Reviewed by Kimberley
TITLE: Coming in Third
AUTHOR: Amber Kell
PUBLISHER: Pride Publishing
LENGTH: 46 pages
RELEASE DATE: December 22, 2015
BLURB: Love sometimes comes in threes.
With his mother plotting to have him wed, Niall decides to sneak out of the fae palace and fulfill one of his greatest fantasies. At the Unconventional bar, he finds a pair of lion shifters looking to spice up their love life. Unable to resist the strong attraction between them, Niall lets the persuasive pair take him home.
Jovan and Luka have been searching for their third for years. When Niall stumbles into the bar, their shifter instincts tell them the innocent fae could be their long sought mate. After a sensual night together, they’re certain the beautiful man was fated to be theirs.
His guards fetch him from the shifters’ bed and Niall is taken away from the pair. Upset about Niall’s return to the palace and a possible arranged marriage, the lion shifters battle to decide their future—should they go and fetch their mate or let it only be the one-night stand Niall promised them?
Publisher’s Note: This book was previously published as part of the Unconventional in San Diego anthology by Pride Publishing.
REVIEW:
Amber Kell is an author that I’ve enjoyed reading and when I saw this new novella advertised which featured a ménage relationship as cat shifters (two of my favorite things) I definitely decided to give it a go.
Well, it was t what I expected. This is a case where the premise of the story sounded better than the actual novella. The characters or dialogue weren’t the problem; the execution of the story was. I understand that it was a novella and at forty six pages, things had to progress quickly. I was fine with that. There were just so many things in the story that didn’t make sense to me. Niall has guards yet his mother and her guards manage to physically abuse and torture him? What kind of guards were these that he was so easily accessible to his tormentors? They might as well hand him over to his mother and her guards to do their worst which is what was occurring anyway. His mother was controlling yet he had the freedom to come and go from the palace? Why didn’t he just escape?
Why didn’t his guards help him escape? Every last one of Niall’s guards should have been fired. They were completely useless.
Not only that but the story progressed in a way that felt way too rushed, like it was something thrown together at the last minute with an ending that left me kind of shaking my head in confusion; it felt unfinished. This resulted in a story that left you feeling slightly discombobulated. I understand that this story was previously published as part of an anthology. This probably should’ve remained with the anthology because it simply did not work as a standalone.
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