Review: I wish I could just crawl into this world and stay forever!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 14, 2014
I didn’t expect to like this book as much as the others, since it was going back in time, 1800, for Vasile and Alina’s story. I was very wrong! I loved it just as much!Alina comes from a farming family. They weren’t well to do but got by with what they had and were a happy family. Her father had made it clear that she would be twenty years old before she could be mated. Her best friend’s brother, Serghai, had his idea that someday Alina would show signs and become his mate. Alina had always made it clear that she loved him as a brother. He wouldn’t accept that. He was always sniffing her and had even taken a shirt that she gave him to give to his sister and put it under his pillow for her smell.Then when Vasile’s parents die, he sets out to all the villages to see how everyone is doing and what needed to be done to care for them as the new Alpha. The only thing was that; Vasile’s parents weren’t mated but loved each other. They let the pack believe they were true mates. When someone evil overhears this, he decides to ruffle things up so he could become Alpha. He, being the beta in the neighboring pack. He wasn’t even a strong Alpha to begin with.While out and visiting others, Vasile finds Alina and their communication in their heads begins and they know they are true mates. But Alina is too young and her father wants her to wait until she is twenty. She is just shy of 16 when they meet. They spend some time together, have a fight, shut down the communication and both suffer for it for some time before he comes back and apologizes. I love the stupidity of men sometimes and I love that Peri is in this book too and she lets her thoughts on that known. She still cracks me up.Anyway, there is much contention in the land as the saying goes and soon Vasile is forced out of his castle by the evil wolf. How is really gross and I am not sharing that. But Vasile is in exile waiting for the time to find those who will fight with him and making plans. He is separated from Alina for that time. There bond is open and they talk and she comes into her own. Over three years passes while Vasile keeps his status of Alina being his mate a secret to keep her safe. Her markings haven’t yet shown. Then they do show up and Serghai bursts into her home when it is hot and she isn’t fully covered and sees her markings. He is livid and tries to kill her. Just before he tries to hurt her, she shuts the wall of communication down between her and Vasile so as not to worry him thinking she could handle him not really knowing his intentions. But Vasile knows something is wrong and comes flying but it is almost too late. She is very weak and Vasile completes the blood rites to help her heal and because he doesn’t want to live if she doesn’t. Oh my gosh, that is the sweetest thing ever. He is patient with her and treats her like a queen during her recovery. He had me swooning with his words and thoughts and actions.I had this book on my daughters kindle instead of my ancient one and couldn’t figure out how to save the quotes I wanted. But they would have you swooning too!From there on out, you see the power the two have together and how they can overcome anything and how much of an Alpha they both really are. It was absolutely amazing and made me wish that I could have that life!Right now, I am going to reread the whole series, because it is one of my favorite ever books!! Because I so fell in love with this series!