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Aine
A dark fantasy romance.
When Aine is sent into the woods for her crimes, she accepts she'll be met with death.
The beasts are known to kill any human that wanders into their territory, their razor-sharp teeth ripping through flesh and bone with practiced ease.
Aine knows she'll be no different from all the others who have been executed before her, and when she's forced into the woods by her own people, it doesn't take long for the beasts to attack.
What she doesn't expect is for them to take the shape of humans and spare her, and even more, for one to claim her as his own.
Trigger warnings for this book can be found linktr.ee/inviwright
When Aine is sent into the woods for her crimes, she accepts she'll be met with death.
The beasts are known to kill any human that wanders into their territory, their razor-sharp teeth ripping through flesh and bone with practiced ease.
Aine knows she'll be no different from all the others who have been executed before her, and when she's forced into the woods by her own people, it doesn't take long for the beasts to attack.
What she doesn't expect is for them to take the shape of humans and spare her, and even more, for one to claim her as his own.
Trigger warnings for this book can be found linktr.ee/inviwright
450 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 1, 2025
About the author
Invi Wright
14 books2,224 followersInvi had just begun her career in marketing when she decided to start a new hobby— writing.
After many tears and more anger walks than is probably healthy, she decided to pursue writing full-time and began the journey of becoming a self-published author.
She was born and raised in New York, but she now lives in the Midwest with her husband, two daughters, and one-eyed pug. When Invi isn't writing or reading, she can usually be found binge-watching TV, attempting a puzzle, or making a to-do list.
After many tears and more anger walks than is probably healthy, she decided to pursue writing full-time and began the journey of becoming a self-published author.
She was born and raised in New York, but she now lives in the Midwest with her husband, two daughters, and one-eyed pug. When Invi isn't writing or reading, she can usually be found binge-watching TV, attempting a puzzle, or making a to-do list.
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July 27, 2024
This book has confused me. I both liked and was greatly annoyed by the main characters. Can't figure out a world that has menstrual cups and shower gel but the FMC has never seen a cat before. 2 stars because I did want to finish it, but I'm not proud of it
March 31, 2023
I read the whole book... Wouldn't recommend it to my worse enemy.
April 7, 2024
I didn’t find Damien to be a redeemable character and found the whole ending annoying
November 28, 2022
dnf
Beyond irritated at this book and dnf 11% in and nothing and nobody will ever convince me to go past that 11%. This was a tt recommendation and as soon as I remember who it was they’re getting a dm.
Spoilers?
h is banished from her village and attacked by a pack of beasts who are actually men. They really do a number on her. She wakes up being sort of patched up by another girl who was banished previously who seems annoyed and just giggles at her and doesn’t really tell her what’s going on. Turns out the leader of the pack realized she was his mate before he let his pack eat her but he is royally pissed that they’re mates. She’s so injured she can’t walk and is wheelchair bound and he forces her to sit her wheelchair overnight with no food, no water to the point where she shits and pisses herself and then he brutally drags her to his house and is furious he has to clean her up so he’s very rough with her. I ended it there. I don’t care what’s in the rest of the book. Never again.
Beyond irritated at this book and dnf 11% in and nothing and nobody will ever convince me to go past that 11%. This was a tt recommendation and as soon as I remember who it was they’re getting a dm.
Spoilers?
h is banished from her village and attacked by a pack of beasts who are actually men. They really do a number on her. She wakes up being sort of patched up by another girl who was banished previously who seems annoyed and just giggles at her and doesn’t really tell her what’s going on. Turns out the leader of the pack realized she was his mate before he let his pack eat her but he is royally pissed that they’re mates. She’s so injured she can’t walk and is wheelchair bound and he forces her to sit her wheelchair overnight with no food, no water to the point where she shits and pisses herself and then he brutally drags her to his house and is furious he has to clean her up so he’s very rough with her. I ended it there. I don’t care what’s in the rest of the book. Never again.
November 30, 2024
3.75 stars
A quite good book, worth reading. An original take on shifter / fated mates romance. A bit too long story, could have used some strategic trimming for better story pacing (esp. the first half). But the difficult romance between Aine and Damien was quite well done with a very rich plot and complex backstories, effective drama and angst (inc. OW drama and danger scenes - TW: Torture), use of decent psychology to explain the leads' actions/feelings and a great redemption arc.
Damien was such a big jerk at the start of the story and we get to feel all the cruelty he throws at Aine. He redeems himself well and believably. Aine was at times a bit too withdrawn as a character but she showed great heart and was very smart and perceptive. Their chemistry was sizzling and their romantic development captivating to read.
