Review: Amazing twist ending
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 5, 2014
I love Toni Griffin’s Holland Brothers Series. What’s not to like? Family, werewolves, good triumphs over evil, and in Protective Mate there’s a little girl to love. Yes, yes… I am a sucker for baby daddy stories. So sue me. This is one of those books I would classify as a guilty pleasure read – not challenging, just a book to spend a pleasant afternoon enjoying.I wasn’t fortunate enough to read this book in its first incarnation but since the blurb reveals this version is an expanded book I am delighted to get on board now. One thing about the world some shifter writers build is it gives permission for insta-love through the “my mate” trope, which happens to be a story line I enjoy when it is well done as it is here.Zack has lost his entire family except for his daughter in the last two years. When his homophobic former in-laws make a play to take his daughter away from him he his hometown and hopefully them behind. When he introduces himself to his new Alpha and his family he finds that the alpha’s brother is his mate. A great deal of the book, a little too much, in my opinion, is spent with swelling crotches and delays in mating due to the baby being around. Come on, guys, put her to bed and shut the bedroom door. However, it does build up to some very hot sex when they finally do get it on.It turns out Zack has not been able to keep his tormentors at bay and they follow him to his new home where they kidnap the baby from her daycare. His mate Simon and his Alpha Alex track little Hayley to where she is being held in a hotel. At that point we could have a The End and a HEA, but Ms. Griffin has another twist to throw at us in the last chapter. A very BIG twist with a theme that changes the world she has built and will alter the future for this pack of werewolves. I am so excited to be waiting for the next book in this series!Originally appeared at Mrs Condit & Friends Read Books