In Your Eyes by Cardeno C. Series: Mates, #3
Published by The Romance Authors, LLC Publication Date: July 15, 2015
Pages: 200
Also in this series: Wake Me Up Inside
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Raised to become Alpha of the Yafenack pack, Samuel Goodwin dedicates his life to studying shifter laws, strengthening his body, and learning from his father. But despite his best efforts, Samuel can’t relate to people, including those he's supposed to lead.
When Samuel meets Korban Keller, the son of a neighboring pack's Alpha, he reacts with emotion instead of intellect for the first time in his life. Resenting the other shifter for throwing him off-balance, Samuel first tries to intimidate Korban and then desperately avoids him. What he can't do is forget Korban's warm eyes, easy smile, and happy personality.
When a battle between their fathers ends tragically, Samuel struggles to lead his pack while Korban works to break through Samuel’s emotional barriers. Two very different men with a tumultuous history must overcome challenges from all sides and see past their society’s rules to realize they are destined for one another.
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Oh, how I loved this book! Lately, I’ve been so over the whole shifter thing, but when I come across one that’s written by my current “must read” author, Cardeno C., I had to give it a try.
Here we have two wolf shifters, Samuel and Korban (and how much to I love that name??). They’re the sons of Alphas in two different packs. Samuel is so serious. He wants to make sure he is the perfect Alpha to be. He studies the pack’s history, and hangs on his father’s every word. None of that matters, though, because he doesn’t have any sort of people (or wolf, I guess) skills. The other members of the pack just can’t relate to him. Korban, on the other hand, is sweet and peaceful. HIS father is a loser. He rules with an iron fist and is cruel. Korban is so nice to Samuel, but Samuel doens’t understand that. He thinks that Korban is just trying to undermine him and make him look bad.
I’m not going to give anything else away. Let’s just say a devastating event occurs, and they have to turn to each other to get through it. Samuel fights all the way, but Korban is awfully convincing 🙂
This was the perfect shifter novel. Not only are the MC’s scorching hot, but there are explanations of pack politics and history. I especially loved the history part because you can actually see how rules can be changed with each generation. The chemistry between Samuel and Korban is electric.
Samuel tried so hard to hate Korban, but he wanted him just as much as he hated him, and it was a joy to read. The sex scenes were amazing, and I had to go back and read them over a second time…purely for research purposes, you know 😉 The plot was smooth. It wasn’t just romance and sex. There was excitement, a bit of a mystery, and some violence. Not too much. Just enough to move the story along. There were a few things that took me by surprise, but I’m not going to share that with you, though.
This is the third book in “The Mates” series. I haven’t read the first two, but I didn’t feel like I was lost or confused, and now that I know that there are more out there, I’ll definitely go and pick them up. I’m highly recommending this one.