Where this book could have been epic, imho, hinges on two main points:
👩🌾 More details/ polish on worldbuilding which felt wobbly at times. While Aine and Damien were richly developped, most secondary characters were vaguely developped. And I was left with many unanswered questions. E.g. Olivia's tendentious behaviour in the first half of the book, the mechanics of Freya's mark etc
👩🌾 I was totally disappointed when the hunt issue was never revisited by the end of the book. After all the anger surrounding that issue, it deserved some on-page closure from Aine's pov.
Recommended, but I would advise impatient readers to try to stick to Aine and Damien's story because I promise it gets better and much needed explanations with sense do come by the end.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 5, 2022
Should be triggers at the beginning about the abuse and rape
I like how her injuries aren’t rushed, it’s annoying reading about people who miraculously heal
“You’re going to ride on my back like I’m fucking cattle”😂
I love how Aine doesn’t let everything Damien did to her be swept under the rug and held him accountable!
Never read about a male being R-ped before, it almost seems taboo, I’m glad it’s being spoken about! Knowing that an alpha male was SA’d will help any male readers that come across this book to know they’re not alone, it’s not ok and it does NOT make you any less of a man. Adore the author for this!
The picture my mind forms of Aine and Olivia being so drunk to the point Alex snaps and has to carry each of them under an arm with their feet dragging on the floor creases me😂
Fuming he didn’t find Aine quicker! Poor girls already been through enough then gets traumatised all over again. Owen is a POS originally thought he got killed straight away would’ve been let off far too easily so I’m soooo glad they’ve brought him back! Deserves everything he gets.
“I’ll fuck you like a whore because that’s what you want, but the next time I take you, we’ll be making love”🥵
I like how her injuries aren’t rushed, it’s annoying reading about people who miraculously heal
“You’re going to ride on my back like I’m fucking cattle”😂
I love how Aine doesn’t let everything Damien did to her be swept under the rug and held him accountable!
Never read about a male being R-ped before, it almost seems taboo, I’m glad it’s being spoken about! Knowing that an alpha male was SA’d will help any male readers that come across this book to know they’re not alone, it’s not ok and it does NOT make you any less of a man. Adore the author for this!
The picture my mind forms of Aine and Olivia being so drunk to the point Alex snaps and has to carry each of them under an arm with their feet dragging on the floor creases me😂
Fuming he didn’t find Aine quicker! Poor girls already been through enough then gets traumatised all over again. Owen is a POS originally thought he got killed straight away would’ve been let off far too easily so I’m soooo glad they’ve brought him back! Deserves everything he gets.
“I’ll fuck you like a whore because that’s what you want, but the next time I take you, we’ll be making love”🥵
September 23, 2025
hated the mmc having no redeeming qualities, hated the ambiguous timeline, and frankly hated myself for finishing this book
August 1, 2025
kinda hot, mostly insane.
I couldn’t tell what time period I was in. The MC knows about IV’s and blood transfusions, but a wheelchair is a new invention? Sunscreen exists but people get hung at the gallows? crazy. 3 stars cause I love a werewolf.
I couldn’t tell what time period I was in. The MC knows about IV’s and blood transfusions, but a wheelchair is a new invention? Sunscreen exists but people get hung at the gallows? crazy. 3 stars cause I love a werewolf.
July 24, 2024
Such an interesting read with a lot going on that makes you have to peel back the many layers. Also, for those that need it, check trigger warnings (SA/R, intentional assault to cause loss of pregnancy, violence, ect.)
Rejected mate = H want to isolate and push away the h as he is angry she is human and not "beast". He does not do a formal rejection but does everything else he can to make the h stay away from him. Too bad for the H that his beast has googly eyes for the h and will not let him stay away.
Cheating = when h comes to see H in his office, the admin (OW1) is with the H. To prove a point to the h that he doesn't want her, the H starts to feel up on OW1 who is totes on board with it (leg caresses, boob touching, etc.). h is unaffected and this frustrates the H. h is also goading the H to continue on and do whatever as she will not care (that chaps the H's butt!).
h sees H with OW = see above, also, h sees the H returning to his room wearing only a towel while a naked woman (OW2) is waiting for the H in his bed.
OW drama = OW1 is just toeing the line of being rude/disrespectful directly to the h. OW1 is not outright malicious or cruel to the h and in the end becomes a friend to the h when OW1's life experience is explained to the h who has empathy and compassion for OW1. OW2 is a nasty piece of work. OW2 is the mate of H's brother who had left for a while and was now back. OW2 drugged the H and SA/R'ed the H several times in an attempt to get pregnant as well as intentionally giving the H a claiming bite (HUGE no-no in their culture to put your teeth in anyone's but your mates skin). The assault created a massive rift between H and his brother as well as between H and his pack as mates are taken very seriously and held to be sacred. OW2 was also responsible for assisting in the abduction and torture of the h by another alpha. Comeuppance for OW2? H's brother takes it upon himself to cut the cancer out of everyone's life by mate-ti-cide...
