Review: Not Worth Reading
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 19, 2014
This is the typical shifter instant mate type 'romance' with a bit of a twist.  Maya only wanted a one night stand but Alex is invested for life.  He is a lion alpha and she is a curvy human.  So.  Lots of misunderstandings at first but due to the length of this novella, all problems are solved quickly.  Which makes it a bit beyond believable.Things I didn't appreciate is the language, vulgar language is just the way they think and talk.  The fact that Maya is thinking to herself more than once and more than four times --  She is a slut, she is so slutty, over and over again in that one night of mating with Alex.  It's not only demeaning but it gives us an idea of the type of character that leads this story.  I also didn't appreciate Alex and the way he was around Maya.  He became this timid kitty cat that walked on egg shells.  He didn't act the alpha once he mated, not around her.  He let Maya handle his pride and let her dominate the pride.  While I understood she was dangerous after her first shift and female lions are unpredictable, his attitude didn't come across as something I wanted to read any more on.  He's too much a kept mate, good only in the bedroom.  So she thinks of herself as a slut and he sees himself as sex on a stick.Maya isn't characterized very deeply.  We know nothing of her family, background, lifestyle -- Just that she broke up with her boyfriend and is on the prowl.  Oh yes and she's a slut.  She has a good shifter friend and an acquaintance in a fellow pride mate named Gina.  Alex?  We know even less about him.  This is more a meet and greet, hop in bed, erotic shifter type story.  From the reviews I read it sounds like this outspoken attitude from Maya continues in the series and as such, since she's horrible to read about, I'm not interested in the rest of the story. - Dan's Wife