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Tribal Bonds #3
Cat Scratch Fever
Waking up with memories of an erotic night spent in the arms of the sexiest man he has ever met, Azizi Dane is determined to track Manu Ucathya down and find out if there is a chance for more. But getting to Manu may be harder than he thought, especially when Azizi's father arrives to take him home, by force if necessary.
Manu Ucathya is bound and determined to claim his anamchara once he meets him. He follows the time-honored traditions of his tribe and approaches Azizi Dane's father. When Azizi is brought to him unconscious and handcuffed, Manu is enraged. When Azizi wakes up with no idea why he is there, Manu feels like his heart is breaking.
But keeping Azizi proves harder than Manu thought, especially when a misunderstanding drives Azizi from his side and right into the hands of the hunters. Saving Azizi may be just as hard. Someone close to Manu holds his anamchara responsible for things that Azizi has no knowledge of but they are determined to make him pay anyway—with his life.
Manu Ucathya is bound and determined to claim his anamchara once he meets him. He follows the time-honored traditions of his tribe and approaches Azizi Dane's father. When Azizi is brought to him unconscious and handcuffed, Manu is enraged. When Azizi wakes up with no idea why he is there, Manu feels like his heart is breaking.
But keeping Azizi proves harder than Manu thought, especially when a misunderstanding drives Azizi from his side and right into the hands of the hunters. Saving Azizi may be just as hard. Someone close to Manu holds his anamchara responsible for things that Azizi has no knowledge of but they are determined to make him pay anyway—with his life.
142 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 14, 2012
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Stormy Glenn
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I believes the only thing sexier than a man in cowboy boots is two, or three men in cowboy boots. I also believes in love at first sight, soul mates, true love, and happy endings.
I live in the great Northwest region of the USA, with my gorgeous husband and soul mate, two boxer/collie puppies, one old biddy cats, and three fish. When I'm not being a mother to my six teenagers or cleaning up after my two 70 pound lap puppies, you can usually find me cuddled in bed with a book in my hand and a puppy in my lap. Or on my laptop, creating the next sexy man for one of my stories.
I welcomes comments from readers, so drop me a line. stormyglenn@hotmail.com
What do I do ?
I'm a writer of erotic, paranormal, werewolf, futuristic, contemporary, gay, and Ménage a Trois romances. I'm currently published with Siren Publishing, Torquere Press, and Noble Ellora's Cave.
I believes the only thing sexier than a man in cowboy boots is two, or three men in cowboy boots. I also believes in love at first sight, soul mates, true love, and happy endings.
I live in the great Northwest region of the USA, with my gorgeous husband and soul mate, two boxer/collie puppies, one old biddy cats, and three fish. When I'm not being a mother to my six teenagers or cleaning up after my two 70 pound lap puppies, you can usually find me cuddled in bed with a book in my hand and a puppy in my lap. Or on my laptop, creating the next sexy man for one of my stories.
I welcomes comments from readers, so drop me a line. stormyglenn@hotmail.com
What do I do ?
I'm a writer of erotic, paranormal, werewolf, futuristic, contemporary, gay, and Ménage a Trois romances. I'm currently published with Siren Publishing, Torquere Press, and Noble Ellora's Cave.
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February 25, 2020
#3 - Cat Scratch Fever: Manu, Luca's brother, with long black hair, is a shifter, and finds his anamchara in computer tech, beautiful, blondev Azizi. Azizi knows a bit about vampires and shifters, but not enough to know what's going on. Azizi's father is horrible, because he disowned the boy for being gay, threw him out, and now, beat and drugged him to get money. As the story unfolds, Manu is helping Azizi heal from the incident. He claims Azizi, but delays showing his cat shifter self... meanwhile trouble is on the way. There is a lot of hate between folks, shifters, hunters, vampires and humans. Conclusions are wrong, and it takes a brutality to bring about the conclusion. Sweet Azizi is kidnapped, brought to his evil father, and I must warn you the results are horrific. I cried. But, Azizi just wants his Manu. More takes place to end the wrongful acts, and a life is spared and there is hope with that life.
It's a violent trilogy, but true loving mates win. ENJOY.
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It's a violent trilogy, but true loving mates win. ENJOY.
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April 14, 2012
This does not disappoint. There is a scene here where azzizi was tortured and made me cry. Seth, Rowan's brother turned into an asshole in this one. The deep love between Manu and Azzizi made my heart sing and toes curl. One big Awwww. A bit heavier than the first two books in the series tho.
March 29, 2019
3.5 Stars
Some plot holes and irks but all around the best one I’ve read so far.
A lot more emotion was put into this one than the other 2 so far, and it really helped elevate the story.
Some plot holes and irks but all around the best one I’ve read so far.
A lot more emotion was put into this one than the other 2 so far, and it really helped elevate the story.
