Review: “You’ve underestimated me bitch”
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 17, 2014
Tamed (Dark Protectors) Rebecca ZanettiOnce I started Tamed I literally could not put it down.  I was drawn into the story from the first page.  Janie and Hilde were on a mission to get Lily laid.  This was a girl’s night out without vampires and guards which Janie also needed desperately.  The scene plays out humorously with Hilde letting Lily know how lucky she was to get a second chance at love or even sex for that matter.  You see once mated to a vampire it’s for life.  Even if your mate dies.  Neither surviving mate can be intimate without inflicting a horrible reaction.  Lily even though mated to a vampire who died two weeks after their bonding centuries ago, had  recently come in contact with the virus V-27 created by their enemies to unravel chromosomes but it also took away the physical repercussions of vampire mating’s.  Basically unmating them and allowing them to touch another without inflicting a horrible reaction to them both.  During their banter back and forth Janie happens to mention Caleb Donovan was supposed to arrive at headquarters in a few days, which sent Lily’s blood and heart pounding.  She always got this reaction when his name was mentioned or he was around.You see there is history between Caleb and Lily.  Caleb a soldier/warrior was off battling a war and had all intentions of returning to claim Lily.  Much to his dismay Lily chose duty over love and mated with the Vampire chosen by her family.  For the next three centuries Caleb was soldier/warrior and known as the Realm Rebel.  Until fate would have it, he was at the right place at the wrong time and was marked as a prophet.  Caleb considered himself anything but a prophet and how could fate play such a dirty trick on him. Now that he was one of the three prophets sent to broker a peace treaty with the Kujans, demons and Vampires his emotions regarding Lily came flooding back.When the girl’s little escapade in the bar backfired and they started a brawl Lily froze in her spot when Caleb and Dage walked through the door.  My favorite line at this juncture of the story was when Caleb said “So. Rumor has it you want to get laid”. I lost it.As the story progresses you realize Caleb still has it bad for Lily, and Lily even questions her decision so many centuries ago to choose duty over her heart.  Well things start to change when Lily comes to Caleb’s apartment after having a repeat of her nightmares.  Unbeknownst to her Caleb is also having nightmarish visions.  When she finally opens up and talks about her dreams and learns Caleb is having similar visions he promises her they’ll work it out and he doesn’t hold a lot of credence to fate.When she stays the night and a kiss turns into much more you know right then they are lost to each other never to make the same mistake from centuries before.  While Caleb was pleasuring Lily at one point and she started to make a comment, Caleb looked up at her just as her eyes crossed making him bite his lip so he wouldn’t start laughing out loud. Well I literally laughed out loud.  It was the cutest scene.  I know you’re probably wondering how can this read be cute.  Well there are some light hearted moments which makes this seem so real.  Most readers will definitely relate.The other scene where Lily is actually confronted by Fate herself (so she thinks) and is shown things that crush her and may force her to make decisions she may not want to make, her comment to Fate when she stands up to her is “You’ve underestimated me bitch”, had me fist pumping.  The meek Lily is no more.  The real Lily starts to surface and she’s totally a kick ass woman.Guiles the other prophet you learn is really a wuss and sells out Lily to save his own skin.  When Dage and Caleb are on a rescue mission to bring back Lily, Caleb levels with the King and tells him about the nightmares/visions they’ve all had regarding Janie.  The twist here involving Guiles will blow you away.  I was floored.The most touching scene and it grabbed my heart was when Caleb gave Lily the actual birthday present he had for her. It was a photo album of pictures Caleb had taken over time of things that reminded him of Lily.  Yes a tear fell from my eyes.Now the bonus scene will totally blow you away.  Think about it.  Lily from birth has carried a burden on her shoulders knowing she had a major role in destiny that could change the world for good or bad.  When she relaxes her mind and hopes to access a vision she enters her, for lack of words happy place, a beach, warm sand where she could invite or not invite who she pleased.  She chose to be alone, to think and it is here she actually meets Fate.  The conversation they have is amazing.  A lesson to be learned here for all of us.  We all have choices it just depends which road we want to take and with those choses there could be consequences be it adverse or good. No one can tell us what to do, that is something we all decide on our own.  What can I say I loved this book.  I’m very anxious for her next release “Marked” we’ll finally see how this plays out between Janie, Zane and Kalin. And what was/is her destiny. Based on a comment in the bonus scene will Janie have to kill either Zane or Kalin to save the world? I guess we have to wait and see.