…I’m not alone. I’m being hunted by the very three men I rejected—the men who still set my skin ablaze with every look in my direction.

They’re dangerous, psychotic, and possessive. And they want to see me pay.

Add into the mix a sweet, damaged delta I meet on the island, and I’m up to my elbows in sexy wolf shifters.

But the truth is…

I didn’t only run from my mates to spare them the pain of being with me. There’s someone after me, someone bad, and if he finds me, all of our lives will be forfeit.

Will I learn how to scream to the moon? Or will my howl always remain broken?

This was a hard read for what happens to Teegan but I loved how she gets out of the problem. The guys bar 2 were jackasses and needed to do more groveling. I also wanted to know what happened with the pack but that was kind of brushed away.

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Shattered Stars by Hannah Haze

4 Stars

The more I discover about my mysterious past, the deeper I'm pulled into a web of mysteries, secrets and lies

And the more I'm pulled towards the men fate has destined are mine.

Well fate can go to hell.

I can't forget the way they’ve treated me and I certainly can’t forgive the hurt.

I won't give in to my feelings no matter how much they plead.

At least that's my plan until fate intervenes again and throws all our lives into danger.

So frustrated by the end of this book. It ends on a cliff and the next book isn’t out. More info is revealed and Rhi has more magic than we know. Curious to see where the last book takes us. The guys don’t really make up for being dicks but I loved how they’ve all fallen. Can’t wait for the conclusion.

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Twisted Ties by Hannah Haze

4 Stars

Secret memories locked in my head, an assassin on my tail, and strange powers I shouldn't possess are the least of my problems. Because now I'm bonded to a man I barely know.

My body may be pulled towards him, but my heart can't forgive his betrayal.

And he isn't the only one.

I'm sick of being treated this way and I'm sick of not knowing who I really am.

No more secrets. No more lies.

I'm determined to learn the truth.

No matter what the cost.

More information is revealed in this book for everyone. I still love Rhi but the guys are still irritating me. OOOPPPSS I guess we’re fated so sorry for being a dick was the mantra. This is not a grovel and I don’t like guys who screw up not making it up. I still loved the progress in this book but again it ends on another cliff and it royal sucks.

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Fractured Fate by Hannah Haze

4 Stars

Fate wouldn’t tie me to these men, would it?

Sent to the ruthless academy for magicals after years hiding from the authorities, I'm behind, poor and, with my pet pig in tow, struggling to fit in.

No surprises I'm picked out for ridicule by the other students - as well as the teachers.

And four men in particular seem determined to make my life here hell.

The man who caught me.

My grumpy, sharp-tongued professor.

The star of the school's dueling team.

And the academy's deadly heart-breaker.

They all find their own special way of torturing me, but I'm determined not to bow.

I hate them.

And yet when I'm with them, I feel like a fish on a hook, tugged in their direction, my insides swirling with a lot more than simply hate.

Is this magic or something far more dangerous?

I loved this academy book. Rhy made the book. She was kept hidden and away from the magical for a reason but we still don’t know why by the end of the book. The guys are major dicks throughout. Winnie is the best BFF ever. She draws Rhi out and gets her to open up. I loved Pip the pig as the pet. You don’t normally see pigs as pets, so I liked it. This does end on a cliff and luckily the next is out otherwise I would be mad. The book is building up to an interesting story but not quite there yet.

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Destined Mate by Jen L Grey

2.5 Stars

Fate stripped everything from me and forced me to face my worst nightmare.

As the adopted and weakest member of my pack, I’ve always been an outcast and mistreated, especially since I've never been able to shift into my animal form.

Every time I try to find a way to escape my personal hell, my pack leader stops me, vowing that I'll never be free from him.

Then the worst happens.

A group of my pack members attack me.

Alone, outnumbered, and stuck in my human form, I'll fight for my life even though there’s no hope for survival.

Until a group of unfamiliar wolves come to my aid.

The sexiest and strongest of them, Bodey, is adamant to protect me.

And something inside me tugs toward him almost unnaturally.

But it turns out things aren't what they seem.

There might be something more to my past than I knew . . . and Bodey might be the very person I need protecting from.

The idea of this series is a good one but you have to be really stupid to not figure out the outcome of the book. And I don’t mean who she ends up with or the general plot. I mean who the FMC is and how important she is. It was a nice set up but it frustrated me so much. I got through this one and started the next and quickly DNF. Going to try a different book by this author.

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Pliar by Jane Washington

3 Stars

Ironside is more than a regular academy. It’s also the biggest reality TV show in the world … and a very elaborate, very luxurious prison.

Their hallowed halls are ruled by the Betas, Omegas, and Deltas—but this year, the officials are stirring things up.

Isobel Carter—the only rare Sigma to be accepted—is the first sign. But there are others. Many others. A sudden influx of powerful Alphas will turn academy life, and Isobel’s life, upside down.

She might be the lowest rung on the ladder, but in order to survive Ironside, where social media is king and consequences are deadly, she will need to make her mark.

She will need to climb.

This is a different omegaverse story. They throw in a delta designation which our Isobel is. It’s supposedly the lowest of the low. There are so many hints that lead to me thinking this is going to be the wrong assumption. I also don’t trust some of the people who she thinks are her friend. It’s also an academy book but it’s referenced as a TV show which isn’t really talked about much. I like some of the character development but wanted more. Overall, I’m curious about it enough to read the next book.

Book 1 Ironside Academy

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Heat of Us by Eliana Lee

4 Stars

I have no desire for a pack.
I don’t need to be taken care of.
I earn my own money as an OmegaFans creator. The National Omega Commission's heat services has all the alpha knots I’ll ever need.
As for love? That ship sailed a long time ago.
So why is it so hard to keep these three men at arm’s length?
Ben, my best friend’s brother, who was only meant to be an uncomplicated party hook-up.
Aleks, the broody beta who I’m certain only tolerates me.
Not to mention “Ryder”, the OnlyA’s alpha I’ve started collaborating with. It’s easier to ignore what’s between us if I don’t find out his real name.
None of them know the others exist. And I’m certainly not a sweet, attentive omega that could bring a pack together, even if I wanted to.
But there’s an invisible threat lurking, and they may be my only salvation from the sins of my past.

Loved all of these characters. It takes a while to find out why she dissolved her bond and when you find out have tissues. It was worth the wait. I loved the slow process the MMCs took to win her over. I also loved how much they wanted her but didn’t want to push her. I love Elianna Lee’s writing style and can’t wait for the next book.

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