Review: Taming the Lion (Lone Pine Pride #2) by Vivi Andrews

[Eva Millien]

Blurb:

When she’s in heat, there’s no cooling down…

Lone Pine Pride, Book 2

Wilderness guide and cougar-shifter Patricia “Patch” Fontaine has known the dangers of lone-shifter life since she was ten, when her parents mysteriously vanished. All grown up now, she thrives on her hard-won independence.

When rumors of a new rash of shifter abductions crop up, she’s forced to come home to the Lone Pine Pride for protection—right as the man she’s always secretly wanted is about to marry her best friend. And right as she’s going into heat.

Roman Jaeger values his role as Alpha heir apparent, but he isn’t thrilled about his arranged marriage to the Alpha’s daughter—especially when his bride is just as nonplussed as he is—but he’ll do his duty for the pride. Seeing Patch again challenges his noblest intentions. The wildness in her sets him on fire, and he can’t resist the chance for one last fling.

Both know a future together is impossible. But when chemistry and sowing wild oats grows into a need deeper than lust, their bond could threaten the very heart of the pride they both love.

Warning: This book contains a strong sexy Alpha-to-be, an independent cougar-shifter who knows her way around a lion’s heart, secret affairs, arranged marriages, politics, passion, and a pride full of lions and tigers and bears. Oh my.

My Review:

Shifters are being abducted so everyone is forced to stay on pride lands and being in close contact makes it hard for Patch and Roman to fight their attraction to each other, even though they both know that a future together is impossible and that their growing bond could threaten the very pride they both love in this riveting shifter romance. Tensions build in the pride from several different areas besides the doomed relationship drama which adds lots of suspense and spice to the story including the rumors of shifter abductions, finding an injured hawk shifter and pride politics. I found the story to be an enjoyable and entertaining read with some interesting elements and surprising twists and I can’t wait to see what happens next with this mixed shifter pride.

4 STARS 4 ½ FLAMES

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Purchase Links:

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Samhain Publishing, September 30 2014, 236 pages, ebook

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22181794-taming-the-lion?ac=1

Series Link: https://www.goodreads.com/series/121800-lone-pine-pride

About Vivi Andrews:

Award-winning paranormal romance author Vivi Andrews was born and raised in Alaska, though she currently lives in Manhattan when she isn't indulging her travel addiction. After graduating from Northwestern University, Vivi tried out a variety of careers—from the movie industry to accounting—but kept coming back to her first two loves, writing and travel. She lived in nine cities (on two continents and one tropical island) while pursuing her dream of writing romance professionally.

In 2009, Vivi won the Romance Writers of America® Golden Heart Award, quit her last day job, and her first two paranormal romance novellas were released by Samhain Publishing, launching the Karmic Consultants and Serengeti Shifter series respectively. In the years since she has written and released over twenty paranormal romance novels and novellas. Her books have been selected as Top Picks by Romantic Times Bookreviews and nominated for their Reviewer's Choice Awards, as well as other awards.

When she isn't writing, Vivi enjoys reading, hiking, skiing, and watching every movie ever released, though she is most often found traveling or planning her next trip. Whether at home or on the road, she is always hard at work on her next happily-ever-after.

Where to find the author:

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Books by Vivi Andrews:

http://www.viviandrews.com/books.html