Review: Another great addition to Rebecca Zanetti's Dark Protectors
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 16, 2014
Originally reviewed for Tea and BookI admit it, I am a Rebecca Zanetti junkie.. She has a new book out.. I am there, ready to read. I first fell hard and fast for her Dark Protectors and am thrilled that while keeping to the main plot of the life and loves of the Kayrs family, she still offers us these wonderful tidbits in novellas. Now I am not usually a fan of novellas as they just aren't long enough BUT.. I do enjoy it when an author manage to tell stories outside the main arc. Especially when it's done in a way that remains true to the storyline but tells us about those we might not have considered before. Tamed is a brilliant example of such a story, Lives within the plot.. individuals we have met before and now get to fall in love with.Prophet Lily, that is how she is referred to. Respected, revered almost but she is more than a prophet, she is a woman of passion. 300 years ago she chose duty over love and mated the man her family chose for her. In the Vampire world, you only get one shot.. you are mated for life. If your hubby dies after two weeks.. too bad you are still mated. That is until the Kurjans created the virus that would unmate a woman. Of course it also destroyed your DNA and eventually took you all the way to nothing but for now it just unmates you. Lily was exposed to the virus and now discovers that she has another chance. A chance at love.. but can she ever be brave enough to go down that path again?Caleb Donovan is a soldier, a man of war so how is it exactly that he was chosen by fate to become a prophet? Fate must be crazy.. Not only is he a prophet but now has to work in close proximity to the one woman he has always loved. The one woman who chose duty over love. How can he do it. Of course walking into a dive and discovering that the love of his life is there to get laid.. yeah sort of takes things to a whole new level.. Except Caleb may not be what he considers prophet material but he is a man of honor, a man sworn to protect, so he may want Lily but he knows that he has to woo her first If only those darned prophecies would stop coming in and messing things up.All three of the prophets are having nightmares, telling them that for there to be peace, Janie Karys must die.. Lily especially is given a choice, kill Lily or lose the only chance she will ever have to have a child with Caleb. I loved Lily's response.. no not gonna tell you.Of course it's not enough that there is a supposed peace talk coming up, it's not enough that Lily has the Virus, it's not enough that her libido has been reawoken, and it's not enough that her dreams are demanding she kill Janie...nope she has a crazy Kurjan who wants her for his mate. Yeah, like that is going to happen.Rebecca does a wonderful job telling this lovely story in too few words (yep that's me, it was too short). But the story did not suffer. The characters did not suffer and the villains well, they suffered but not because this book was short.. Another great story by Ms Zanetti.ShauniThis review is based on the ARC of Tamed, provided by netgalley.