Reviewed by Becca
TITLE: Under His Control
SERIES: Hybrid Heat #2
AUTHOR: Kiki Burrelli
PUBLISHER: self-published
LENGTH: 181 pages
RELEASE DATE: May 18, 2018
BLURB:
A jaded older shifter trying to be the alpha he isn’t collides with a cocky, young Dom…
Garth isn’t a well-liked member of his bear shifter pack. He’s got a sharp tongue and a deep-seated hatred of humans spawning from a traumatic experience years ago. Garth believes that a man his age should have his life figured out. He should be an alpha, he should find a mate to start a family with. Except, all of Garth’s nasty quips, shoves, and snarls are him trying to pretend to be that thing he is not. If he isn’t an alpha, what is he? Cassius, the youngest hybrid shifter to join the pack, is cocky, arrogant and all alpha. He also won’t stop getting under Garth’s skin, making him long for things he can’t have.
Cassius knows he doesn’t have the years or seniority in his pack but that’s fine, he doesn’t want to control a group of people. He longs for control over one man in particular. Cass isn’t sure how he is the only one to see how amazing Garth is, but he’s glad he is the only one to notice how talks of submission and spanking affect the shifter in a way that Cassius will do anything to explore. He’s obsessed with Garth—his mate—and knows that if he would simply give into his true nature as a submissive, Garth wouldn’t feel like he has to keep everyone away from him with his rudeness.
But attempting to get Garth to see past the difference in their years and understand he would be happiest under Cassius’s control will mean nothing if Cassius and the other hybrid bikers don’t discover who has been targeting shifters. All over the area, entire packs are being harmed by a strange new drug that has everyone on edge. Cassius and the rest of the hybrid bikers must find the people responsible for poisoning entire packs of shifters before they are the next ones targeted.
Under His Control is a 60k word Mpreg romance that contains an age gap relationship as well as some light to medium BDSM elements. It is the second book in the Hybrid Heat series and can be read and enjoyed as a standalone.
REVIEW:
I remember Garth from the Bear series, and I remember not liking him very much. The only person he really let close to him after all the trouble with his then roommate, was Chuey. He was just always a jerk it seemed and didn’t seem to care what people thought about him. But in this book we learn the truth and it saddened me.
Garth has always tried to be alpha. He’s always tried to keep that dominate attitude and be the forceful alpha he’s supposed to be. But what no one knew, is he didn’t want to be an alpha. He wanted to submit. Not that he’d ever admit it. Especially to that young punk hybrid who seems to get his goat every time he’s near him. But what Garth doesn’t know, that Cass does, is Garth is Cass’s mate and also a Dom and he’s ready to show Garth what he really desires and how to really fly. But Garth is so caught up in how he looks to everyone else, that he’s losing what’s right in front of him. And it took a drastic act to show him, it wouldn’t take much to lose what is staring him right in the face. And Garth had to decide, was looking good in front of people more important than his mate?
I really felt bad for my opinion of Garth after reading this. I mean horrible. Everyone deserves a second chance and everyone deserves to be who they are meant to be. And trying to keep up appearances to keep people from making fun of him, is so wrong. But that’s what Garth felt like he had to do. And it broke my heart. He wanted so much more and something so different than what was expected of him and when it came out that Cass’s scent was all over him, the reaction proved his point. The wrong people were making fun of him and it made Cass see red.
What I hated though, was that it took someone dying in the way they did for it to get Garth’s attention that he needed Cass. He needed his mate. He needed what Cass could give him. Which no one else could. He just needed to see that just because he was older didn’t mean anything. It’s just a number. True love is true love. No matter the age, color, or anything.
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