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A review by eloiseinparis
Dangerous Mating by Milly Taiden
2.0
This story is as if someone took a basic romance synopsis and character breakdown from the 60′s and tried to sort of update it for today. Kari is a brilliant cryptologist, my issue with her character is that for some unexplained reason she has no social skills. Even though her interactions with her coworkers, bosses, strangers, and bad guys are totally normal. Being single is one thing, but her lack of friends makes no sense.There is a weak explanation about her coming across as a conspiracy theorist when it comes to food, but as many people as there are that are anti GMO, farm to table, and vegan as there are for the things she brought up in conversation I don’t see why she would be friendless. Also she couldn’t just be smart because she is smart, it had to be the after effect of accidental brain trauma. Finally she is a clutz and has no common sense. She can’t be trusted to walk a straight line or be on her own for 5 minutes without some disaster happening.
The mission she is sent on is important, so why only send one person from ALFA and a cryptologist with no field experience or self defense abilities? They made it clear that while ALFA is it’s own organization several other people in government know about them and shifters, including Kari. They didn’t need a cryptologist, they simply needed a woman. But I am supposed to believe that in the DC area at FBI headquarters she was the only woman anyone could think of to go on a retrieval mission in another country?
Byron is a cookie cutter shifter hero. I liked him well enough, but the insta love was a bit much. There was even a remark he made that he knew everything about her, even though they knew only each other for a matter of hours. You can not use scent to know everything about a person, but whatever.
I haven’t read any of the other books in this series, and I won’t be anticipating the release of any future books. There are so many other urban fantasy series with shifters that are so much better.
The mission she is sent on is important, so why only send one person from ALFA and a cryptologist with no field experience or self defense abilities? They made it clear that while ALFA is it’s own organization several other people in government know about them and shifters, including Kari. They didn’t need a cryptologist, they simply needed a woman. But I am supposed to believe that in the DC area at FBI headquarters she was the only woman anyone could think of to go on a retrieval mission in another country?
Byron is a cookie cutter shifter hero. I liked him well enough, but the insta love was a bit much. There was even a remark he made that he knew everything about her, even though they knew only each other for a matter of hours. You can not use scent to know everything about a person, but whatever.
I haven’t read any of the other books in this series, and I won’t be anticipating the release of any future books. There are so many other urban fantasy series with shifters that are so much better.