Review: Mate Set (Mating Heat #1) by Laurann Dohner

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It’s werewolf mating season. All the males are in heat and the driving, sexual lust of their beasts is almost uncontrollable. Mika is human, in an alley, surrounded by four horny werewolves. She knows she’s in deep shit. A tall, handsome werewolf rescues her then demands payment. Hot, sweaty, intimate payment. Grady is a half breed whose human mother abandoned him to his werewolf father, so he knows human women just aren’t safe to fall in love with. The wolf within him wants Mika as his mate, but Grady will not give in. Never. Ever. He’s willing to fight his emotions and his beast, no matter how much sexy Mika tempts him. But neither of them expected her Uncle Omar to assign Grady to protect her from other males—24/7, in her home, sleeping just down the hall. Mika decides to make the best of her vacation and keep the hot wolf in her bed. Grady can’t resist the scorching sex, but he is determined to resist the bond

MY REVIEW Mate Set by Laurann Dohner
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This one was lovely is not a word that would be lightly use to refer at this kind of book, but somehow it fits.

Yeah, it has lots of sex- way too much for my liking sometimes- but the main plot was never revealed until the very end; unlike almost every single book I've read from Laurann Dohner, here we don't have the usual development: guy meets/saves girl, attraction goes stronger, they go through hot sex, bad guys come to scene and something happens so we jump to the action/adventure part of the book, guy saves girl from bad guys; and finally they realized they are made for each other, they confessed to each other and live happily ever after... until we see them again in the next book of the series......NOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!! that is not what happens in here!!!! nop! considering that I've read almost every single book published from this author- or at least I'm trying.

We do have the guy meeting/saving girl event and of course the whole attraction here the thing is that she is DEFINITELY OUT OF LIMITS under the risk of having his balls yanked out of his body... so under funny circumstances he will have to endure being taunted for her for over two weeks, because from her uncle perspective he wasn't attracted not a tiny bit for her, what makes him the best possible guardian to keep any other male far away from her.

She by the other hand was on vacation looking forward to have fun in anyway, what she couldn´t imagine was that going back to her hometown in that specific time of the year was a very fucking bad idea; because uh uh it was mating season and every single male werewolf was horny as hell, looking for any girl who could appease that urge and having an overprotective uncle; she finds herself lock up inside her house with a handsome man that wouldn´t risk to touch her under the threat of being separated from a very fonding part of himself- two for being specific

Now given the scenario that every single male werewolf was going nuts over the urge to, ehem...have sex what do you think it would be the outcome to put one of them locked inside a house with an attractive and willing woman?; but that's not it, everything goes worse when - ironically- trying to not let himself touch her, he is forced to mark her as his in order to get her safe from the claws of other men-again- and now he is compelled to have sex only with her because, now she has his mark and adding that is mating season, from this point on, things go beyond wild.

The emotional -and very interesting part- comes when he states that he would never take a human woman for a mate and that my dear friends, where all the hell goes loose.

There are no big scenes of action like in Cyborg series or New Species...no! here everything goes around the main couple, and every single phase they go through, because is mating season and the guy can´t stand being away from her even for a more than thirty minutes, so... no big action scenes, not bad guys coming into scene... just a development of a normal- as normal as it can gets- realtionship between two persons that are not quite looking forward to commitment, and that of course doesn't have an inmediate good looking future.

I won't say more, you can actually see that I really liked the book, By the end of the book I was passing every single page like this

So yeah a lot of hot scenes, but with a good plot that drives you crazy over the stupidity of both of them!

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