June 21, 2017
Azizi Dane wakes up realizing he had spent the night with Manu. When he looks in the mirror, he sees the remains of two punctures on his neck. On the way to see Manu, his father comes and stops him. Words are exchanged and Azizi is knocked around and then out. Azizi is delivered to Manu in exchange for gold. Manu is following old customs when he offered gold not realizing Azizi and his father were estranged. Unfortunately Manu and Azizi didn't talk enough despite being mated and confusion and hurt feeling are caused. Azizi leaves and is kidnapped by a wolf shifter and tortured because of who his father is. After being dumped on his father's doorstep, he is tortured further by his father. Manu rescues him just in time to save his life. The guilty wolf is dealt with. However, the father is still at large.
July 26, 2019
This was a great story, however, it was very tragic and not quite as fun or engaging as the previous two books in the series. The danger was there, but the torture was just too much for my big heart. :) I enjoyed seeing Rowan again and he remains to be a very sweet and entertaining character. Even though I was very saddened by much of it, the story was well done.
September 17, 2024
Bien pero triste
October 23, 2024
Que triste
May 18, 2012
3 1/2 Hearts
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Manu decides to go the way of the old traditions and offers a mate price for Azizi, but it doesn’t turn out quite the way he had hoped. Azizi is hoping to find Manu again, but his plans are interrupted when his father turns up. The next thing Azizi knows he is waking up in a strange room with Manu. Both Manu and Azizi struggle with the changes and Azizi ends up in more danger than any of them thought.
This story is more serious than the previous two books with much more hatred between the species. It also continues with the rogue hunter theme and also betrayal from an ally. Azizi faces a lot in this book, from finding out about the paranormals, finding out the true nature of his father, his father’s betrayal, his friend’s actions and being tortured. How he kept his nice nature I really don’t know. Manu struggles with having a mate that is a human who has no clue whatsoever about how he is supposed to act, but he doesn’t make it any easier when he doesn’t exactly explain anything.
Azizi is a lovely man who ends up being hurt by a friend and betrayed by his father. Azizi is one of those humans that you would love to know and keep close always just because of his innate goodness and his forgiving nature. Manu seems to be very much the traditionalist, but he does soften up eventually with the understanding of different backgrounds. We also see Seth, Rowan, Luca, Gregory and Daniel in this one. all are woven well into the story and Seth isn’t very nice in this oneL.
There were a few niggles that bothered me and it was mainly to do with Azizi’s reactions, because at first I thought he knew about vampires because he didn’t turn a blind eye over what Manu was telling him about soul-mates and anamchara etc. But, it was more of a deduction that he came to and he didn’t have a clue as to what it actually meant. Then it was about the shifters, because he had a conversation about Rowan’s old alpha. But, then later he was really shocked that Rowan and Seth were shifters. It just threw me a bit.
I will recommend this to those who love shifters, vampires, hot sex, soul-mates, danger, betrayal, misunderstandings because of different cultures and a happy ending.
First published at MM Good Book Reviews
http://mmgoodbookreviews.wordpress.co...
Manu decides to go the way of the old traditions and offers a mate price for Azizi, but it doesn’t turn out quite the way he had hoped. Azizi is hoping to find Manu again, but his plans are interrupted when his father turns up. The next thing Azizi knows he is waking up in a strange room with Manu. Both Manu and Azizi struggle with the changes and Azizi ends up in more danger than any of them thought.
This story is more serious than the previous two books with much more hatred between the species. It also continues with the rogue hunter theme and also betrayal from an ally. Azizi faces a lot in this book, from finding out about the paranormals, finding out the true nature of his father, his father’s betrayal, his friend’s actions and being tortured. How he kept his nice nature I really don’t know. Manu struggles with having a mate that is a human who has no clue whatsoever about how he is supposed to act, but he doesn’t make it any easier when he doesn’t exactly explain anything.
Azizi is a lovely man who ends up being hurt by a friend and betrayed by his father. Azizi is one of those humans that you would love to know and keep close always just because of his innate goodness and his forgiving nature. Manu seems to be very much the traditionalist, but he does soften up eventually with the understanding of different backgrounds. We also see Seth, Rowan, Luca, Gregory and Daniel in this one. all are woven well into the story and Seth isn’t very nice in this oneL.
There were a few niggles that bothered me and it was mainly to do with Azizi’s reactions, because at first I thought he knew about vampires because he didn’t turn a blind eye over what Manu was telling him about soul-mates and anamchara etc. But, it was more of a deduction that he came to and he didn’t have a clue as to what it actually meant. Then it was about the shifters, because he had a conversation about Rowan’s old alpha. But, then later he was really shocked that Rowan and Seth were shifters. It just threw me a bit.
I will recommend this to those who love shifters, vampires, hot sex, soul-mates, danger, betrayal, misunderstandings because of different cultures and a happy ending.
