Even surrounded by my devoted wolves, I feel alone and forsaken. The legends of my clan say that an Alpha without a mate will wither in time, and weakness will infect him until a stronger wolf will challenge and dethrone him.
I cannot allow that to happen.
I’ve searched for my mate far and wide, and when I couldn’t find her among my species, I turned to the walled cities of the humans. They are filled with fair, fertile females, but none of them smells or feels like my mate.
There is one last thing I can try. The Temple. Can a simple draw of blood match me to my fated mate? I don’t believe it.
Until I see her. She is beautiful, fierce… She is untamable. Her scent tells me all I need to know.
She is mine.
The Temple, a matchmaking service for monsters, shifters, and aliens, is open for service. Arranged Monster Mates is a series of novellas written by your favorite paranormal and sci-fi romance authors: Eden Ember, Layla Fae, and Cara Wylde. Each of these steamy stories has it all: a possessive male, a heroine ready to sacrifice herself to the beast, plenty of spice, and a happily ever after to curl your toes!
Cara Wylde loves to write about strong, feisty women and their hot Alphas who will do anything to make them happy. Her books are filled with romance and just a dash of mystery, suspense, and that eerie atmosphere she fell in love with reading too many gothic novels. With a master's degree in Comparative Literature, she can't help but play with tropes and themes from various genres, trying to come up with fresh perspectives on the paranormal characters her readers love so much. Vampires, shape-shifters, demons, witches... Cara will always make sure they get their own twists.
When she's not writing, Cara is reading, planning her next story, or daydreaming. Her idea of pure heaven is a day filled with nothing but her laptop, a huge coffee pot, relaxing music, and a new, exciting project.
This is the Third book in the series, and another quick read
Kyden of Clan Murdock, Alpha of the Duskblood Pack, and hadn’t particularly wished for a human bride, just for a mate to call his own, regardless of her species. He had searched for years, visited the neighboring packs, welcomed them into his home, courted the unmated wolf females, and all he was rewarded with was loneliness. Then finally he was Rewarded For his patients…… She is his Luna
A Luna is an Alpha’s true mate. A Luna makes her Alpha stronger and more resilient. She is his power, his inner strength.
Blue was found as a baby with no idea of who her family was……. She was abandoned and lost. Blue had got lucky that a family had took her in raised her as their own. Even thought that they did not have much they gave her everything they could……she was willing to sacrifice herself and she had agreed to an arranged marriage with one of the monsters… She wanted to save her family from starvation and to help her sister's baby with his needs for medical care,
Each of these steamy stories has it all: a possessive male, a heroine ready to sacrifice herself to the beast, plenty of spice, and a happily ever after to curl your toes!
Third book in the series is a savior! After the last book, if I hadn't already had this book I probably wouldn't have continued with the series. This book was a redeemer for me. The concept was more like book 1. The couple was good! Really liked the Wolf Man, Kyden, and Blue! Kyden was a vicious shifter! 9 pages in and he has committed double homicide because these two guys disrespected Blue - a literal you touch her and you die!
The dialogue in this book was good. Though very Instalove and fated mates it was NOT fake, cringey, or over the top.
This was a very good book. The Covers on each book in the series are really nice. Yes, they are AI developed, but so what! It doesn't change the fact that they are great and really beautiful pieces of art.
I realize 79 pages isn’t much to work with, but this had no real plot… and the smut wasn’t hot. They meet, have sex, more sex, small action-- that's raced through, more sex. No buildup, no drama- everyone is nice and accepting of the human, the characters were flat… no emotions… loads of telling instead of showing… it was all so drab.
Bottom Line- Not great—not terrible. Just bland. I still recommend the 8th (Lich) book, but I haven’t been super impressed with the others.
Este libro me hizo sentir como si fuera el 2015 cuando tenía 15 años y le sobre hombres lobo en Wattpad porque tenía la misma estructura que esas historias que me leía, por eso me gustó.
This book was so good! It's the best in the series so far. The plot, writing, and MCs all hit the mark for me. Kyden, the MMC, is an Alpha wolf shifter and the leader of Clan Murdock. Blue, the FMC, is a poor human girl adopted into a sweet but struggling family. Like all FMCs in the Arranged Monster Mates series, she’s matched and married off to a ‘monster’ through a DNA test to ensure survival—and, of course, they turn out to be fated mates!
