Isolated Maneuver by Mandy M. Roth

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Alpha gorilla shifter and former Immortal Operative, Bane Antonov, has spent years learning to master his beast side. But his temper is tested when two blasts from the not-so-distant past show up claiming to want to help him find his mate.

He’s never believed in destiny, or that the Fates have anything great planned for him. All he knows is that his hard-earned control shatters the minute he crosses paths with Galiena—a petite succubus who makes the alpha in him want to shout “mine”.

She has the ability to break his calm exterior and the heart he’s spent decades hardening. Hunted by a mad man who wants to own her body, her powers, and her soul, Galiena needs his protection.

Bane has to learn to set his beast free if he wants to keep his mate safe.

Isolated Maneuver

The gorilla and the succubus!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🤎💜❤️
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌍🌏
Character development: 😠☺️😋🥰
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Solo Narration

The Hero: Bane – he is an alpha gorilla shifter and one of the immortal outcasts. They are a group of former soldiers who had been experimented on by the government and later determined to be not perfect enough for immortal ops and slated for termination. Many of them escaped and are in hiding, so they are considered outcasts.

The heroine: Galiena – she is a petite succubus and she has been taken captive by an evil man named Hellmuth who had been drugging and torturing her with experiments, wanting her to give in to him.

The Story: Bane promised his friend Weston and his mate Paisley that he would look for her friend Gale who was taken from the brothel where she worked. So Bane along with the two psychic old men Billy and Gus take off to find her. Those two are trouble magnates and get into all sorts of funny situations, but always seem to end up exactly where they need to be. They end up in a sex club where Gale also ends up after escaping from Hellmuth.

Hellmuth makes a good villain, he is turning into a monster and trying everything he can think of to stop the progression. He thinks a succubus can help him but he does experimentation on all kinds of supernatural creatures. He is desperate for the power of the succubus and needs Gale for that, so her being mated to Bane is a wrench in his plans.

This book was told from Bane’s point of view and was narrated via solo narration by D.C. Cole who does a fine job. He doesn’t have a deep voice which I would expect Bane to have but he is a good narrator. This was a longer book than the first two books in this series.

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