Lilibet Bombshell's Reviews > To Save a Mate

I read over my review for the previous installment in this series, To Reject a Mate, before I sat down to write this review and see if/how my feelings after reading that book and this book has changed. Very little of my opinions and views have changed, and I’m surprisingly okay with it. Which, if you know me, that’s a touch out of character for me.

My main complaint about To Reject a Mate (which also received four stars from me, in case you’re curious) was the incredibly slow burn and how mild the single spice scene was when we got to it. I was hoping for more spice and spicier-spice in this installment. Well, I guess there just wasn’t anywhere to fit it in, what with all the new characters, the revelations, the evolutions of different characters, the sheer madness that is the rapidly-escalating and ugly evil plot, forming allies for what’s looking like a secret rebellion that’s been forming behind the scenes for a while, and the serious need to find out exactly what Nicole is, because the longer they all go without knowing her supernatural heritage is endangering them all.

The rumbling of conspiracies under the surface and and buckets left of secrets left to be spilled (as I said in my review for the first book) was definitely a prophecy fulfilled in this book, with those conspiracies that were only being heavily hinted at coming fully out into the open and it seemed like barrels of secrets (instead of buckets) were spilled. There’s a whole lot of stuff that gets shaken out of the trees, and it makes for compelling and propulsive storytelling.

I said in my review for the last book that it seemed Ireland was trying her best to get the vast majority of world-building and serious character development done in the first book so she could spend the second and third books truly concentrating on the story and how risky that move can be in the wrong hands. Thankfully, it paid off in spades in Poppy Ireland’s case, as it left her without having to constantly stop and explain matters and dynamics constantly and it left lots of room to introduce the new characters and situations that needed to be introduced without making the books seem rushed or poorly-paced.

It’s another solid book, and I’m looking forward to the conclusion!

I was provided a copy of this book by the author. All thoughts,views, and opinions contained herein are mine and mine alone and are expressed of my own free will. Thank you.

File Under: Fantasy Romance/Shifter Romance/College Romance/Fantasy Series/Kindle Unlimited/KU/Romance Series/Spice Level 2