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Missing Pieces #3
Conundrum: An MMMM Omegaverse Soulmates Romance
Toby Glin’s life has been a struggle right from the start. Abandoned as a baby, he’s grown up in poverty, fighting for every scrap of comfort and battling his own feelings of inadequacy. So when he lands a job as a busboy at a charming café, he believes his fortunes may finally have begun to shift. But then he finds out that the café is owned by none other than Prince Valentin Izarius, the second husband of His Majesty King Ryu.
Valentin is nothing like what he expected of a prince. His warm smile and welcoming demeanour draw Toby in, making him feel safe and valued in a way he never has before. But falling in love with his boss is a recipe for disaster. Valentin already has not one, but two soulmates, meaning there’s not even a sliver of hope that he’d be a match for Toby’s soul mark.
But Toby doesn’t realise that Valentin knows a secret. From the very first moment they meet, Valentin recognises the soul mark on Toby’s wrist as a match to his own. And Toby is an omega – the perfect antidote to the rising tensions that govern the relationship between three headstrong alphas.
Winning Toby’s trust seems an impossible task, despite Valentin and his husbands’ best efforts to make him feel welcome. Can they convince Toby to let his defenses down and give them a chance to prove their love? Or will this final piece of their happy family slip through their fingers forever?
This book should be read after Book 2: Confusion.
Books in the Missing Pieces series
Book 1: Collision (MM)
Book 2: Confusion (MMM)
Book 3: Conundrum (MMMM)
No AI was used in the creation of this novel.
Valentin is nothing like what he expected of a prince. His warm smile and welcoming demeanour draw Toby in, making him feel safe and valued in a way he never has before. But falling in love with his boss is a recipe for disaster. Valentin already has not one, but two soulmates, meaning there’s not even a sliver of hope that he’d be a match for Toby’s soul mark.
But Toby doesn’t realise that Valentin knows a secret. From the very first moment they meet, Valentin recognises the soul mark on Toby’s wrist as a match to his own. And Toby is an omega – the perfect antidote to the rising tensions that govern the relationship between three headstrong alphas.
Winning Toby’s trust seems an impossible task, despite Valentin and his husbands’ best efforts to make him feel welcome. Can they convince Toby to let his defenses down and give them a chance to prove their love? Or will this final piece of their happy family slip through their fingers forever?
This book should be read after Book 2: Confusion.
Books in the Missing Pieces series
Book 1: Collision (MM)
Book 2: Confusion (MMM)
Book 3: Conundrum (MMMM)
No AI was used in the creation of this novel.
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First published May 30, 2020
About the author
Laura Taylor
22 books125 followersLaura Taylor is a pseudonym for Gabriel Danes. Gabriel is a bisexual, transgender writer of fantasy and romance novels. He likes watching ice hockey, reading about vampires and werewolves, cooking, and has fantasies of one day becoming a firefighter.
Gabriel lives on the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia.
Gabriel lives on the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia.
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September 13, 2026
This is an extremely slow-burn romance in the series. Omega Toby doesn't realize he's the fourth soulmate to the king and two princes. His life has been difficult and, due to trauma and recent homelessness, he's not in any position to change his life further for now. He doesn't know about his soulmates, but they know about him, since his mark is visible, and they decide to be respectful and give him time to be ready. There are a few other mysteries and dramas. It ends in a great HFN, but the series feels a little incomplete, as some issues and revelations were not explored. Nevertheless, I very much enjoyed reading this series.
July 6, 2023
Great series ! Something about this finale didn't feel complete somehow. Toby had a pretty horrible life and as his story evolves one cant help but admire his grit and tenacity. I was anticipating that after meeting his father, more would happen down the track. It felt like an almost irrelevant meeting in the first place. And there was no mention of Omega heats which usually has a place in the omegaverse world. I thoroughly enjoyed the twists that happened in all three books, but this one was a little too short and had some gaps that left me wanting...
August 16, 2026
Ryu king, alpha
Kentario soulmate, alpha, husband of 5 years, bodyguard
Valentin soulmate, alpha, new husband, coffee shop owner, artist
Toby omega, orphan, new barista
This one didn’t do it for me. I finished so that’s still a 2 but jfc.
Valentine having all his prejudice about Toby for his past shoplifting… first he’s like why would the goddess give them a thief for a soulmate and I was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt because he had barely met Toby and was just in shock that guess but no he keeps at it. And idk thinking of your soulmate, someone who just admitted to being an orphan and having been homeless, as a “petty thief” feels really like a douche move to me. Sure objectively he has stolen stuff and been arrested but jfc couldn’t you just think of him as something else?
