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The Careless Alpha
He claimed me at thirteen. Rejected me at seventeen. Now he wants me back.
Marshall Kane was the future Alpha, the pack's golden boy, and my fated mate. For four years, I was the future he never saw, the girl he ignored while he took other she-wolves to his bed. I thought our child would be the start of our forever.
I was wrong. He looked me in the eye, called me a whore, and cast me out.
Alone, I didn't just survive—I thrived. I found a family that chose me, a strength I never knew I had, and a life where I am cherished, not tolerated.
Now he's back, whispering apologies and talking about destiny. But the girl he broke is gone. And the woman she became? She doesn't kneel for anyone, especially the Alpha who taught her the price of love.
Marshall Kane was the future Alpha, the pack's golden boy, and my fated mate. For four years, I was the future he never saw, the girl he ignored while he took other she-wolves to his bed. I thought our child would be the start of our forever.
I was wrong. He looked me in the eye, called me a whore, and cast me out.
Alone, I didn't just survive—I thrived. I found a family that chose me, a strength I never knew I had, and a life where I am cherished, not tolerated.
Now he's back, whispering apologies and talking about destiny. But the girl he broke is gone. And the woman she became? She doesn't kneel for anyone, especially the Alpha who taught her the price of love.
228 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 28, 2025
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September 28, 2025
So, I decided to read this after seeing someone mention it on FB. People were spilt down the middle if the H Marshall groveled enough. In all honesty, no. But I would put that as the writer's fault at not showing us. She only told us. And I'm going to put this out there. Recently authors who write betrayal always use therapy as the end all for letting the betrayer back in. That shouldn't be the norm. While therapy is great and can teach and guide the person it shouldn't be used all the time for letting the person back in. Working on yourself individually should be a must for making you a decent person, but it shouldn't be used as the end all of letting that person back in. That was just a little rant. Nothing against this author, but a shifter going to therapy just didn't fit unfortunately. Now, the story. Marshall finds his mate Annalise when she is thirteen and he eighteen. To formally make the bond he had to wait until she's eighteen. She accepts him as her mate. He asks her to be true. She says of course. She asks the same and he lies. He was already sexually active, but the other's in the pack expected him to stop his alpha adult ways. He does not. He essentially cheats on her for five years while flaunting his conquests in front of her, at the same time ignoring her. While he let's the she wolves pick on her. While the beginning is angsty I don't think the author was quite able to get the consequences quite developed with the writing. It was a bit shallow for the plot. As for the grovel. He says a whole lot without it being shown. But we as the reader had to believe that he's changed because the herione Annalise says so. The biggest betrayal comes when he's drunk and has drunken sex with Annalise. Then the next day completely forgetting about it. Resulting in her pregnancy. Which resulted in her telling him of said pregnancy, and him calling her a whore and rejecting her in front of the whole pack. She then of course is pushed out and she runs far away. The biggest crime in this book is the author did nothing with Scarlett who was the actual whore. She targeted and made Annalise's life miserable. All that happens is she's kicked out. That's it! End of story. Say what? This she wolf was a bitch and that's all we get? Criminal I tell you.
Safety: fade to black scenes with ow. Tame scene between Marshall and Annalise. Nothing that's in your face. Cheating? Yes. Marshall accepts her as his mate. He expects her to wait, but not him of course. In my humble opinion that is cheating.
Safety: fade to black scenes with ow. Tame scene between Marshall and Annalise. Nothing that's in your face. Cheating? Yes. Marshall accepts her as his mate. He expects her to wait, but not him of course. In my humble opinion that is cheating.
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October 16, 2025
God that was painful. Maybe not "Bound to You" bad, but next door to it. Apparently, years of him sleeping with other people when he knew she was his mate, letting other people abuse her, ignoring her, coming into her room and having sex with her when she's underage and then "forgetting", willfully ignoring the truth and calling her a whore when she told you she was pregnant with your baby and demanding she leave in a half hour or be killed because of it was able to be forgiven in a few months of saying he was reeeeeal sorry. Glad to know he got away with it all and she forgave him. 🙄🙄🙄 Disgusting. The fact he has the audacity to kick her out of the pack for ALLEGEDLY sleeping with someone else when had IN FACT been sleeping with other women the ENTIRE time is beyond unforgivable. The fact that the women got kicked out, but the shitty alpha who allowed it was just welcomed back and patted on the back for doing the bare minimum was just unbelievable. Didn't even care to finish it, just skimmed through until the end. Yuck
October 5, 2025
Ew this MMC is a walking red flag. He did not grovel enough and was soooo dumb.
September 28, 2025
I was pleasantly surprised by this rejected mate shifter romance. There was good character development and grovel.