July 28, 2017
The third volume in this series has a somewhat more serious tone than the first two, as well as a new element to the mix. This time a human, Azizi, is paired with a vampire, Manu, but that isn’t all he is. With Azizi not knowing the rules of the paranormal world, there are some surprises for both main characters, and a slightly different struggle until they can figure out how to live together.
Azizi has fought very hard to become independent of his overbearing father. Just when he has finally succeeded, it all seems to have been for nothing. Adjusting to the fact that he is a vampire’s soul mate is hard enough, but finding out he is considered to be his “pet” carries all the wrong connotations for Azizi. Some of Manu’s reactions and expectations remind him too much of his father, and Azizi finds it very difficult to imagine he can live like that on a permanent basis and be happy. All kinds of misunderstandings and cross-cultural communication issues stand in his way before he can hope to achieve happiness.
Manu may be the second in command of a vampire tribe (his brother is Luca from the first book), but he is no less dominant. He expects his mate to accept him, live by his rules, and never look back. Manu has these paranormal rules so ingrained in who he is that he doesn’t even see why Azizi might have issues with them. Manu has a lot to learn, and it takes a while for him to get it, but when he does, he turns out to be a wonderful mate.
This is a story about cross-cultural problems, the effects of bigotry and prejudice, as much as it is a love story between Azizi and Manu. The various paranormal species and humans have quite a few problems to deal with, and this third book begins to reveal some of them in more detail.
If you like paranormal stories, if fighting prejudice and making the world a better place is something you like the main characters do, and if some very hot action between the sheets is your thing, then you will probably like this novella.
Azizi has fought very hard to become independent of his overbearing father. Just when he has finally succeeded, it all seems to have been for nothing. Adjusting to the fact that he is a vampire’s soul mate is hard enough, but finding out he is considered to be his “pet” carries all the wrong connotations for Azizi. Some of Manu’s reactions and expectations remind him too much of his father, and Azizi finds it very difficult to imagine he can live like that on a permanent basis and be happy. All kinds of misunderstandings and cross-cultural communication issues stand in his way before he can hope to achieve happiness.
Manu may be the second in command of a vampire tribe (his brother is Luca from the first book), but he is no less dominant. He expects his mate to accept him, live by his rules, and never look back. Manu has these paranormal rules so ingrained in who he is that he doesn’t even see why Azizi might have issues with them. Manu has a lot to learn, and it takes a while for him to get it, but when he does, he turns out to be a wonderful mate.
This is a story about cross-cultural problems, the effects of bigotry and prejudice, as much as it is a love story between Azizi and Manu. The various paranormal species and humans have quite a few problems to deal with, and this third book begins to reveal some of them in more detail.
If you like paranormal stories, if fighting prejudice and making the world a better place is something you like the main characters do, and if some very hot action between the sheets is your thing, then you will probably like this novella.
May 23, 2013
2012 Review:
No, this was not a fun book.
And then, holy crap, it turned into an even bigger tragedy. Made me cry, the kind of tears that you can’t repress, the ones that come from deep within with dreadful pressure and grief.
So it’s perhaps a little jarring when immediately following that terrible final set-piece we switch to a kind of epilogue where everything is hunky-dory.
That would maybe be my only real complaint about this book. That and perhaps that Azizi remained a bit of a hazy entity throughout. Not a non-entity by any means, but I couldn’t get a real grasp of who he really is. Whenever I thought I knew, he’d react in a way that suggested something else again, &c.
And okay, I also found myself very confused in the beginning over the whole ‘vampire, yet also cat shifter’ thing. Because once more, continuity was shaking in its boots.
Beyond that? Well the whole Seth/Roman thing that started in the previous book underwent further developments in the sense that . Not really happy with this here. But again, I will withhold my judgement until they get to duke it out in their own book.
As a temporary conclusion to this series this was a bit of a downer. Not actually bad, and I do admire the way the author made me recoil and tear up (even if I did not enjoy the feeling itself), but I now find myself needing a huge dose of happy. With a helping of mush, please. We had mush and eternal commitment and love in this, of course, but I want something lighter to offset the heartbreak.
No, this was not a fun book.
And then, holy crap, it turned into an even bigger tragedy. Made me cry, the kind of tears that you can’t repress, the ones that come from deep within with dreadful pressure and grief.
So it’s perhaps a little jarring when immediately following that terrible final set-piece we switch to a kind of epilogue where everything is hunky-dory.
That would maybe be my only real complaint about this book. That and perhaps that Azizi remained a bit of a hazy entity throughout. Not a non-entity by any means, but I couldn’t get a real grasp of who he really is. Whenever I thought I knew, he’d react in a way that suggested something else again, &c.
And okay, I also found myself very confused in the beginning over the whole ‘vampire, yet also cat shifter’ thing. Because once more, continuity was shaking in its boots.