Valentine not enjoying being fucked by Kentario??? and Kentario calling him Toby as his comes??? uhhh wtf is going on in this book? am I really supposed to enjoy this story?
Val not wanting to join his husbands when they’re fucking? I mean ok you have something on your mind but the way it’s writing just gives me the ick, he feels the desire but equal frustration, he rolls his eyes, they make themselves unavailable when he has something to say… idk but it feels like Valentine just doesn’t feel that intimacy with them. You don’t need to destroy the relationship that worked before to make it seem like adding a fourth one would make it better… that’s not the mmmm I want to sees
Toby being the lost son of a royal was just meh, why couldn’t he just be a commoner omega. Ryu being all for working towards democracy (is he still? It doesn’t come up as much in this one) and the goddess giving them soulmates from all different lives made sense. Especially since it was basically a nothing burger with his father.
wtf was that 3 year time skip? What about that lie saying that if they had any plan with Toby, they would tell him just like they did with the story with his father… no, you guys know that he has the soulmate mark and it’s been three years and you’re just there pretending to be his friend and you don’t tell him that he’s meant to be with you. Literally we’re supposed to believe they fell in love in that time but the relationship doesn’t seem that much different and even if they were in love, how about showing us that?
And the omegaverse is very much nonexistent aside from I guess the fact that Toby has a vagina and mpreg is a thing.
TW
Financial insecurity
Mention of past homelessness, past juvenile detention
Mention of past being abandoned at an orphanage
Mention of past parents’ deaths
Mention of past prostitution
Mention of past attempted rape by foster parent (jfc they just trauma dump that shit like it’s the weather)
Kentario soulmate, alpha, husband of 5 years, bodyguard
Valentin soulmate, alpha, new husband, coffee shop owner, artist
Toby omega, orphan, new barista
This one didn’t do it for me. I finished so that’s still a 2 but jfc.
Valentine having all his prejudice about Toby for his past shoplifting… first he’s like why would the goddess give them a thief for a soulmate and I was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt because he had barely met Toby and was just in shock that guess but no he keeps at it. And idk thinking of your soulmate, someone who just admitted to being an orphan and having been homeless, as a “petty thief” feels really like a douche move to me. Sure objectively he has stolen stuff and been arrested but jfc couldn’t you just think of him as something else?
Valentine not enjoying being fucked by Kentario??? and Kentario calling him Toby as his comes??? uhhh wtf is going on in this book? am I really supposed to enjoy this story?
Val not wanting to join his husbands when they’re fucking? I mean ok you have something on your mind but the way it’s writing just gives me the ick, he feels the desire but equal frustration, he rolls his eyes, they make themselves unavailable when he has something to say… idk but it feels like Valentine just doesn’t feel that intimacy with them. You don’t need to destroy the relationship that worked before to make it seem like adding a fourth one would make it better… that’s not the mmmm I want to sees
Toby being the lost son of a royal was just meh, why couldn’t he just be a commoner omega. Ryu being all for working towards democracy (is he still? It doesn’t come up as much in this one) and the goddess giving them soulmates from all different lives made sense. Especially since it was basically a nothing burger with his father.
wtf was that 3 year time skip? What about that lie saying that if they had any plan with Toby, they would tell him just like they did with the story with his father… no, you guys know that he has the soulmate mark and it’s been three years and you’re just there pretending to be his friend and you don’t tell him that he’s meant to be with you. Literally we’re supposed to believe they fell in love in that time but the relationship doesn’t seem that much different and even if they were in love, how about showing us that?
And the omegaverse is very much nonexistent aside from I guess the fact that Toby has a vagina and mpreg is a thing.
TW
Financial insecurity
Mention of past homelessness, past juvenile detention
Mention of past being abandoned at an orphanage
Mention of past parents’ deaths
Mention of past prostitution
Mention of past attempted rape by foster parent (jfc they just trauma dump that shit like it’s the weather)
March 9, 2024
I thought with this being (potentially) the final book and them finding their omega, it would finish with a bang. But the story was honestly weak. Boy are these men bad at courting! How in the world did they let 3 years go by? It was honestly pointless for the author to even do a time jump because the alphas got nowhere with Toby. The relationship had zero depth, yet we're supposed to believe they were all madly in love with Toby. The whole time they just sat back and waited for Toby to come around. Toby had a shitty life and I hate how the author never gave him any closure.
