Originally read in 2012Alright, for those of you who say this is a okay fluff series and wonder why I'm giving it such a high rating. I love this series. It may not be the best written series, but the characters are engaging, and I keep coming back to and re-reading this series, which is why it got such a high rating. For a series to keep me this interested for this long? Definitely worth it. How was this deemed worthy of publishing?I admittedly didn't make it very far before I couldn't stomach anymore. The whole situation with Brac Pack was glossed over in just a few short paragraphs which didn't tell you anything other than 'this guy started this pack.' He meets his mate a heartbeat into the story, follows him home, rapes him while he sleeps (everyone seems somehow okay with this?) then decides his new mate needs a guard on him, a guard I'm under the impression is quite small, the youngest of the pack. He also decides this guard should befriend him in an effort to gently introduce his mate into the pack.Then, you meet Cecil, who has an abusive relationship you won't understand, no matter how hard you try, he runs away from him, gets stopped by main character and Alpha of the pack and one other, who is the size of a truck(and not, I'd imagine, the wolf he wanted to watch over and befriend his new mate..... What happened to that plot? It suddenly disappeared into thin air!).Next, the huge 'I'm a wolf, and we have mates. Guess what, you're it!' was sensitively delivered with a 'you're my mate' 'What are you, a wolf? Ha ha' 'Very perceptive' I kid you not.Most shockingly, he comes out with this line about the abuse he's suffered. “Look, I really do thank you for helping me with jerk wad in there.” Not two minutes after having left the house in fear. Something as terrifying and suffocating as an abusive relationship is brushed off with 'yeah, he's a jerk wad, thanks'. It's a great way to undermine actual abuse as something that can just be brushed off and glossed over, like it's nothing but a little background filler. It doesn't even seem to affect him at all. He talks like he has no choice but to rely on, listen to and keep seeing the man because he's incapable of nothing else, and then in the next second? 'Ah, it was nothing, but thanks for your help.' His character is completely callous! I managed to somehow read until Cecil invites the Alpha, Maverick, into his house (the stalker knows the way and drives them back on his bike without complaint from Cecil, who only just met the guy), they sit on his sofa, Maverick suddenly drops the bomb and asks Cecil to form some sort of bonding with him (if you're wondering what happened to the befriend-and-gently-introduce-into-the-pack, so am I) and all Cecil has to say is 'Yes, I'll bind you'. No biggie. What's a binding here and there? But it's alright, because it feels alright. In his bones, apparently. It's a plot mess that might have been an amazing book if it was given the proper TLC it needs and at least another hundred or more pages to fit all this out of whack plot into.What drivel. Should I bother reading the rest of the series? It's not looking likely.
What do You think about Maverick's Mate (2011)?
hahahaha i loved cecil once he found his footing... poor Mav
—markd
Nice start to a series. I'll definitely be reading more.
—slee20
