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A review by lady_sadie_reads
Fated by Rebecca Zanetti
3.0
Cara Paulson is very busy with her very normal life as a single mother and a plant biologist when a man crashes into her house and seems to kidnap both her and her daughter. Talen has no intention of falling for or mating the strange little scientist but fate has other plans for them.
So… this was my first ever PNR! I have never really been drawn in by this genre and so have mostly avoided it out of habit. So when I rolled onto a fated mates challenge in Romanceopoly I figured I might as well start here!
Let’s start with Talen. Who knew that a three-hundred-year-old vampire could be awkward as a teenager and struggle with expressing himself?! He is very Alpha and bossy but is also so gentle and considerate at other points. I struggled a bit more with Cara. I really wanted to shake the Heroine who was this close to being too stupid to live. I love a strong heroine - but Cara doesn’t seem to have any logic or realize that maybe she is in over her head until it is too late.
Their somewhat forced marriage and then romance is adorable and just this side of believable and made me want to keep reading. I did wait for the huge conversation where they confess undying love yada-yada - and I kept waiting until literally the last pages and it wasn’t as much as I wanted. I will say that the world-building by Zanetti makes me curious about other books in the series. There was definitely heat in this book but it wasn’t graphic in the bedroom. This is the beginning of the series and no previous world knowledge is necessary.
So… this was my first ever PNR! I have never really been drawn in by this genre and so have mostly avoided it out of habit. So when I rolled onto a fated mates challenge in Romanceopoly I figured I might as well start here!
Let’s start with Talen. Who knew that a three-hundred-year-old vampire could be awkward as a teenager and struggle with expressing himself?! He is very Alpha and bossy but is also so gentle and considerate at other points. I struggled a bit more with Cara. I really wanted to shake the Heroine who was this close to being too stupid to live. I love a strong heroine - but Cara doesn’t seem to have any logic or realize that maybe she is in over her head until it is too late.
Their somewhat forced marriage and then romance is adorable and just this side of believable and made me want to keep reading. I did wait for the huge conversation where they confess undying love yada-yada - and I kept waiting until literally the last pages and it wasn’t as much as I wanted. I will say that the world-building by Zanetti makes me curious about other books in the series. There was definitely heat in this book but it wasn’t graphic in the bedroom. This is the beginning of the series and no previous world knowledge is necessary.