Beyond that? Well the whole Seth/Roman thing that started in the previous book underwent further developments in the sense that . Not really happy with this here. But again, I will withhold my judgement until they get to duke it out in their own book.
As a temporary conclusion to this series this was a bit of a downer. Not actually bad, and I do admire the way the author made me recoil and tear up (even if I did not enjoy the feeling itself), but I now find myself needing a huge dose of happy. With a helping of mush, please. We had mush and eternal commitment and love in this, of course, but I want something lighter to offset the heartbreak.
June 11, 2012
For me, this was the weakest edition in the Tribal Bonds series by Stormy Glenn. While I enjoyed books one and two, the third installment turned a little more serious. Manu Ucathya lives by the old ways and when he meets and claims his anamchara, Azizi, he thinks he’s doing everything right by contacting his mate’s family. However, Azizi’s family has some secrets, ones he was not privy to, and this causes huge issues for the two lovers.
In Cat Scratch Fever, we get Manu’s story. You might remember him as Luca’s brother from book one, and while I found Manu and Azizi’s story as compelling as the others in this series, the ending just did not work for me and caused a lower rating.
But what did work? The tribal politics and cross-cultural issues between a human (Azizi) and his shifter mate was a different take on the usual shifter romance and I found it fascinating. Plus, Azizi and Manu burned up the sheets together and we got to check in on Luca and Rowan, my favorite characters from the series!
So while I enjoyed certain aspects of Cat Scratch Fever, ultimately it was the villain, his sub-plot and the confusing ending that I just couldn’t get into. Recommended for fans of Ms. Glenn, this series and shifters. Otherwise, I would give this one a pass, and start with the first book in the series, Just A Vampire which had some utterly delightful moments.
Dark Divas Reviews
In Cat Scratch Fever, we get Manu’s story. You might remember him as Luca’s brother from book one, and while I found Manu and Azizi’s story as compelling as the others in this series, the ending just did not work for me and caused a lower rating.
But what did work? The tribal politics and cross-cultural issues between a human (Azizi) and his shifter mate was a different take on the usual shifter romance and I found it fascinating. Plus, Azizi and Manu burned up the sheets together and we got to check in on Luca and Rowan, my favorite characters from the series!
So while I enjoyed certain aspects of Cat Scratch Fever, ultimately it was the villain, his sub-plot and the confusing ending that I just couldn’t get into. Recommended for fans of Ms. Glenn, this series and shifters. Otherwise, I would give this one a pass, and start with the first book in the series, Just A Vampire which had some utterly delightful moments.
Dark Divas Reviews
October 3, 2015
The least dubcon of the lot, thank god.
Rowan's in Luca's lap then Luca puts his arm on the back of Rowan's chair. Huh?
I like how everything wasn't perfect, that a good person still died, that caring for a baby was hard. Some stuff worked out too perfectly but having Seth, a great guy from other books not be perfect was wonderful.
4.25 shifter stars
Rowan's in Luca's lap then Luca puts his arm on the back of Rowan's chair. Huh?
I like how everything wasn't perfect, that a good person still died, that caring for a baby was hard. Some stuff worked out too perfectly but having Seth, a great guy from other books not be perfect was wonderful.
4.25 shifter stars
April 17, 2015
Why didn't Manu know who Azizi's father was? Everyone else appeared to know. I thought that was weird.
I thought I liked Seth, but he turned out to be an asshole. I wanted to punch him for hurting Azizi like that. Poor kid :( It was his fault Azizi got attacked. I would never be able to forgive him for being so cruel.
I thought I liked Seth, but he turned out to be an asshole. I wanted to punch him for hurting Azizi like that. Poor kid :( It was his fault Azizi got attacked. I would never be able to forgive him for being so cruel.
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May 26, 2013
4.5
I liked this book but the character names were a little weird. Manu and Azizi? ? umm ok. That's a weird Christmas card..
I feel like there are lots of characters that come up in the book and sometimes I feel like. .who is that again ?
I liked this book but the character names were a little weird. Manu and Azizi? ? umm ok. That's a weird Christmas card..
I feel like there are lots of characters that come up in the book and sometimes I feel like. .who is that again ?
February 6, 2014
Loved this one!!
September 13, 2012
3.5 stars
June 3, 2012
Best of the three. Hope there is more to come.
February 10, 2014
I loved this one. It got a little rough in some places but it also got better. I was almost scared to read it but I'm glad I did. It turned out to be a great read.
January 2, 2015
3.5 out of 5
A darker installment to this series. I liked Azizi & Manu, as well as their story. All previous characters are involved in this book and new ones appeared.
A darker installment to this series. I liked Azizi & Manu, as well as their story. All previous characters are involved in this book and new ones appeared.
July 7, 2015
Probably my favorite of the series especially since Ms. Glenn allows reality to invade the fairytale. Relatively speaking that is.
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