A Mating Dance by Lia Davis (Ashwood Falls #2)
June 11, 2013
M/M/F Paranormal
Fated Desires Publishing
Reviewed by Mandi
I’m just going to include the blurb from this one as it sets-up the story quite well:
Senior enforcer, Cameron Nickels has found her perfect mate. Blaine Andrews, leopard Pack Marshal, is strong, dominate, loyal, and passionate. He knows all her strengths and weaknesses—not to mention her pleasure points. Cam’s known Blaine most her life, but she’s always felt like something was missing and her jaguar refuses to fully accept him. Yet, she can’t walk away from him. When architect and sexy mountain lion shifter, Graham Griffin, comes to town to design the new den nursery and school, Cameron finds herself in a mating dance that throws her and her jaguar into flight mode while Blaine must decide if he can not only share his mate, but welcome another.
After his lover walked out on him a year ago, Graham has no intentions of entering another relationship any time soon. But he realizes that the fates have other plans for him when he meets Blaine and Cameron. When his ex-lover’s children are chased into Ashwood territory by a group of rogues, he discovers the male he shared a life with had died freeing the kids from the Onyx Pack. Graham must work side-by-side with the two enforcers to uncover lies from the past while his heart opens to his true mates.
A M/M/F shifter story, I couldn’t resist this one. Overall, this one worked well for me. Cam and Blaine are mates, yet after suffering a miscarriage, it makes Cam very wary to fully bond with Blaine, not wanting to put herself nor Blaine through that kind of pain again. When she meets Graham, her jaguar becomes very interested in him.
I enjoyed the fact that in this shifter culture, being attracted to the same sex is fully accepted. Graham and Blaine realize their attraction, they act on it (rawr!) and then both realize they want Cam, and both realize they will have to act delicately to not scare her away. This threesome worked quite well for me – I believed in the attraction between each person.
I have two frustrations. One, is that there were so many characters introduced, that I had a hard time remembering each one and their role in the pack. It was confusing and drew me out of the story.
Secondly, I felt the sex scenes in this book were rushed through. Being a ménage, and with two men and Graham and Cam, having never been together physically before, I wanted more detail and depth in the sex scenes. Emotions could have been analyzed more, and darn it. I love sexy shifter ménage scenes and I wanted them longer. So I was disappointed there.
I liked the characters and the suspense though and I’ll try the next one.
Rating: B-
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