September 7, 2025
A lot of things were glossed over under the ‘Alpha’s needs’ but even his wolf was as against them, and his Beta too… it we pretty clear he knew what h was doing and didn’t care to see the pain it caused because he wanted to be seen as a nonchalant bad ass alpha and eff his mate in the process.
It’s more than 50%+ of what a disgusting mate he is, and all the things he did to hurt her basically skims over the grovel and lets he take him at his word for change and grow. Makes it seem that the author takes more pleasure in the h pain and humiliation than the H redemption.
It’s more than 50%+ of what a disgusting mate he is, and all the things he did to hurt her basically skims over the grovel and lets he take him at his word for change and grow. Makes it seem that the author takes more pleasure in the h pain and humiliation than the H redemption.
September 27, 2025
3.5 ⭐️
SPOILERS GALORE. Reader beware!
I liked this shifter story, despite the ick factor that the MMC’s finding his fated mate when he was 19 and she was only 13 introduced to the story. Happily, the book keeps the FMC, the future Luna, firmly in the early teens in terms of her behavior, and doesn’t try to age her too quickly to keep up with the horn dog MMC. She spends her days learning from the current Luna, the MMC’s mom, who shows her the ropes of her future duties. To complicate matters, the FMC moves into the alpha house to be closer to her (future?) mate, I suppose to get to know him better.
Meanwhile, the MMC, who is 19 and virile and sought after by all of the vile aggressive unmated females in the pack, seeks out the pleasure of other female company to fill his cup, so to speak. And where does he constantly fill this proverbial cup? Why, right down the hall from our barely teenaged FMC, who has to hear and smell the evidence of these exchanges. The MMC avails himself of what is essentially his personal Alpha Harem. This pack of mean girl wolves also bullies the FMC mercilessly, right in front of the MMC, who remains willfully blind to their actions and its repercussions.
Not all of the pack turns a blind eye, however. The f tire Alpha’s Beta in training always shoots straight, by pointing out that these encounters with the pack’s ho’s is causing damage is a number of ways. The MMC always rebuffs this advice, with a heavy dose of resentment that he is in this position in the first place. He plans to screw these gals until his future Luna’s 18th birthday, when he can make her his mate for reals. 🤮 he has real adult Man Needs, after all. What’s he supposed to do?!
Only a few months away from her 18th, the MMC gets drunk and his wolf takes over, driving him to seek out her company, which turns into their first tumble in the hay. He leaves before morning and by the time the FMC makes it downstairs to breakfast, he’s got the head pack Ho in his lap, having forgotten all about boning the FMC the night before. Crushing.
A very public rejection occurs soon after, and our FMC flees across the country, where she finds a community that becomes her family away from home. The resolution is decent-we get to see some groveling and behavior change on the MMC’s behalf, but we don’t get to see the Hos’ banishment. We do get to see the FMC find her lady balls and take care of business, which was satisfying enough for me.
Lots of readers wanted to read about the retribution for those years of bad treatment, and you definitely won’t find that here.
SPOILERS GALORE. Reader beware!
I liked this shifter story, despite the ick factor that the MMC’s finding his fated mate when he was 19 and she was only 13 introduced to the story. Happily, the book keeps the FMC, the future Luna, firmly in the early teens in terms of her behavior, and doesn’t try to age her too quickly to keep up with the horn dog MMC. She spends her days learning from the current Luna, the MMC’s mom, who shows her the ropes of her future duties. To complicate matters, the FMC moves into the alpha house to be closer to her (future?) mate, I suppose to get to know him better.
Meanwhile, the MMC, who is 19 and virile and sought after by all of the vile aggressive unmated females in the pack, seeks out the pleasure of other female company to fill his cup, so to speak. And where does he constantly fill this proverbial cup? Why, right down the hall from our barely teenaged FMC, who has to hear and smell the evidence of these exchanges. The MMC avails himself of what is essentially his personal Alpha Harem. This pack of mean girl wolves also bullies the FMC mercilessly, right in front of the MMC, who remains willfully blind to their actions and its repercussions.
Not all of the pack turns a blind eye, however. The f tire Alpha’s Beta in training always shoots straight, by pointing out that these encounters with the pack’s ho’s is causing damage is a number of ways. The MMC always rebuffs this advice, with a heavy dose of resentment that he is in this position in the first place. He plans to screw these gals until his future Luna’s 18th birthday, when he can make her his mate for reals. 🤮 he has real adult Man Needs, after all. What’s he supposed to do?!
Only a few months away from her 18th, the MMC gets drunk and his wolf takes over, driving him to seek out her company, which turns into their first tumble in the hay. He leaves before morning and by the time the FMC makes it downstairs to breakfast, he’s got the head pack Ho in his lap, having forgotten all about boning the FMC the night before. Crushing.
