For the Hope of a Crow (Red Dead Mayhem #1) by T.S. Joyce

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Title: For the Hope of a Crow (Red Dead Mayhem, #1)
Author: T.S. Joyce
Series: Red Dead Mayhem #1
Published by: Indie
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Pages: 244
Genres: Paranormal Romance, Fantasy
Reading Challenges: CC's Goodreads Reading Challenge
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My rating:

Blurb:

Ramsey Hunt is caught in a spiral no one can save him from, and he’s taking his entire Clan of crow shifters down with him. A broken mating bond has him going insane, and all he can do is try to hold onto his Alpha position as long as possible. But when a spirited beauty comes waltzing into his MC’s clubhouse demanding an audience with him, he can’t help but think he’s dreaming her up. She’s got paperwork saying he’s her mate, and this shifter has one serious stubborn streak in her. All he wants to do is go insane in peace, but she isn’t having it. And now the real work begins. He’s got to sever one mating bond completely if he wants a shot at survival. And if this crazy plan works, he might just have a second shot at happiness too.

Vina wants a crow. She doesn’t care who they are, as long as their shifter animal is a crow. They mate for life and she’s tired of being pushed around by the men she dates. So when a crow comes up on the shifter matchmaking service she applied for three years ago, she has a good feeling her stars are about to change. That is, until she meets Ramsey. The half-crazed Alpha of the biggest, baddest Clan of crow shifters in existence isn’t going to make pairing up easy. And the more Vina gets to know him, the more she thinks it wasn’t him who signed up for a mate after all.

And now Vina has two choices—cut and run from the storm coming for the Red Dead Mayhem Clan, or dig her heels in and rip that old mating bond out of Ramsey. Up until now, no one has appreciated her, but what if…just what if…she could be the one to save the crows?

Content Warning: Explicit love scenes, naughty language, and piles of sexy shifter secrets. Intended for mature audiences.

My Review:

So this one started out a bit odd.  It was a shifter book but it was also an MC book.  And the shifters weren’t even wolves.  It took me a minute to wrap my head around a shifter/MC  book but once I did, holy crap was it awesome!

Ramsey is so broken in the beginning of this book.  He was no one who can help him, not even his crow sees reason.  So he just slowly wastes away as alpha of his pack/club, waiting for the day when his beta will have to put him down.  It’s truly one of the most intense, depressing things I’ve ever read in a shifter book.  He is hopeless and quick to anger, nearly losing control.  It was scary to watch.  (or read, but I see a movie in my head when I read so either works in this instance)

Vina was like a flower, if that flower was a venus fly trap. LOL, I got jokes ya’ll. But really, she seems so fragile, just wanting to find love and being turned down time after time.  You can tell it was getting to her, I was surprised she was willing to give Ramsey a second chance after the stunt he pulled but really neither of them had anything else to lose at that point so I guess it was worth a shot.  She may have seemed demure and shy but she had a spine of steel.  A protective instinct that shone through when people least expected it.

If you were in her tribe, then she had your back, and it was glorious to read them slowly realizing how much they meant to each other.  I just loved seeing him make her happy.  And he seemed surprised when he brought a smile to her face.  But the feeling he got when he did just made him want to keep putting it there.  Ahhhh it was so cavity inducing.

I am absolutely gonna read more in this series, this was a great book.