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A Prideful Mate (2011)

by Amber Kell(Favorite Author)

3.77 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0857154850 (ISBN13: 9780857154859)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Total E-Bound

series

Supernatural Mates

review 1: Once again, the blurb describes the story. Kevin has two sons with female Tia, but knows his mate is a man. Scrolling through the shifter dating website, he sees Payce and knows he’s it. Within a couple of days they are together and making like monkeys, um, cat-shifters. Payce is a jaguar, who sometimes has trouble holding his human form when he gets upset, but Kevin is instantly smitten, and they are perfectly matched in the bedroom with Kevin being more dominant. Within 90 min, Kevin has put his claiming bite on Payce, who is a bit more reluctant given that jaguars are not pack animals, and he’s not sure what this all means, except that he knows Kevin is his mate.When someone tries to kill Payce, Kevin whisks him off to the compound where a series of innocuous commen... morets by Payce cause Kevin to jump to conclusions. “I don’t know about kids” turns into “You don’t love me and my kids, fine, but I’m not leaving them”. Whoa, buddy, slow down. Up until the bitter end, Kevin finds ways to pout about nearly everything Payce says.There is a big show-down with the bad guys out to get Payce and every shifter in existence. Of course both the lions and wolves from the previous book come to rescue one of their own (or two I suppose), but it’s pretty anti-climatic and the whole reasoning for the hatred of shifters (a shifter stole my mommy away from me, and daddy beat me) seemed a bit one-dimensional and cartoonish.The sex was hot and all of the familiar tropes are there, and besides Kevin jumping to conclusions every five minutes, he was lovable and friendly and the kids were cute. I didn’t care for it as much as the first, it just seemed too easy and too fast, see picture, claiming bite within the day, attack by bad guys, solved within 6 hours. The end. My head was spinning. I will however likely read book three coming next week with the bear shifter town sheriff and a human. When I want something fast and light they seem to fit the bill.
review 2: *sigh* I give this a 2.5 really, but rounded up to a 3. There was a premise for a great story here, but I found it fell a little flat. While I'm a HUGE fan of the insta-mate concept, I felt that the bond between the two heroes was severely lacking. I never really felt connected to either. There was so much packed into the 60 pg short story that I felt there really wasn't any time for them to get that bond formed. less

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