Reviewed by True
TITLE: Trio: Friend, Lover, Mate
SERIES: Vale Valley Season 5 – #14
AUTHOR: Drea Roman
PUBLISHER: Self-Publishing
LENGTH: 264 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 29, 2021
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When your love is secret and you can’t see a way forward, magic will provide a bridge.
Colt, a shy Clydesdale shifter, loves his friend and fellow firefighter, Eddie, more than words can say. Only one problem, Eddie has no clue. Colt can’t see how Eddie would every love him back and his emotions threaten to tear him apart. Leaving his beloved horse and their magical hometown of Vale Valley behind might be the only answer to saving his heart.
A carefree and high-spirited Arabian, Eddie loves his life fighting fires alongside his best friends. He and Colt have been tight since they were kids, but any thought of more has never popped into Eddie’s mind. But when his closest friends start meeting their fated mates, he begins to yearn for something more. Could the answer to his desires have been right by his side the whole time?
Magic shakes the foundations of the two horses’ lives when their fated mate emerges from the flames of a raging barn fire.
Val is a latent horse shifter on the run from dangerous and dark magical forces bent on his capture and destruction. But with his newly discovered mates by his side, maybe, just maybe, Val’s chaotic life will finally bloom into the happily ever after he has always craved.
REVIEW:
Colt could cry, it’s killing him, his best friend Eddie will never be his lover.
Eddie, the most beautiful alpha Arabian race-horse shifter, is looking for an omega. Colt, a Clydesdale shifter, was disappointed to be presented as an alpha.
His heart breaks but he has to set himself free of all those unanswered feelings, he has to leave Vale Valley.
Eddie and Colt both work as a fireman at the Vale Valley Fire Department.
Something incredible happens when they save a man from a fire, their bond shows at once, they are mates, not only the two of them but the unconscious man is their third, their omega.
Their mate is under a curse. Val, their mate is on the run for witches, they want him dead just like they killed his grandparents.
Val has a hidden animal inside who wants to get free.
Nicholas is an Incubus witch and his lover is witch Bedwyr they are of the Vale Valley coven, good witches who can help Val. While Val thinks he’s a latent horse the witches are sure he isn’t, he’s a much more magically endowed and powerful creature.
They all will investigate how to lift the curse to set Val and their triad bond free.
Meanwhile, Val, Eddie, and Colt are getting to know each other, they fit perfectly, emotionally and sexually.
The longer it takes to lift the curse the more depressed Val gets.
This is my first horse shifters story, I loved it! There are beautiful creatures, elves, wolves, flying reindeers, eagle shifters, Incubus, witches, horse shifters and last but not least Val’s hidden one.
The three of them were different and had their characteristics. There is an abundance of kisses, hugs, and tears to find.
At times I had thick goosebumps when it got quite emotional.
Even though there was a curse hanging above the story it was mostly a sweet read, sexy at times, humor, a lot of banter, kidding, and fooling around.
I loved the fantasy and magical content, well worked out and certainly original. The timeline was, for me, a bit long, it took months for some progress. It felt a bit dragging and sometimes a bit repetitive, but not in a very annoying way. Overall I enjoyed this narrative very.
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