Reviewed by Donna
TITLE: Finn
SERIES: Whitedell Pride #4
AUTHOR: Catherine Lievens
PUBLISHER: Extasy Books
LENGTH: 113 Pages
BLURB:
Sometimes you have to decide if helping others is more important than your own safety.
Finn has been free from the lab for months, but he still isn’t happy. After finding out his mate didn’t want him, he went back home to his tribe, where he is once again beaten and ignored. The mansion is the only place in which he feels safe, if only he didn’t have to face the mate who doesn’t want him…
Bryce has been heartbroken since Keenan left him. He was sure he didn’t want Finn as his mate, but finding out that the Nix is being hurt changes that. He knows he will have to grovel for Finn to forgive him, but he will gladly do that and much more to insure that Finn is safe.
While they find their way to each other, Finn uncovers a secret that might tear him apart. Will Bryce be able to win Finn’s trust and keep him safe?
REVIEW:
This is probably going to be one of the easiest reviews that I’ve ever written. I was rather excited to have this book pop up in my emails and I resisted it for all of 24 hours before I gave in and rearranged my other reviews because I just had to read this story. Because this is the “The Story” for me. That book in a series that you’ve been waiting for since beginning the series but the author dangles it just beyond your reach like a big juicy carrot. However the risk of that is hyping the book up in your head, which can lead to a lot of dissatisfaction when things don’t go the way you envision. And I knew going into this that things DO NOT go the way I envisioned from the time I was first introduced to the characters involved. I knew that what I had hoped was going to be written as a ménage instead left my favourite of the three men still single at the end of the story. So while I was excited to read this, I was also feeling some trepidation that I was going to end up sad and disappointed and shaking my fist at the heavens while cursing Catherine Lievens. Yes, I’m aware that I’m a bit of a drama queen.
As you can see from the blurb this is Finn and Bryce’s book. Finn and Bryce sans Keenan. Ok, I know. I need to get over it. Keenan, the awesomely wonderful guy that he is, broke up with his lover Bryce in book one after Bryce’s fated mate Finn arrived at the mansion. Since that time, in the background of the following two books, Bryce has refused to give up on reuniting with Keenan while Finn could only watch from the sidelines as his mate pursued another man. My feelings were a little mixed on this. I loved Bryce and Keenan together in the first book but I loved Finn from the moment he was introduced, before he was known as Bryce’s mate. At first I wanted that ménage because I didn’t want any of the men left alone but as the series progressed I really started to dislike Bryce and kind of wished Finn and Keenan would just hook up and tell Bryce to take a hike. However, all it took was one chapter in Bryce’s point of view and I felt so sorry for the guy. He had been in love with Keenan and because the fates had decided he was meant to be with a different man, he lost him. He was angry at having his choice taken away from him and didn’t react well. When Finn and Bryce finally get together, I was thankfully fine with it. When Keenan and Bryce talk and agree to try to be friends, well shit, I was fine with that too. The author pulled off some kind of miracle and placated my need to let out a battle cry and tear Bryce apart for hurting both Finn and Keenan. To be totally honest I don’t think I’ll be completely over it until Keenan has his own book (which is apparently coming but a long way off) but I’ll just have to be patient with knowing my favourite character in this series will get his own fated mate one day.
And meanwhile, well hello Dominic’s cute little mate!! The alpha of the Whitedell pride has finally met his mate and, again, not the next book in sequence but there’s just so much to look forward to with this series.
For those of you who haven’t read the previous three books, I don’t recommend you read these books out of order. Having read them all myself it can be a bit hard to judge but I really don’t think these books could be read as standalone stories. We’re only at book four and it’s already getting a little difficult to remember who is who and who is mated to who. But to be honest I love series that are like that. I love that all of the characters from all of these books live together in the great big Whitedell Pride mansion. Nothing annoys me more in a series than having no further contact with MCs from earlier books (unless there’s a damn good reason not to).
The next book in the series is titled Jeremy and is about a human named Jeremy and a tiger shifter named Denver. The expected release date is February 1st. (You’ve got to love an author who can deliver a series as regular as clockwork!)
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