My fated mate rejected me, So I spent a passionate night with a sexy stranger. It turns out that stranger is king of werewolves, Rhyson Grind.
One forbidden night turns into me being pregnant. But when I try to find Rhyson to share the news, He says we can't be together.
Now heartbroken and carrying the alpha's pup, I have an ultimate choice to make— But evil lurks at every turn, and our new family is in danger. I refuse to touch Rhyson ever again, but every heated exchange between us tests my limits.
Will Rhyson be at his family's side to protect us? Or will we have to fight alone...
Rejected Mate's Baby for the Alpha King contains a possessive alpha, a fiery female lead, all the spice, and ends on a cliffhanger. Contains mature content!
~ ONS with King ~ adventure trek ~ who did this? ~ JP Alphahole ~ double standards
Note: the blurb is incorrect, she was not rejected by her fated mate but an arranged mate. The one night stand is her mate, who doesn’t understand she’s his mate at first.
So, hear me out. I wouldn’t normally give 4 stars to a book with this many problems (1-2) BUT it’s the first book in a long while that’s made me go…wait.. there’s no more?! I have to WAIT for the other stories? The author IS writing the other stories, right? Lol
So yeah, there wasn’t enough groveling, the ending was rushed, the double standards of him being a manwhore but calling the virgin a slut, no character descriptions, the inconsistencies and continuity errors, no knotting or mate bites(😱), drove me insane! There’s too many to list, but you can find them in my Notes and Highlights. The author needs some good beta readers.
But, I was really invested in this world, the characters, the stories and I need to know what happens next on the mountain- how do London and Lunessa reunite, do Irene and Jenson work out there differences? I rarely care to follow secondary characters, I don’t know why but it bores me - so this gets 4 stars for getting me invested.
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This plot is jammed full. Seriously so much stuff happened. At the same time, there were so many continuity errors and spelling errors (and in one chapter we were supposed to be in Maya’s pov but after only two or three paragraphs it unexpectedly switched to Rhyson’s pov),that I’m not really sure what happened.
So, idk. I obviously read it so it held my attention, it moves at a fast pace, and the world building is interesting (when it’s not confusing af), but idk if I’d say it was good or enjoyable. I guess I’d recommend it only if you don’t expect too much from it
★3/5! hmmm not gonna lie this had some serious potential i could see that but it was just one big mess at the end of the day. the POVs switching half way through an actual sentence was KILLING me! kept thinking I was the insane one with the amount of times it kept switching.
probably would’ve been two stars however I really did like the FMC (Maya) she was just so raw and real, you can’t hate her.
MMC (Rhyson) was just a pain in the ass.
bye i can’t with this cover. let’s normalise discreet book covers for every. single. book.
Nel terzo volume dei re Alfa proibiti, abbiamo Rhyson, il nuovo re degli Alfa e di tutti lupi animato dalla vendetta, e Maya, una giovane donna figlia dell’Alfa Callahan, che viene da lui usata come merce di scambio per alleanze e future annessioni di branchi e potere. Quest’ultimo è un bastardo fatto e finito, uno stronzo di prima categoria a cui non interessa la figlia, per lui è solo carne da macello.
Dopo essere stata umiliata al ballo degli Alfa, Maya passa una notte con Rhyson e resta incinta. Da lì inizia la sua avventura con il re e i suoi lupi fidati che darebbero la vita per lui. Nessuno deve scoprire la vera identità del giovane sulla montagna della luna ombrosa, altrimenti lo potrebbero uccidere in quanto non visto. Qui ritroviamo tutti i personaggi dei libri precedenti, infatti la storia si colloca alla nascita del primo figlio di Anna e Jax.
Ciò che mi ha fatto incazzare e di parecchio è l’insensibilità, il poco valore che il padre di Maya dà alla figlia, arrivando addirittura a farle recidere i legami tra lei e la sua lupa, rendendola “monca”. Così la sua lupa diventa selvaggia e assetata di sangue quando prende il sopravvento e remissiva in presenza di altri, frutto dei ripetuti abusi e torture inflitti dal genitore e dal suo secondo in comando. Vittima sacrificale, da sfruttare solo per le sue ovaie e il suo utero per farle avere un figlio.
