Review: I love the author’s spin on mates.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 20, 2014
Tempting the Tiger was a little different than the first. While we still had the crazy “I need to F you every five seconds” mating heat this one did some tugging at the heartstrings. The first 10% of the book was a lot to take in. Our heroine, Amia, lives in hell. We start out with her at the age of sixteen with her family beating a girl the same age as Amia. The scene is detailed and made my stomach turn a little. While there was never rape it is threatened and the beating was more than I could take as it was. I feel it messed with me a little more than normal because of the girl’s young age and the author left no details out.Amia’s family calls themselves hunters and are trying to rid the world of shifters. Amia doesn’t feel the same way so she sneaks out that night and frees the other girl. She too takes off on the run only to be caught by her family a few weeks later. When they get her back they torture her repeatedly for days and it’s extremely heartbreaking. This goes on for years, Amia trying to save people her family has captured and trying to escape herself to only be caught over and over again. Then Reno shows up and he won’t seem to let her go.Reno was sent to investigate Amia’s family and learn more about the hunters by his leader, Tah (hero from the first book.) While snooping around he gets caught by the hunters where they beat him for hours and leave him tied up until Amia comes to his rescue. Instantly he is drawn to her and starts chanting mine (author probably said MINE over 100 times and it NEVER got old) in his head and he takes her with him.Amia has spent her whole life either protecting other people or being betrayed by them. When Reno tells her he is keeping her with him she fights him on the issue. Her family always finds her and the people around her always die. She doesn’t want to risk Reno’s life or the others where he is taking her. While she is fighting him about staying they are humping like rabbits. I think this is what has hooked me to this series. I love the author’s spin on mates. When mates find each other it goes hot and heavy super quick and the need to have one other is constant because when the mates finally find each other they go into heat. The want for each other is so intense it’s almost painful. Plus the heroes are over the top possessive and sweet and who doesn’t just melt into a gooey mess with those character traits?Overall, I really enjoyed the story and even got choked up a few times. A few things became a little redundant, but not so much that it’s really worth mentioning. I do think that I still like the first more than this one. While the sex was still nasty hot I remember it being over the top in the last. We do meet the couple that I believe will be the next book and I’m already hooked and can’t wait to get my next fix.