Book Blurb:
Life among the pack isn’t easy for a rebellious woman fated to be the wolf king’s mate in an apocalyptically thrilling paranormal romance from USA Today bestselling author Megan Crane.
On a full-moon night, fate takes what it wants. That’s you, Maddox Hemming.
It was known before I was born what destiny had in store. It’s in my blood. I am the fated mate of Ty Ceridwen. The alpha and king of the Western Wolves. The bane of my existence. And whether in skin or fur, the love of my life.
He wants the ritual that will bind us forever. All I want is more time—but unfortunately that’s running out. Ty needs me in line for what’s coming.
The Wolf Moon is rising, and if the gruesome sacrifices in the woods are any indication, an ancient foe has Vinča, the goddess of filth and death, who is driven to wipe out the world as we know it.
Not to mention my mated destiny with Ty.
Defeating Vinča would certainly make for a happy ending…if we can just survive long enough to see it come true.
Tropes:
*Netgalley ALC 12/12 *Romantasy *Fated mates *Shifter Romance *age gap *spice
*strong willed Independant FMC *Touch her and 💀 *State Challenge Oregon (repeat)
*large cast of paranormal characters (wolf shifters, vampires, oracle, trolls/goblins etc..)
*Magical world *Mystery *Betrayal
Thoughts:
To start with I didn't realize this was the second book in this series, I didn't read the first in the series but was able to catch up fairly quickly to what happened in the first book as they went over some of the things during this second book.
Maddox (FMC) is a strong willed woman who is the fated mate to the Wolf king Ty (king of the Western Wolves) even though she knows it is her fate (haha) to be with Ty and she can't stay away from him she also month after month during the full moon doesn't let him claim her like he needs to to complete their bond.
I'm going to be honest here... I almost DNF this book a few times in the beginning because the first 5 or 6 chapters seemed to be the FMC complaining about her lot in life about how things needed to move forward to being more modern and she didn't want to just roll over and "Do her job" of giving birth to the kings offspring... I get it and that stinks that you feel that you're in that position but he seemed to be pretty leniant for a king over 100 years old he was open minded and treated her as his equal so the one that was being stubborn at this point about any changes was her... it was getting pretty repetitive.
Maddox lives seperately from her pack in a cottage nearby and has made friends with a few different people a human Oracle (who is with a Vampire king), a fae, and a sorceress, they have interactions throughout the book but we never get to know any of them all that well.
There are a few main plot points throughout this book times are changing and the wolf kings and their packs are coming for a gathering... if Maddox doesn't finish the ritual soon it will be seen badly in their culture and that could cause more threats to head their way... but she still has time (the girl thinks she has all the time in the world... she doesn't).
Second plot point is that from the first book there was an ancient goddess that was sealed away... only there are indications that maybe she wasn't sealed away as well as they thought... could she have gotten out so soon? And if so are they strong enough to take care of this threat for good? Someone close to them is betraying them and leaving creepy messages/offerings but who?
I liked Ty he had been waiting for his fated mate to be his queen for a very long time, even though Maddox was brought to him when she was younger he allowed her the time away from him to grow, find herself and go to college (per her request) with the promise that she would come to him when she was ready... he's really been quite patient with this whole process.
While I appreciated that Maddox wanted to move the packs way of thinking into the future instead of staying in the male rules everything past... I feel this took up so much of the storyline that some things that should have had more time to grow and some things ended feeling more rushed.
In this second book we are told that what happened in the first book ended with the humans being in "safe zones" and everyone else (vampires, wolves, trolls, fae etc...) are out living life more freely so at some point I might go back and read the first book to see what happened to lead to that, but might wait awhile since I got the cliffs notes of what happened in this second book.
I'm glad I ended up staying with the book as I began to enjoy it more as it went on and think the narrator did a good job with the storyline. Thank you to the author and netgalley for this ALC
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