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My Review:Title: For the Blood of a Crow (Red Dead Mayhem, #2)
Author: T.S. Joyce
Series: Red Dead Mayhem #2
Published by: Indie
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Format: Kindle Book
Pages: 159
Genres: Paranormal Romance
Reading Challenges: CC's Goodreads Reading Challenge
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My rating:
Blurb:Bailey Wulfe has her blinders on, her focus straight forward, tromping through life to the future that has been planned for her since she was Turned. She’s been promised to a high-ranking wolf in her Clan, but one chance encounter with a familiar face and she’s questioning everything she’s ever wanted. The boy she knew as a child has turned into a monstrous man. And from the looks of Rike, his bloodline will be the death of him and everyone he encounters. Maybe she can stop his freefall…if only she can get him to remember her.
Rike Blackwood needs one thing to go right. His brother is a traitor and has run off, his Alpha is in transition after losing half his Clan, and Rike’s own last name is poisoning him from the inside out. One steady day is all he needs, but while his Clan is coming out to the public that they are shifters, a sassy little she-wolf claims they’ve been married before. Nice try, Little Wolf. He would’ve remembered being married, but she does look familiar. And now he can’t seem to stop hunting her. They say curiosity killed the cat, but this time, it just might kill a crow, too.
Content Warning: Explicit love scenes, naughty language, and piles of sexy shifter secrets. Intended for mature audiences.
Favorite Quote:
On the second worst day of her life, Bailey was pretty sure she had just made a friend.
I liked this book but not as much as the first one. Bailey and Rike had a great origin story and I loved how their second chance unfolded but I was a bit frustrated with the whole memory loss thing.
Rike was a tortured soul but I really couldn’t find any reason for him to be. Yeah, he had demons, but I wasn’t moved by his for some reason. I was more like,”Yeah you have them, so what? Here’s mine, now we are twins.” I just didn’t see how it impacted his life in a tangible way. I don’t know, maybe I’m overthinking it. He seemed to be very family oriented and was definitely at a loss without his brother.
I liked Bailey more in the last half of the book. She almost made a terrible mistake by marrying the wolf who cheated on her. I’m so glad she walked away from that. And I’m equally impressed with the way she handled being alone and integrating into the crow’s clan. She was gentle with Rike and patient with his loss of memories. I just liked her better.
I like the way this author writes her romance, tying it up with real problems in the shifter community as opposed to other shifter stories that only had a small side plot to tie it in. I will be reading more of this series.
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