Summary
Roslyn Blackthorne is dead.
I should know, I watched it happen.
My twin and I didn’t believe we’d ever meet our mate, and then she showed up in our bar and the world as we knew it changed. Fate hadn’t been kind to us. Not once. So it shouldn’t have come as a surprise that we lost her as soon as we claimed her.
I spent so much time worried about her manipulative demon, I didn’t anticipate it would be my own sordid past that killed her.
It was our fault. They should have blamed me and Remi. Instead, for the first time since Rosie turned our lives upside down, we are united:
Her vampire husband
Her hybrid hacker
Her alpha wolves
I thought I’d give anything to see those amber eyes of hers again.
I was wrong.
So wrong.
Because the moment I got my wish, it wasn’t my sugar staring back at me. It was a monster.
And now I’ll never be the same.
Review
(audiobook) Can you imagine a book that shakes you? That pulls you under and quickly gets you out, repeatedly? That squeezes your heart before it makes you squeeze your thighs? Well, this is the book.
With this opus, we’re back on track with the apocalypse. Sure, Rosie’s relationships with her mates are still the main element of the story, but it’s now tightly connected with Pestilence’s plan to end the world. With Pan being at the center of it all. He spends the whole book manipulating or torturing Rosie’s other lovers, following his mother’s orders. But we also learn a bit more about him, his fears, his interests, his past, his family…
With the apocalypse progressing, we get more cameos from the previous series. And they aren’t just fan service.
All the participants in Rosie’s little harem have a rough time. She’s back after her death at the end of the previous book, and you can guess how she changed. Which affects mostly Ben, who has trouble accepting her as she is after his traumatic past, and Gavin, who’s in charge of teaching her the ways of her species. And with Pan possessing Asher’s body and not interested in anyone besides Rosie, Remi loses his other love, and we see that he can hide pain behind the flirty facade. After the kink fest in the previous book, we get an angst fest.
It’s still seasoned with tasty spice. The mates have finally realized that Rosie needs all of them, and it’s time to share.
Because balance is everything, we also get more gruesome moments. The plague is setting in, and the effects aren’t pretty. It’s also hanging as a threat over the characters’ head, as unlike any other illness, it can affect all species.
Since we see the other side of every character, the narrators got to play a wide range of emotions, and they did it perfectly. Bonus point to Bentley’s narrator, who was able to go from stuttering grumpy guy to growly alpha wolf, from swoony to sexy in half a millisecond. But they all did amazing. Great audio.
Quickie
- Series: The mate games: Pestilence #3 (linked to another series by the same authors, directly follows the previous book, and ends on a cliffhanger)
- Hashtags: #paranormal romance #reverse harem #werewolf #vampire #human #demon #new adult #kinks #bisexual #virgin #twins
- Triggers: various kinks, violence and death
- Main “couple”: Roslyn Blackthorne & (Remington Mercer/Bentley Mercer/Gavin Donoghue/Asher Henry)
- Hotness: 5+++/5
- Romance: 3/5
- + deliciously angsty and emotional
- – nobody cares about what’s happening, really?
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