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Mate of the Tyger Prince #7
The Tyger Kings
The fallout from Derrick’s union with Rhaegar and Blake’s aid in his son’s elopement has been intense, to say the least. After a blistering brawl between Blake and Davos, Davos leaves Blake, because he isn’t ready to forgive him, and most shockingly of all, he says he isn’t sure he even wants to.
Blake is frightened and hurt by his actions, but terribly angry. He follows the king back to Tygeria, if only because Davos had the gall to take their two younger children with him when he left. His ship is slower than the king’s, though, and when he arrives back on Tygeria, he finds the king has left again, on a wild chase after his errant son and his pirate mate. Even worse, he makes a unilateral decision to send their son Larz to a faraway planet for military training, against Blake’s express wishes.
When Davos, Derrick and Larz all go suddenly missing, Blake attempts a rescue mission, but encounters a strange wormhole in space, and is flung through it to crash on an unknown planet called Tveir. Strangest of all the planet is populated by Tygerians and their handsome king. Injured and disoriented, Blake begins to feel as if he’s trapped in some crazy story. Except this isn’t any kind of story at all—this is Blake’s life, and the plot has just taken an unexpected, heartbreaking and totally infuriating twist.
Blake is frightened and hurt by his actions, but terribly angry. He follows the king back to Tygeria, if only because Davos had the gall to take their two younger children with him when he left. His ship is slower than the king’s, though, and when he arrives back on Tygeria, he finds the king has left again, on a wild chase after his errant son and his pirate mate. Even worse, he makes a unilateral decision to send their son Larz to a faraway planet for military training, against Blake’s express wishes.
When Davos, Derrick and Larz all go suddenly missing, Blake attempts a rescue mission, but encounters a strange wormhole in space, and is flung through it to crash on an unknown planet called Tveir. Strangest of all the planet is populated by Tygerians and their handsome king. Injured and disoriented, Blake begins to feel as if he’s trapped in some crazy story. Except this isn’t any kind of story at all—this is Blake’s life, and the plot has just taken an unexpected, heartbreaking and totally infuriating twist.
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First published October 31, 2018
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November 10, 2018
**grm** **spoilers**
This book was a bit confusing at the start, but then all became pretty clear. I'll try to explain it easily.
Pratically the author tells us that many worlds(universes)exist at the same time, these are the ones we call parallel worlds. Since one thing, or person in this case, can't exist in the same space at the same time, when Davos, Blake, Derrick and Rhaegar get teleported to the other side of the wormhole, called Never-Never, they replace the existing version of themselves that lived in that universe. We soon learn that Blake and Derrick still got their memories and this is explained by the fact that probably in that universe Blake had never existed yet, or had died. For this reason Blake keeps his memories and since he and Davos had never met, Derrick can exist too, since wasn't born on that universe, but only in the other. The thing that I had been scared about was the fact that Blake would sleep with a man that was not his Davos, but with the author's explanation and seeing as how also after coming back to their real universe, Davos could still remember what happend in the parallel univers(he remembers it as a kind of dream), we know for sure that all that happened btw Blake and Davos, was with his real mate and not the "copy", so no cheating. To make it easy, Davos replaced the other himself and only acquired different memories(the ones of the "copy") and some of his phisical features, like the blue eyes, when in reality his are amber, and all those things got back to normal when he went back to his universe. The memories stayed thought, bcs he was the one living them, so also all that he learned and thought in that universe about his "copy's" past life stayed in his mind and now he also knows why he hated pirates so much. Davos of the parallel universe had been kidnapped by pirates when only 14 and raped by the captain and his men, that had been so brutal that the echo of that pain had travelled in all the universes and also if Davos didn't know the cause of that hatred, he felt it so strongly that didn't want Derrick to be with Rhaegar.
I liked this book and all the jealousy in it. Davos felt that Blake was his mate but didn't believe his story and hated the fact that the human talked about an husband or sons, bcs he thought Blake had been with someone else, when in reality he was just jealous of himself(the only man Blake ever slept with) and of his son, so much, that one time he also thought the boy was Blake's lover. Same happened for Rhaegar with Derrick, but since Rhaegar was from that parallel universe, and had left it many years before, he was faster in remembering.
The sad thing about this book was the fact that when they came back, Larz was still missing and no one knew what had happened to him, and if for Devos and Blake(Derrick and Rhaegar), only a month had passed, for the others were 3 years.
