Carnal Secrets (The Phoenix Pack, #3) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Mar 26, 2015 Dina rated it liked it

Shelves: paranormal-romance, ebook, to-review, 2015-dhasg-challenge, 2015-blue-collar-heroes

2 1/2 stars (rounded up to 3 stars, because Nick was worth it - but he deserved better than Shaya)

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Aug 16, 2013 D.G. rated it it was ok

Shelves: audiobook, reviewed, spicy, paranormal-romance, snoozefest

**2.5 stars**

I like sexy books in audio and that has been my main reason for listening to the Phoenix Pack series. I’ve pre-ordered all the audios and I usually start listening the day they come out. So imagine my dissapointment when it took half the book to get to the sexy parts! If the author had had some plot in mind, I wouldn’t have minded but half the book was spent on them waiting for something to happen. Carnal Secrets was just slow and boring.

Shaya’s true mate refused to claim her. She d **2.5 stars**

I like sexy books in audio and that has been my main reason for listening to the Phoenix Pack series. I’ve pre-ordered all the audios and I usually start listening the day they come out. So imagine my dissapointment when it took half the book to get to the sexy parts! If the author had had some plot in mind, I wouldn’t have minded but half the book was spent on them waiting for something to happen. Carnal Secrets was just slow and boring.

Shaya’s true mate refused to claim her. She doesn’t know why but she thinks is because she’s a submissive and he’s an Alpha. She’s heartbroken and can’t allow him to interfere in her life anymore so she decides to skip town and go to a place where she thinks he’ll never find her. I was really excited about this premise – the conflict was something I’ve never seen before and I was wondering how the author was going to bridge this issue. However the great complication in their relationship went by the wayside in the prologue. All of a sudden, he didn’t want to be an Alpha! What followed was a very boring wooing with the hero trying to convince the heroine to trust him. They had no chemistry whatsoever and the sex was just a pale imitation of previous books. I really don’t know what the author was trying to accomplish with this.

Shaya’s “traumas” bordered on the ridiculous. A jerk betrayed her when she was 16 and she never got over it! Like she’s the only woman in the world to whom this have ever happened. I expect a grown woman to have overcome any teenage issues (not counting really traumatic stuff like rape or abuse) and understand how she could have avoided them. When I was in a teenager, I got my heart broken but part of it was my fault because I refused to see the signs that he was seeing somebody else. It took me a while to figure that out, but I did and I was able to move on. I would have expected Shaya to do the same instead of using that failed relationship as a shield.

The extremist plot was caricaturish in the extreme and the Phoenix Pack added nothing whatsoever to the story. In fact, it made it worst because it took attention from the couple. AGAIN, we had to hear the interminable insults that Taryn throws at her grandmother in law (I mean, really, that’s getting really old) and pages and pages of people walking about and butting in. It seemed unbelievable the Phoenix Pack was outside their territory at a time when their freedom might be threatened. That’s just not good strategically.

If it gets really good reviews, I may read the next book in the series but I’m not pre-ordering them anymore.

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Jun 01, 2016 Steph rated it liked it

Shelves: author-웃, series-ended, series-completed, year-read-2017, sos-games-bsb-r15

Carnal Secrets tells Shaya & Nick's story. They're both unique; Shaya is a half-shifter (human father) and Nick's wolf surfaced when he was very young. There are other factors, however, that keep Nick from immediately claiming Shaya when he realizes she's his true mate. After many tears, arguments, pleas and (finally) open discussions, the two eventually become a mated pair.

I'm happy for the pair because they've both suffered enough and deserve the happiness they ultimately found with each othe ...more

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Jul 05, 2013 Sandra rated it really liked it

Shelves: kindle, shifters, pnr-uf, own, suzanne-wright

Others have detailed the Nick & Shay story. Nick, the I don't want to be Alpha, who doesn't like being touched or talked at. Shay the insecure, submissive wolf who always acted dominant (never saw any submissiveness really).

Let me just say that I really, really liked the ending. Some books the end is half a page or if you're lucky a whole page. This book gave us pages!!

We have closure, we have love, we have a happy sparkly new pack & house!

We also had a lot of involvement of the Phoenix Pack in ...more

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Jan 31, 2014 Sarah Dizon rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 4-stars, romance, first-reads, paranormal-romance

I won this book in a Goodreads First Reads giveaway and I'm so excited to receive my copy so I can start reading it!

I am so happy that I got the chance to finally read Shaya and Nick's story. I really liked Shaya in the other books and I knew their story was going to be handled differently from the others. However, I thought there was going to be more reluctance from Nick, I didn't realize that it would happen so quickly. But now that I know Nick it makes sense that he wouldn't give up the chanc ...more

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Sep 28, 2013 Jamie ~ Bad Boy Inspector rated it really liked it

Shelves: genre-paranormal-romance, subject-pn-shifters, read-2014

3.5/5

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Dec 08, 2014 Thenia rated it it was ok

Shelves: reviewed, series, romance, paranormal, shifters, 2015

Shaya and Nick's story, in which we find out why he hadn't claimed her and a human extremist group appears and stuff happens.

While I usually enjoy a good heartbreak story before the reconciliation and happy ending, this one somehow fell short. Nick does his best to make up for his mistakes, Shaya, who is a submissive but not really, has him running around because she has abandonment issues and can't trust him, he keeps trying, assuring her that he won't leave her, she plays hard to get, gives in ...more

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Mar 05, 2014 Michelle rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: autographed, read-in-2014, suzanne-wright, read-in-2023, 2024-rare-edinburgh

Nick is a pack Alpha and when he meets his mate Shaya he doesn't immediately claim like, instead he avoids her and refrains from publicly acknowledging her. Of course he has his reasons, some apparent and some we haven't uncovered as yet. Shaya has enough and leaves the Phoenix Pack in order to hopefully move on without Nick being around and constantly reminding her of what she can't have.

From the little glimpses we got of Nick in the previous two books I didn't expect to like Nick, or even enj ...more

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May 30, 2016 Susan Jackson rated it liked it

Probably my least fav of the series - I didn't connect as much to Shaya and Nick. But I enjoyed some of the secondary characters like Derren and Roni and look forward to their stories. ...more

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