Alpha Deceived, book 3 in the new Waking the Dragons series by Piper Scott and Suzi Hawkes continues a few months after the birth of Sam and Blaze’s twins. Much has happened since book 2, including a massive expansion to Sam’s family with the reappearance of his older brother the skilled dragon hunter Peter and their nana Gertie.
This installment sees dragon warrior and cousin to Crown Prince Cory, Sana, warrior/healer and Peter, Sam’s long lost older brother and reformed dragon hunter, get together.
Peter, has left the Dragon Hunters and has been brought into Crown Prince Cory of Novis’s dragon stronghold, as a human lie detector he’s a valuable member of their small band of warriors. In the months since reconnecting with Sam, much has changed for Peter, he’s finally found out that he is a dormant Alpha Dragon and can detect untruths, and his heart now sings for Sana, the Alpha warrior who is hiding a massive secret.
Sana always betlived he’d be alone, until he meets Peter and his heartsong sings for his fated mate. Sana is torn about the discovery, on one hand it’s what he secretly always wanted, and on the other, it’s his worst nightmare. After all an omega cannot be Royal warrior.
this installment sees our diverse Dragconian gang still fighting the Dragon Hunters and looking for Orris, who is still unaccounted for, while Sana and Peter navigate their new relationship. Behind closed doors Sana agrees and admits he and Peter are fated mates when they both hear the heartsong, but admitting who they are to each other is not as simple as it should be.
I liked the plot in this installment a lot, it dealt with bigotry on top on the ongoing war between the dragons and the dragon hunters. Much badness is revealed in this story and I really am liking the series so far. I’m still wrapping my head around the whole MPREG thing and insta-love dynamic that the men have with the heartsong and paranormal shifter racial thing, but as it’s a significant plot theme it’s not without its own ups and downs, which I thought helped make it less contrived and more action packed and emotionally drama ridden. I thought it definitely helped the plot as did the dragon fight scenes, something we’ve come to expect from this series as our Heroes take on the baddies. The violence this time around was taken up another notch and I thought it was fabulous, creative and perect.
Piper Scott and Suzi Hawke are a great duo for shifter romance and as a new convert to their co-written work, I have to say for this genre, it’s been a great series. One book left to go, Brick the last unmated warrior whose fated mate is the white omega dragon, and yeah, I admit it, I’m looking forward to what’s coming next,