SA/R = H was SA/R'ed by OW2, see above. the h was SA/R'ed repeatedly by the man her village forced her to marry. The h's husband was also physically abusive and beat the h intentionally when she was pregnant to force her to miscarry (THREE TIMES!!). When the man tried to SA/R the h to try for another pregnancy, the h pushed him off and he accidentally died which is what set up the ousting of the h from her village to be killed by the "beasts."
Grovel = The H had a lot to make up for due to his treatment of the h and to overcome the h's traumas (her marriage, her kidnapping/torture, H's forced mating bite taken without h's consent, etc.). The H had his own traumas to work through. It was great watching the progression of their relationship, understanding the walls/obstacles in their way, seeing them come to understand each other and then coming together. The grovel was enough for me. H groveled through word and deed.
This was a in depth book with a lot of details and world building.
Rejected mate = H want to isolate and push away the h as he is angry she is human and not "beast". He does not do a formal rejection but does everything else he can to make the h stay away from him. Too bad for the H that his beast has googly eyes for the h and will not let him stay away.
Cheating = when h comes to see H in his office, the admin (OW1) is with the H. To prove a point to the h that he doesn't want her, the H starts to feel up on OW1 who is totes on board with it (leg caresses, boob touching, etc.). h is unaffected and this frustrates the H. h is also goading the H to continue on and do whatever as she will not care (that chaps the H's butt!).
h sees H with OW = see above, also, h sees the H returning to his room wearing only a towel while a naked woman (OW2) is waiting for the H in his bed.
OW drama = OW1 is just toeing the line of being rude/disrespectful directly to the h. OW1 is not outright malicious or cruel to the h and in the end becomes a friend to the h when OW1's life experience is explained to the h who has empathy and compassion for OW1. OW2 is a nasty piece of work. OW2 is the mate of H's brother who had left for a while and was now back. OW2 drugged the H and SA/R'ed the H several times in an attempt to get pregnant as well as intentionally giving the H a claiming bite (HUGE no-no in their culture to put your teeth in anyone's but your mates skin). The assault created a massive rift between H and his brother as well as between H and his pack as mates are taken very seriously and held to be sacred. OW2 was also responsible for assisting in the abduction and torture of the h by another alpha. Comeuppance for OW2? H's brother takes it upon himself to cut the cancer out of everyone's life by mate-ti-cide...
SA/R = H was SA/R'ed by OW2, see above. the h was SA/R'ed repeatedly by the man her village forced her to marry. The h's husband was also physically abusive and beat the h intentionally when she was pregnant to force her to miscarry (THREE TIMES!!). When the man tried to SA/R the h to try for another pregnancy, the h pushed him off and he accidentally died which is what set up the ousting of the h from her village to be killed by the "beasts."
Grovel = The H had a lot to make up for due to his treatment of the h and to overcome the h's traumas (her marriage, her kidnapping/torture, H's forced mating bite taken without h's consent, etc.). The H had his own traumas to work through. It was great watching the progression of their relationship, understanding the walls/obstacles in their way, seeing them come to understand each other and then coming together. The grovel was enough for me. H groveled through word and deed.
This was a in depth book with a lot of details and world building.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 3, 2025
Genuinely the worst piece of literature I have ever read. Lost brain cells while reading. Choose a different book frl
April 19, 2026
fated mates human x werewolf romance
August 19, 2024
Oh ho ho this is EVERYTHING I wanted. Delicious, delicious rejected mate angst. Drama. An MMC that is the biggest butthole you’ve ever seen that’s really a big ole softy underneath it all. An FMC with capital T Trauma who is going to make it everyone else’s problem. An OW so ambitious and unlikeable. My biggest gripe is that I can’t figure out what time period this is supposed to be set in. Felt historical in some parts but modern in others. I was on the fence about this author for a little while but this book definitely pushed me over the edge. Looking forward to trying some more of her books.
