The Monster Botherer

    It’s not often I spot a monster romance in the supermarket when I was just looking for some bread, but I did, so I bought it. I had to really, it’s a law I’m sure.  Look, the cover had a wolf on it and it’s called Mate. There was a bit of a Pavlov’s dog scenario at work here.  I admit at first it was nearly a DNF. It felt like a story I had read a million times before, characters I knew and I wanted something different, until it heard my inner thoughts and gave me exactly what I was looking for. I’m happy to be proved wrong, and perhaps we shouldn’t judge a book by the first couple of chapters. I’m so relieved I kept on chugging with this one.  Mate is a slow burn, fated mates but resisting, trauma dump of a tale that has no right to be as funny, as heart warming or as lovable as it is. Both of our main characters have seen some stuff, have lived through this stuff and use, in my opinion, the strongest coping tool in the world, dark humour and sarcasm. Even ...

      If you haven’t read the first book of this series “Blood of Hercules”, go do that. Seriously. If I can binge read it, forgetting to sleep, eat and sometimes breathe, then you can too. Plus, I can then tell you all about “Bonds” without having to worry too much about previous spoilers.  Stepping back into Mas’s greek inspired world was like getting home from a long day at work, slipping out of your clothes and getting comfy in pjs, but with a lot more pain, torture and despair. Yep, Alexis just doesn’t catch a break. even with two incredibly hot husbands, who she still doesn’t want but kind of does. It’s complicated. While book one had the overall theme of “surviving” Bonds focuses more on “getting shit done”. Yes her parents are all powerful deities, yes, she’s trapped in a bit of a messed up marriage and yes, the corruption of the gods in the grand scheme of things is a problem, but Alexis doesn’t back down from any of these issues, giving the impression that ...