Kyden though… oh my god. He literally unalives two men who harassed Blue, which is one of my favorite tropes—touch her and die. Despite his lethal side, he’s ultra-protective, sweet, gentle, and completely devoted to Blue. SWOON! 😍
There’s also plenty of action. Clan Murdock goes to war with a neighboring clan, and when Blue gets kidnapped by Kyden’s ex-Beta, Hallan—who betrayed him—Kyden goes absolutely feral. The intensity of his love and rage? *Chef’s kiss*
And let’s not forget the spice—because, well, werewolves mean knotting when they mate. And yes, it’s as hot as it sounds. 🥵🔥
If you love protective Alphas, fated mates, action-packed romance, and delicious spice, this book is definitely worth reading! ✨️
🐺 MF monster romance 🐺 Arranged marriage 🐺 Fated mates 🐺 Virgin FMC 🐺 Possessive Alpha MMC 🐺 Touch her and die (literally) 💀 🐺 Knotting 🥵 🐺 Breeding 🐺 Low-angst, sweet, swoony, actiony, steamy 🐺 HEA
Pacing-wise, this is still hella fast and has a lot happening within the span of very few pages; however, the writing is better than the first two books of this series, maybe because it's a different writer?
Meh, but anyway, from what I've read of this series thus far, Cara Wylde seems to be the best of the three. It's all still a cheesy story, of course, with very little in the way of character development, originality, and general quality and whatnot; however, I read this for quick smut and character chemistry, and both were suitably provided here, so it has earned its three stars. Hoorah.
I feel like the bones are here, it had a good structure of a good story, but it just needed a little more… soul? It’s hard to explain.
Bland is the best way I can describe this story. Nothing felt emotional or real, it was just… blah… Very telling instead of showing. Characters’ emotions were rarely mentioned. There was one part of just endless back and forth dialogue without anything else, not even a “she said” or anything. And that’s fine if it’s just a few lines, but not like pages worth of that.
2 stars instead of 1 because it does have the bones! The ideas were there! It just needed some flesh and some soul.
This story was hard to put down once I started reading it. It was straightforward with the fated mate pairing, and the pack drama spiced things up. I was disappointed that it ended abruptly. I still have questions about the family she left behind!
So many things I didn’t like in this book and things missing in a werewolf shifter story. He was not a strong alpha to me. I didn’t see that possessive, bossy side of him with her. How easily he left her alone to tend to issues and the war and left someone else to take care of her. Where is her mark? Werewolves mark their mates their first intimate moment, that’s how they show their possession, their mate bond, that they are taken, other shifters would smell him in her and it would make her stronger too. There is no mate bond. At least that’s the base of every werewolf story I’ve read. And how did having a Luna made him stronger. It sounded like he was just giving himself a pep talk but in reality nothing happened if he had a Luna. And how many times does he mentions the ow was meant to be his and he was betrayed!!! It sounded like he really wanted the ow to be his Luna. Why can’t he sound grateful that it didn’t work and now she had Blue, his true fated mate. And btw, what does courted unmated she-wolves mean? Because along with Blue mentioning that he knew what he was doing and the stupid tradition of tasting to see if a woman was his mate, it sounded like he was very experienced and that is a no no for me. Did he have to taste every woman to see if she was his fated mate? What if they weren’t? He would have been intimate with all of them before being with Blue 🤢. If he was bringing her home, why didn’t an Alpha have a closet full of clothes ready for her when she arrived? Why did she have to borrow clothes from Mara? An alpha waiting outside the bedroom until the healer checked Blue??!!! It wasn’t okay for him to say “I love you” but it’s ok to say it on the second day? What is going on in her head?? Ugh.
I’m sorry. But I didn’t enjoy much of this book. 😔 It had the potential for a good one but it fell short. From the beginning.
SAFETY remarks - SAFE-ish - h virgin, H doesn’t sound like it - cheating/sharing: no - ow/om: mention of a unmated she-wolves, and a woman that was promised to him (she got mated to his previous beta) - separation/breakups: no - possible triggers: violence - HEA: no epilogue
Can a human woman actually find true love with a monster? A wolfman, or as most humans call them, a werewolf? A wolfman the size of a horse, yes a horse?
Kyden Murdock of Clan Murdock, Alpha of the Duskblood Pack, needs a mate. None of the women in his pack have the potential to be his wife. Allies with their wives and daughters live among them so there's always the potential for them to take over the area. He cannot allow that to happen. His kind can only mate if the match is perfect. As a last resort, he has gone to the Marriage Temple where a DNA test will find his perfect mate.
Life for humans on Alia Terra can be harsh. The wealthy own everything and live in walled cities. Less wealthy live in small unwalled towns. The poor live in small homes, more like huts, scattered around. They aren't allow to hunt game or chop down wood in the forests during the winter because those assets belong to the rich. They barely manage to earn enough credits to have 2 meager meals a day of porridge and beans. There's only 1 way out of the grinding poverty, become matched to a monster.
Blue was an abandoned baby who was found and adopted by a poor couple. Their birth daughter, Audra, is a widow who has a tiny 3 week old baby boy who's very sickly. The doctor in their village doesn't know what's wrong. To get help they must go to a walled city for a doctor but there's no way they can afford that. Audra is so certain that her baby is going to die that she hasn't named him. If Blue accepts the match, she can help her family's prospects and hopefully save her nephew's life. She must go through with the match.
