The Complete Series omnibus contains Wolf Forgotten, Wolf Forsaken, Wolf Forged, Wolf Forever .
My world shattered the day my parents didn’t show up to my graduation.
Grieving and lost, I discover my adoption certificate hidden in a drawer, unearthing a secret no one wanted me to know. Needing answers, I move to Arbor Falls to find out who abandoned me over two decades ago.
Instead, I discover a world I never knew existed when I shift into a wolf for the first time. But I’m different from the others, and not everyone can accept that this forgotten wolf is here to stay.
Everyone except my four mates.
The growly alpha who carries the weight of his pack. The lonely omega who loves fiercely. The broken stray who learns to trust again. The rival alpha who would burn down the world to protect what’s his.
With danger lurking in the shadows of the forest, I’m faced with a choice: run with my tail between my legs or become who I was born to be.
*Arbor Falls is a wolf shifter romance told in multiple POVs. She will end up with four love interests. It contains MM, mature scenes, and adult language.
This was good but it was also a lot. There were four or five books in one. I kind of needed a break halfway through but I kept going anyway. It had a lot of funny parts and was low angst. I’m undecided on how I feel about Xander and Eli sort of having a separate relationship. Sort of made it seem less about the main female character. But it also had shifters, RH and gods and goddesses so I guess it’s whatever. The big conflict was definitely drawn out a lot and then ended up being kind of stupid.
That was unexpected. Wolves and Greek myth. It got to be a bit much to keep everyone straight but it was interesting, sad, political and so much drama.
From the moment IVY finds out she is not a human, but in fact a wolf shifter, to the final exciting show down. This was a fun and exciting ride. The whole things had some big issues, and something at the end could have stopped all of the madness. But I enjoyed this enough to keep going to the end. A solid three stars.
I read the entire series for a rushed ending and a RH that isn’t a RH.
The beginning of Arbor Falls had promise. We’re introduced to Ivy who after graduating, and coming to realize she was adopted goes in search of answers. Her search leads her to Arbor Falls a very small town with even fewer people. But she likes the solitude for the most part, and nature…so she’s happy to settle.
Cole comes into her life after 8 months of living in Arbor Falls. Turns out Cole is the Alpha of a local Pack and he had “sniffed” Ivy out and was upset that she hadn’t come to pledge pack allegiance. Ivy has no idea she’s a wolf, and when she shifts the first time it’s traumatic. She comes to realize that Cole and three others are her mates. And then the story goes all to hell.
Between the weird as shyte Gods and Goddesses plot, which is supposed to explain Ivy’s origins, and in some part, her mate Xanders as well, the fact that this reverse harem dissolves pretty quickly into a polyamorous book NOT a RH. Ivy’s one mate, of course, Xander is bi, and all but jumps Eli (Ivy’s other mate at the first chance he gets). Then Eli reciprocates and there are m/m scenes outnumbering the rest. Eventually ALL the men are as involved with one another as they are with Ivy. What’s wrong with this? Well, there wouldn’t have been anything wrong with it if the book had made it clear in the synopsis that it was a true polyamorous novel where ALL PARTIES WERE INVOLVED SEXUALLY. The largest issue comes from by having all the guys have sex and fall in love with each other…they really lose sight of Ivy. Heck Eli becomes more important, even Xander (with all his issues).
I didn’t like that the Gods and Goddesses were introduced so late in the series and that the explanation for their arrival and the part they play in Ivy’s series is sooooo large, but they’re introduced so late, and then there is a rush to the ending which doesn’t give the reader any satisfaction. It’s a hurried, anti-climactic ending, where the only “climax,” are the ones between the guys, and Cole AND SILAS (the straightest of the mates) jump on the we are now bisexual train. Frankly, the series dissolved into a hot mess, and instead of solidifying Ivy’s relationship to HER MATES, they solidify their bonds to one another, and it feels as if Ivy is on the OUTSIDE AS ALPHA looking in on this cozy “i love you fest,” between HER mates. She becomes relegated to the “daughter of the Goddess who actively encourages her guys to have sex with each other because if course she finds watching sooooo hot… *sigh*. Some women might find it “hot,” but it feels as if EVERY RH out there is now polyamorous NOT traditional RH (we can’t get ONE RH where the guys sole sexual and emotional love focus is on the FMC). And every author presses hard on the fact that not only is the FMC on with it, and encourages it, but it turns her on. Come on already. A little m/m is okay, but it has literally overtaken the RH genre, to a point that I feel as if we’re obliterating RH all together, in favor of “all love,” ie, they all love each other equally both emotionally and sexually. If that is the case I honestly wish the authors and publishers would STOP using the title Reverse Harem. RH, the FMC is the sole main focus of a group of people, men for the most part. It’s a play on the traditional harems where men have all these women at their beck and call, wives, harem girls etc. but in RH (it’s supposed to be the woman’s fantasy, which is handsome guys falling and tripping over themselves to be WITH HER, again, ONLY HER! Her men can be together as “brothers” or equal protectors lovers, husbands etc, to the FMC. But the male relationships especially the sexual and emotional, should NEVER overshadow the FMC.
