Same story, different situations, same results. Year after year after year they just hurt each other and denied each other. One: it took up over half the book for Jake and Patrick to get onto the same page. Let me repeat that…TEN YEARS he denied his mate. Your best friend is son of the alpha, he will be alpha himself, and has many others who will ensure that Patrick is safe and Jake’s father is neutralized. Jake is smart to heed his warnings at first, but I so wanted to shake some sense into that man after he let it drag on and on and on. The man is seriously one of the worst villains I’ve read about in quite some time. He has no qualms about destroying his son’s mate to get what he wants. He is literally losing his mind and completely unstable. Two: Jake’s dad is a homophobic ass-wipe who threatens to hurt Patrick if Jake dared to claim a male mate. He always warned Jake to steer clear of his younger brothers. One: Jake was a whore-hound and slept with anything that moved, male or female, and Alex knew it. Herein lays the beginning of the problems for these two. They’ve know each other most of Patrick’s life (he is six years younger than Jake) as Jake is best friend to Patrick’s older soon-to-be-alpha brother, Alex. Jake and Patrick are werewolves and destined mates. I am a proud angst-whore, but it was almost too much for me. What I can say is that this story is full on, non-stop angst. I read the updated and extended version, never read the original, so I can’t compare the two to see what changes (besides length) were made to the original book. Please note: FM has been reedited, and expanded by about 50,000 words. They say time heals all wounds, but how much time? The next ten years are nothing but torture for Jake as he watches his mate grow into a remarkable young man. Jake does the only thing he can think of, protect Patrick. Knowing the news might uplift his still grieving father, Jake shares the news only to have his young mate threatened. Jake Richmond never expected to come home from Uni to find the youngest Holland brother was his mate. Split by forces he can’t comprehend and a long line of misunderstandings, Patrick doubts he’ll ever get the man he’s both loved and hated. The next ten years-ten long years- of Patrick’s life are spent at odds with his mate. His heart broke, but at sixteen he was too young to do anything. Available at: Mischief Corner Books, LLC, Amazon and Barnes & Nobleīlurb: Finding his mate should have been Patrick Holland’s greatest day, instead it turned into a nightmare with one phone call.

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