August 17, 2025
This was a Tt recommendation and let me just say dont bother, I was frustrated for the majority of the book, leaving her in her pee wasnt so bad for me because i was already expecting from the review i saw. but omg she was toutured and abused in the later chapters and it went on for my many chapters in excruciating details before they came to rescue her. I am traumatized. I hated it so much. the FMC was so dull, i was already bored then she was captured and abused and i just couldn’t stand it. Both leads also arent very likeable. I wanted the revenge and he just said he accidentally killed the guy, i hated that even more. after the abuse the author was trying too hard to make up for it so many chapters of her recovery like why put her through so much? When they finally got intimate i couldn’t even read it, she has been through so much please leave her alone! this book was too frustrating for me. So many misunderstandings and when its time to have serious conversations they say i dont want to talk about it. like please breakup and date other people. It really didnt seem like they were mates.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 24, 2025
“…You’re safe here.” I shake my head, refusing to believe it. I’ve been told a man wouldn’t hurt me before, and it was a lie.
I really like this author’s story telling abilities. Her stories are so interesting to read and I devour them but this relationship was toxic. I know it’s fake but if I was Aine my pride would not let me ever forget what Damien did. I might have forgiven him eventually with the whole mate thing. But forgotten, never. And that is my biggest problem. Aine suffered so much and it was repeatedly done by every man she ever met that had power over her. I don’t know how she continued living to be honest. Or how she survived!! It was too much.
I really like this author’s story telling abilities. Her stories are so interesting to read and I devour them but this relationship was toxic. I know it’s fake but if I was Aine my pride would not let me ever forget what Damien did. I might have forgiven him eventually with the whole mate thing. But forgotten, never. And that is my biggest problem. Aine suffered so much and it was repeatedly done by every man she ever met that had power over her. I don’t know how she continued living to be honest. Or how she survived!! It was too much.
Did Not Finish
August 22, 2025200 pages into this shii and I HAD to drop it.
1. The MMC is TERRIBLE like dude wtf is wrong with you
2. The FMC just takes all that shit the MMC gives her. Like girl what are you doing ?!??!!
3. Everybody in the village is like “Give the MMC a chance, we love him blah blah blah” like this dude literally has been disrespecting her from day 1. Why tf would yall even say that to her.
Anyway my breaking point was because of some crazy annoying OW shit and let me tell you, there’s a LOT of OW shit (with different women too). Stuff that’s unnecessary and just stupid.
1. The MMC is TERRIBLE like dude wtf is wrong with you
2. The FMC just takes all that shit the MMC gives her. Like girl what are you doing ?!??!!
3. Everybody in the village is like “Give the MMC a chance, we love him blah blah blah” like this dude literally has been disrespecting her from day 1. Why tf would yall even say that to her.
Anyway my breaking point was because of some crazy annoying OW shit and let me tell you, there’s a LOT of OW shit (with different women too). Stuff that’s unnecessary and just stupid.
September 22, 2024
couldn’t take to Aine or Damien, thought both were pretty selfish and annoying. couldn’t find a plot anywhere so ended up skim reading it. wouldn’t recommend
September 3, 2025
Fell for TikTok propaganda again😞
February 13, 2023
Well Written, Good Main Character
[TW: rape, violence, sexual violence, torture; werewolf smutty romance; dystopian ish setting - villages all seem to be suspended in different time periods; brooding alpha male romantic interest, actually relatable female protagonist but then the author sort of tortures her a lot]
The trauma descriptions can be a little gratuitous and there’s a huge section of violent plot near the climax that I skimmed because it’s descriptive and really just torturous to a character. Trigger warnings: descriptions of violence, sexual violence, torture. I wish we spent more time discussing the grief after so we as the reader and our characters could have some cathartic healing post-torture.
Falls into a handful of werewolf/paranormal romance fiction cliche camps but the main characters feel well developed.
The strong point is Aine’s character, she gives relatable reactions most of the time and can be sassy so that’s nice. I would recommend this story for her.
The main male character has typical alpha energy and broods a lot. He’s super tropey but that’s to be expected. His transformative actions at the end feel believable to a degree so you don’t have to fight to at least believe his sincerity in the end.
World building is confusing, I had a very hard time with timing/setting in comparison to this world. The characters are modern but the setting is dystopian ish? The setting of everything just didn’t feel fleshed out enough to feel like it’s own distinct space. We visit 3 different “villages” and somehow they all feel like 3 different movie sets and time periods and they’re really pure set dressing. This all means very little to the plot and story, which is a pro in that it doesn’t need to be understood and a con in that we could have just made this story exist in the modern day world we all know and it would have been fine.
Healthy amounts of smut. Thought I’d mention that. If you’re looking for that, it exists for sure.
Despite it all it was a decent story within the genre.