A very public rejection occurs soon after, and our FMC flees across the country, where she finds a community that becomes her family away from home. The resolution is decent-we get to see some groveling and behavior change on the MMC’s behalf, but we don’t get to see the Hos’ banishment. We do get to see the FMC find her lady balls and take care of business, which was satisfying enough for me.
Lots of readers wanted to read about the retribution for those years of bad treatment, and you definitely won’t find that here.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 17, 2026
In a redemption/grovel story usually the Hero messes up in some way, it could just be something thoughtless or a right out betrayal. like cheating.
I feel the author set herself up with a really difficult issue to overcome by having the 'mating bond' manifest itself when the heroine is 13 and the Hero is 19 i think, 6 years older.
By this time he is already sexually active and it's a wolf shifter series so it seems unlikely he'd be celibate until she's 18.
Also they decide to bring the heroine to live in his house so his mother can train her to be a successful Luna, there are other issues that make this seem like a good idea but it brings up problems as he intends to bring other women there.
He is with several women, one in particular, which raises hopes he will reject the mating bond and pick one of the many women interested.
In the meantime the other women bully the heroine.
He does have a huge change of attitude but still... sometimes it's a bridge too far.
If you can forgive that, sigh, he is warned by his beta of all the issues his actions could bring, several times.
It culminated in her being kicked out, pregnant by the Hero.
He does see the error of his ways but......
I feel the author set herself up with a really difficult issue to overcome by having the 'mating bond' manifest itself when the heroine is 13 and the Hero is 19 i think, 6 years older.
By this time he is already sexually active and it's a wolf shifter series so it seems unlikely he'd be celibate until she's 18.
Also they decide to bring the heroine to live in his house so his mother can train her to be a successful Luna, there are other issues that make this seem like a good idea but it brings up problems as he intends to bring other women there.
He is with several women, one in particular, which raises hopes he will reject the mating bond and pick one of the many women interested.
In the meantime the other women bully the heroine.
He does have a huge change of attitude but still... sometimes it's a bridge too far.
If you can forgive that, sigh, he is warned by his beta of all the issues his actions could bring, several times.
It culminated in her being kicked out, pregnant by the Hero.
He does see the error of his ways but......
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October 18, 2025
No.
Just no.
This guy is certainly no alpha.
Just no.
This guy is certainly no alpha.
October 19, 2025
Weak FMC
Weird child mating aside, the MMC disrespects the FMC for 5 years, forgets he sleeps with her, then rejects her and throws her out of the pack. And she forgives him.
This one was pretty gross all around.
Weird child mating aside, the MMC disrespects the FMC for 5 years, forgets he sleeps with her, then rejects her and throws her out of the pack. And she forgives him.
This one was pretty gross all around.
October 24, 2025
Facebook made me do it.
Annalise is a member of the pack for which Marshall is the soon to be Alpha. He is 19 and she is 13 when the books starts and he senses that she is his mate but they cannot complete the mating until she turns 18. Marshall, in his apparent wisdom, moves Annalise into his house to begin her luna training but continues to live his life as he did previously (women and all) all while she is witness to it and hearing it through their shared bedroom wall! He is not shy about parading his many conquests in front of her with the justification she is still a child and he is still officially un-mated. This goes on for the majority of the book until Marshall gets drunk one night when Annalise is 17 and decides he's done waiting, the only problem is he doesn't remember the next day and convinces himself it was one of his many women he spent the night with. Annalise tells him she's pregnant (and here is the kicker) he accuse her of betrayal and cheating, rejects her and banishes her from the pack (pot kettle black)! He spends 5 years openly cheating on his future mate but flips his lid when he thinks she did!!
Marshall learns very quickly that he was wrong but by the time he does she has gone and has started a new life for herself. He resolves to find her but it takes a couple of months. What struck me was that he didn't learn his lesson. Even after she left he felt entitled instead of remorseful. He came across as very weak treating Annalise poorly in the name of showing his Alpha strength but let many of the other women walk all over him. He had to be told numerous times that he did not deserve and may not get forgiveness but he never came to the realisation he was wrong on his own.
There wasn't nearly enough grovel in this one and his reasoning to Annalise is that he thought he was protecting her while she was a child but sourcing his Alpha needs elsewhere (weak!). He always planned to be devoted to her once she turned 18 but in the meantime everything else was fair game and he wasn't even discreet about it. There was also no real consequence to his actions - he banished all the women who had bullied Annalise (because they thought they had a right to him which he perpetuated) but that's all they get - no real payback and he got to stay Alpha. It was like his behaviour was everyone else's but his own. There wasn't nearly enough grovel and not nearly enough time of seeing their reconciliation to buy into this happily ever after for me.
September 29, 2025
Really like
But I wanted more. I wanted the Luna to go back and take care of the she-wolves. Also it kind of felt she took Marshall back fast after all he had done.
