Includes Spoilers (and I’ve never, in all my years of reviewing, ever written a spoiler before this one, but it needs it)
It was an ok storyline. Lots and lots of potential, but it severely missed its mark. It was my first experience of the reverse harem shifters genre. Not quite sure about it yet. I did love how she used the identical twin thing to explain as to why they can share her as their mate. A bit of a twist but believable. Good job!
Loved the contrast between the two guys, you definitely knew who was who, and they were very strong in the story, which is good since one is the Alpha of the pack. I loved how attentive, protective and caring they were to an undeserving mate. Devin and Damon rocked! You definitely get a feel for who they are. Caroline, on the other hand... flopped.
I hated Caroline throughout most of the book. So sad since she started off as such a strong, confident, and heroic character to wind up being nothing like it. You’d think the mate of an Alpha, and his twin, would have a backbone and be just as strong as they are, wrong. WRONG!! She was so wishy-washy. Undecisive. And very, very immature. As in having no grown up common sense at all. It was like she had multiple personalities or something. Very weird. I rolled my eyes and said, “Ugh. Here we go again” a lot. LOL She flip-flopped so much it made my head spin.
She would go from “I love you and can’t imagine living without both of you (of course, that was ONLY while getting down and dirty with 1 or both guys ~ at the same time) to “I cannot give you forever, I’m independent, I have my own life, and I need no one (this is just after that euphoric bliss those same two men gave her wore off and disappeared)” in an instant AND it was constant. *cringe* 😬
Let’s just say it got old fast. The only time she wasn’t thinking of running was when she was getting pleasure out of the twins. If they weren’t touching her or f*cking her, she was looking for the nearest door. Seriously? Ugh. 😩
Her indecisiveness and backstory as to why she was “afraid of forever” was very weak and did not make any sense. Then when it came for the “big reveal” as to why she was scared or whatever it was this author tried to use as her excuse to run (note: there didn’t seem to be a clear cut answer, and I even believe the author didn’t even know herself or started out with one reason, forgot and gave her a new reason mid book), it just didn’t make any sense whatsoever. Her parents died, but she was afraid she wasn’t good enough for them, and that they’d leave her when they figured it out. What? Her parents didn’t abandon her, they died. What’s the correlation here? Two completely different issues. 🙄
So she runs away. Finally. But of course there’s danger that she doesn’t even really acknowledge or care about (see the immaturity? She was told all about it and never left in the dark) and guess what? That’s right, the big bad wolf caught her. 🤦🏻♀️
So she “called out” to the two mates she had just broke it off with, rejected, and ran away from to come rescue her. Of course. But, if you can believe this, this part really didn’t make sense. Yes, she was in danger. Check. Yes, her mates showed up and killed her attacker. Check. And yes, it all ended happily ever after (check) BUT why???? 🤔
There’s no epiphany, no reason, no indication as to why she suddenly changed her mind. None. It’s like the big final climax and then the writer just gave up and BOOM, we have a wedding.
What made Caroline decide to stay and marry the twins? No one will ever know. Shoot, I don’t even think the author knows. Maybe she just got tired of writing such a weak character she just wanted the book to be over.
I wanted so much more out of her, especially with how she started out as in the book. She’s not a good character to be an Alpha’s mate.
All I know is that I’m not planning on buying anymore books from this author. I had a VERY hard time finishing this book but I kept the hope that Caroline would grow the f*ck up and come to her senses or finally figure out what the mating bond meant (note: she was told multiple times by numerous people but just didn’t understand, couldn’t comprehend or was just that immature and selfish, and that was weird and very painful to read over and over again).
When all I got was ~ dangerous scene ~ should I/shouldn’t I ~ s*x ~ should I/shouldn’t I ~ s*x ~ should I/shouldn’t I ~ s*x ~ should I/shouldn’t I ~ s*x ~ should I/shouldn’t I ~ s*x ~ should I/shouldn’t I ~ s*x ~ dangerous scene ~ rescue ~ wedding. Ta-da! Incomplete story. I knew I should’ve quit reading it long ago.
But... now you know.