I just hope that the poor boy isn't being held as slave, or if he is, I really hope he wasn't sexually abused. That would break my heart.
The book ends with Davos promising to Blake to find their son and with them soon meeting their unborn child, the child they conceived in that parallel universe and that will probably have many traits in common with Blake, since in that parallel universe the doctors didn't use the same injections that on Tygerian make the baby have the traits of his Tygerian's father. So that baby will be pretty cute, probably with blue eyes and blond hairs like Blake.
Ps= I just have one question(s)..The Davos of the parallel universe, will remember what happened to him? He will know that he met his mate and that now he doesn't have him? or He will think that all was just a dream since he got no real proofs? or the people near him who remember will tell him, and he will keep thinking about Blake never being able to be with him again? Bcs damn, that would be so sad. I really wished the author had written a short epilogue about the other Davos, maybe telling us that he woke up in his ship or palace with no memories of what happened bcs with the real Davos and Blake gone back, time would be resetted as if nothing had happened in that universe...bcs the other case...would be too sad to think about.
NEXT!!
This book was a bit confusing at the start, but then all became pretty clear. I'll try to explain it easily.
Pratically the author tells us that many worlds(universes)exist at the same time, these are the ones we call parallel worlds. Since one thing, or person in this case, can't exist in the same space at the same time, when Davos, Blake, Derrick and Rhaegar get teleported to the other side of the wormhole, called Never-Never, they replace the existing version of themselves that lived in that universe. We soon learn that Blake and Derrick still got their memories and this is explained by the fact that probably in that universe Blake had never existed yet, or had died. For this reason Blake keeps his memories and since he and Davos had never met, Derrick can exist too, since wasn't born on that universe, but only in the other. The thing that I had been scared about was the fact that Blake would sleep with a man that was not his Davos, but with the author's explanation and seeing as how also after coming back to their real universe, Davos could still remember what happend in the parallel univers(he remembers it as a kind of dream), we know for sure that all that happened btw Blake and Davos, was with his real mate and not the "copy", so no cheating. To make it easy, Davos replaced the other himself and only acquired different memories(the ones of the "copy") and some of his phisical features, like the blue eyes, when in reality his are amber, and all those things got back to normal when he went back to his universe. The memories stayed thought, bcs he was the one living them, so also all that he learned and thought in that universe about his "copy's" past life stayed in his mind and now he also knows why he hated pirates so much. Davos of the parallel universe had been kidnapped by pirates when only 14 and raped by the captain and his men, that had been so brutal that the echo of that pain had travelled in all the universes and also if Davos didn't know the cause of that hatred, he felt it so strongly that didn't want Derrick to be with Rhaegar.
I liked this book and all the jealousy in it. Davos felt that Blake was his mate but didn't believe his story and hated the fact that the human talked about an husband or sons, bcs he thought Blake had been with someone else, when in reality he was just jealous of himself(the only man Blake ever slept with) and of his son, so much, that one time he also thought the boy was Blake's lover. Same happened for Rhaegar with Derrick, but since Rhaegar was from that parallel universe, and had left it many years before, he was faster in remembering.
The sad thing about this book was the fact that when they came back, Larz was still missing and no one knew what had happened to him, and if for Devos and Blake(Derrick and Rhaegar), only a month had passed, for the others were 3 years.
I just hope that the poor boy isn't being held as slave, or if he is, I really hope he wasn't sexually abused. That would break my heart.
The book ends with Davos promising to Blake to find their son and with them soon meeting their unborn child, the child they conceived in that parallel universe and that will probably have many traits in common with Blake, since in that parallel universe the doctors didn't use the same injections that on Tygerian make the baby have the traits of his Tygerian's father. So that baby will be pretty cute, probably with blue eyes and blond hairs like Blake.
Ps= I just have one question(s)..The Davos of the parallel universe, will remember what happened to him? He will know that he met his mate and that now he doesn't have him? or He will think that all was just a dream since he got no real proofs? or the people near him who remember will tell him, and he will keep thinking about Blake never being able to be with him again? Bcs damn, that would be so sad. I really wished the author had written a short epilogue about the other Davos, maybe telling us that he woke up in his ship or palace with no memories of what happened bcs with the real Davos and Blake gone back, time would be resetted as if nothing had happened in that universe...bcs the other case...would be too sad to think about.
NEXT!!
