Coffee and Wander Book Reviews: [Book Tour- Review] Runaway Mate by Romy Lockhart [GIVEAWAYS]

Runaway Mate

A Fated Mates RH PNR

by Romy Lockhart

Genre: Reverse Harem Paranormal Romance

Jillian is ecstatic when she finds out she’s become more than a wolf shifter. The instinct she’s always had that she was meant for something different is validated when a gator-bite turns her into a hybrid shifter with two distinct animal forms.

Her parents are the opposite of thrilled, and plot to have her gator exorcised before it can fully emerge. She’s been promised to the Alpha’s son, and he won’t accept a hybrid.

She does the only thing she can. She runs.

Her new animal form skews her senses when she goes into heat and every gator shifter she comes across looks like an appealing option.

Are the guys she just met the mates she’s truly meant for, or are they destined to break her heart?

Runaway Mate is a standalone new adult fated mates reverse harem romance with college-aged characters, serious steam and an HEA.

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This was my first time reading about hybrid shifters, and it was interesting! Jillian is a wolf shifter, but she wants to be something more. So, when she is bitten by a gator shifter and turned into a hybrid, she feels like her destiny is being set forth. She runs away from home and finds two of her gated mates that are also wolf/gator hybrids. But, when she was bitten she was marked as prey, and her gator self is skittish. Hence, runaway mate ensues.

I really enjoyed all of the characters. My favorite was probably Danny though. I did feel like the characters could have a bit more depth, but I'm not expecting a ton of character development in a standalone reverse harem book. The guys all had their own set of unique traits and they made up a pretty great harem. I didn't understand the purpose of the heat that Jillian was in though. It seemed like your typical fated mate attraction. So, that was a bit of an odd addition to the story.

Overall, I enjoyed this standalone reverse harem. It had spice, paranormal elements and shifters. You don't really need much more in a reverse harem. I would recommend it to anyone looking for a quick and nice read.

Romy Lockhart writes paranormal reverse harem and M/F contemporary romance. All of her books contain steamy scenes between consenting adults. All of her reverse harems have harem ever afters, and all of her romance novels have happy endings.

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