But I wanted more. I wanted the Luna to go back and take care of the she-wolves. Also it kind of felt she took Marshall back fast after all he had done.
September 8, 2025
3,5 ⭐️
One thing… It was almost perfect...
... but i felt robbed of the comeuppance of the she-wolves. He just told her what he did, but i would've loved to read the confrontation, but no.
The heart break was well built but unfortunately the redemption arc was too short and too rushed. We deserved to share Mashall growth and how he made everything right for his mate.
So yes, it's a good book but it could've been so much more.
One thing… It was almost perfect...
... but i felt robbed of the comeuppance of the she-wolves. He just told her what he did, but i would've loved to read the confrontation, but no.
The heart break was well built but unfortunately the redemption arc was too short and too rushed. We deserved to share Mashall growth and how he made everything right for his mate.
So yes, it's a good book but it could've been so much more.
February 11, 2026
I love a book that makes me hurt, but this MMC made it impossible to root for the HEA.
There is a massive distinction between meeting "Alpha needs" and the blatant disrespect shown here. Watching him parade women around his mate while waiting for her to come of age didn't add angst—it just killed the romance. A massive disappointment for anyone who prefers their Alphas with actual loyalty, empathy, or really any redeeming qualities.
There is a massive distinction between meeting "Alpha needs" and the blatant disrespect shown here. Watching him parade women around his mate while waiting for her to come of age didn't add angst—it just killed the romance. A massive disappointment for anyone who prefers their Alphas with actual loyalty, empathy, or really any redeeming qualities.
February 19, 2026
Main trope: This is a paranormal romance.
Additional tropes:
✅Other woman drama
✅Rejected mate
✅Surprise pregnancy
Detailed spoilers/trigger warnings (if any) and final thoughts can be found below. There is a warning right before the spoiler and trigger section so you have the choice to proceed or stop reading.
Summary: The FMC is Annalise. When she is 13, the future alpha to the pack she lives in sees her and recognizes her as his mate. Since he is 19, Marshall, the MMC, understands it’s inappropriate to begin the type of relationship he knows needs to wait until she is of age.
Now that she knows she is his mate and will be the future Luna to the pack, she begins training for the role, all while having to endure watching Marshall with various females in the pack, who bully and torment her daily. As the years pass and she gets older, she is hoping to start building some type of connection with Marshall, but he essentially shuts her out of his life, even when his Beta calls him out, he does nothing to change it.
One night, shortly before her 18th birthday, the MMC visits her in an intoxicated state and they end up together intimately, to which he doesn’t remember. She ends up pregnant and when she tells him, he doesn’t believe it’s his and banishes her from the pack.
Immediately he regrets his decision and actions but the FMC is long gone, arriving in a small town across the country, prepared to do whatever it takes to care for herself and her unborn child. The MMC refuses to give up finding her and after tracking her down, is ready to do whatever he needs to for her to come back into his life.
⚠️SPOILERS/SPICE/DETAILED TRIGGERS⚠️
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*Moderate bullying scenes and other woman drama.
🌶️:1.5/5
Final thoughts: I enjoyed this book. It was a quick and entertaining read with many of the things I enjoy, like lots of angst and drama. I like the unique aspect of the FMC being young when he discovered she was his mate. There was nothing cringe about the age gap as he did not see her that way at all until she was older, but we also got to see her come into her own through adolescence and young womanhood.
It did drag and get repetitive in some of the conversations. For example, it felt like the MMC’s beta was constantly reminding him to get to know the FMC and then all of the sudden the MMC would have this epiphany like oh, when was the last time I did this or yeah, I should do that. He said this so much but didn’t seem to follow through at all. He definitely had may TSTL moments before finally getting his act together. Which thankfully he did. This was an enjoyable read and I definitely recommend.
Additional tropes:
✅Other woman drama
✅Rejected mate
✅Surprise pregnancy
Detailed spoilers/trigger warnings (if any) and final thoughts can be found below. There is a warning right before the spoiler and trigger section so you have the choice to proceed or stop reading.
Summary: The FMC is Annalise. When she is 13, the future alpha to the pack she lives in sees her and recognizes her as his mate. Since he is 19, Marshall, the MMC, understands it’s inappropriate to begin the type of relationship he knows needs to wait until she is of age.
Now that she knows she is his mate and will be the future Luna to the pack, she begins training for the role, all while having to endure watching Marshall with various females in the pack, who bully and torment her daily. As the years pass and she gets older, she is hoping to start building some type of connection with Marshall, but he essentially shuts her out of his life, even when his Beta calls him out, he does nothing to change it.
One night, shortly before her 18th birthday, the MMC visits her in an intoxicated state and they end up together intimately, to which he doesn’t remember. She ends up pregnant and when she tells him, he doesn’t believe it’s his and banishes her from the pack.
