Reviewed by Donna
TITLE: Strengthening Their Bonds
SERIES: Miracle #13
AUTHOR: Shea Balik
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 87 Pages
RELEASE DATE: June 23, 2020
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Devastated that his mate didn’t believe he was enough, Arjun Rowe decided it was time to leave Tevin and let his mate find whatever it was he was still looking for. It devastated him, but Arjun would do anything to make his mate happy, even if that meant letting him go.
Tevin Acker was heartbroken that he’d driven Arjun away. He hadn’t meant to, but there had always been something lacking in their mating. What? Tevin wasn’t sure, but he had been driven to discover what it might be. Never once had he considered he might lose his mate as he searches for that missing link.
Baz Krusen had always hoped to meet his mate, but he hadn’t imagined meeting him when he was leading a group of shifters from human hunters. Nor had he once thought that he would end up with two mates. When he discovered one of those mates had run away, he was determined to find him and fix the bonds of their mating.
With humans determined to capture shifters, will the three men be able to find their way back to each other? Strengthening Their Bonds will take all three of them coming together but only if they can forgive the past.
REVIEW:
First and foremost, it’s important to note that this is book number 13 in a series. By this point I’d strongly recommend against reading this book if you haven’t read the first dozen. The Miracle series books are strongly connected, some with interconnecting story lines and all with interconnecting characters. You really do need to have an understanding of who the magnitude of secondary characters are for this story to have any depth.
But having said all of that, and although I’m a huge fan of ménage relationships, this was probably my least favourite of the series so far. This book introduced a new group, well a new freakin’ continent, of shifters, plus new groups of bad guys for the shifters to fight, all while our three main characters had to deal with a breakup between the established pair, and work at integrating their third mate into the relationship. It should have all been very interesting and sounds like something I’d love, but unfortunately, at just under ninety pages, it felt a little crammed, rushed and under-developed. I had no issue with any of the main characters, but at the same time I didn’t feel anything warm and fuzzy for them either. Baz’s parents were murdered, and I didn’t really care. Arjun felt heartbroken and rejected by his mate, and again, I didn’t really care.
This book wasn’t bad, it just kind of felt like a steppingstone in the series rather than anything drastically compelling. However, readers of the series should definitely give it a read as it adds a whole new group of African shifters (elephants, hippos, giraffes, etc) to the ever expanding town of Miracle.
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