SPOILER ALERT! I'm not in the business of ruining books, so if you haven't read this book yet, turn back now!
Author: Lola Glass
Series: Mate Hunt Series Book #1
Category: Paranormal Romance
Rating: ⭐
Spice: 🌶️
"'Don't you growl at me for threatening you. You're the asshole who kidnapped me and trapped me in your house, wolf.'" - Teagan
I hated this book from the get-go, I'm surprised I made it as far as I did. This is not going to be a very happy book review, so for those of you who loved it or don't want spoilers, turn back now!
Teagan is minding her own business when a pack of guys walk into her work and her life changes forever. When one of them starts to change into a werewolf after making eye contact with her, his friends instantly kidnap Teagan ferrying her off into the woods without much explanation other than monsters exist and she's the newly changing wolf's mate. And of course, she has no power to stop this.
Teagan doesn’t give up easily, I can say that much about her. Refusing to accept her fate, she does everything she can to get away but even when she is successful, the wolves still come for her. The wolves' friendliness is grating and condescending, no one seems to care about what she wants only what has to happen now in their ritual of mating.
Yes, her mate Jesse may be perfect for her, but being just fine that she could die from a bite he is fated to give her makes him a horrible person. Let me repeat - don't bite people without consent!
Unfortunately, Teagan slowly accepts her situation and buckles. In two days, she is practically in love with wolf Jesse as he bosses her around nonverbally. Although he can't talk, he is complicit in all of the life-changing things that are being thrust onto her. The fact that he stashed away some money for this exact situation that he knew was going to happen just not to which girl does not make it any better. It just makes the kidnapping premeditated.
"Victim or not, I had to deal with the hand I'd been dealt. And I'd been dealt a werewolf." - Teagan
I stuck it out for as long as I did to see human Jesse, I was curious how that part would go and hoped Teagan held out against him. But nope, he captures her heart in 2.5 seconds because they can't be away from each other with their bond so new and she can't resist a pretty face. Oh, and he's a nerd so he is her type (yes, we're using a 13-year-old's logic).
I finally put myself out of my misery around the 70% mark. I just didn't care about any of the characters or their relationship at all. Everyone sucks in their way, but the werewolves and the world most of all.
This book made me irrationally mad because the premise is so original! Building the relationship with the wolf before the man hasn't been done and this could have been such a great story. But nope, we got kidnappers, nonconsensual biting, and a cult like community that is a-okay with it all because 'they don't have a choice'.
Tropes and Themes: Werewolves, Kidnapping, Fated Mates, Paranormal Romance, Shifters, Forced Proximity.
Blurb
All it took was one look to end my life...
Because one look is all it takes to trigger a werewolf's mate hunt.
And when a wolf is hunting, he doesn't stop until his mate either dies or becomes a wolf too.
Now I'm trapped in some guy's house, he's stuck in his wolf form, and there's no way out for either of us.
Life as I knew it is over, but my fight to survive is only beginning.
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