A review by renthebookhoardingdragon
Prowling their Mate by Amelia Shaw, Tamsin Baker

I rarely write reviews for books, but man this one had me foaming at the mouth, and not in a good way. The amount of sl*t shaming (but only for women), misogyny, and awful representation of insecurities had me fuming. Sure I finished the book but I promise you, it was a real struggle (and I got it for free on SYKD). I kept hoping “Maybe it’ll get better,” but gods was I wrong. I skimmed maybe the last 20% of this solely because I refused to DNF after putting so much time into it. I swear, every time one of the MMC’s said something awful about a woman they had slept with, I could feel my teeth grinding. And the fact that they said some of this garbage in front of their “fated mate?” She already had enough insecurities, gods forbid an actual fight had happened and they spewed some of this hatred at her. Would she just roll over and accept it? Because they were trash talking women they had slept with, and treating them like they were OBJECTS, to which she said “Oh you mean I’m SPECIAL?” Wow, they treat you like a person, that means you’re special, congrats. Bringing it back to the insecurities, trust me, I get it, people have issues. Gods know I’m not 100% comfortable in my body, as a plus size person no less, but I swear it is so exhausting always finding books about plus size women tearing themselves to pieces because of societal norms. This was written in 2019, plus size women can be comfortable in their own bodies and date conventionally attractive men.