[TW: rape, violence, sexual violence, torture; werewolf smutty romance; dystopian ish setting - villages all seem to be suspended in different time periods; brooding alpha male romantic interest, actually relatable female protagonist but then the author sort of tortures her a lot]
The trauma descriptions can be a little gratuitous and there’s a huge section of violent plot near the climax that I skimmed because it’s descriptive and really just torturous to a character. Trigger warnings: descriptions of violence, sexual violence, torture. I wish we spent more time discussing the grief after so we as the reader and our characters could have some cathartic healing post-torture.
Falls into a handful of werewolf/paranormal romance fiction cliche camps but the main characters feel well developed.
The strong point is Aine’s character, she gives relatable reactions most of the time and can be sassy so that’s nice. I would recommend this story for her.
The main male character has typical alpha energy and broods a lot. He’s super tropey but that’s to be expected. His transformative actions at the end feel believable to a degree so you don’t have to fight to at least believe his sincerity in the end.
World building is confusing, I had a very hard time with timing/setting in comparison to this world. The characters are modern but the setting is dystopian ish? The setting of everything just didn’t feel fleshed out enough to feel like it’s own distinct space. We visit 3 different “villages” and somehow they all feel like 3 different movie sets and time periods and they’re really pure set dressing. This all means very little to the plot and story, which is a pro in that it doesn’t need to be understood and a con in that we could have just made this story exist in the modern day world we all know and it would have been fine.
Healthy amounts of smut. Thought I’d mention that. If you’re looking for that, it exists for sure.
Despite it all it was a decent story within the genre.
February 19, 2026
The premise was there but lacked a lot. Wouldn’t recommend to a friend and annoyed I got too deep to let it go.
September 8, 2025
Well, that was dark. And not typical “dark romance” dark, but “lessons in brainwashing” dark. And while the groveling trope fed my angry-femme brain, I was almost too devastated by the climax to recognize the groveling. This is a weird sentence, but hear me out—I think the torture scene in this may be the most brilliant representation of psychological trauma I have ever read. The destruction of our FMC was so thorough and gutting that I felt genuinely distraught for MYSELF just for having read it. So yeah, good times. Good times.
October 19, 2024
I hate Damien
I have a visceral hate for Damien and I really wish Aine rejected him. If there are no haters of Damien, I am not alive
I have a visceral hate for Damien and I really wish Aine rejected him. If there are no haters of Damien, I am not alive
February 9, 2026
I lost brain cells reading this.
June 24, 2026
Where do I even start? Her name. Even reading it ticked me off. There was nothing redeemable about this book at all and the staggering amount of plot holes could feed Africa. Damien and Aine are actually the worst and very unlikable in just about every way imaginable. Zero personality, zero depth, 100% overreactions to everything. They are both super immature every step of the way with no positive character development.
There was ZERO world building. Random details were thrown in to appear as world building, but NONE of it made any freaking sense. What time period is this book in? One minute it’s the stone ages and the next it’s 2026.
WTF Moments & Questionable Plot Holes
- Feeding a literal wolf pack from a singular garden…..
- How is there a whole ass, bustling hospital with modern medicine, doctors, and hospital beds just casually in the woods? How does this town nearby (she’s shockingly never seen somehow) have fancy restaurants with servers and suits that you pay checks at, yet they stay at a small inn and Damien pays in coins like an ancient tavern?
- Aine having a completely shattered arm and being able to wheel herself through the freaking woods.
- Her friend literally says, “I’m not allowed to go inside, so I’ll just leave you here,” when Aine is on her deathbed. I wish I was joking.
- Aine actually did this: “Then I roll over the splatter, spreading the blood so it’s harder to spot.” Girl, you do know Damien isn’t BLIND??
- How can she know what an IV is but have no clue what a freaking wheelchair is?
- She hasn’t heard of a brothel??
- How in the actual fuck does she not know what a fucking cat is?
- How does she have a menstrual cup, sunscreen, loofa, shower gel, and elementary teachers (which makes me think they have middle and high schools) if her village was a sheltered medieval cult?
- Damien really has NO reason to hate her as much as he did. This was trying to be enemies to lovers, but the enemies were just imbalanced as fuck. He is just straight up abusive and completely vile to her in every way and he has NO redeemable qualities. Offering to let his own brother r@pe her???? Are you fucking serious??? Straight to jail. Letting her shit and piss herself all night in a dinky cabin because “oh I thought they were gonna help you” even though he was staring ominously out his window ALL NIGHT and could see she was alone!
- Alex was a horrible character. Randomly kissing her at the worst moment EVER and then afterward acting like her gay bestie??
- The dynamic between Oliva and Daniem was weird and so uncomfortable. He bought her a fancy dress for her birthday? So weird!! Then Aine takes it upon herself to help save Olivia and secure her job after she was a complete bitch to Aine??
