Rejected
by Jaymin Eve
My father made a terrible mistake. One I’m left paying for.
As a wolf shifter growing up in a strong pack, I should be living my best life. But after my father tried to kill the alpha, I’m labeled an outcast, traitor, less than dirt.
When I can't take pack life any longer, I run, but apparently they don't like losing their punching bag. Torin, the alpha’s son, drags me back before my first shift... a shift that will reveal my true mate.
I never could have predicted who mine would be, but the moment my wolf looks upon him, I’m filled with hope for a brighter future.
After all, no one ever rejects their true mate, right?
Wrong. Very wrong.
When the wolves attack, my soul screams for vengeance, and somehow I touch the shadow world. Somehow I bring him to our lands.
The Shadow Beast. Our shifter god. The devil himself.
Turns out being rejected by my mate was only the beginning.
Spice Level: 2/6 | Story Score: 7/10 | Rating: 3.5/5 |
It feels like a million years ago that I read a series called The Curse of the Gods and it was by Jane Washington and Jaymin Eve. After that series, I read EVERYTHING by Jane Washington and then started trying to read everything by Jaymin Eve. I didn’t make it far before something else caught my attention. Fast forward to forever later and Rejected was still sitting on my TBR. I’d seen it in my groups a few times and I loved the cover, but it never happened. Then the last Audible sale, this was on there, so I bought it. After I finished a book, I went ahead and started listening to this one at work.
Two weeks later, I finally finished it.
I don’t know how to feel about this book. First off, it’s pretty in-depth PNR, which means that passively listening to it while I worked was definitely not the BEST way to do it. I’m pretty sure there are a million details that I’ll never get in this book without going back and reading it word for word. Second, the male narrator’s voice has a strange accent (kinda Scottish) and it took me a LONG time to get used to it. I’m bad with accents, so I struggled understanding him for like the first two hours. Third, the cover looks sexy as hell and I wasn’t expecting the first bit of spice to occur 9 hours into an 11 hour audiobook. Fourth, I am NOT a cliffhanger-loving-girl. Fucking grr.
With all that being said: I think the story was good. Mera is a shifter who is shunned and tormented by her pack because of something her father did. She is bullied. Straight up bullied. And when it becomes known that her fated mate is the future alpha of the pack, he rejects her. Obviously. That hurts. Somewhere is all the pain between these things, I’m not really sure of the timeline, she goes a bit fuzzy and somehow touches the Shadow Realm and that releases some Shadow Creatures. Next thing I know, the Shadowbeat (the creator of all shifters) comes and takes Mera away. Ok, so she voluntarily goes because like I said, her pack is MEAN to her. Shadow, her name for the Shadowbeast, tells her what she’s done and tells her that he needs her to figure out how to do it again so she can put them back before the Shadow Creatures destroy the worlds. She lives in this middle plane, not unlike Hogwartz, lol, complete with library, and tries to figure it out. She makes a friend that sounds eerily like a cross between an angel and a Valkyrie. Her and Shadow are amicable at best even though she’s got the hots for him. Yada, yada. Eventually, we learn that the Shadowbeast has been barred from the Shadow Realm (like, think bar on an interdimensional door) and he’s basically trying to figure out how Mera gets around that bar to touch it. He is from the Shadow Realm…hello Shadowbeast. Then her true mate comes and “rescues” her from the Shadowbeast and takes her home, She isn’t pleased, at the same time, she gets to see her lifelong bestie. She then learns that her other friend helped make the weapon that these guys used to distract the Shadowbeast while they took her from him and that Shadow potentially gave them the means to kill her friend…a friend that Shadow had told her had escaped this pack. She’s pissed. When Shadow comes to punish her pack and get her back, she drops in front of him full of fury and out to avenge her friend.
End of book. What a shitty place to end a book.
Overall, it’s a story that I’m interested in. But, really it felt very long and the characters weren’t particularly captivating and I was more interested in the last two hours than almost the whole book. Also, I REALLY prefer to know that a book doesn’t have smut in it before I start. It won’t deter me from reading it, but it will change my expectations and focus. Honestly, books that don’t have smut require more attention because the little things always mean more. This book got a two because it has one sexy scene, one scene where sex is involved (just not with her), but overall, she has a mildly dirty mind.
I didn’t LIKE this book, however, I feel like I will still probably try the second one because I want to know what happens. So, there’s that.
-SPOILERS-
The sexy scene that you do get? They’re trapped on a fae world together during their fertility celebration…which makes her so horny that she can’t function and he eats her out for like 12 hours and gives her more orgasms in those hours than she’s had her whole life. (Also, she’s a virgin.) But you don’t get a lot of detail here.
Book #1 in the Shadowbeast series | 399 Pages | Trope Challenge: Shifters |
“It’s too much. Return me to the darkness.”
“I will fight the darkness to keep you,” he murmured against my skin.”
- Rejected by Jaymin Eve
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