Interesting. It seems murder is my love language.
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Come For Me
C.J. Sweet
The Hunt, book one
328 pages, Kindle Edition
Audiobook, ~14 hours
Published October 4, 2024
ISBN 9798990912007
Alaina
He’s waited a long time for me, but I’ve waited longer for the truth. Not even the king himself could keep me from the only ties left to my identity. Then I meet him, and I’m stuck between uncovering who I am and discovering who I’m meant to be.
Dax
After seven years I finally found her, my true mate’s timing couldn’t have been more perfect. With the rogue and vampire attacks increasing in vigor, my kingdom needed a strong leader now more than ever. They needed us. Only together, did we have a chance. But she’s fighting her destiny, fighting me. It’s only a matter of time before my enemies plaguing my kingdom would see this and try to take what’s mine.
This book features a menu of over forty of the best and worst tropes and kinks of dark romance. There's something for everyone, especially those with a healthy sense of adventure or those looking to unlock new kinks.
Everyone knows how mate bonds are severed: either the true mate is killed or a wolf is claimed by another before the fated mate can. Once marked, I would quickly lose my ability to recognize my mate, and he would eventually die of a broken heart.
Would I rather my mate be killed than live somewhere else? Would I choose his agony over my own?
Would I rather my mate be killed than live somewhere else? Would I choose his agony over my own?
Find your true mate or choose to bond to another.
But if you choose another, your true mate will wither and die.
Alrighty then. Ouch.
Alaina doesn’t want her true mate. Not if it means leaving the Bloodhound pack, the only pack she’s ever known and the only link she has left to a mother she never knew. A mother who had wandered into the pack’s territory, pregnant and alone, seeking refuge. The mother who had died giving birth to her.
When the alpha’s son, Caleb, her best friend and occasional lover, tells her that his father is forcing him to choose a mate at the next traditional mate hunt in order to secure his place as heir, he also informs her that he intends to choose her should he fail to find his true mate.
It’s a solution to both of their predicaments. And, would be a bittersweet full circle that started when they had first become friends with benefits back when Alaina was eighteen only to discover on her twenty-first birthday that Caleb was not her true mate.
The day arrives. The hunt begins. And straight away, Alaina detects a new scent. Her wolf responds Mate while Alana's eerie brain takes the 'Caleb needs to kill him' route.
Meanwhile... Dax will claim nothing less than his Fated.
As we near the castle grounds, my plans to take advantage of a willing subject are sabotaged by the sweetest smell of black raspberry and vanilla. Her scent infiltrates my plan and overcomes my darkest intentions. This dark lord’s storm is calmed by her aroma as I inhale further. As I drink in this newfound heaven, my [redacted]. Her natural fragrance alone, whoever she is, has caught this demon’s attention, and I won’t be satisfied until I’ve possessed her very soul.
Tension and the weight of my duty to the throne rolls off me like sand recedes with the waves—for the first time in eight years. All because of her.
“Mate,” I mindlink to my beta.
Like a meerkat, Sam’s head pops up, wide-eyed and alert. “What?”
He never thought he’d ever hear the word. None of us did.
“Mate,” I mindlink to my beta.
Like a meerkat, Sam’s head pops up, wide-eyed and alert. “What?”
He never thought he’d ever hear the word. None of us did.
Ladies and gentlemen, Joe Arden! Anthony Palmini will always be my favorite reader, but Joe. Arden. The inflection. The emphasis. The growls.
Oh, Caleb. You in danger, boy.
And I should have read this before Raven Kennedy's Gleam because compared to Dax, Ravinger's a choir boy.
Alaina has every intention of allowing Caleb to claim her, but with her true mate's scent in her lungs, she finds herself fighting with her wolf. His touch revolts her, burning her, and her wolf snarls and whimpers to get away.
And then Dax arrives. A king that will have his queen.
Let the battle of wills commence.
“All you have to do is stake your claim.” I bare my neck to her, baiting her. “Take what’s always belonged to you, darling. Be my queen.” I growl the honorific.
Her heart skips a beat, lip quivering, and her canines descend unintentionally as she fights her wolf’s instinctual urge.
We know what this would mean. I can be calm in any battle, but she leans in, and it takes everything for my heart to not beat out of my chest. I’ve never wanted anyone more than I’ve wanted her. I fucking worship my mate.
Alaina leans in to mark me. I don’t move, more than ready for her to seal the bond officially.
Then moisture hits my cheek.
Did she just spit on me?
Her heart skips a beat, lip quivering, and her canines descend unintentionally as she fights her wolf’s instinctual urge.
We know what this would mean. I can be calm in any battle, but she leans in, and it takes everything for my heart to not beat out of my chest. I’ve never wanted anyone more than I’ve wanted her. I fucking worship my mate.
Alaina leans in to mark me. I don’t move, more than ready for her to seal the bond officially.
Then moisture hits my cheek.
Did she just spit on me?
This book had me clutching my pearls and shielding my ears and eyes. I cringed. I laughed. I blushed. It is the be-all and end-all of wolf shifter smut. That's it. I need not one more book in this genre.
The only problem being... this ends in a cliffhanger.
5 out of 5 stars. Dax is positively unhinged. Audiobook or nothing with this one.
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