Rhyson invece insegue la vendetta, che si rivelerà dolce e spietata quando scoprirà chi è il vero artefice di tutto (il plot twist vi farà saltare dalla sedia come ha fatto con me) però capisce anche che l’amore è l’unica cura per entrambi, una cura che non ha controindicazioni. Tutti e due si sentono uniti, anche se lei non potrà mai sviluppare il legame di accoppiamento, proprio perché non ha più una connessione con la sua lupa. L’amore salva, guarisce e fortifica.
Altro romanzo che ti prende fin dalla prima pagina, con un finale a metà perché deduco che sarà nel prossimo la vera conclusione. Ma, soprattutto, Maya riuscirà a ritrovare la sua lupa?
Honestly thought I was gonna hate this at the start but then the story progressed and it wasn’t to bad Needs a lot of editing I think duke & jenson were mixed up alot. The ending need to be more fleshed out and not rushed but all in all a decent book.
Not bad but not good either. Hero meets heroine and has a ONS with her. She has an abusive father that hit her and kept her prisoner because he wanted her to mate with an alpha he liked so he could kill the alpha and get his pack. Nice man. After their ONS the hero, who is a king alpha and should be smart but is not, hears rumors about the heroines reputation and he thinks she’s a gold digger that wanted to trap him. The heroine left before they could talk. A couple of months later she finds out she’s pregnant and she manages to run away from her father. She finds the hero that slut shames her but eventually is forced to keep her with him because they’re in a very dangerous area and he’s looking for a dangerous man who killed his brother years before. So he wants to avenge him. The heroine is not connected to her wolf because of a curse, as she finds out later. She can’t feel a mating bond, but of course she’s the hero’s mate and yes, they feel attraction and something else. The heroine left before realizes how she’s been mistreated and abused and is sorry. While they’re looking for the villain they travel, meet people, do things. The story is not bad, the hero changes his mind about her and tries to help, when he realizes she’s not spoiled and pampered but abused. But there’s something that ruined the book for me. I hated the slut shaming. The hero believed her father’s words and another male he didn’t even know, and he called her a whore more than once. Are you crazy? She was single and young and even if she had been with many men, he wasn’t a virgin too when he met her so I hated this sexism that is never addressed. She should have called him on this at once, and reminded him that she had all the right to be with whatever man she wanted as he had the right to be with so many women, as he admitted. How is that a woman is a whore if she’s experienced when she’s single and a man is ok if he has countless women? He apologized because she was a virgin and he made a mistake, not because he called her a whore and he judged her. He should have never called her a whore because it’s wrong, she didn’t cheat on anyone and she didn’t sell her body so she was free to do as she pleased. This is something I can’t accept since this is not a Victorian romance and women. It was wrong and distasteful, how he was disgusted because he thought she was with other men. I couldn’t get past it. And I am really sorry that young and modern writers are so narrow minded to let this kind of judgement pass.
Rhyson and Maya are actual couple goals. I just loved the development of these characters. Like they were actually so special and heartwarming in the end. I could not have seen a better storyline for these two.
I was devastated when Maya tried everything to get her bond with her wolf back but I know things might be different if she were able to. I feel as though things would have turned out completely different if she did have bonds in the beginning.
I loved that the witches found the end of the bond that she had with Rhyson. It was beyond cute. I found it really intriguing why she didn’t want him to know if and when the spells they cast didn’t work. They were sworn to secrecy. But nevertheless, in the end they had a happy ending.
But that cliffhanger in the bonus scene. 👀 Excuse me. Who is conspiring against them. I better see a wedding. I swear to god. They better get their happy ending. I do hope her father also stays dead. Could you imagine if they resurrect him????? Nah. Absolutely not. What if it’s the witch that took away her bonds to begin with? What if he is conspiring? So many ideas.
Anyway, the plot was absolutely wonderful. The characters were very easy to read. The spice was unreal. Just overall this book was everything I wished for and everything beyond. My goodness. Absolutely recommend this book to anyone.