Immediately he regrets his decision and actions but the FMC is long gone, arriving in a small town across the country, prepared to do whatever it takes to care for herself and her unborn child. The MMC refuses to give up finding her and after tracking her down, is ready to do whatever he needs to for her to come back into his life.
⚠️SPOILERS/SPICE/DETAILED TRIGGERS⚠️
✋
✋
✋
*Moderate bullying scenes and other woman drama.
🌶️:1.5/5
Final thoughts: I enjoyed this book. It was a quick and entertaining read with many of the things I enjoy, like lots of angst and drama. I like the unique aspect of the FMC being young when he discovered she was his mate. There was nothing cringe about the age gap as he did not see her that way at all until she was older, but we also got to see her come into her own through adolescence and young womanhood.
It did drag and get repetitive in some of the conversations. For example, it felt like the MMC’s beta was constantly reminding him to get to know the FMC and then all of the sudden the MMC would have this epiphany like oh, when was the last time I did this or yeah, I should do that. He said this so much but didn’t seem to follow through at all. He definitely had may TSTL moments before finally getting his act together. Which thankfully he did. This was an enjoyable read and I definitely recommend.
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February 10, 2026
Where was the romance???
I don't read a book for repetitive assignment of blame regurgitated ad nauseam from the characters. I read it for a story . This was supposed to be a "paranormal romance" with wolves, but the author was more interested in the fmc accusing the supposed "Alpha" of what he did wrong to her for almost 40% of the book.
I don't read PNR for the mention oftherapists, any kind of "process" or "learn to accept my boundaries" talk. It's PNR, there's wolves, he was supposed to be an Alpha.
Do some math. Don't pop a therapist ffs.
MMC was NOT behaving like an Alpha, the double standards were disgusting, and his treatment of the fmc would not have changed if she never got pregnant. Per his admission.
I hate it when the pregnancy trope is used to change the mmc's behavior toward the fmc and then call it "love." There was no romance built between them.
Also. There's either a mate bond or there's not. He rejected her. And at the end we learn that the mate bond went dormant? Why break the rules of the very world built when it's convenient? That's just lazy writing and not thought out well at all.
You want to write a story about female empowerment? Go ahead and stick to it. Don't write 100 pages of mmc reduced to sniveling dirt while the fmc now "loves herself more" but goes back to him for the sake of the child and promised equal "partnership." That's no romance.
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I don't read a book for repetitive assignment of blame regurgitated ad nauseam from the characters. I read it for a story . This was supposed to be a "paranormal romance" with wolves, but the author was more interested in the fmc accusing the supposed "Alpha" of what he did wrong to her for almost 40% of the book.
I don't read PNR for the mention of
Do some math. Don't pop a therapist ffs.
MMC was NOT behaving like an Alpha, the double standards were disgusting, and his treatment of the fmc would not have changed if she never got pregnant. Per his admission.
I hate it when the pregnancy trope is used to change the mmc's behavior toward the fmc and then call it "love." There was no romance built between them.
Also. There's either a mate bond or there's not. He rejected her. And at the end we learn that the mate bond went dormant? Why break the rules of the very world built when it's convenient? That's just lazy writing and not thought out well at all.
You want to write a story about female empowerment? Go ahead and stick to it. Don't write 100 pages of mmc reduced to sniveling dirt while the fmc now "loves herself more" but goes back to him for the sake of the child and promised equal "partnership." That's no romance.
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February 28, 2026
Not what I expected
Annalise went through way too much especially with her manwhore’s women, Scarlett, Veronica, and Tiffany. They all needed to be punched like several times.🙄 I honestly had to push through reading this because it was very repetitive. And the last half seemed very clinical sounding not at all romantic plus how many 18 year olds act like that?🤔she had the behavior of a 30 year old because there is no way she could have changed that much in a few months. Definitely not my favorite to be honest.
Annalise went through way too much especially with her manwhore’s women, Scarlett, Veronica, and Tiffany. They all needed to be punched like several times.🙄 I honestly had to push through reading this because it was very repetitive. And the last half seemed very clinical sounding not at all romantic plus how many 18 year olds act like that?🤔she had the behavior of a 30 year old because there is no way she could have changed that much in a few months. Definitely not my favorite to be honest.
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October 18, 2025The whole underage mate thing is weird to me in books like this. And the mmc was an absolute douche and his mama too!
March 1, 2026
He isn't an alpha, he's a knob. He isn't careless, he's egotistical and ignorant. How the hell she ever took him back let alone forgave him I will NEVER know or understand
February 10, 2026
What a heinous, misogynistic book. I can only pray that the author is some basement dwelling incel writing under a female pseudonym because I hope no healthy woman would write such misandrist drivel. I read until page 167 and to me, that was the end of the book and I actually would have rated it higher or at minimum had some respect for the fmc. This book was gross on so many levels. No. Just, no.
