Welcome to October: National Book Month!
There is just something about a man that is made for you...
This month I wanted to focus on the tropes of romance. I started pulling together a list of all the romantic tropes I could find in the books I have been reading and so far have over one hundred and fifty. My favorite is the 'fated mates' trope so wanted to highlight that trope for National Book Month.
The first thing that comes to mind with fated mates is shifter romances, and wolf shifters leading the pack. There has been a wide range of shift romances from bears, to cats, mermen, selkie, fox, and a whole variety of possible species - even equestrian!
That being said, I found this wonderfully fun fated mate romance called...
The Centaur's Bride: A Mates for Monsters Novella (Mates for Monsters Series) by Tamsin Ley
AMAZON BLURB
Riding a cowboy never sounded so good...
City-girl Renee plans to take one last look at the sage-covered hills before she sells her late grandfather's ranch. When she meets a shirtless cowboy with abs of steel and a soft spot for horses, she decides to extend her visit into a vacation. But the ranch workers are acting mighty strange, and her sexy cowboy has a secret she never expected...
Black Stevens has always been an outsider. To the herd he’s defective, unable to shift to full equine form, and to humans he’s a monster found only in myth. When the herd's leader offers him a chance to earn a position among his people, he can't say no. Now he only has to get the ranch's sexy young heiress to say yes...
As he shows Renee around, he discovers there's more to this little human than he gave her credit for, and he wants her. Bad. Can he convince her to leave behind the life she's always known and keep the ranch? More important, can he convince her to give herself over to a monster like him?
MY THOUGHTS
I enjoyed it immensely and an now making my way through Tamsin's library of books, enjoying the author's fresh take on the shifter world and the fated mates trope. I recommend this to anyone looking for a quick and enjoyable weekend read if this is your trope.
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