Reviewed by Becca
TITLE: Mate
SERIES: Forbidden Desires #3
AUTHOR: Piper Scott & Virginia Kelly
PUBLISHER: self-published
LENGTH: 379 pages
RELEASE DATE: February 17, 2019
BLURB:
Spitfire Disgrace Matthieu Boudreaux has one wish: to age out of the Pedigree he despises, then destroy it. With one year left before he achieves the first step of his goal, Matthieu finally has some hope for an independent future… until a surly Amethyst dragon by the name of Geoffrey Drake and his entourage show up at Matthieu’s cloister and inform him he’s been selected to be part of an ‘experiment.’
Geoffrey Drake, proud and stuffy legal counsel for the Amethyst clan, has been charged with ruining his own life. His mission? Deliver a potential mate to the son of the Amethyst clan’s most despised enemy—and the man he’s loved in secret for the last hundred years—Topaz dragon Ian Brand. Refusal is impossible. Dragons don’t consort with dragons, and should Geoffrey decline, he risks exposing them both.
Ian Brand, charming black sheep of the Topaz clan, is trapped between his forbidden love for an Amethyst dragon centuries his senior and his duty to his family. Chosen by his unhinged father to be the Topaz candidate for the mating experiment, Ian is faced with a terrible choice: run away with the man he loves and face the deadly consequences, or accept his fate with a broken heart.
But dragon magic, as Matthieu, Geoffrey, and Ian soon discover, works in mysterious ways. When an unforeseeable circumstance draws them all together and puts their futures at risk, they have no choice but to set their differences aside and work together to prove a new, startling truth…
What the dragon world knows about mates has been wrong all along, and it will be up to the three of them to prove it.
Mate is a 103,000 word steamy omegaverse mpreg-ish romance that will leave you in stitches. It contains an experiment gone awry, five eccentric peacocks, an unusually large number of whelps, an ancient Viking Daddy dragon, and science! For maximum enjoyment, Mate is best read following the events of Clutch and Bond.
REVIEW:
So, I heard there is a possible rumor that this was the final book of the series, and if that rumor is correct, I am BEGGING, IMPLORING, PLEADING with the authors to please reconsider. There’s so much left that can be done. What about Hugh and his everlasting search for true love? Of Reynard and the little spitfire he seems to have found? I know there is someone I am forgetting. I’m so ashamed. Harry has more discoveries to make. Jules and Darwin need a little story. ‘Daddy’ Dragon and his crew of mates need more. There’s just so much!
And I have to say, this was, hands down, my favorite. I laughed, I sobbed. I mean ugly, ugly cried. For those sweet whelps and Geoffrey and Ian finally finding home. Sorry. I don’t want to spoil. Anyway! Everard and his quest for names of food he can call his mate. I’ve never laughed so hard. Every food makes me laugh even harder. And when he tried to do that to Nate and Matthieu….*snorts*. He tried to make them beverages. Stomach aching from laughing at that.
What impressed me the most with this story, was we finally got to see the real Geoffrey. What he craved and yearned for. We see a man who is clearly an alpha wanting to be an Omega so much to bear children. To have his own. I saw a strength form in him after he bonded with Matthieu. It took a bit because he was scared shitless of being the one left all alone because no one wanted an alpha like him. But Matthieu gave him strength.
Ian was going through the same. He and Geoffrey mated years ago, but it took Matthieu to push it more into being. And Ian was terrified of being alone since it seemed Matthieu had only bonded with Geoffrey. But it wasn’t true. They all three bonded together as mates. As evident by they eggs.(that’s a surprise you have to read)
The final icing on the cake, was Harry and Everard (along with Daddy Dragon, gotta read for him), standing behind Ian, Geoffrey, and Matthieu, to show science, magic and all in between are showing mates how to mate and find them. Which gave Matthieu the courage to take his stand before the council and say what he needed to say.
In this book, lives are changed. Outlooks and opinions are changed. Dragons are starting to be accepted as equal whether not fully dragon or not. But the most important thing in this book, hands down, is that ‘family is what you make it. It is not always blood, by by the people in our lives who love us. Geoffrey, Ian and Matthieu have all found home for them. With each other. Their whelps and the adopted in laws and cousins, etc. They finally have a family. And a home.
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