Overall, I felt like Ryu and Kentario were the main couple while the other two were just there. Since Ryu and Kentario grew up together, they had a chance to fall in love. Their love story was somewhat developed but it was different and lacking for Val and Toby. I think the author tried to make up for it by giving them time to develop their newer relationships but we got zero plots as a result. Other than being soulmates, Val and Toby really had no reason to stick around.
Overall, I felt like Ryu and Kentario were the main couple while the other two were just there. Since Ryu and Kentario grew up together, they had a chance to fall in love. Their love story was somewhat developed but it was different and lacking for Val and Toby. I think the author tried to make up for it by giving them time to develop their newer relationships but we got zero plots as a result. Other than being soulmates, Val and Toby really had no reason to stick around.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 27, 2026
"Conundrum" received THREE AND A HALF stars.
The arguing between the alphas seemed slightly out of place especially since it wasn’t really present in the first two books of the series.
The novel gained *stars* for these items:
* gained for: "The book caught my interest in the first five pages."
* gained for: "I thought about the book when I was forced to set it down and re-enter society."
1/2 * gained for: "There were no info dumps, poor writing, or copy edit mistakes that jerked me out of the story."
* gained for: "I was sad when the book ended. I wanted more!"
The novel failed to gain stars for this item:
NO STAR gained for: "That's it. I'm hooked on this author. I will automatically try anything she/he/they writes."
The arguing between the alphas seemed slightly out of place especially since it wasn’t really present in the first two books of the series.
The novel gained *stars* for these items:
* gained for: "The book caught my interest in the first five pages."
* gained for: "I thought about the book when I was forced to set it down and re-enter society."
1/2 * gained for: "There were no info dumps, poor writing, or copy edit mistakes that jerked me out of the story."
* gained for: "I was sad when the book ended. I wanted more!"
The novel failed to gain stars for this item:
NO STAR gained for: "That's it. I'm hooked on this author. I will automatically try anything she/he/they writes."
July 22, 2020
Missing pieces turned out to be such an amazing little series. I’m so glad I found it and I will definitely be checking out this author’s other stories.
I’m completely happy with the ending. I loved this series from page one of the first book to the final page of the last book.
Boy am I going to miss these characters.. I feel at a loss, knowing I’ve read all there is to read, even though the ending was just perfect, I am going to miss these characters soooo much! 😢
(if that was truly the ending..? I wouldn’t mind more books in this world! There are so many more things/places/people that could be explored!)
If I had to rate the whole series, I would give it a SOLID 5 stars.
I’m completely happy with the ending. I loved this series from page one of the first book to the final page of the last book.
Boy am I going to miss these characters.. I feel at a loss, knowing I’ve read all there is to read, even though the ending was just perfect, I am going to miss these characters soooo much! 😢
(if that was truly the ending..? I wouldn’t mind more books in this world! There are so many more things/places/people that could be explored!)
If I had to rate the whole series, I would give it a SOLID 5 stars.
April 4, 2026
Longest Courtship Ever
This was an excellent conclusion. There wasn't any dangerous stuff happening like in book 1 but there was plenty of angst. Toby was discovered to be the 4th in this royal marriage but he was a fish out of water. A lot of patience and communication was required to get him to realize that he was truly part of this marriage. The ending was the best you could hope for.
This was an excellent conclusion. There wasn't any dangerous stuff happening like in book 1 but there was plenty of angst. Toby was discovered to be the 4th in this royal marriage but he was a fish out of water. A lot of patience and communication was required to get him to realize that he was truly part of this marriage. The ending was the best you could hope for.
March 18, 2022
I loved how the relationship grew.
I loved how peace was achieved in the end.
I loved how negotiations reached a happy end.
The romance was believable and the action non stop.
Best of all, the dialogue wasn't stilted at all.
I loved how peace was achieved in the end.
I loved how negotiations reached a happy end.
The romance was believable and the action non stop.
Best of all, the dialogue wasn't stilted at all.
March 21, 2026
Awesome! We finally get the fourth soulmate. What a slow slow burn and angsty story this time. But I loved every minute. Great ending. Overall, a great series.
July 3, 2023
I loved this series! I picked it up on a whim and I'm so glad I did. Each book built upon each other so beautifully with well-fleshed out characters, charming love stories, great back stories and some seriously steamy scenes.
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