Reject Me by Kel Carpenter

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

“Markus Del Reyes, I reject you.” He left me no choice.

I refuse to spend the rest of my life with my childhood bully for a mate. I may be a cursed shifter, incapable of shifting—but I wasn’t desperate. Not till the Alpha Supreme cast me out of the House of Fire and Fluorite for rejecting his son.

Now I’m packless. Homeless. No longer under the protection of a House. Until the dark vampire king of Blood and Beryl turns his sights on me.

In return for protection from my former House, I have to become his fake mate. I’ll be a queen and a fraud. It’s a treacherous lie to live—and I find myself forgetting what’s real and what’s not with every stolen touch and heated kiss we share.

What starts as a business arrangement turns complicated when my heat hits, and the king insists on being the one to help me through it.

I’ve lost everything for doing what I know is right, but the greatest danger I ever faced was never losing my life . . . it was opening my cursed heart.

Reject Me

Terrific standalone paranormal romance!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💚🖤❤️💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍
Character development: ☺️😊🙃😋🥰
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Dannika – she is a wolf shifter who couldn’t shift. Years ago, her mother hired a witch to separate her from her wolf, so now the wolf part of her is a separate being that goes everywhere with her. She is part of a house called Fire and Flouride, whose Alpha was her father until her father was murdered on the day she was born, a night they called the Great Sacrifice, because so many died on that night while all the supernaturals were fighting each other. Now there is peace between the houses with the Supreme Alpha of her pack, Mathis who rules with an iron fist.

The Hero: Elias – he is a vampire, and the leader of the Blood and Beryl house. He doesn’t like Mathis and his favorite thing to do is make Mathis look bad, which usually isn’t too hard. So, when he is forced to attend a gathering to recognize the anniversary of the Great Sacrifice and the peace treaty that followed, he does his best to make Mathis appear as small and petty as he actually is.

The story: Dannika didn’t want to spend her birthday at the Celebration Mathis was holding on their house grounds. She especially didn’t want to be anywhere near Mathis’ son Markus who was her childhood bully and made her younger years a living hell. When she runs into Markus and he recognizes Danni as his mate, she immediately rejects him, and Mathis is furious. He planned to get Markus mated and for Markus to get his mate pregnant as soon as possible, so that their family had a new heir and would stay in power for generations.

Mathis ordered Markus to fight Dannika to the death for her insult to their family, but when neither Markus nor Dannika would kill each other and refused to fight, he banished them from his house and property. Though in reality, he planned on killing Dannika before she was able to leave his land. Elias just happened to be there and proposed a solution to Dannika that would keep her safe. Elias was hiding from what a witch predicted would happen when he met his fated mate, so he proposed that Dannika, who wasn’t a vampire like him and whom he thought couldn’t be his mate, would pretend to be his mate and he would give her protection in return.

I really liked this book; it was exciting and sexy. There was the whole storyline about Elias and his cohorts trying to remove Mathis from power, and a lot of political machinations going on, there were traitors in the ranks and Mathis was exerting his power by harassing Dannika’s family. There was also a ton of chemistry between Danni and Elias. The intimate scenes were quite steamy and there wasn’t too many of them. I really liked both characters quite a bit. There were a bunch of great supporting characters as well, including Markus, and Dannika’s peacock shifter adopted sister Adora.

This audiobook was told in two points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Teddy Hamilton and Michelle Sparks. Teddy is one of my favorite male narrators; He has a terrific voice and always sounds so natural, you can’t tell he is reading at all. Michelle Sparks has a great voice as well and sounded very natural as well. I liked her soft, youthful sounding voice. It was perfect for Danni.

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