February 11, 2026
What a disgusting MMC.
How can someone who has no backbone or integrity and lets himself be manipulated by cheap women be an alpha? He's just weak and pathetic. I wish FMC had a new man.
How can someone who has no backbone or integrity and lets himself be manipulated by cheap women be an alpha? He's just weak and pathetic. I wish FMC had a new man.
October 25, 2025
sigh😮💨
Years of the alpha cheating and emotionally Nd mentally neglecting his Luna then actually banishing her ! Only for the Luna to forgive him and reunite with in a
Month. Even the men in literature have free pass to misbehave and be immediately shown grace
Years of the alpha cheating and emotionally Nd mentally neglecting his Luna then actually banishing her ! Only for the Luna to forgive him and reunite with in a
Month. Even the men in literature have free pass to misbehave and be immediately shown grace
January 21, 2026
Irredeemable H
The H is actually horrific here. He does everything but physically abuse the h. It's disgusting and hes not redeemed, he's just forgiven. Because he's sorry. And he has "changed" because he lost the h. This was a hard rage read for me.
The H is actually horrific here. He does everything but physically abuse the h. It's disgusting and hes not redeemed, he's just forgiven. Because he's sorry. And he has "changed" because he lost the h. This was a hard rage read for me.
January 13, 2026
a-okay
Decent story that stayed in the shallow end. There's no world where the grovel Marshall gave would be enough. He was selfish until the end and had no clue what love was/is. I also blame his parents who saw what he was doing and said/did nothing about it and by doing nothing about it they were silently condoning it. I would've liked to see her move on with somebody more honourable and deserving of Annalise. That's an ending and I could get behind.
Decent story that stayed in the shallow end. There's no world where the grovel Marshall gave would be enough. He was selfish until the end and had no clue what love was/is. I also blame his parents who saw what he was doing and said/did nothing about it and by doing nothing about it they were silently condoning it. I would've liked to see her move on with somebody more honourable and deserving of Annalise. That's an ending and I could get behind.
October 13, 2025
3 stars for the angst in the beginning. The story had many problem, the most important of which how ridiculous it is that she takes him back so easily. She should have been with someone else and taken years to take him back, if ever.
November 11, 2025
The asshole alpha was irredeemable! 5 years of torture and forgiven in not even a month..
He was a manhoe who whored around with other hoes in front of the doormat who calls herself Luna for 5 yrs and he says he loved her forever! Not believable. I wish she had ditched his ass and chosen someone else. He always wanted the hoe scarlet and not her and later it's a 360 and he says he was protecting her by whoring around with other hoes! Makes me sick 🤬😡🤮
He was a manhoe who whored around with other hoes in front of the doormat who calls herself Luna for 5 yrs and he says he loved her forever! Not believable. I wish she had ditched his ass and chosen someone else. He always wanted the hoe scarlet and not her and later it's a 360 and he says he was protecting her by whoring around with other hoes! Makes me sick 🤬😡🤮
December 12, 2025
skipped to the end to give it a 1 star rating
My first time reading from this author and this books first impression wasn’t great.
No groveling for the amount of stuff Anna went through only for her to forgive him instantly. Very subpar.
Goodluck with your future books won’t be reading from you again.
My first time reading from this author and this books first impression wasn’t great.
No groveling for the amount of stuff Anna went through only for her to forgive him instantly. Very subpar.
Goodluck with your future books won’t be reading from you again.
December 12, 2025
Never touching a book from this author again.
I can’t believe I read a book degrading a woman even if it is fantasy to that degree. It wasn’t even angst but just pure rage bait.
A shit book with terrible grovel with the shit the hero pulled. Don’t ever write books again please.
I can’t believe I read a book degrading a woman even if it is fantasy to that degree. It wasn’t even angst but just pure rage bait.
A shit book with terrible grovel with the shit the hero pulled. Don’t ever write books again please.
October 2, 2025
The Alpha's son, Marshal (19), returns from a trip and tells the pack he can scent that 13 year old pack member Annalise is his mate. They don't start a relationship, because of her age, but she moves into the Alpha's house. The current Luna trains her to become the next Luna.
Another female Marshal's age (Scarlett) makes her move to seduce Marshal, and they start a FWB relationship. Marshal's wolf half doesn't want him to do it, but his human half thinks he has "Alpha needs" to take care of. He intends to mate with Annalise when she turns 18, and he feels like Analise will understand, and once she is an adult they can just move on from his past with Scarlett.
