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A review by bee_thebibliophile
Impulsive Connections by Marie Reynard
slow-paced
4.0
Impulsive Connections picks up where Accidental Bonds left us and brings us an opposites attract, slow burn romance for Kade Mills and Liam Batiste. Considering what we learned about Kade in the first book, I was definitely surprised by this being a slow burn but it made a lot more sense once you got into it.
Kade and Liam find themselves affected by one of the loose spirits on the Mills pack land and have a bond neither of them anticipated, causing all kinds of confusion for both of them. In between figuring out their bond (or avoiding it for a lot of the time), they’re also trying to track down and capture more of the spirits that are wreaking havoc on the pack. There’s a lot of magic research, practicing practical magic, fighting instincts and avoiding natural chemistry that happens over the course of the book. Both Kade and Liam fall into the lack of communication trap more often than not and, while they’re opposites in so many ways, they also just click on an instinctual level, something neither of them expected. Once they started opening up to each other and working through their differences, they saw what they had in common and how they were actually a really good fit. The lead up to them accepting their feelings was a bit painful at times, but I really enjoyed them together - Liam tempered some of Kade’s overly sexual nature and Kade brought Liam’s nose out of his books.
There were a lot of parts that felt long-winded and bogged down - I think I would have enjoyed this more if there were less of those scenes that made me frustrated with the two of them or that got too into the minutiae of things. Overall, I really did enjoy this one, just found myself wishing it sucked me in like Elijah and Victor’s story did. But, I can’t wait for Miles’s (and Grant’s?!) story next and I’m predicting Aran and Pierce after that…this world has sucked me in!
Kade and Liam find themselves affected by one of the loose spirits on the Mills pack land and have a bond neither of them anticipated, causing all kinds of confusion for both of them. In between figuring out their bond (or avoiding it for a lot of the time), they’re also trying to track down and capture more of the spirits that are wreaking havoc on the pack. There’s a lot of magic research, practicing practical magic, fighting instincts and avoiding natural chemistry that happens over the course of the book. Both Kade and Liam fall into the lack of communication trap more often than not and, while they’re opposites in so many ways, they also just click on an instinctual level, something neither of them expected. Once they started opening up to each other and working through their differences, they saw what they had in common and how they were actually a really good fit. The lead up to them accepting their feelings was a bit painful at times, but I really enjoyed them together - Liam tempered some of Kade’s overly sexual nature and Kade brought Liam’s nose out of his books.
There were a lot of parts that felt long-winded and bogged down - I think I would have enjoyed this more if there were less of those scenes that made me frustrated with the two of them or that got too into the minutiae of things. Overall, I really did enjoy this one, just found myself wishing it sucked me in like Elijah and Victor’s story did. But, I can’t wait for Miles’s (and Grant’s?!) story next and I’m predicting Aran and Pierce after that…this world has sucked me in!