November 11, 2018
Rating: 4.5 stars
This book was way better than the last one in the series. I think it ranks up there as one of my favorite so far. I love Blake. I know he can be over the top and annoying sometimes but it doesn’t stop me from really liking him as a character. I love how he doesn’t let Davos intimidate him and gives as good as he gets during their fights. Also, I must say that I liked Derrick a lot better in this installment than I did in the last one. His interactions with Rhaegar weren't quite as annoying.
I found the whole wormhole/parallel dimension plot to be really interesting. I can’t image being set down in the middle of new and strange world and the man that you love doesn’t remember you or your children. All in all, a really good story. While it didn’t end in a cliffhanger per se, there is a really big plot thread left unanswered that will be addressed in the next book. Also, this is not a standalone story. The previous book should be read at the very least prior to reading this one.
This book was way better than the last one in the series. I think it ranks up there as one of my favorite so far. I love Blake. I know he can be over the top and annoying sometimes but it doesn’t stop me from really liking him as a character. I love how he doesn’t let Davos intimidate him and gives as good as he gets during their fights. Also, I must say that I liked Derrick a lot better in this installment than I did in the last one. His interactions with Rhaegar weren't quite as annoying.
I found the whole wormhole/parallel dimension plot to be really interesting. I can’t image being set down in the middle of new and strange world and the man that you love doesn’t remember you or your children. All in all, a really good story. While it didn’t end in a cliffhanger per se, there is a really big plot thread left unanswered that will be addressed in the next book. Also, this is not a standalone story. The previous book should be read at the very least prior to reading this one.
October 25, 2025
Loved it, just what I needed to read about Blake and Davos!
November 29, 2018
OMG I simply cannot wait for book 8 now. This series just keeps getting better and better.
December 14, 2018
Loooved it!!!!! This series is back on track for me. Can't wait to find out what happened to Larz in the next book. Also, how come there has been no mention of Vannos' baby. Shouldn't he/she have been born already? And when is Ryan going to have another baby? The author needs to start tying all of these story lines together.
May 21, 2022
WOW! WOW! WOW!
December 2, 2018
I feel cheated. This book was my prime opportunity to know more about Davos and it failed to deliver. I truly love Blake and I love this series but Davos is genuinely the guy we know least about and I really want to know what goes on in his mind. Like I have a genuine need to find out who he is as a father and a husband.
“Words can’t be taken back once they’ve been spoken, and I always believed that you should listen to words spoken in anger. They
may be harsh, but sometimes there’s a great deal of truth in them.”
Also, this book had the opportunity to showcase moments with a huge emotional payoff like Blake and Davos' eventual reunion, Davos and Derrick reconciling things which I have been looking forward to since the last book and another that this book itself revealed. This book reveals why Davos had such an irrational hatred of pirates and Blake finding out about this truth but we never get to see these two really talk about this revelation.
How could you be so angry at someone and want to make them suffer while at the same time loving and needing them like the air you breathed?
This book had amazing Star Trek feels and I loved the storyline and I loved Blake & Davos and Derrick & Rhaegar. I loved how this storyline messed things up and showed us what could have been while making us long for things to be as they are. I mean the plot is a ten on ten. It is amazing. I seriously could have never thought of it and I liked the way the author handled it in respect to everybody except Davos and Blake. But it wasn't like I didn't like their storyline in this story. I did. It was amazing and hot and they are definitely the focus of this book, but the plot of this book puts Davos in a position where he is not really himself (hopefully I am being just vague enough not to spoil anybody) and I loved it but when it started to become obvious that Davos wasn't going to be himself till the very end of the book all those big moments disappeared. So while I was really euphoric while reading this book the fact that this book still left me thirsting after Davos was not okay. I still need more.
“Yes, but maybe he meant well. I always get so grouchy when I’m in the early stages of pregnancy. It’s so unlike the way I usually am. I’m normally so undemanding and easy to get along with.”
Derrick decided not to comment, though when Blake gave him a sharp look, he tried to smile and nod. His attempt must not have been totally successful because Blake snapped at him. “What? Are you thinking I’m not easy to get along with?”
What was extremely satisfying about this book is Derrick and Blake's relationship. I love the fact that the author doesn't unnecessarily separate them just to advance the romance and makes both their actions authentic. I loved these two so much and it is amazing to be confronted with Blake's capacity for love, it is fathomless.