The priest at the temple isn't happy when Kyden demands a wolf tradition to be allowed before the vows are spoken but he allows it. The test proves that Blue is his Luna, an Alpha’s true mate and who will make him stronger and more resilient.
Unfortunately they arrive at the den to find war with the neighboring pack is imminent. Will his Luna be enough to tip the scales in his favor?
This short story held my interest from start to finish. I just wish it had been a tad bit longer so Blue could have followed up with her family. But she did enter the marriage knowing that she may never see them again. And Kyden did promise to have them watched over, and he is a man or monster of his word so she need not worry for them.
I received an ARC of this book from the author via Booksprout. I am voluntarily leaving this review.
'Eres mi Luna, y me haces más fuerte. Más fuerte que nunca.'
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Wed to the Wolfman de Cara Wylde serie Arranged Monster Mates varias autoras.
Argumento:
Solo.
Incluso rodeado de mis devotos lobos, me siento solo y abandonado. Las leyendas de mi clan dicen que un Alfa sin pareja se marchitará con el tiempo, y la debilidad lo infectará hasta que un lobo más fuerte lo desafíe y lo destrone.
No puedo permitir que eso suceda.
He buscado a mi compañera por todas partes, y cuando no pude encontrarla entre los de mi especie, me volví hacia las ciudades amuralladas de los humanos. Están llenos de hembras hermosas y fértiles, pero ninguna de ellas huele o se siente como mi pareja.
Hay una última cosa que puedo intentar. El templo. ¿Puede una simple extracción de sangre hacerme coincidir con mi compañero predestinado? no lo creo.
Hasta que la veo. Es hermosa, feroz... Es indomable. Su olor me dice todo lo que necesito saber.
Ella es mía.
Mi humilde opinión:
Esta nueva historia de la serie la sentí algo diferente a lo que venía leyendo de los matrimonios arreglados.
Para empezar, el novio rompió las reglas y fue a ver a escondidas a su novia elegida. El Templo, el lugar dónde se realizan las ceremonias me pareció distinto al que presentaron en otros libros, hasta los aliens que trabajan allí y el sacerdote que realizó la unión, no fueron alegres o agradables.
El mundo de lobos estaba bien, hubo un poco de peligro y acción con otro alfa que le disputó el territorio al héroe.
Me gustó el héroe, fue protector con la heroína y la adoraba. Ella me pareció demasiado llorona. El romance fue dulce con algunas escenas picantes. Lo del cambio parcial durante el sexo fue extraño, no sé qué decir de eso.
En general, Wed to the Wolfman fue una lectura rápida y dulce. Me hubiera gustado que hubiera más pero estuvo entretenida.
I love fast insta-love romance and if you throw in some monsters, even better. This is part of a series where all different types of monsters have taken over earth and the few remaining humans are so poor and have so little, that they are barely surviving. As a last resort, in order to gain money for their family, young virgin female humans can apply to be wed to a monster- sight unseen. Luckily this is a romance so it always ends in a perfect pairing and love at first sight.
These books are short and uneventful. The stories are lackluster and boring, including the spice scenes. I think I’m giving up on this series since I haven’t liked any of the authors. I am usually a fan of the crazy Layla Fae stories but even those weren’t super great in this series.
This book in the Arranged Monster Mates series introduces the third author who contributed to the series. It is the shortest yet of the series, at only around 80 pages. So the author gets into it immediately with the spice and then dives head deep into the rest of the plot. You would think it would be hard to come up with a complete plot given how short it is, but honestly, I don't feel like anything was lacking, the story just kind of ends abruptly. This story in the series features a wolf shifter as the monster, and we see another monster schlong introduced, complete with a knotting feature. All in all, this wasn't too bad and it was easy to breeze through. I'm definitely addicted to this series. They're quick to read and smutty to boot, I can't stop reading them and downloading the next one as soon as I finish.
Romance novellas are hard to get the right balance of plot + smut and this one just didn’t do anything for me. Probably should have been a DNF but being only ~80 pages I stuck it out.
The plot and dialogue was choppy and cringy, and the smut just wasn’t sexy. I felt no connection as a reader to either MCs or in their own relationship. 🤷🏻♀️
This was a cute read! Kyden was so sweet to Blue, he is a likable hero but i think the whole fated mates insta love shtick doesn't necessarily appeal to me that much anymore!! It was fun anyway.
I love Kyden and Blue's relationshiop. wonder if her sis ended up getting the medicine for her kid... But Kyden, alpha of the Murdock clan... in all his hairy masculine glory... i'm on my knees. wolfman.
Okay I don't know why i still get back to these stories. But they are short, funny HAHAHA and has a little drama. The spicy actually not that bad but cliche. For werewolf fans this Is actually a comfy read.