The story skips ahead 2 years. Marshal is 21, and Annalise is 15, and Marshal is still FWB with Scarlett. The pack is starting to worry about him ignoring Annalise. They would be happier if he could at least stand to be in the same room with the future Luna. At the same time, Scarlett wants Marshal to reject Annalise and make Scarlett the Luna.
For the next few years, Scarlett and her friends bully Annalise, and Marshal becomes FWB with several females, not just Scarlett, while ignoring Annalise.
When Marshal is 23, and Annalise is about to turn 18, Marshal still thinks he's not ready to settle down, but he'll be forced to settle down with Annalise in 4 months. Scarlett and her friends keep bringing up the idea that he still has time to "choose a different path." For the first time, he starts wondering if he should reject Analise. While he's thinking about all his "problems," he gets drunk one night, goes into Annalise's room, and they have a ONS. He leaves her room and goes back to his room, where he wakes up the next morning with Scarlett in his bed.
Two months later, Annalise goes to his office and tells him she's pregnant. He thinks she slept with someone else. She tells him no, he came into her room drunk the night of the Solstice. He doesn't believe her. I don't know if they can do DNA tests, but he doesn't do one, he just tells everyone she's a whore and she's pregnant with someone else's bastard, because he doesn't remember sleeping with her. He uses her infidelity as an excuse to finally reject her, and banish her from pack territory.
Well, his Beta shows up later that day, not knowing what happened. When Marshal tells him what Annalise did, his Beta confirms that Marshal was in Annalise's room for several hours the night of the Solstice. Marshal starts remembering things from that night. The Beta also reminds him that because he's an adult and can feel the mate bond, he would have felt something if she was being unfaithful. Marshal realizes he never felt anything through the bond. Now Marshal wants her back, but since he banished her, he doesn't know where she went.
She takes a bus to the opposite side of the country and ends up working at a diner.
Meanwhile, Marshal has a lot of repetitive conversations about how he'll find her and explain things to her, and she'll understand. And everyone tells him she probably won't understand, she has no reason to come back to him, and he's already severed the bond. No matter how many times they try to explain it to him, he doesn't accept that she's not going to want to come back. It's very repetitive.
A private investigator eventually finds Annalise. Marshal goes to the diner and tells her that he made a mistake calling their son a bastard, and that he intended to be a good and faithful mate once she turned 18.
Then he says something that got me thinking: "I was saving myself for you - my real commitment, my devotion." I don't know if any of you have ever read "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but this reminded me of the male lead in that book, Florentino Ariza. Florentino's girlfriend (Fermina) broke up with him, and then he embarked on a life time of sexual promiscuity with hundreds of women. The main characters reunite when they are elderly, and she is now a widow. She asks Florentino about his sexual past and he says, "I have stayed a virgin for you." Because he only loved Fermina. So, Florentino is kind of delusional. So is Marshal, IMO. How did he save his devotion for Annalise when he never showed Analise any devotion?
Annalise tells him she is not going back with him to be his Luna. She's not interested. If he wants to be a dad, they can co-parent, but she's not leaving her new home to go back with him.
So he agrees he wants to be in his child's life, so he spends several months there in her new town. By the time the baby is born, she is willing to return to the pack as the Luna, but more as a marriage of convenience. She is not in love with him yet. We only see they end up in love because there is an epilogue.
I guess my one complaint is, Marshal got to do what he wanted to do all along, to act like a man whore in front of his mate and the entire pack, then be faithful to his mate after she turned 18. He got some character growth and made some changes by moving to Annalise's town and getting to know the local pack there, where things were different and people didn't bully each other. But at the end of the day, he didn't have to give up anything he had planned.
Another female Marshal's age (Scarlett) makes her move to seduce Marshal, and they start a FWB relationship. Marshal's wolf half doesn't want him to do it, but his human half thinks he has "Alpha needs" to take care of. He intends to mate with Annalise when she turns 18, and he feels like Analise will understand, and once she is an adult they can just move on from his past with Scarlett.
The story skips ahead 2 years. Marshal is 21, and Annalise is 15, and Marshal is still FWB with Scarlett. The pack is starting to worry about him ignoring Annalise. They would be happier if he could at least stand to be in the same room with the future Luna. At the same time, Scarlett wants Marshal to reject Annalise and make Scarlett the Luna.
For the next few years, Scarlett and her friends bully Annalise, and Marshal becomes FWB with several females, not just Scarlett, while ignoring Annalise.
When Marshal is 23, and Annalise is about to turn 18, Marshal still thinks he's not ready to settle down, but he'll be forced to settle down with Annalise in 4 months. Scarlett and her friends keep bringing up the idea that he still has time to "choose a different path." For the first time, he starts wondering if he should reject Analise. While he's thinking about all his "problems," he gets drunk one night, goes into Annalise's room, and they have a ONS. He leaves her room and goes back to his room, where he wakes up the next morning with Scarlett in his bed.
