Reviewed by Amber
TITLE: Jace’s Justice
AUTHOR: Sydney Presley
PUBLISHER: Totally Bound
LENGTH: 94 pages
BLURB:
Finding yourself isn’t always easy—unless your true mate helps you along the way…
Jace has always felt as though he doesn’t belong, that he’s surplus to requirements, alone and destined to stay that way for the rest of his life. His love for Louie, his true mate, is solid and real, but Louie has never shown Jace that they’re mates, has never given any indication that he wants them to be together. Jace is convinced that fate has got things wrong in pairing them—until a stranger arrives on pack land, throwing everything into chaos.
Louie has lived his whole life keeping his distance from Jace—and his emotions. He loves the man with a passion, but knowing Jace might be taken away from him at any moment means Louie has kept his mouth shut. Jace was found on the side of the road as a cub by their alpha, Sergeant, and Louie has always known that one day Jace’s true family will come back to claim him. To save Jace having to make a painful decision—leave Louie or join his family—Louie remained in the shadows.
But life has a way of changing things, and with the stranger comes knowledge of some terrible things happening on another wolf compound. Things that the Highgate pack feel compelled to fix. The question is, will Jace and Louie mating also change things, or will they remain the same as they’ve always been, forever circling around their love and never admitting it through fear of being hurt?
REVIEW:
I really don’t know what to say about this book. It was an odd read, that’s for sure. I honestly had a very hard time finishing this story because it was incredibly repetitive and not engaging, whatsoever.
Jace is an orphaned wolf shifter. He harbors an unrequited love for his “true mate” Louie. Louie also harbors an unrequited love for Jace but keeps him at arm’s length because knowing that Jace is an orphan he has a fear he’ll leave the pack one day to look for his biological family. I had a hard time with this thought process because even if Jace left they still would be in love and fated mates due to the fact that they were “fated true mates.” What was the point of keeping his distance? It really didn’t make any sense to me.
This leads to another big issue I had with this story and that was the lack of angsty passion from these two having denied themselves each other for so long. They’ve grown up together and for years and years they’ve know they were mates and meant to be but they kept their distance. So when they come together which was at about 15% into the book it was basically, “oh yeah we’re mates! Let’s be together.” There was no fight. No push-pull. No passion. It was all very disappointing because the blurb was so promising.
The rest of the book is a lot of repetitive and predictable scenarios. There was the ever present bad guy who was the one that caused Jace to be an orphan, a long lost brother, and incredibly awkward sex scenes.
This is number 1 of the series and there are some promising characters so there is a possibility that future book s might be better. I just don’t know if I will seek them out because this one was incredibly hard to get through.
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