Book Reviews

Book Blurb

Rio Mircea feels like he has done nothing but search for missing people. While searching for his brother Carmen, a see-through blue man named Castillo delivers a clue to his location along with the bombshell that they are mates before disappearing. Through stolen moments with Castillo, Rio learns his mate is a dream walker stuck in soul form after his body was moved. While following up on a lead, Rio finds his mate’s missing body. Now he prays the blue man will appear again so they can begin their life together.

 

Castillo Innje is a dream walker cursed to have two mates. He must choose wisely because one will be pure of heart and one will not. Unfortunately, so blinded by finding one of his mates, he puts his trust in the wrong hands. Now he prays his other mate, Rio, will save him before he is stuck this way for eternity.

 

Book Review

This second book in the ‘Mircea Clan’ series focuses on Rio, a vampire, and the blue dream walker from book one who is a fey and turns out to be called Castillo but prefers Cass. As these two men deal with finding and mating each other, the search for the kidnapped jaguar shifter Carmen continues, the evil slave traders are being tracked, and Kat finally gives birth. The suspense runs high, more secondary characters of various paranormal species are introduced, and parts of the Paranormal Leadership Society (or PLS) continue to be up to no good. And yes, if you haven’t read book one, I would recommend you do so before giving this second volume a go since you’ll miss a lot of details if you don’t. Also please note that, from this point onward, this review contains spoilers for book one.

Rio is a powerful vampire, son of Ian from book one, and has been looking for his mate for 500 years. When the blue dream walker revealed he was his mate at the end of that book, Rio was ecstatic. But, as Rio learns while they work together to find Carmen, there is a significant obstacle to their mating. Cass has not just been separated from his body, but someone has also hidden that body from him so that he cannot return to being corporeal. Rio is desperate to fix this, and once he succeeds, he will do everything in his power to show Cass that he can be trusted.

Cass is a dream walker, a fey who is distantly related to Kat but from a different race with different abilities and issues. He is cursed with two mates, and has to choose the good one – or his magic will be tainted with the darkness of the evil one. He thinks he has already met the bad mate, but he can’t be sure that Rio isn’t worse. This leads to a few initial misunderstandings, and Cass hesitating to let Rio know about his “shameful” desire to be dominated doesn’t help either. Trusting Rio should be easy, after all he saved Cass, but it isn’t as straightforward as it looks – especially with what Cass knows will happen if they truly mate.

If you like paranormal series with an ongoing story arc that promises conspiracies and underhanded manipulation on a grand scale, if a mating between a vampire and a fey sounds interesting, and if you’re looking for a read that is as suspenseful as it is entertaining and hot, then you will probably like this novel.

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook
Length	Novella, 49639 words
Heat Level
Publication Date	30-January-2016
Price	$4.50 ebook
Buy Link	http://www.bookstrand.com/book/trusting-rio