- Damien’s pupils dilate every other sentence.
- Everyone in the village in the beginning constantly checks on Aine to make sure Damien is treating her right, but they completely dismiss her very valid concerns. It’s actually disgusting. People even acknowledge that he’s a degenerate: “I don’t know why he’s fighting the bond so hard. He’s treating you poorly.”
- Freya is a raging bitch beyond reason.
- Aine is extremely manipulative to Damien throughout the book and constantly threatens him to get her way. For example: “If you go, you’re as good as dead to me,” I threaten. She even does the whole “lip wobble" a few times to boot. She literally locks herself in her bedroom and gives him the silent treatment. Shit, no wonder he doesn’t respect her AT ALL. How can he expect her to help him lead the pack when they can’t even have a logical adult conversation?
- Aine just constantly jumps to conclusions about everything and it is so annoying. One example: “Why won’t he tell me how often he went to the brothels? My anger grows the more I think about it, and I tense up as I stand beside him. It’s probably because he was there all the time.”
- Damein doesn't have air conditioning??
There was ZERO world building. Random details were thrown in to appear as world building, but NONE of it made any freaking sense. What time period is this book in? One minute it’s the stone ages and the next it’s 2026.
WTF Moments & Questionable Plot Holes
- Feeding a literal wolf pack from a singular garden…..
- How is there a whole ass, bustling hospital with modern medicine, doctors, and hospital beds just casually in the woods? How does this town nearby (she’s shockingly never seen somehow) have fancy restaurants with servers and suits that you pay checks at, yet they stay at a small inn and Damien pays in coins like an ancient tavern?
- Aine having a completely shattered arm and being able to wheel herself through the freaking woods.
- Her friend literally says, “I’m not allowed to go inside, so I’ll just leave you here,” when Aine is on her deathbed. I wish I was joking.
- Aine actually did this: “Then I roll over the splatter, spreading the blood so it’s harder to spot.” Girl, you do know Damien isn’t BLIND??
- How can she know what an IV is but have no clue what a freaking wheelchair is?
- She hasn’t heard of a brothel??
- How in the actual fuck does she not know what a fucking cat is?
- How does she have a menstrual cup, sunscreen, loofa, shower gel, and elementary teachers (which makes me think they have middle and high schools) if her village was a sheltered medieval cult?
- Damien really has NO reason to hate her as much as he did. This was trying to be enemies to lovers, but the enemies were just imbalanced as fuck. He is just straight up abusive and completely vile to her in every way and he has NO redeemable qualities. Offering to let his own brother r@pe her???? Are you fucking serious??? Straight to jail. Letting her shit and piss herself all night in a dinky cabin because “oh I thought they were gonna help you” even though he was staring ominously out his window ALL NIGHT and could see she was alone!
- Alex was a horrible character. Randomly kissing her at the worst moment EVER and then afterward acting like her gay bestie??
- The dynamic between Oliva and Daniem was weird and so uncomfortable. He bought her a fancy dress for her birthday? So weird!! Then Aine takes it upon herself to help save Olivia and secure her job after she was a complete bitch to Aine??
- Damien’s pupils dilate every other sentence.
- Everyone in the village in the beginning constantly checks on Aine to make sure Damien is treating her right, but they completely dismiss her very valid concerns. It’s actually disgusting. People even acknowledge that he’s a degenerate: “I don’t know why he’s fighting the bond so hard. He’s treating you poorly.”
- Freya is a raging bitch beyond reason.
- Aine is extremely manipulative to Damien throughout the book and constantly threatens him to get her way. For example: “If you go, you’re as good as dead to me,” I threaten. She even does the whole “lip wobble" a few times to boot. She literally locks herself in her bedroom and gives him the silent treatment. Shit, no wonder he doesn’t respect her AT ALL. How can he expect her to help him lead the pack when they can’t even have a logical adult conversation?
- Aine just constantly jumps to conclusions about everything and it is so annoying. One example: “Why won’t he tell me how often he went to the brothels? My anger grows the more I think about it, and I tense up as I stand beside him. It’s probably because he was there all the time.”
- Damein doesn't have air conditioning??
