Reviewed by: Sue Eaton

TITLE: Edward’s Bunny

SERIES: Satchel Pride #2

AUTHOR: C.K. Noel

PUBLISHER: Self Published

LENGTH: 264 pages

RELEASE DATE: May 17, 2023

BLURB:

Fate is a cruel mistress – especially when it comes to fated mates.

When lion shifter and leader of his pride Edward learns about his fated mate, his life turns upside down. After losing the love of his life, his wife, he vows to never love again. but he does remarry, to give his infant son a mother. Too bad his new wife—now his ex-wife—was a raging psychopath.

But when he meets Brian, a bunny shifter who’s nearly forty years younger, he’s sure there’s no way they can make things work… right?

Brian knows things are a bit rocky with his current boyfriend, but there’s no way he’d tell the lion shifter who happens to be his fated mate. Instead, he uses his current relationship status—taken—as a reason to run from the lion. He’s not interested in predators.

But Fate won’t be denied, and the pair are going to have to get over themselves, past their prejudices, and break the stereotypes forced on them if they’re ever going to find happiness.

REVIEW:

I enjoyed coming back into the Satchel Pride series, finding out more about the characters touched on in the first book.

Brian doesn’t believe in fated mates, it’s a myth right, but ever since his best friend Owen met his fated mate Hayden.  He is starting to believe, add in his rocky relationship with his boyfriend Randy, then fate steps in and he meets Edward, Hayden’s father and King of the Lion Shifters.  Oh boy what is a rabbit shifter to do, the animosity between prey and predator shifters is real and long standing.  Brian doesn’t know what to do or feel, but his first response is to run for the hills.

Edward has resigned himself to his loveless life, his first true love, died giving birth to Hayden and in his grief and despair he foolishly married another woman.  We saw her manipulations and thirst for power in the first book of this series.  Edward never thought he’d find his fated mate after all this time, and then be rejected by him.  He is ecstatic to meet Brian but realises he must be patient to woo his mate.

I really enjoyed the patience and time Edward took to woo Brian, going on dates and getting to know each other.  It makes a nice change than the insta-mate trope where they dive straight into a relationship on first sight.

Brian is nervous on so many levels, he is a cute little bunny shifter and Edward is a fierce Alpha Lion, he worries about how his family will react, he worries about being stifled and unable to pursue his dreams and he worries about how the relationship will work after his relationship with Randy crashed and burned.

Edward is a rock, strong and steady he is older and happy to make Brian the center of his world.  He realises that he needs to put Brian first and step away from running the company as that consumes so much of his time.  He also needs to put in time to win around Brian’s family who’s prejudice about Predators runs deep.  So many issues and conflicts swirling around their relationship at the time they are trying to get to know each other and settle into being fated mates.

There are twists and turns in this book that you don’t see coming but it is a really sweet romance and I really liked both Brian and Edward and it was great to see both Owen and Hayden again.

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