Title: Engraven
Author: Lila Felix
Source: eARC from author
goodreads...
Tarrow Rivers is determined to wait on his mate, he scents her in the
swamps, can see her in the trees, but he knows she's not ready to meet him. Yet fate has other plans.
Dahlia Branch has been groomed for an independent life since birth. Clans
are something she's always been warned against. She knew she would never be a
part of one...until she finds Tarrow, who is not only a loyal clan member but
one of their Betas.
My take...
Dahlia has a lot to learn about the clan life now that she has found her
mate. Her parents have always dwelled on the fact that clan life is not good.
But Dahlia is seeing the good when she is with Tarrow. Until she sees the bad,
and it only reinforces what her father has been telling her her whole life. Can
she learn to love the clan Tarrow is a part of? Or will she convince him to
start a new life of their own?
When I first read BURDEN I was smacked useless for several days after
finishing it. Any book I may have read soon after most likely didn't register
for me. I was that much in love with the story. While I did love book 2,
HEARTEN, it still didn't give me all the feels like BURDEN did. But then
ENGRAVEN happened. This book! This book once again reminded me of all the feels
I had for BURDEN.
**
Breaking away from her lips was sheer torture. I pulled back to see her
eyes still closed, her mouth still open the slightest bit, her chin tipped back
begging me to explore her neck and beyond.
"Breathe, female," I teased.
**
So much of it reminds me of BURDEN but not too much where you feel it is
the same book. Tarrow's character mirrors Hawke's in a way that you know he
loves his mate wholeheartedly. He only wants her to be happy. And if that means
that he must go away or have her break their bond, then so be it. Gotta love a
guy who will move heaven and earth to make his mate happy.
Then we see that Dahlia is a lot like Echo as she is trying to come to
terms with being a part of something that is so foreign to her. She will have
to learn to understand this new life and try to live it. It will be a hard road
for both.
**
She took my hand in hers and I gasped at the connection. There wouldn't be
a time when my mate didn’t surprise me.
**
The romance was beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. I drank this story in and
came out with the same wonderful feels I had with the first book. I love a
story that you know will end well-it has to-but you still get the nervous
jitters wondering what all they will go through to reach their happily ever
after. Felix doesn't ever (EVER) make it easy on her characters. Something will
happen but you better believe they are going to have one hell of a romance to
tell in the end.
So if you want a love story to go along with a fantastic shifter
read...these books are it. If you haven't picked them up...get on it!! You will
thank me later. Oh and there is a snippet of what is to come in book 4,
BEHOLDEN. 5 Amazing Stars!
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