Two months later, Annalise goes to his office and tells him she's pregnant. He thinks she slept with someone else. She tells him no, he came into her room drunk the night of the Solstice. He doesn't believe her. I don't know if they can do DNA tests, but he doesn't do one, he just tells everyone she's a whore and she's pregnant with someone else's bastard, because he doesn't remember sleeping with her. He uses her infidelity as an excuse to finally reject her, and banish her from pack territory.
Well, his Beta shows up later that day, not knowing what happened. When Marshal tells him what Annalise did, his Beta confirms that Marshal was in Annalise's room for several hours the night of the Solstice. Marshal starts remembering things from that night. The Beta also reminds him that because he's an adult and can feel the mate bond, he would have felt something if she was being unfaithful. Marshal realizes he never felt anything through the bond. Now Marshal wants her back, but since he banished her, he doesn't know where she went.
She takes a bus to the opposite side of the country and ends up working at a diner.
Meanwhile, Marshal has a lot of repetitive conversations about how he'll find her and explain things to her, and she'll understand. And everyone tells him she probably won't understand, she has no reason to come back to him, and he's already severed the bond. No matter how many times they try to explain it to him, he doesn't accept that she's not going to want to come back. It's very repetitive.
A private investigator eventually finds Annalise. Marshal goes to the diner and tells her that he made a mistake calling their son a bastard, and that he intended to be a good and faithful mate once she turned 18.
Then he says something that got me thinking: "I was saving myself for you - my real commitment, my devotion." I don't know if any of you have ever read "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but this reminded me of the male lead in that book, Florentino Ariza. Florentino's girlfriend (Fermina) broke up with him, and then he embarked on a life time of sexual promiscuity with hundreds of women. The main characters reunite when they are elderly, and she is now a widow. She asks Florentino about his sexual past and he says, "I have stayed a virgin for you." Because he only loved Fermina. So, Florentino is kind of delusional. So is Marshal, IMO. How did he save his devotion for Annalise when he never showed Analise any devotion?
Annalise tells him she is not going back with him to be his Luna. She's not interested. If he wants to be a dad, they can co-parent, but she's not leaving her new home to go back with him.
So he agrees he wants to be in his child's life, so he spends several months there in her new town. By the time the baby is born, she is willing to return to the pack as the Luna, but more as a marriage of convenience. She is not in love with him yet. We only see they end up in love because there is an epilogue.
I guess my one complaint is, Marshal got to do what he wanted to do all along, to act like a man whore in front of his mate and the entire pack, then be faithful to his mate after she turned 18. He got some character growth and made some changes by moving to Annalise's town and getting to know the local pack there, where things were different and people didn't bully each other. But at the end of the day, he didn't have to give up anything he had planned.
December 17, 2025
She shouldn't have taken him back.
September 8, 2025
This had to be the worst Alpha ever.
Marshall is an adult shifter who meets his mate and claims her when she's just 13 years old. He's taken by her and finds her to be lovely, but he can't have sex with her until she's 18. So Marshall has her just basically hang out in the pack (pretty much treated like a slave while training to eventually become Luna of the pack), watching him as he spends all of his time fucking the single females from his pack. He devastates his little Luna by ignoring her completely, and basically breaking her heart day by day while he sluts himself around the females who are more than happy to fuck him anywhere and anytime. Marshall never does anything Alpha like to protect his pack. He was to busy making sure his mate KNEW she didn't matter, he didn't care for her and he's totally okay just rubbing his sexcapades in his future Luna's face. He didn't give a fuck that he was destroying his mate's love and self esteem. He allowed the slutty females to mistreat his mate too. All because, you know, "HE HAS NEEDS" and he just can't be celibate for a few years until he can bond with his mate. So he just fucks as many females as he can in the mean time. He's not sly about it either. The whole pack can see what a shitty Alpha he is, and what a shitty mate he is to his future Luna.
I didn't like Marshall. AT ALL. And I never did warm up to him in the end either. To me, he didn't grovel and his Luna caved way too easily and took him back. I never believed he wouldn't pick right back up with his whorish she wolves as soon as he could get his Luna to return to the pack. For that matter, he banished the females he had screwed in front of his Luna, but they got ZERO comeuppance for their horrific behavior FOR YEARS towards the child Luna. And there were plenty more unclaimed females in his pack he could take up with again. His reason for screwing them all to begin with and rubbing it in his little Luna's face was hard to believe too.
So, I did like the angst, but I didn't really believe the story that was told. I think I would have enjoyed this Luna tracking down some silver, and running him out of her town when he showed back up expecting her to be grateful for his return and his demand she come back to the pack again. I would have loved to see this story end with her finding a new Alpha that was truly worthy of her love instead of the POS she got in this story.
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