This book: I picked up "His Reformed Omega" (#7) because of His Reclaimed Omega (#9) - Connor in #9 was amazing and I wanted to see his love story. ... And was a bit disappointed. I had hoped Connor would be the unrepentant, if (mostly) reformed, master criminal we seen in book 9 and instead I got an emotional journey from isolation to integration likely exasperated by pregnancy hormones. Likewise Duke was a scary dad in #9 and here he is nearly dangerous, but not quite there. I wanted the buzz of truly bad boys.
Oh well, the story still is strong with the family interaction between Mel and Connor LOL funny at times. Good enough but not what I was hoping for.
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Series Overview: The Mountain Shifter series is now 12 books long and a 13th is on the way (the review is written in April 2018). I read books 12, 9 and 7 of the series (in that order) in one day. All books of the series promise a HEA ending for that book, no cliffhangers. And, based on what I read, each works as a perfectly good stand-alone, though the world background builds - going from bringing down crime bosses, to secret wars, to business espionage. A rich full world.
Problems with the series: I don't recommend reading more than two or three back-to-back. The author doesn't vary the sex scenes much, and the characters, while unique in histories and and goals, don't have unique speaking voices and so blend if read close together (such as reading three books in 12 hours). Another issue is every book has at least two homonym proofreading errors - like vile instead of vial and similar, other easy-to-miss issues. Since the homonym actually sounds like the word, it hardly slows down the reading at all. Third issue is the power of M-M romances is the two characters being equals instead of dealing with genetically and society imposed class differences - in all the books I read, the romance was between an Alpha and an Omega - with the Alphas all at least a head taller, stronger, and emotionally disconnected (as is expected) and the Omegas all shorter, weaker, emotionally open, and have the ability to get pregnant (this series is not just M-M. but nearly always MPreg). Umm - if you want to write a M-F romance, just do it - don't present it as a M-M romance. Reading the books back-to-back as I did made this issue noticeable and annoying. On the plus side the author does an excellent job of presently smart characters as smart - not superbrains who can do all things, but people who work at learning skills and discovering ideas, have specializations, and perfectly capable of making bad choices - but for well-thought out reasons. I'm willing to forgive a lot in a story which has smart people who are real instead of the typical movie presentation.
Series Overall view - A rich, ever-changing world with political and societal changes as a backdrop for some excellent romances. For best enjoyment, read one a week and savor the differences as the world evolves.