A review by tanyad74
Elemental Mating by Milly Taiden

3.0

I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Elemental Mating is the first book in Milly Taiden's A.L.F.A. series. This is also my first experience with this author. A.L.F.A. is a group of secret agents that work for the government. The government knows they are shifters while the world is kept in the dark that they exist. The government uses their special skills on dangerous missions in exchange for leaving the shifters from being outed.

In Elemental Mating, we travel to Uganda where Melinda Caster has discovered a virus that gives infants ESP gifts. Unfortunately they are still working on it when they find that the virus has a high death rate after the special gift is used excessively. Melinda really doesn't think her virus is worth national security so is surprised when someone is sent to watch over her project. She is not pleased to have to work with someone from this organization.

Parish Hamel is no scientist, and pretending to be one is actually harder than he thought it would be. His attempts at following Melinda's conversations about her project were funny. However, his lack of scientific terminology strikes Melinda as odd. Hamel's job is to protect Melinda's project as there is information about it that could lead dangerous people to try and get a hold of it.

It was interesting that Hamel himself just gets introduced to a new paranormal species he thought didn't exist. Now he has to be as open-minded as he needs his mate to be when he explains he is actually the panther she has fallen in love with.

Eternal Mating was a quick read. The world was fairly simple to get to know. There wasn't an overload of world-building information so we were able to get right to the story. I found it interesting that Milly Taiden's heroine's are not your usual Barbie doll imitations, but portray real women.

The time the couple spent in the other dimension was interesting and we seem to setup a connection there that could benefit A.L.F.A. in the future.

I enjoyed the romance between our main couple, and thought it was cute how Hamel used his panther to get close to Melinda. The virus storyline was definitely interesting and the impact it could make in the wrong hands is shocking. I did not suffer from book one syndrome with this book and I'm excited to start book two. Elemental Mating is a great start to a new series.This review was originally posted on Rantings of a Reading Addict