We also get to see a bit more of Derrick and Rhaegar's relationship though there relationship is pretty settled despite the mix-up but despite being a minor aside in this book it was well handled but alas, the relationships I did want focused on mainly Davos & Derrick and Blake & Davos just didn't get the attention I needed. While none of these considerations entered my mind while I was in the middle of this very interesting book it was just something that I feel I missed out on. Emotional payoff that was ruined for having such a fabulous plot.
“Go ahead,” he whispered tauntingly. “Hit me.”
“I could kill you with one strike of my hand.”
“You better hope it only takes one.”
“It’s just that for a moment there, I realized I…I miss my husband more than I thought possible.”
So there is definitely a push and pull in this book but the ending was... WOW! It caught me off guard and I can't wait to know more about Larz and the fact that Blake and Davos have a package on the way gives me hope we will see more of them in the future and hopefully somewhere in all this I can get my Derrick and Davos reconciliation moment, it doesn't have to be a long one it just needs to be significant.
I can't wait for the next one. I also I realised I loved Mikos a lot all the way through the book I was like Mikos has it handled. I really loved these characters and I can't wait for more. Also, I'm terribly sad Nicarr had to grow up. I miss Blake's six-foot baby who is going to have his place snatched up soon which is sure to create an interesting dynamic. This family is so interesting I can just go on and on reading about them.
Why had his decidedly loose morals suddenly decided to take that most inconvenient moment to tighten themselves up?
I should really stop before this gets any longer but I really loved it even though I wanted more, I still love these characters so so much. Can't wait to read the next one.
“Words can’t be taken back once they’ve been spoken, and I always believed that you should listen to words spoken in anger. They
may be harsh, but sometimes there’s a great deal of truth in them.”
Also, this book had the opportunity to showcase moments with a huge emotional payoff like Blake and Davos' eventual reunion, Davos and Derrick reconciling things which I have been looking forward to since the last book and another that this book itself revealed. This book reveals why Davos had such an irrational hatred of pirates and Blake finding out about this truth but we never get to see these two really talk about this revelation.
How could you be so angry at someone and want to make them suffer while at the same time loving and needing them like the air you breathed?
This book had amazing Star Trek feels and I loved the storyline and I loved Blake & Davos and Derrick & Rhaegar. I loved how this storyline messed things up and showed us what could have been while making us long for things to be as they are. I mean the plot is a ten on ten. It is amazing. I seriously could have never thought of it and I liked the way the author handled it in respect to everybody except Davos and Blake. But it wasn't like I didn't like their storyline in this story. I did. It was amazing and hot and they are definitely the focus of this book, but the plot of this book puts Davos in a position where he is not really himself (hopefully I am being just vague enough not to spoil anybody) and I loved it but when it started to become obvious that Davos wasn't going to be himself till the very end of the book all those big moments disappeared. So while I was really euphoric while reading this book the fact that this book still left me thirsting after Davos was not okay. I still need more.
“Yes, but maybe he meant well. I always get so grouchy when I’m in the early stages of pregnancy. It’s so unlike the way I usually am. I’m normally so undemanding and easy to get along with.”
Derrick decided not to comment, though when Blake gave him a sharp look, he tried to smile and nod. His attempt must not have been totally successful because Blake snapped at him. “What? Are you thinking I’m not easy to get along with?”
What was extremely satisfying about this book is Derrick and Blake's relationship. I love the fact that the author doesn't unnecessarily separate them just to advance the romance and makes both their actions authentic. I loved these two so much and it is amazing to be confronted with Blake's capacity for love, it is fathomless.
We also get to see a bit more of Derrick and Rhaegar's relationship though there relationship is pretty settled despite the mix-up but despite being a minor aside in this book it was well handled but alas, the relationships I did want focused on mainly Davos & Derrick and Blake & Davos just didn't get the attention I needed. While none of these considerations entered my mind while I was in the middle of this very interesting book it was just something that I feel I missed out on. Emotional payoff that was ruined for having such a fabulous plot.
“Go ahead,” he whispered tauntingly. “Hit me.”
“I could kill you with one strike of my hand.”
“You better hope it only takes one.”
“It’s just that for a moment there, I realized I…I miss my husband more than I thought possible.”
So there is definitely a push and pull in this book but the ending was... WOW! It caught me off guard and I can't wait to know more about Larz and the fact that Blake and Davos have a package on the way gives me hope we will see more of them in the future and hopefully somewhere in all this I can get my Derrick and Davos reconciliation moment, it doesn't have to be a long one it just needs to be significant.