July 30, 2024
3.5 stars. I find myself disappointed with this unfortunately. It had a little too much feminism for a shifter book. To each their own, but it's not my preference if I'm being honest. Also, a big gripe for me, and maybe this doesn't bother everyone, but not knowing anyone's age or about was frustrating. The author didn't even go into detail. Are they in their 20s, 30s? A comment by the H saying he was too old to get it on in a pantry raises questions in my brain. How old exactly? This wasn't advertised as an age gap. Anyways, I found myself annoyed. Then there's the h Aine who acts like a feminist yet comes from a poor village without a lot of education. I was confused. She was so judgemental as well. Sometimes it was understandable, but other times it was overkill. By the end of this story she had the Alpha acting like a beta and I don't care for that in shifter books. Again it's just my preference.
I wish the author would have built up a better description of the world she was building. It was just too vague without a lot of detail, and poorly described. As were the people. We have Aine's village which is remote and hates the shifters, which are called beasts in this book. Then we're introduced to another village, but was more like an advanced city to Aine, where the men only wore loin clothes, and the women sheer dresses, but yet the city is advanced. Make it make sense. Aine didn't even know what a cat was, so the way she acted and how she thought made no sense to me. The beast's world wasn't described well either and I need that in a fantasy book. But it just wasn't there. By the time I got to the end of the book I found myself really disliking Aine and not even caring about her trauma. Maybe if the author gave more details? I needed to feel her pain, but I just couldn't get there. It's advertised as dark fantasy, but it wasn't dark at all for me. I did find myself sympathetic towards Daimen in the end and felt he shouldn't have ended up with Aine as a mate. Actually, I think this book has cemented that I don't like human mates for shifters. By the end of the book she still didn't understand how important fated mates are, and the author didn't convince me of their love. I only came to the conclusion that humans and wolf shifters do not make good mates.
I apologize for my critical review, but I was just overall disappointed because I was excited to have found another wolf shifter book. It's not a rejected mates book because he doesn't outright reject her. Just treats her like crap, but from his POV, which we didn't get much of, he just didn't know any better.
Trigger warnings: rape and SA is mentioned from her previous husband that she murdered rightfully so, but doesn't go into much detail, but if that worries you maybe you should pass. There's also some torture scenes, but I've read darker so it didn't bother me, but may bother some. Also, important the H was drugged and raped by his sister-in-law and I understood the author bringing two sexually assaulted character's together both refusing to admit as such
I wish the author would have built up a better description of the world she was building. It was just too vague without a lot of detail, and poorly described. As were the people. We have Aine's village which is remote and hates the shifters, which are called beasts in this book. Then we're introduced to another village, but was more like an advanced city to Aine, where the men only wore loin clothes, and the women sheer dresses, but yet the city is advanced. Make it make sense. Aine didn't even know what a cat was, so the way she acted and how she thought made no sense to me. The beast's world wasn't described well either and I need that in a fantasy book. But it just wasn't there. By the time I got to the end of the book I found myself really disliking Aine and not even caring about her trauma. Maybe if the author gave more details? I needed to feel her pain, but I just couldn't get there. It's advertised as dark fantasy, but it wasn't dark at all for me. I did find myself sympathetic towards Daimen in the end and felt he shouldn't have ended up with Aine as a mate. Actually, I think this book has cemented that I don't like human mates for shifters. By the end of the book she still didn't understand how important fated mates are, and the author didn't convince me of their love. I only came to the conclusion that humans and wolf shifters do not make good mates.
I apologize for my critical review, but I was just overall disappointed because I was excited to have found another wolf shifter book. It's not a rejected mates book because he doesn't outright reject her. Just treats her like crap, but from his POV, which we didn't get much of, he just didn't know any better.
Trigger warnings: rape and SA is mentioned from her previous husband that she murdered rightfully so, but doesn't go into much detail, but if that worries you maybe you should pass. There's also some torture scenes, but I've read darker so it didn't bother me, but may bother some. Also, important the H was drugged and raped by his sister-in-law and I understood the author bringing two sexually assaulted character's together both refusing to admit as such
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 29, 2026
dnf’ed at 74% bc it was starting to pmo
i liked the female series by her even with its problems so i figured this would be a similar easy but enjoyable read… I WAS WRONG!!!! there were SO many inconsistencies and the characters were giving me whiplash with how much they changed back and forth based on plot convenience. author loved to try to address plot holes by using random one off sentences and it just made it WAY more confusing
starting with the fmc Aine.. she’s shoved in the woods to die and is getting gnawed on by the beasts until her mate stops them… is this ever addressed in a serious way? no! it’s mentioned twice and then she never tries to find out who did it or WHY the beasts try to kill and eat the humans until like half way through the book. and even then it is legit her saying “why do you kill people from my village and not the other humans?” and he is, NO JOKE, basically like “oh cause its easy and fun aha” and she just.. lets it end there…
not to mention she mentions her father and then her brother like twice only when its convenient for the plot… she barely thinks about people she misses back home or the village until she is in a fight with damien 60% through the book and says she “wants her parents.” i didnt even know her mom existed? maybe i missed something idk
speaking of damien.. UNLIKABLE! letting her piss herself, offering her up to his brother to assault cause he’s mad, touching another woman in front of her to try and prove a point (and failing!) and being an all-around douchey, insecure asshole. no idea why aine randomly forgives him when he decides to play nice because “he’s tired of not enjoying having a mate” or whatever tf he said. our darling aine just rolls with the punches and is like okey hehe 🥰😘
i thought alex (damien’s brother) was supposed to be the nice guy and genuine friend to aine but he randomly decides to kiss her to make damien mad. and the book makes you think there is all this beef between the two brothers because damien slept with alex’s mate, etc. WELL, alex casually mentions at the halfway mark that HE HAS KNOWN THE WHOLE TIME THAT FREYA FORCED HERSELF ONTO DAMIEN??? AND DAMIEN IS SUPER INSECURE ABOUT IT??? that LITERALLY makes the whole kissing aine in front of damien obsolete and for no reason? like what was the revenge??? or are you also just a terrible person.. makes ZERO sense why he would do that..
