Hello, welcome back to Adele Is Reading. Today I’ve got my book review of:

Rejected Mate (Feral Wolves, #1) by Callie Rose

Trigger Warnings: Sex Scenes, Blood, Motorcycle Accident, Explosions, and Guns.
Please Note: I may have missed some potential triggers, so please read this book knowing that.

Hell hath no fury like a shifter scorned.

Three years ago, a darkly handsome stranger stole my heart. After one night together, I was certain I’d found my fated mate—until he rejected me and disappeared like a shadow.

I never told anyone about that night. I shoved the shattered pieces of my soul into a locked box and pretended I’d never met Kian.

But when a witch whispers a dire warning in my ear one day, everything changes.

Because I don’t just have one mate. I have three.

Feral shifters, she calls them.

Wild, untamed, and fueled by darkness, created by a magic no one has ever seen before.

These three dangerous, psychotic monsters could tear apart the world as we know it, unless I hunt them down and stop them first.

They say all’s fair in love and war… but sometimes love is war.

Rejected Mate is the first book in the Feral Shifters series, a reverse harem paranormal shifter romance. It contains cursing, violence, anti-hero alpha males, steamy sex, and a badass heroine who isn’t afraid to get her hands dirty.

From GoodReads [x]:

“REVERSE HAREM” IS, LITERALLY, THE OPPOSITE OF “HAREM”, WITH A GROUP OF MALES CENTERING ROUND A SINGULAR FEMALE, USUALLY WITH THREE OR MORE MALES. QUITE OFTEN FOUND UNDER THE ROMANCE GENRE.

Rejected Mate was genuinely a great read for me; it had me on such an emotional roller coaster. Seriously.

This first book was told in one point of view, which was huge help to be honest. I’ve been reading a lot of books that have more than one main point of view, so reading a book here and there that is only one POV, is such a life saver.

Beyond this point contains spoilers. Read at your own risk.

Something that can become a problem for me while reading, is that love interests — when there’s more than one — can honestly mish-mash into one character/love interest. So I am so freaking glad that the love interests in this book stay freaking separate. Having the guys’ personalities differ from one another as they did in Rejected Mate was a serious life saver.

Kian was more of the “alpha” of the group, and he really didn’t talk all that much in this first book. Though from what we’ve seen Kian can be quite the asshole when he wants to be. (!!)

Frost is more of the scholarly type, and one thing that made him stand out from the others (at least in my mind) was that Frost is always in some sort of physical pain.

Malix is definitely more of the playboy type. He flirts and teases the main character a lot.

Though the guys are all different and have their own thing, with shifter books the guys tend to be freaking assholes as a basic personality trait..which is 100% true in Rejected Mate. They’re assholes through and through and they do not deserve the main character at all.

One thing that I wrote down in my notes is that all the characters were able to ride motorcycles and omg I freaking love that.

I’m giving Rejected Mates, 3 stars. — I’m looking to read book 2 (Untamed Mate). In the meantime, I want to read other books in between now and whenever I read book 2.

As a last note, *spoiler* severing the mate bond, when you all clearly had feelings for her.. so harsh.

See you soon, and happy reading!
Adele

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