Book Description
Chels
There’s a dragon stalking me.
It’s been weeks, but I’m going to try to “get back on that horse” by going to this Valentine’s speed dating event.
Except a handsome brute prevents me from participating. The tension between us is palpable as I dive headfirst into a new relationship with this weird beast of a man.
But there is evil lurking in darkness and it wants my blood. Will I survive till Valentine’s day?
Gryndor
I don’t have my dragon anymore. Which means no hope for a fated mate.
My blackouts are getting worse.
A vampire attacked me.
There’s blood in my front seat.
What am I doing during the blackouts?
This is a fated mates short romance intended for adult audiences. There are explicit scenes.
My Review
Gryn is a dragon shifter but he and his dragon half don't speak anymore because of something that happened a long time ago. That causes him to have blackouts when his dragon beast takes over his human body and that causes more than a few problems for him.
Chels decides to try dating again but when a vampire attacks her, she thinks she's done especially since there's a dragon who's been stalking her for weeks and no one believes her. Her friend know that dragons exist but there are rules they can't break by telling a human about dragons but all that doesn't matter when she overhears them talking about dragons and she figures out she's not crazy, there really is a dragon stalking her.
The dragon in question is Gryn and he knows he's scaring her by following her but without his human half to help him not be so beastly, he's at a loss as what to do until he saves Chels from a vampire attack and they start to spend time together and he keeps her safe until the vampire can be dealt with.
This story had so much promise and could have been so good but we don't get a lot of world building and the characters just kind of fall together without much difficulty which felt wrong. Their romance felt rushed and not real. A human finds out that a dragon shifter wants her as a mate and she just falls into bed with him and is ok with the whole paranormal world right away? It didn't ring true to me at all. And then to make matters worse, the ending was so abrupt and left so many unanswered questions about Gryn and his human half.
I give this book 2 out of 5 stars.
The term "fated mates" is interesting and new to me. In fanfiction, the old term "soulmate" is still used. In addition, the Japanese concept of "the red string of fate" which binds couples also appears in a lot of fanart.
ReplyDeleteI see fated mates more in shifter romance than other kinds of romance.
DeleteIt's a shame when a book falls short of what you expect. I'm a big reader but fantasy isn't my genre.
ReplyDeleteIt is. I read a lot of different books but paranormal romance is the favorite right now.
DeleteSorry it wasn't good
ReplyDeleteThanks.
DeleteYeah, I need the development for the world and the romance to get into a story, too.
ReplyDeleteThere should have a been more world building.
DeleteI read a book like that a bit ago. It was a wolf shifter book where the shifter admits to being a shifter, and the human is like, "oh, cool". I didn't buy that either. It feels like lazy writing.
ReplyDeleteYeah exactly.
DeleteAnd she really did not invest much in that cover LOL
ReplyDeleteToo bad it meet the standards of a good book.
ReplyDeleteA shame this wasn't better for you ...
ReplyDeleteAll the best Jan
Oh no, another two. Okay, go find a five now!
ReplyDeleteNot always a good read ~ way it goes ~
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
clm ~ A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
I love the premise. i am sorry the execution failed.
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