Being the only child of a hellhound and a reformed evil genius isn’t easy.
All Nathan Miller ever wanted was to get accepted into the prestigious graduate program at Chase Wesson University. The budding young neuroscientist may be clever, but he’s always struggled to live up to the illustrious--and infamous--reputations of his parents. Just as Nathan is finally about to get his chance at living his own life, one night with the wrong Alpha threatens his pristine reputation--and his future.
Rejected by the omega he loved from an early age, Kent has all but given up on love when an omega from his past shows up needing help.
Kent had a plan. Become a soldier? Check. Grow up and change his troublemaker ways? Check. Find a mate and start the family he’s always wanted? He’s still working on it. The omega he loved is now happily mated with a family of his own, and Kent is starting to think it’s just never going to happen for him. Then Nathan Miller comes back into his life like a whirlwind, carrying another Alpha’s baby and refusing to tell anyone who the father is. Imprinting on Nathan? Not even close to being part of the plan, but the Alpha who never believed in destiny will find himself fighting for it.
Now he just has to convince Nathan that he doesn’t have to give up who he is to be the omega Kent has been waiting for. Disclaimer: Contains mature content, intended for adult audiences only. See inside cover for additional content warnings. HEA, no cliffhanger. Approx ~58,000 words
This was a lovely continuation of the series that I have come to adore and anticipate the releases of the next parts of. I cannot get enough of these mountain shifters. The adrenaline rush I get from every story, the myriad range of emotions I go through while reading, the push and pull of happiness and pain I feel with the characters, and the enjoyment I get by meeting all the old and new faces are why I keep stalking the author's website and the Goodreads website itself to keep in touch about the upcoming books.
Kent found his way to my heart in the last book by being so lovely to Tyr, and Nathan was a sweet person when I met him in this book. They both had a journey that, thank goodness, wasn't as fraught with tension and suspense as Jaspar and Tyr's had been, so it was a relief to read a story, finally, that did not have any war mentions to drive me to depression!
I wanted there to be a reveal of the war that killed Mitchell and Mel, I wanted the book to shed a light on what happened back then, because it is killing me to not know what took two of my favourite characters away from me. And even though something happened at the end of the book (when I was grieving the lack of any mention of either Mel or Mitchell and was setting up my mind to wait for the next book for it), I don't mind that it still hasn't been told. I have a feeling that the next story will be Tanner's, and I also have a feeling that the event that happened will be discussed and detailed.
Yes, my review tells less about the MCs and more about the plot, but that is because, in my mind, this Mountain Shifters series has become more than a setting where alphas and omegas (sometimes betas too) fall in love with their destined mate and live happily ever after. It's become this huge extended family that I feel a vicarious part of. I am so invested in all the characters, both old and new, that I can enjoy the ride of the new characters while still craving to know more and more about the old ones.
I am really looking forward to the next and next and next book in the series. I never want to say goodbye. Please, dear author, keep up the amazing work. And please bring an end to my pain and tell me something about my lost heroes.
P.S. - There were quite a lot of typos in the story. I really hope the next book gets a good editor.
AHHHHHH I just LOVE this series. I can't believe how far it's come, how detailed it all is, and how I've come to love these characters. (I just need a family tree to keep track of everyone and their kids!)
This book as well as the previous one focus on the next generation of kids now that they are all grown up. I love that we got to see Connor and Duke's son, Nathan, grown up, and I'm SO glad we got to see Kent find his true mate and really be able to move on from Tyr. And I love that we got to see Cameron, Barnabas, Connor and Duke, Hassan, so many of the other characters from previous stories.
There are quite a few shifter mpreg books I have read where the omega is carrying another alpha's baby, and it's something that I admit that I have mixed feelings about. It's something that could have been avoided, but hey...these things do happen, and it's the integrity of the characters and especially the alpha that comes into the story that really matters. I loved Kent, how tough he was as an alpha but how emotionally wrecked things with Tyr left him - feeling like he was never good enough, would never be picked. And then Nathan dealing with having a one night stand and the consequences from that - UG I could go on talking about these two and this story for a while.
Anyway, I LOVED it, I think fans of this series will love it, and I AM SO TOTALLY RIGHT ABOUT THE NEXT STORY. Ahem. Seriously, people that wanted to call it quits after the last book - KEEP reading this series!
This book focuses on Connor and Dukes son Nathan who after failing to get into the college he wanted goes to a party gets drunk and loses his virginity to an Alpha soldier, but unexpected consequences of that night puts his life in a tailspin and when all is revealed he goes to the Silver Lake pack where he meets Kent who is the middle child of Cameron and Barnabas.
Kent has spent most of his adult life being a soldier and he has given up any hope of finding his omega. Returning to Silver Lake he doesn't realise that Destiny is about to drop his omega right in front of him. The problem is that his destined mate is no other than Nathan Miller who is much younger than him and is carrying another Alpha's baby.
Can Kent convince Nathan that he is his destined mate before the baby is born and can Nathan learn to trust Kent even though he is carrying another man's child.
This series is getting better and better as each of the stories weave together. Kent and Nathan's instalment had both sweet and sad element (but neither overly so) and I just loved Connor/Cutter :) looking forward to what book 9 brings.
This Book: Nathan is a teenager whose world comes to an end when the one college he cared about rejects his application - so he makes a mistake, as teenagers do. Gets drunk, gets laid by someone leaving the area the next day, and gets pregnant. When he destroys his life, he goes about it fairly thoroughly. And his parents - a (nearly, mostly, ah, who are we kidding) evil genius and a werewolf whose wolf form is a two-ton hellhound - are not pleased.
