So I've been without the internet for 2 weeks and I'm trying to get some reviews done of the books I've been reading. And GRs just ate another review! I'm never going to get done at this rate.

Middle of the road read. Too much love too quick. The heroine shows back up after 9 years and the hero instantly forgives her and loves her and just blah. Romances are supposed to be about the journey of two people overcoming some sort of obstacle in order to be together whether that obstacle in internal or external. Here there wasn't really any obstacle thus there was no tension. It was sort of like reading a Hallmark card.

I some of LD's other series better. But if this one had fulfilled its potential I could have gotten behind it. ( )

I liked seeing their history and their reuniting. It was sweet and poignant (sp?) If you ever had that one you let go or that you lost return to you with such passion, wouldn't it be wonderful? Thank you Laurann! Those werecats can be really nasty pieces of work!
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- 5 Mating Brand Stars -

Mating Brand is book three in the Mating Heat series by [a:Laurann Dohner|3190846|Laurann Dohner|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1285546473p2/3190846.jpg]. This series keeps getting better as it goes along. Mating Brand is my favorite so far in this series in that it has to do with the characters having a past and previously knowing each other.

Brand is introduced in book two, His Purrfect Mate, where we find out he was in love with a leopard shifter who left him in the dust.

Charma was in a no win situation at the time and had to leave Brand to save her family. Now that her family is safe, she can run from her bad situation, but where can she go? To the only place/person who has ever made her feel safe.

The author takes us back in the past where we get to see the previous relationship and what happened to both Brand and Charma. It is an emotional tale and we learn that cats and dogs don’t mix, but now years later times have changed. Charma comes back into Brand's life and we learn why she left Brand and it is a heart breaking story, but a very brave thing she did. I will say I don’t like the cat shifters. They are portrayed badly and I don’t think all act like the ones we have read about so far in the series, but boy do they come off evil.

This is a very dirty sexy series full of alpha males. Most of the story is love and mating heat sex. We also get a very sweet moment from Brand in the things he says to Charma, I love this sweetness from the author, and Charma needed it after everything. We also get to know more about the brothers/cousins and I look forward to reading there stories.

This series is all about the alpha males. If you love alpha males and straight up dirty all-consuming sex, then you will want to pick this up. This can be read as a standalone, but you should check out the others.

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