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3.0
Closer to 3.5 stars.
This book had an interesting take on a paranormal world. Well, at least the small slice of the world we are given entree to in this book.
This is an mmf romance featuring a Super Alpha male, an alpha female and a clever beta male. The main character is a female shifter who is of a warrior/protector caste (as far as I can discern from the world-build). Freya is smart, tough and sexually dominant.
As the story opens she is acting as the bodyguard of a group of girls who are attending a -- what I can only call a betrothal convention. Truthfully this is one element of the story that I rather really dug. The 'marriage mart' in this society consists of a several day retreat where shifters of a certain class go to a posh spa like place, meet possible mates, figure out who they like, if more than one guy is interested, they fight for her, there are organized activities etc. At the end of the several day convention betrothal contracts are presented and signed and people walk away with a new affianced. Yeah, this whole aspect of this particular shifter society tickled me.
Freya is only there as a bodyguard and as an enforcer to step in if any fights get too out of hand and to make sure her charges don't do anything that would scuttle their chances of a making an advantageous marriage. But she also finds herself the object of mate-interest to a dominant-submissive pair.
Since Freya isn't there to catch a mate of her own, she isn't too receptive. But she does like the idea of Rayne, the submissive wolf. What she balks against is that he comes as a matched set with the very dominant Alpha Fenris. So Freya's own courtship becomes fun, sexy, unexpected development for her where she has to accept that she might actually like being dominated herself.
So yeah this was a nice read with an interesting world-build.
This book had an interesting take on a paranormal world. Well, at least the small slice of the world we are given entree to in this book.
This is an mmf romance featuring a Super Alpha male, an alpha female and a clever beta male. The main character is a female shifter who is of a warrior/protector caste (as far as I can discern from the world-build). Freya is smart, tough and sexually dominant.
As the story opens she is acting as the bodyguard of a group of girls who are attending a -- what I can only call a betrothal convention. Truthfully this is one element of the story that I rather really dug. The 'marriage mart' in this society consists of a several day retreat where shifters of a certain class go to a posh spa like place, meet possible mates, figure out who they like, if more than one guy is interested, they fight for her, there are organized activities etc. At the end of the several day convention betrothal contracts are presented and signed and people walk away with a new affianced. Yeah, this whole aspect of this particular shifter society tickled me.
Freya is only there as a bodyguard and as an enforcer to step in if any fights get too out of hand and to make sure her charges don't do anything that would scuttle their chances of a making an advantageous marriage. But she also finds herself the object of mate-interest to a dominant-submissive pair.
Since Freya isn't there to catch a mate of her own, she isn't too receptive. But she does like the idea of Rayne, the submissive wolf. What she balks against is that he comes as a matched set with the very dominant Alpha Fenris. So Freya's own courtship becomes fun, sexy, unexpected development for her where she has to accept that she might actually like being dominated herself.
So yeah this was a nice read with an interesting world-build.
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