I can't wait for the next one. I also I realised I loved Mikos a lot all the way through the book I was like Mikos has it handled. I really loved these characters and I can't wait for more. Also, I'm terribly sad Nicarr had to grow up. I miss Blake's six-foot baby who is going to have his place snatched up soon which is sure to create an interesting dynamic. This family is so interesting I can just go on and on reading about them.
Why had his decidedly loose morals suddenly decided to take that most inconvenient moment to tighten themselves up?
I should really stop before this gets any longer but I really loved it even though I wanted more, I still love these characters so so much. Can't wait to read the next one.
December 23, 2018
After suffering through two or three mostly weak instalments in which the titulary main couple got relegated to the back burner because they have had to share the front stage with either another pairing or Blake's perpetually loony antics, this latest entry drives the last nail into the coffin of the Tygerian universe. I am done with a series that has grown increasingly scatter-brained and over the top, if not gross, in every bad way conceivable - whereas the universe building is shifting from book to book to accommodate the vagaries of Mrs West's imagination, pushing to its extreme limits the necessary suspension of disbelief, the romance remains tiredly formulaic and gauzy thin (human or Tygerian chick-with-dick meets their growly, pushy, belligerant mate and craziness ensues), with barely-there writing values, nothing in the way of pacing nor foreshadowing, and a sheer galaxy of misspellings, grammatical infelicities, wrong tenses, and punctuation blemishes. In this entry, which continues the tale of Davos' fury at having one of his youngest sons Derrick mate the pirate king Rhaegan behind his back with the help of his human omak, said consort Blake gets sucked through a wormhole into a parallel universe in which Tygeria no longer exists and he is a mere stranger to his husband of twenty cycles, Davos; this could have been a wonderful tale of love lost and of its growth back, but the goal was missed by a huge margin. First, there is only one new idea into the entire book, and it was such a bad one that no mileage whatever was made of it, and rightly so, for to exploit it beyond its use as the reason for the breakdown in the royal couple would have collapsed most of the series: apart from their elder child, prince Mikos, all of Davos and Blake's scions are emphatically stated to have played submissive lovers to their stronger mates, thereby inheriting what the king envisions as the human weakness of their omak - as such, he come to blame Blake for failing to reign the pushy, difficult human in. This sheer lack of fresh ideas testifies to the degree of formulaic mummification the Mate of the Tyger Prince universe is going through; I would myself have refrained from using that point altogether, for it clearly serves no purpose to call the reader's attention on one of the series' sorest characteristics, viz. that the Tygerians have shifted from the anthropomorphic, testosteron-filled super tigers seen in the first pair of books to cute tomcats pussy-footing around (book three onwards). Mrs West also forgot to describe her brand new world while handling the narrative in such a wooden, lackluster, absent-minded fashion that no magic whatsoever comes off her wordy, sophomoric prose. What follows has indeed little entertaining value and even less of the warmth one usually feels from revisiting one's beloved characters; in this porn-with-plot, Blake and his family are unfortunately reduced to the merest sketches in a shadow boxing game, the complicated yet preposterously jerrybuilt adventures of whom evince the faintest of interest until the compulsory cheesy HFN. With this specific plot line, Mrs West has obviously bitten off way more than she could chow; her use of the multiverse trope showcases how technically incompetent of a writer she remains, while at the same time exposing her entire Tygeria - Lycanus - Terra universe for the sham it never ceased to be.
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September 14, 2019
I adore Blake so this is among my favorite from the series. I also loved the relationship angst and all the jelousy. That said it is not a 5 star for me bc I felt like Davos got off easy for being a jerk and a bit of a tirant. They said some nasty things to eachother, especially Davos... the condescending tone ab the spouses who bottom and more, wasn t addressed in the end. Blake forgave him everything without Davos acknowledging anything. I did not like that, there should have been more groveling from Davos.
May 28, 2022
Not my favorite out of all the books
This was not my favorite out of all of the books the plot was a little out there but I understand why this book had to be made to take us into a book.. Which is where I'm off to now!
This was not my favorite out of all of the books the plot was a little out there but I understand why this book had to be made to take us into a book.. Which is where I'm off to now!
March 5, 2019
I really like this series and can’t wait for book 8! Blake is a take no shit guy even if he is a little scared. I especially like the way he loves his sons...and Davos.
June 29, 2021
Brilliant continuing story I could not put it down
June 5, 2022
Davos and Black story in alternate universe. My favorite couple.
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