Betrayal by November SweetsMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Intriguing Paranormal RH
This is the first book I’ve read by this author and for the most part, I enjoyed it. I will say first off that it could do with a good proofread because there were some truly awful errors, eg, ‘reigns down’ instead of ‘rains down’. However that aside it was an interesting start to a new series.
Delphina (Dell) is a hybrid chameleon shifter/intention witch which means she is powerful and deadly. She has a 5-year-old son, Max who is her reason for living and he is a hybrid wolf shifter/witch so is a little bundle of mischief. One of the things I liked most about this story was the relationship between Dell and Max, it’s natural, funny, loving and infuriating.
Dell has raised Max on her own because the day she was going to tell her five mates about her pregnancy is the day they disappeared from her life with a note that read a couple of sentences that made no sense to her. Her mates have been based for the last 3 years in Colorado working as tattoo artists, drowning their loss in women and each other.
Dell shows up with Max, supposedly to take a holiday, but really to tell her ex-mates she wants to either break their mating bond or alternatively she can just kill them.
The story unfolds as we see her mates try to win Dell back and we find out more about all their lives over the last 5 years and why they left, though Dell doesn’t find that out. I must say that when I found out why they left I wanted to tear my hair out. It was a ridiculous reason for 5 grown men to leave and they needed a slap to wake them up. I had to put a pin in that reason and kind of ignore why it happened because otherwise, I would have stopped reading in annoyance.
I really liked Dell. I thought she was a fantastic complex character who used to be all sunshine and rainbows until her mates left and then she became dark and despairing, but there is still that person underneath who is kind, loving and protective. I love that her relationship with Max has helped keep her warm, but she still has become lethal, turning that protective instinct to number 11 on the dial.
We don’t have a lot of time to spend on each of Dell’s mates, but what I see is enough to like their diversity in both species and characters. They also have strong ties both physical and emotional with each other as well as Dell. There is plenty of steamy scenes both with MMM and MM action as well as MF.
Like I said at the start, this book has lots of things I like. The plot is interesting and kept me reading to find out what was going to happen next, the characters are strong and complex, with plenty left to discover in future books and the world-building has promise. What I felt was lacking was the slight predictability of some of the plot constructs, but there were sufficient twists to keep me guessing sometimes, but also the world building wasn’t as strong as it could have been. There were hints about the greater supernatural world in which the book was set but it didn’t feel fully formed. I’m sure that as the series progresses, we’ll get to know more about the community in which they live because it’s only by understanding the society in which they live can I begin to comprehend some of their actions.
I’ll definitely read the next in the series because I want to know what happens next.
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