Rating: 3.5🌈
Mates, Arranged by Michelle Frost is a short, nicely crafted paranormal romance. At 65 pages, it’s the barest beginnings of mated couple, August and Torin. In fact, it ends as they actually physically mate. And it begins on the ritual mating of the two. In between, Frost gives us glimpses of two different people getting to know each other in a number of lovely connected scenes.
We don’t get much in the way of world building or background, just some hints and history tossed in here and there. Just enough to make it interesting and pull us closer into the story.
This could be a much larger book and the couple framed out within a better crafted narrative. It has so much potential.
As it is, it’s a good short story and romance. Very enjoyable.
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Blurb
Will fate smile on a wolf and mage joined together?
Forced into an arranged mating, August and Torin must try to build a relationship from nothing if they hope to usher in peace between their peoples.
With willing hearts, they put aside their differences, but their commitment won’t get the chance to blossom if one of their own destroys it before it can grow.
Mates, Arranged is an MM romance novella and was first published as part of a novella promotion.
• Publication date: March 25, 2024
• Language: English
• Print length: 65 pages
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