This complete series includes all 4 books. I found very often is RH books for authors is hard to balance between the spice scenes and the story itself. In this series I think the author done quite good job at that. Usually I loose interest in such a long series for one couple and here it happened again. Book one and two were great but by three as usual it started to drag. I read it all as it was interesting enough but I think it had the potential of being great. There are a lot of ideas there but just scratching the surface not been explored deep enough. Instead books are filled with a lot of waiting time which was annoying for me and some talk which tried to make the story fun but felt short in times when you don’t get the actual plot you’re waiting for. Ivy is half wolf half goddess but except her healing skills from the goddess side we don’t see any other of her abilities been explored. She becomes alpha but again not deeply explored. For Eli and Xander we don’t see how their experience affects them and how they deal it. Silas abilities are found just in the end but what used are they at all, I didn’t get to be honest. The whole plot is great but how it’s dealt it is making look wolf and people died for nothing then a child play between gods. I think if you make it such a paranormal/ fantasy book including gods you have to write it greater then what is presented. Spicy scenes were about 🌶️ 🌶️ they could’ve been written way better as well. For four books this series could’ve been great for now it’s only good for me. But I would definitely explore more books from this author as there is a lot of potential.
This is my first shifter romance book and to say I was hesitant to start would be an understatement. However, I found myself hooked on this from the word go. I do wish I had read Salinity Cove first though as this is referenced throughout the series.
The first book in particular had me unable to put it down but found it required a bit more brain power to follow as the story became more complicated.
Each book, except the last, ended on a cliffhanger. I was so glad that the series had been completely published by the time I read them else I think I would have had to tap into my own inner wolf to track Maya Nicole down to find out what happened next.
As the books progress, elements of Greek Mythology become included and I found myself researching Greek Gods and Goddesses to learn more.
I loved the references throughout the books to Twilight and Harry Potter. Had I’d been in Ivy’s position, I would have been making similar comparisons.
Ivy is a good, strong character who proves to be very much up to the job of being the top dog in a male dominated world.
The guys Cole, Silas, Eli and Xander were all quite different from each other but united in their love for Ivy and, eventually, each other.
The story was a good mix of romance, fantasy, thriller and spice with some laughs and also some parts that were quite upsetting.
Maya Nicole is a new find of mine, this year, and I have to say that I have yet to be disappointed by any of the books I’ve read (although I do have my favourites). I love how very different her books are from each other, encompassing many different genres but all are immensely enjoyable (well from the ones I’ve read so far anyway).
Started really well, ended flat due to excessive craziness
The first book in this series started really well. Unfortunately the author fell into the two worst pitfalls for romantasy stories: 1) early popularity misled her into extending the book longer than was interesting and 2) the extension required going over the line from fiction into absurdity.
I originally loved the FMC. Scratch that; I do still love the FMC all the way to the end. I wish she had been a little more pushy about her position in the pack toward the end but I accept her as a decent example of a strongish FMC. She was smart, adaptive and humorous as well as caring. A well rounded package mostly.
I originally liked Eli and disliked Cole. Toward the end I found them both relatively useless. They just don't live up to the character's potential or the needs of the plot. Xander is a decent MMC but his "two truths and a lie" facts are unnecessarily absurd and don't quite work for the society he describes as his pack. Silas is the solid winner of the guys but..... His parentage was part of the step too far.
Honestly, I should have stopped reading after book one. It drops off pretty steeply into excess and absurdity relatively early in book two. Book one would have made a better set up for mutiny against the patriarchy hierarchical nonsense instead of an episode of Greek gods Maury.
