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jackies_journal's review
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
relaxing
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.25
riniya's review
3.0
Tropes:
✨Shifter Romance
✨Fated Mates
✨Rejected Mating
✨Alpha Shifters
✨Love Triangle
Gemma always knew that Ryker was destined to be her mate. And until last year, she had been looking forward to binding her life to his for eternity, to become his one and only. That was, of course, until he rejected her in front of his pack council. He made it very clear he had no desire to mate her under the full moon so she ran.
Now they are a year later and he had been worming his way back into her life. Ryker thought that he was protecting her by distancing himself from her, but it blew up in his face. At least until it revealed a betrayal within his pack.
Gemma thought that dealing with an infatuated roommate and a possessive mate was bad enough, but now someone from her past has come back into her life to cause problems. Her secret is out and people want to cash in on the rumors surrounding her powers as a female alpha.
It’s time for Gemma to make a decision on if she will be accepting the mating bond or if she will continue to keep Ryker at arms length.
I was so eager to jump straight into this book after finishing the first, but I was somewhat let down.
The book spends the first few chapters recapping the information from book one. I absolutely hate when books do this more than just a cursory nod and the author didn’t stop there. She continued sporadically throughout the book to constantly reconfirm information she had already recapped at the beginning of the book. I was very irritated with exactly how much content was just repeating what you already know. The book could be a few chapters shorter if the needless review was removed.
Now for the good, the book was actually pretty fast paced and for the most part it threw you back in the action. It did continue with the will she/ won’t she surrounding Gemma’s decision to finally bond with Ryker, and just when I was about to be frustrated with the FMC for not making a choice, this plot point was resolved. I think the author stretched it out just enough.
The big bad made a larger impact in this book and we got bits of information that was missing in book one to flesh out the story.
Ultimately, I will read the last book since I am so close, but I wish authors would cool it with the incessant recapping.
✨Shifter Romance
✨Fated Mates
✨Rejected Mating
✨Alpha Shifters
✨Love Triangle
Gemma always knew that Ryker was destined to be her mate. And until last year, she had been looking forward to binding her life to his for eternity, to become his one and only. That was, of course, until he rejected her in front of his pack council. He made it very clear he had no desire to mate her under the full moon so she ran.
Now they are a year later and he had been worming his way back into her life. Ryker thought that he was protecting her by distancing himself from her, but it blew up in his face. At least until it revealed a betrayal within his pack.
Gemma thought that dealing with an infatuated roommate and a possessive mate was bad enough, but now someone from her past has come back into her life to cause problems. Her secret is out and people want to cash in on the rumors surrounding her powers as a female alpha.
It’s time for Gemma to make a decision on if she will be accepting the mating bond or if she will continue to keep Ryker at arms length.
I was so eager to jump straight into this book after finishing the first, but I was somewhat let down.
The book spends the first few chapters recapping the information from book one. I absolutely hate when books do this more than just a cursory nod and the author didn’t stop there. She continued sporadically throughout the book to constantly reconfirm information she had already recapped at the beginning of the book. I was very irritated with exactly how much content was just repeating what you already know. The book could be a few chapters shorter if the needless review was removed.
Now for the good, the book was actually pretty fast paced and for the most part it threw you back in the action. It did continue with the will she/ won’t she surrounding Gemma’s decision to finally bond with Ryker, and just when I was about to be frustrated with the FMC for not making a choice, this plot point was resolved. I think the author stretched it out just enough.
The big bad made a larger impact in this book and we got bits of information that was missing in book one to flesh out the story.
Ultimately, I will read the last book since I am so close, but I wish authors would cool it with the incessant recapping.
abbyirene's review
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
swolds's review
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
norfolkbibliolater's review
emotional
funny
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.5
caitlyn999's review
adventurous
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
kyriannaj's review
The writing became repetitive. Paragraphs constantly rehashing the same things we've been told about since the beginning of book one and the same wording reused. The plot started to stall with no major development, but with a third book obviously something is going to happen but there's been no build up or foreshadowing during the entire middle section. The amount of characters has greatly reduced, which was something I appreciated about the first. I feel like we're not shown much of a relationship between Ryker and Gemma, other than fighting, jealously, and sex, with becomes old very fast.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Death, Sexual content, and Blood
errmma's review
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
deboraruiz's review
2.0
Now that I’ve read the first two books, it is glaringly obvious that the entire story of Gemma and Ryker could’ve easily been one decent sized book. I say this because there is a craptastic amount of unnecessary thoughts and filler. To the point where I skimmed a big chunk of this book. That being said, I won’t be reading the third.
2tnwalkers's review against another edition
2.0
Quite disappointed, story was ok, but there was a lot of regurgitated info, wolf hierarchy was 2 to 3 paragraphs long in beginning of book then it was repeat 3 or 4 more times to either fill the pages or the author thinks reader are forgetful of previous details in the current book.