Ps. She went to a ball to be mated to an Alpha of her horrible father’s choosing. It was some dodgy Alpha who ended up with her cousin. He made a big spectacle of her after her cousin spread nasty rumours about her in order to protect her. She ended up in the hotel with the Alpha King and the spice and chemistry between them was palpable. She became pregnant and tried to tell him was going to be a father. Then they ended up on the forbidden mountain. The rest is history. They got their love story through hardship. He did not make it easy in the slightest. 😒
I think it’s safe to say that I probably won’t be completing this series. Not only because of the sheer number of books, but because I’m 4 books in and they’re all too similar: one night stand or some type of blind coupling resulting in a pregnancy, when informed, the alpha in question rejects the possibility that the baby is his, 2 main characters that completely suck at communication, dude figures his shit out, she’s still butthurt about it but eventually comes around and they live happily ever after.
Sure, you could make the argument that at some level, this is the template for nearly all rejected mates stories, however, some authors do it really really well, and others, not so much. Book #1 in the series was good, but the rest are just too repetitive. I suspect that with this many books in the series, the authors gave every character on that mountain, which was the backdrop for at least the first 4 books, their own story.
One positive in the books I’ve read so far is the chemistry between the FMCs and the MMCs are kinda hot. . . And I admit that I do love me a strong alphahole, and on that, the author surely delivers. I’d drop my panties for any of the main alphas I have read so far, heck, even the alphas that are secondary characters generated movement on my lust meter.
As for a recommendation . . . These weren’t horrible, but they weren’t great either. I admit there is a part of me, the anal-retentive, INTJ Virgo part, that loathes to leave a series unfinished. Who knows, maybe I’ll sneak a few here and there. If you do decide to jump in, I think I would recommend that you read a couple and move on to something else, come back for a few more then move on to something else. I haven’t completely made up my mind yet, but there are 2 alphas, Finn and London that I am desperate to find out what happens to them and if they get their HEA.
Very intense read! When we meet the FMC, Maya, she's getting rejected by her abusive-yet-charming-to-outsiders father's selected suitor, then she meets the MMC, Rhyson, and has a one night stand. Her subsequent attempt to escape her father fails until she retries a few weeks later upon realizing she's pregnant. Rhyson has meanwhile been poisoned against her by rumors, so their relationship is rocky for quite some time. Relationship building also takes a back seat in his head because he's on a quest with several loyal friends/packmates to avenge his murdered brother. Cue lots of plot twists, twofaced characters, and mysterious magic. Overall terrific writing and a well-paced plot. Ends in a HEA, but our characters have quite the journey to get there. All s*x scenes bw MCs are consensual, yet I would say this is a moderately dark book because of several other worldbuilding/plot factors.
TW note: The book's TW says "...violence, mentions of blood and killing, and explicit love scenes." That absolutely needs to be expanded upon to include at least domestic violence, s*x trafficking, and <18 (tween/teen) physical/s*xual abuse.
There were so many issues with this book. The story was great, and I do enjoy this author, but it was riddled with so many editing issues and typos that it was annoying as well.
The very first issue I have with this book is in the description. In both Amazon and Goodreads, the blurb description mentions at the end that it ends on a cliffhanger. I have been expecting that the whole time, especially near the end. But no, there was no cliffhanger at all. It had the HEA.
Then, there were so many typos, missing words, and overall editing issues all over this book. This was just terrible. Did nobody proofread this at all? It totally needed an editor.
The story was great, and I liked revisiting the characters from the first duet, and I ook orward to more. But I really hope there is better proofreading and editing done first. This was poorly done.
Why didn't they question her father to find out who the witch was that stole her bond? They mentioned that he might be able to fix it, but then they just dropped that option altogether and left it hanging.
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I LOVED IT! This book is entertaining, exciting, action packed and a magical emotional rollercoaster ride. At times I cried and at time the suspense had me almost bouncing in my seat. I loved Maya's character, she's strong but doesn't know it. She has been abused both emotionally and physically by her father for years which has her believing she's broken and she's been beat down for so long that she has no idea it has actually made her so much stronger than she realizes. Just when she thinks her life couldn't get and darker or any worse she meets Rhyson but she doesn't know who he is. She thinks he's an Alpha and hopes he'll be able to help her escape her father but oh he's so much more. When secrets get revealed some are a shock and so sad. The sex scenes are so smokin hot that my Kindle even got warm. Lol. I really enjoyed this book and I highly recommend this book to everyone.
