Review: Skirting Fate by Salem Cross

Skirting Fate by Salem Cross
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Ordinary Girl Meets Extraordinary Men

I’d probably give this book 4.5 ⭐️ if I could.

This is a standalone book, though I kind of wish it was the start of a duet at least as I think there was plenty left unanswered in this book, even though we reached a HEA.

This is a paranormal reverse harem novel with a human at the centre of the harem. Gemma is a strong and independent woman who has mercurial attitudes towards careers and hobbies. She is constantly looking for the next thing to interest her and she’s happy with that way of life. She has recently moved to Boston to be close to her best friend Aaron and his partner Phillip and has opened her new graphic design business. She is currently running semi-professionally in obstacle course races. At one she meets Christopher, a shifter.

When they meet they are incredibly attracted to each other and despite her usual reluctance towards one night stands Gemma goes to Christopher’s room. When his wolf bites her and claims her as his mate, he is so shocked and scared he throws her out of his room and stays away for weeks.

Phillip works as a lawyer and one of the partners in his firm is Dorian, an incubus. When Gemma goes to visit Phillip to drag him away from work to go and eat, Dorian ends up going instead. She doesn’t know that Dorian is Christopher’s best friend until after she wakes up in hospital after stepping in front of a bullet meant for Dorian.

To round of the trio of men who share a house is Tate, who used to be human until the government experimented on him. He’s positive that Gemma is trouble, but has to give her a chance because of Christopher. Gemma has been pulled fully into their world and she doesn’t quite know which way is up yet.

This is the first time I’ve read a book by this author and I really enjoyed it. It was well constructed and the plot was interesting. The characters were strong and fairly well developed. I feel that this book had the scope to be at least a duet because I wanted more information about the characters and the world they lived in. There are so many threads this author could yank on to create follow up material should they wish to do so.

Because there was so much concentration on the plot and the relationship I felt like there was a lot unsaid regarding their characters. There was only a small amount of information about their backstories and there wasn’t a huge amount about the world in which they all lived, where the supernatural came out 100 years ago. I also really want to know about the time the three men were involved in the military.

This book had the potential to be excellent but it turned out more of a level of very good. I’ll be interested to see if the author follows up this novel with something even more exciting.

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