I’ve read a few of the first books and I’m glad I got the chance to read read them and the new ones in them one go. Maya knows how to write drama, passionate love, emotional heart wrenching scenes, in surprising situations. It all plays together well. My favourite part was reading the multiple point of views. We got to see in each of the characters minds and it allowed the reader to fall in love with each of them. I did find that a lot of the same stuff repeatedly happened. Those situations already broke my heart the first time and to see it happen again was hard.
I am glad that they came out of it each time, and I also liked that each book felt like it had its own issue with the last one tying them all together. The characters just experienced torture from another’s hands after being kidnapped again.
Solid 3.5 stars on character building, world building, action, drama, and spice.
This is a RH Shifter romance. Full of twists, turns and spice I just wasn’t blown away. I would consider it LQBTQ. I may have liked it more if Ivy allowed her mates to be a little more domineering and if the writer tested their love a little more. Although the story was good it felt too easy.
Maybe if Dante wanted Ivy all to himself, Apollo kidnapped Ivy , the pack wasn’t so accepting of Ivy or she took some beatings It would have been more captivating🤷🏽♀️. Ivy doesn’t exude “alpha” so if anything she and all her mates should have been alphas.
If you like books with RH, Shifters, and spice you would enjoy this book.
I guess the plot wasn’t bad, but the rest was. It moved way too fast, and was missing a lot of small details. For example (spoilers), she’s graduating and then gets a call, the next sentence she’s in her fathers office opening a drawer. In that time her parents had died. Like what?? And she immediately finds out she’s adopted by an old news clipping. The headline was kinda vague and I didn’t see how she put it together so fast. Literally two seconds later she’s forgotten all about her dead parents and wants to go find her “real” parents. The next sentence she’s moved across the country, at a bar with new friends, a new job, and it’s been 8 months. Talk about whiplash. Just want for me.
If you like found family, discovering yourself, why choose, alpha female, goddess, shifter type of spicy books, this is for you.
Maya did a great job on all the details and keeping attention. The story line was great and it wasn't continuously predictable like most stories these days. While it does have a HEV, it had enough emotional twists throughout the way. It is a extremely fast burn spicy why choose with 4 men and 1 woman. There is MM action too. If you aren't into that or multiple partners I don't recommend unless you skip the pages. Overall, this was a good shifter series (4books in one).
Only thing I wish the time line wasn't so short. All 4 books take place within about 6 months give or take.
We start out with Ivy graduating from college, her best friend Reiley (who just so happens to be a siren) and her 3 mates are there to cheer her on. Unfortunately Ivy finds out her parents have died in an accident. What happens after that makes your head spin. She finds out she was adopted, finds out where she came from and makes a big change. Once she moves to Arbor Falls though, her life as she has known it comes to a screeching halt. Finding herself and everything that happens from that point on is mind blowing. Shifters, gods, goddesses, mates (yes, I said mates), steam, secret organizations, more steam, killers. Did I mention steam? This is one hot box set worth your time!
I’m shocked that I haven’t heard of this author before, especially having seen that she has other series out! I was pleasantly surprised on all fronts - totally expected this to be a knotting/vibes read, but what stated as a seemingly simple shifter story evolved into a fight straight from Mt. Olympus. Shocked? So was I. But since I love anything related to Greek mythology, it hit the sweet spot. Definitely not your average shifter story. And I’m happy to say the spice (and WAS THERE SPICE 🌶️🌶️🌶️) didn’t distract from the story at all for me. I’m excited to read the rest of her stuff.
If you like shifters, tension, trauma, fierce FMCs, and alpha-men embracing their emotions and opening up to new experiences, this one’s for you!
*small spoilers* I am glad I read it for free. I like the length and the fact that all 4 books are together. However. I feel books 1-3 are slower and then 4 wraps up everything too quickly. The whole Greek mythology thing with gods and goddesses just seems like an after thought and some of it makes you go "w..what..?" Like settling things with a thumb war?? I mean it was funny and broke up some of the seriousness but its like um why...? So if you're a reader who is looking for a good mix of spice and a story line from dream. It's not bad.