also the one female human “friend” character to our fmc is back and forth between supporting aine and telling her to give damien a chance cause he is a “super nice guy!” as this guy actively allows his pack to have a yearly tradition of hunting humans for sport… yah alright jenna… sooo nice 👍 and it makes no sense that jenna would hype this guy up as a human who was also sentenced to execution..
bonus points for the terrible world building. she knows about IVs but wheelchairs and cats are completely new to her
wtf was going on truly
i liked the female series by her even with its problems so i figured this would be a similar easy but enjoyable read… I WAS WRONG!!!! there were SO many inconsistencies and the characters were giving me whiplash with how much they changed back and forth based on plot convenience. author loved to try to address plot holes by using random one off sentences and it just made it WAY more confusing
starting with the fmc Aine.. she’s shoved in the woods to die and is getting gnawed on by the beasts until her mate stops them… is this ever addressed in a serious way? no! it’s mentioned twice and then she never tries to find out who did it or WHY the beasts try to kill and eat the humans until like half way through the book. and even then it is legit her saying “why do you kill people from my village and not the other humans?” and he is, NO JOKE, basically like “oh cause its easy and fun aha” and she just.. lets it end there…
not to mention she mentions her father and then her brother like twice only when its convenient for the plot… she barely thinks about people she misses back home or the village until she is in a fight with damien 60% through the book and says she “wants her parents.” i didnt even know her mom existed? maybe i missed something idk
speaking of damien.. UNLIKABLE! letting her piss herself, offering her up to his brother to assault cause he’s mad, touching another woman in front of her to try and prove a point (and failing!) and being an all-around douchey, insecure asshole. no idea why aine randomly forgives him when he decides to play nice because “he’s tired of not enjoying having a mate” or whatever tf he said. our darling aine just rolls with the punches and is like okey hehe 🥰😘
i thought alex (damien’s brother) was supposed to be the nice guy and genuine friend to aine but he randomly decides to kiss her to make damien mad. and the book makes you think there is all this beef between the two brothers because damien slept with alex’s mate, etc. WELL, alex casually mentions at the halfway mark that HE HAS KNOWN THE WHOLE TIME THAT FREYA FORCED HERSELF ONTO DAMIEN??? AND DAMIEN IS SUPER INSECURE ABOUT IT??? that LITERALLY makes the whole kissing aine in front of damien obsolete and for no reason? like what was the revenge??? or are you also just a terrible person.. makes ZERO sense why he would do that..
also the one female human “friend” character to our fmc is back and forth between supporting aine and telling her to give damien a chance cause he is a “super nice guy!” as this guy actively allows his pack to have a yearly tradition of hunting humans for sport… yah alright jenna… sooo nice 👍 and it makes no sense that jenna would hype this guy up as a human who was also sentenced to execution..
bonus points for the terrible world building. she knows about IVs but wheelchairs and cats are completely new to her
wtf was going on truly
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 5, 2026
I mean, it just wasn't very good. The romance was not convincing. The MMC is pretty much a dick with not a whole lot of redeeming traits. The FMC is abused at every turn, and not even in the fun way. There are a lot of scenes that are just... gross. Like actually just nasty. Like, it's not the worst thing I've read but I'm not gonna reread it, that's for sure.
June 20, 2026
i read this in a day lowkey i enjoyed it
April 18, 2026
4.5⭐️ love a good werewolf 🔥
July 28, 2026
started good but got so weird
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