Smolder

Fated Embers #2

by Reegan Lynch

- Nicholin -
I never wanted a mate. I’d been alone for hundreds of years, dominating the markets and building my hoard, content with my life. I was alone, and I was fine.
Until I saw him .
Brilliant, beautiful, shifting into his dragon form for the first time, he was everything I never wanted and everything I couldn’t walk away from.
I didn’t need a mate.
I had one anyway.



- Alex -
Fire.
I wasn’t human. I couldn’t be, not with the way flames filled my dreams and burned through my veins. I’d had an affinity for fire all my life, but this was different.
I was hot, burning alive. The pressure built and built until suddenly I was changing into something different. My skin split to reveal scales; my hands changed to claws; wings burst from my back and I opened my eyes as a dragon…
To see him , and to hunger .

This 53,000-word novel contains adult language and scorching sexual situations, male pregnancy, no cliffhanger, and a guaranteed HEA. The books in the Fated Embers series can be read in any order, though small details may make more sense when read sequentially.

Genres: Shapeshifters, M M Romance, Dragons

201 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 20, 2016

Reviews

[John-Torleif Harris · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent!

I love this series! I thought that it was great to have Nicholin and Alex have to mate immediately and then have to deal with the consequences for their actions. I would have liked the two big reveals (Alex's heritage and Nicholin's past to have been done differently, and not just very shortly touched on at the end of the book, but it didn't detract from the story.

[Sonja Helies · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great story

A young man that tries to come to grips with his dreams of fires. A fight of panic and a surprise meeting of the man who was his destiny his fate his mate. In the twists of circumstances they finally come together for good and raise their family

[Sierra · Rating 2 out of 5]

This rating is mostly reflective of the awful ending. What was that? First of all the book was only technically mpreg since all it got was a couple of paragraphs in an epilogue--with no birth! We don't find out about the kid! I know technically this is a spoiler but the title and blurb are almost false advertising and, if a full mpreg and finding things like the sex and name of the baby are important to you, then maybe you want to skip this one. Then AFTER the epilogue there is some weird cliffhanger, foreshadowing, menacing thing involving a previously unseen character and none of the others, that seems to somehow vaguely connect to the story but just ends. Huh? Is there supposed to be a sequel to this story? This is the second in the series (not necessary to read the first to understand this one) and it didn't function as a sequel to the first; will the third be a sequel to this one? Sigh. The book started out with such promise and really drew me in with the character of Alex and the precursors to his first shift. I didn't like Nicholin from the start, but that's the way it's supposed to be, he's coldhearted, rude, aloof, and stiff. However I'm not sure that his rapid change of heart--not just in actually wanting and caring for his mate but other things--was believable. There was just too much change, too much of a life makeover. I'm so disappointed because I liked the first one in the series (except for an also abrupt ending) and was excited by the early promise this book showed. It was enough promise that I would give another of Lynch's books a chance but I hope this issue with the endings is worked out.

[Kasey · Rating 2 out of 5]

Note to self:

Things I liked:
- Alex feeling hurt when Nicholin ignored him and when he caught him thinking that Alex was a burden (I felt really bad for him but i also liked the angst in this situation)

Things I didnt like:
- Nicholin denying that he wanted a mate (ignoring Alex, letting him believe he didnt want him)
- Alex losing control (the scenes where he shifted were a bit boring)
- Alex forgiving Nicholin so easily
- We don't find out why Alex's father gave him to his parents (they go looking for him but the chapter ends with him saying he's ready and then the next chapter is 5 years later)

[Tara Mcmillan · Rating 4 out of 5]

My biggest pet peeve was the poor editing.
This book in particular also left a lot of unanswered questions. I really didn't like how it ended.

[Kathleen · Rating 3 out of 5]

liked it , just didn't like the cliff hanger

[Zee · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book and was totally surprised that Nicholin was the one who wanted to be the one to carry the baby and got pregnant and I loved that there was actually a lot of emotion in this story

By the way to the people who haven't read it yet the chapter that says it's Theodore's is actually a typo and it's actually Alex's