Review: Fantastic Read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 26, 2013
When you are broken, there is no better place to go than home and no better treatment than love.Devin has been fighting in the shifter/Dragon war for fifteen years, some of which he spent as a prisoner of war. Returning home to continue life as a broken wolf, Devin tries to deal with his mental and physical issues. Enter Lena. She's the youngest daughter of the family across the street, but Devin doesn't remember her from before the war.But Lena knows exactly who Devin is. During his farewell party Lena made the connection that Devin was her mate. Only being seven, she wasn't even a blip on his radar so she has been biding her time, waiting and praying for his safe return. Now that he is home, she decides now is as good a time as any to stake her claim on her man.Of course, nothing ever really goes as planned and this short story is the tale of Devin and Lena's mating dance. He is too hung up on his wellbeing, or lack of it, and she is completely unconcerned about it. I think the author did a really great job with the push and pull of the relationship for such a short story. I think this was a great lead in to what could be a really epic series about dragons. Rebecca Royce did the right thing with giving us just enough detail about the war to get us interested without slowing the pace of the entire story.So let's recap: Dragons, Shifters, broken Alpha male, strong female protagonist and steamy sex. Sign me up!Originally posted at Long and Short Reviews