Review: nothing happens for 27 chapters
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 2, 2013
The Keeping (Sequel to The Mating)This book was unnecessarily long. For 60% of the book and 27 chapters, nothing happened except the H & h wondering about what the other was really up to.  Since I already knew what they were up to, thier 27 chapters of speculating got really old.Melody couldn't keep her legs closed for a man that treated her like crap.  And Ryne was an arrogant rapist.  There was no loving relationship. All they did was have sex and fight. They were not likeable characters.As for the rape.  Ryne climbed through the window of a virtual stranger in the middle of the night while she was sleeping, sucked on her breasts, fingred her and then snuck out.  When she thought someone might have been in her cabin, she was terrified, felt violated and felt like throwing up.  He used the excuse of "the wolf made me do it." Really?After he was viciously cruel to her, admitted to the rape and that he was a werewolf, she decided she was definitely in love.The last 40% of the book finally got on with the story line.  And that had a twist that leads into the next book.