4.5 Stars: I was positively surprised by this book. I was in a reading slump and I thought this will be short(I only read ebooks and didn't look at the number of pages) and a bit trashy. A bit of a palate cleanser. But that's really not the case. The book is really well written and intricative. It has a good amount of different characters without being overwelming. What really made me happy was that the alpha didn't overly misuse his alpha-powers over the FMC or his packmates.
Two things that annoyed me a bit was 1) that at some point them traveling to other camps felt a bit repetitive and 2) the ending felt rushed. Like 48 out 58 chapters were about them traveling on the magic mountain and just one chapter was when they went back home. There is a lot that happens in the last chapter but the narrator only gives us the summaries.
- I loved both main characters. - it’s really like a 4.7 but round up a 5 it’s just like 3-5 chapter to long. - like the Gideon side quest I get it definitely necessary but also like why - spice was there not raunchy but not fade either - I loved and hate that her bonds didn’t snap into place like not everything needs to be a well rounded ending and it is more realistic but also like couldn’t we get a like a extra chapter 7-9 months later were she looks into her sons eyes and boom that one bond made a path for the other to form. - loved duke and the side characters some were really funny. -few continuity and grammar/spelling errors
Thoroughly enjoyed Maya & Rhyson’s story, the world building was brilliant, Maya’s tortured life & Rhyson’s revenge fuelled this story, but their instant connection was palpable & only strengthened as the story progressed. I really enjoyed how the fai, witches & Wolves all were woven into this magical read. I loved every moment of the twists and turns and the spice was perfect! . A HEA & Brilliant ending for these mates. 10 stars out of 5. Thank you for allowing me to read this amazing story 🫶🏻🫶🏻.
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Hello King Rhyson!!! First time reading a Book By KA Iris and going back to read the first two in the series.! Sooo anxious for the story to continue will the bonds ever come back? Do they find her dad's body and why take in the first place? Questions upon questions. But I loved the bonds that the two had and how it progressed can't wait to read more...
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This book was really good a great short read, couldn’t put this book down at all and I really liked the happily ever after , Rhyson was a great king with a great pact trying to find answers about what happened to his family so he could get his revenge, but along the way he meets Maya who is not being treated in the best way but little do they they are mates
It was a good book! I felt like it had a good storyline. I wished that they were able to help Maya get her bonds back but I'm so glad that she still ended up being bonded. I'm glad that Rhyson was able to realize that Maya was his fated mate and felt the bond to her even though Maya wouldn't be feel it.
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I loved this book and these characters. Author could use this to write more and include it in a different series. However, there are so many holes in the story. (Spoiler) what happened to the Fae? What happened to the rest of MC wolves? What happened with Landon and the witch? Or Jensen and the witch? What happened on the mountain?
absolutely loved this book, it's one of those that hooks you and hero's you hooked the whole way through.
great story, characters, plot, and writing
only thing i just dont understand is the authors note that says it ends on a cliffhanger and there's a 2nd book. it didn't and there isn't. I spent the whole book especially nr the end wondering what the plot twist was going to be. bizarre
What a fun read! Binged it in the last 4 hours. Wanted to kick the ML a few times lol but he redeemed himself. Also LOVE that the women weren’t constantly in need or saving, they were badass ladies.
It wasn't the short series or too drawn out. The plot is great. I really enjoyed the entire series and recommend it. The author is an exceptional story teller and I can't wait to read more.
Maya, an abused daughter of an Alpha is supposed to become engaged to another but is beaten and rejected only to be saved by another. Pregnant after a one night stand a long journey takes her to her dreams. Great storyline.
I wonder what happened to her cousin. Life may have been cruel to Maya from birth but it didn't remain that way. I'm glad someone one was to knock some sense into the King so he wouldn't keep mistreating his mate.
This book is so repetitive. Same scene but different characters. This gets old really fast. I doubt I will be reading any more books in this series. This is NOT the quality I expect from Kindle.
For me this was a “one more chapter” before bed kind of book. I loved it. I need to know what happens with so many side characters!! I really like how they have their own stories in the making. Crossing my fingers for more books to come!