[Siren Classic Erotic Alternative Paranormal Romance, shape-shifters, werewolves, vampires, M/M, HEA] Lee's a werewolf Alpha haunted by failure. He lost a submissive werewolf he'd sworn to protect to a vicious vampire coven five years ago. Unlikely redemption comes in the form of vampire king Magnus, who wants the same coven dead. Vampires and werewolves don't go together, and yet when Lee's with Magnus, his wolf and heart howls with longing. Lee's professed to hate vampires, but Magnus might be the exception to that rule. The more he fights the hunger, the more his need for Magnus grows. Five years ago, Magnus made a promise to a certain werewolf Alpha to hunt down a rabid coven together. Magnus has known that Lee is his mate from the first time they met, except the Alpha seems intent on resisting their mating bond. The vampire king will do whatever it takes to convince his stubborn wolf that they're better together than apart and, in the end, love will prevail over hate. ** A Siren Erotic Romance
During the day, Jane is a teacher, wife, and mother. At night, Jane's a scribbler of erotic gay romance. She can't get enough of demanding alphas, werewolves, and happily-ever-afters.
What I found the most confusing and kept wondering when it would be addressed....
Book One: {Crash didn’t comment. He’d seen the bite mark on the nape of Lee’s neck. Whatever Lee’s deal was with the vampires, he didn’t care.}
This BITE mark is never brought up or explained. I think the author forgot this comment was made and developed Lee's story to fit where she wanted to go. I kind of thought that maybe they were already mated and had issues to work through but nope....
I also don't like that the typical Vampire setup is used, where they are 'dead' in the daytime.. WHY is that anyways I mean like that just makes no sense to begin with except an excuse to use creature of the night. Moving on..... then when they finally mate that's where it ends with Lee's story. We don't know exactly how they are going to make it work or if anything special happens when Vampires mate with Werewolves.. Probably not but hey it's open still so I can take it from there and run with it until otherwise stated..
Oh wow. I've really been interested in reading Lee and Magnus’s story ever since Magnus was introduced as the head of the vampire coven that Lee called upon when Blake needed help consolidating his power within his pack. There were a lot of sexual undertones between Lee and Magnus, so I was pretty sure there was more to their story than I had heard.
Interspecies relationships are uncommon in this world but they do occur, and the way Lee’s wolf has always responded to Magnus can only mean one thing. Mate. But Lee refuses to believe it, or even contemplate it. Magnus has known Lee is his mate ever since he met him five years ago when they made their pact. Their pact that they would track down Magnus’s sadistic older brother, Eduardo, kill him, and liberate from being Eduardo’s blood slave a young man Lee considers his brother. It has taken five years to finally locate Eduardo and it is time for Magnus to take what he wants from Lee.
I liked watching Lee and Magnus figure out a way to have a relationship when they're different in so many ways. It wasn't easy, no doubt about it. Lee has an inherent distrust of vampires and certainly can't imagine one feeding from him. Whereas for Magnus, a lover who is willing to let him feed from them, shows an incredible amount of trust. This is just one of the issues they had to work on.
I struggled, again, with quite a few editing errors and I continue to hope that those will be addressed in future novellas. However, overall, I did enjoy this addition to the series.
Two and a half stars. It had potential but I just couldn't make any connection with the MCs enough to care. Maybe I need to start with the first of these books, or maybe I just wasn't in the mood. But I might try it again someday, which is why it's on my thinking-about-it shelf and not in the recycle bin.