And send him off to think about things. Where a wolf nearly twice his age imprints on him. Because why should he not meet the love of his life while pregnant from a one-hour-stand? (The universe has a cruel, cruel humor.)
Best parts of the story are the family times, especially when Kent has to deal with Nathan's parents - who were always overprotective BEFORE the date-rape. Connor - Nathan's Omega dad - is the best part of the book and made me pick up #7 just to see his love story.
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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.
This book should come with a warning: Caution, no editors were consulted before publication. Typos and name-switches abound.
Maybe it's just me, but this story seemed to drag. Not the kind of drag that's from lengthy descriptions and a high word count, but the sort caused by shallow tension and too much tell, not enough show. I ended up surface reading a lot of the end because it just felt so lacking that I really couldn't get into it.
Don't get me wrong, I liked aspects of the story, it did have a few interesting scenes and plot points, but I never could really connect with the characters. I love stories that ache like a bruise and leave you satisfied but longing for more time with the characters, yet this just wasn't it. Honestly, I spent most of this book just wanting to finish it and go read Conner's story, and thet was without knowing if he even had his own book.
Examples of typos:
"As the hours passed in that hospital room, Barnabas and Came to show their support and welcome their newest grandchild into the world."
In one scene, Kent says this to Duke, “No one put me up to anything, Mr. Miller. I imprinted on Kent the moment he showed up here.” (Kent's name was switched with Nathan's, making it sound like Kent imprinted on himself.)
To my ratings: A 3,5* is clicked with a 4* but in review marked as 3,5*:
5* - very very good and rare (it would be a Blow-Away-book like ‘Jesse's Smile’ or ‘Joey’ from Angelique Jurd, ‘Save the the kids’ series from EM Leya, ‘Love’s Tethered Heart’ from C.L. Etta or ‘Liberty’ from Seth King), it's like an A+
4* - very good and will be often reread and is a WOW-book with interesting plot and surprises (like most of Andrew Grey books and Davidson Kings 'Haven Hart'-series) it's like an A
3,5* - a really good book, which will be reread a few times (most romances where you can enjoy for relaxing and during waiting times in hospitals). I can recommend them definitively! It's like an B+
3* - it could be more then a one-time-reader (2-3 times a year), it's like a B
2* - it was ok to read, but it's more a one-time-reader (I wouldn't recommend it heartily, but it was ok) It's like a C-, D
1* - sorry, but that isn't really a book for me (too many mistakes, not nice plot, illogical, so an absolute NO-GO). It's like failure in the whole line, dismissed, repeat the class
Excellent work from L.C. Davis. I agree with another of the reviewers that Kent and Nathan were not even on my radar as interesting characters ... before reading His Reclaimed Omega. This book beings them to life. Lots of drama and conflict, and a brief return of Cutter (as opposed to Connor). And, thankfully, while this is an mpreg series and omegas are often pregnant, the pregnancy experience, delivery experience, and the babies themselves are more of a subplot than the focus of the story. It is so tempting to start in on the spoilers, but I'm not going to do it. If you've been reading this series to this point, you'll love this book. If you haven't been reading the series, go back and start on book 1, you will not regret it.
WOW!! This was BEAUTIFUL, TOUCHING AND AMAZING. By the end, I couldn't get the smile off my face. Nathan and Kent are a remarkable couple. I liked the timeline of the pack progression. I absolutely love the updates throughout the story about family and friends. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK AND THIS INCREDIBLE INTRIGUING SERIES!!!!! I think the most fun is yet to come!!
This is one of my favorites in the series. Usually by book 9 I am ready to bail. But the Mountain Shifters are still going strong. Nathan and Kent really have a chemistry at I just adored. However, the interaction with Duke and Connor really clinched it for me. As always, interesting plot and well written text made this highly enjoyable as always.
Nathan- Omega Connor and Duke's Son and Kent - Alpha Barnabas and Cameron son. MM MPREG. Enjoyable read. Best to read the mountain shifters books in series order. The whole series is enjoyable and entertaining. But note that it has spelling errors, wrong words used and wrong characters names used at times.
I've read all the books in the series thus far, and all of them are good reads. I can't wait for August to come. I wonder about Mel, is she really deceased or is someone playing a cruel joke or do she have a twin. 😊 I'm so happy for Kent and Nathan. DB
Story started slow and built well. Some scenes slightly confusing possibly because prior books hadn't been read yet. More sexy scenes really needed between Nathan and his Alpha.
I have really enjoyed every book in this series. The love and pain helps you grow up. Also you would make choices that didn't see coming. Find family where you least suspected.
The story is well written and interesting. The charactes are well developed and intriguing. You want to love them and you do. They deserve HEA. Emotion, suspense, action.... Love it.
This one was better than book #8 (Jaspar & Tyr) but there wasn't enough interaction between the two leads. I really didn't understanding why Nathan wouldn't disclose the father of his child and kept "protecting" him.
A fantastic continuation of the series with even more heartfelt conflict and difficult pack dynamics. It feels like things are ramping up for even more action and widespread conflict, and I’m anxious to see what happens.
Omi, one misstep changes everything for Nathan. But he has a loving family and good friends to help him, and unexpectedly finds just what (or rather who) he needs.