I am not good in writting reviews but this series was so good couldn't stop reading. I even started being very emotionally when they attacked Ivy and Cole. Even the love the between Cole, Silas and Ivy had me going. By time i started reading the 2nd book is more of a mythology when Apollo and Artemis was included. You need to read. Is a mystery, love story, shifter and very sexually contents
XXX! Adult content, reader discretion advised. Abandoned at birth and hunted in a new life. Ivy was adopted out at just a few days old. After her parents tragic death in a car accident on their way to her Master’s degree program graduation, Ivy sets off to discover her origins. What she discovers about herself is overwhelming and more than she ever bargained for. Greek gods feudal ways and multiple mates lead to a number of complications.
Decent chunky read. Ideal for a holiday by the pool. Loved all the characters. Ivy was one lucky woman to have such devoted males. They all went through so much & I wish there had been an extra last chapter showing them later & I hope all happy leading a much quiter life together. I had Apollo pegged all wrong. I don't think I've read this author before but I will read again probably starting with Riley's story.
I wanted to love this series so much. Book one was amazing and was a great set up for a wolf realm story. However, along the way the story fell off. I think it’s because of the complexity of including gods and goddesses. The series had great potential and it was an easy and fast read. I recommend the read and it’s worth four stars because I loved the male characters. Cole was my favorite, but I must admit it was disappointing and didn’t live up to the potential that it could have.
A great read with excellent characters. Enjoyed the tie in with the other series. I felt Iike it needed some more ending though. I feel the same with the other series too. As the reader you go on a long journey across multiple books with the characters through challenging times so I feel like we should get a bit more of the good times and what happens with them in the future.
I’m not sure where to begin with this one. Yes there is spice. Meh it’s just ok. There isn’t much of any story happening. It lacked excitement and was pretty mundane. The FMC had a weird fixation with tasting deer. Just didn’t hit the mark for me. It left a lot to be desired. There are so many good reverse harem books. This one lacked plot and it just wasn’t an interesting read for me personally.
I thoroughly enjoyed this series. It had me sucked in the entire time. The only reason I don’t give it a whole 5 stars is only because it wasn’t one of the best books I’ve ever read. But it’s well written, has good plot, great story line, (the MFC can be irksome, but it’s bearable), angst, everything you can ask for. I think I’m just picky and prefer darker stories. Like, sad. Soul crushing, lol.
The story for the most part is good.. but its destroyed by 3/4s of the chapters being sex... wasn't what I was going for when I selected this book and I did skip most of several chapters because the sex was just too much.. major crisis happening let's all just drop our pants and f**k .. too stupid for words could have been an epic story.. but was disappointed by cheap smut
A great series that, while it includes great sex scenes, also tells a great story of shifters, the struggle of Ivy learning she is a shifter AND a female alpha, along with betrayal within the packs along with outside interference from the Greek deities of mythology. A must read for those interested in the genre.
This series has something for everyone! It's an action meets rom com meets paranormal wolf shifter reverse harem meets mythology meets erotica! This is a four-book series and each book leads into the next one to make the completed storyline. It's spicy steam and action adventure to keep you on the edge of your seat. It is definitely entertaining and will keep you happily entertained for days!
A good shifter story with a female alpha reverse harem style. Could it have been 4 books instead of 5? Probably. But were the 5 books enjoyable - yes. Was the spice good - also yes. Includes bi-awakening as well. Solid 4 stars. The audiobook(s) was done by Bridget and Jake Bordeaux and they were excellent, as always.
It was a good series. Not my usual read. I'm not much into so much MM and yes I knew going into it there was some and no it didn't impact my star rating. There was some points were it just dragged the story. And some was just a little too much out there. It just wasn't a smooth story for me.
I have read these all before, but thrilled it was a box set now with epilogue bought again AND the whole thing is just one credit on Audibel - total streal for like 40 hours odd!
Brilliant storyline, clear individual characters, a FMC that has weakness but grows in power, influence and confidence every time. Cannot recommend enough :)
This book appeared promising but as you progress into it- there are some childish and totally irrelevant parts in midst of a dire situation! This was super annoying as it made the book drag on unnecessarily and you totally lost interest. 40% in and couldn’t finish it
Such a fun read, with exciting twists and turns. Great main characters you will fall in love with, and a good story line to keep you interested the whole way through. The story almost has a romantic comedy vibe, you will definitely smile and giggle a lot!
This book is full of shifters romance and spice. If you love werewolves or just reverse harems you will probably enjoy this one. This was my first book by this author and while it says that you should read this book second there are mentions of other characters from other books but I found that I was not confused in any way when they were mentioned