I don’t think I really got a good feeling for either man until about 25% into the book. There’s not really time for any solid characterization for several chapters. The prologue opens up at the start of the sex scene, chapter one jumps straight into Nate laying the eggs, then Alistair barges in and takes Nate back to his place amid much confusion. Neither Nate nor Alistair got any introduction. The biggest is introducing the main character to the reader. I get it.īut that hint of the character’s normal life serves several functions. In all honesty, that normal life can be a bit boring, and authors want to hook the reader right from the start. I think it’s because a lot of books where a normal human discovers the supernatural world start off by showing the human’s normal life. There’s a common writing tip I see a lot, telling authors to start their story as close to the action/turning point as possible. Not because of the writing or the characters, but because of the structure. I almost dropped this book after about 16%. Nate keeps forgetting that his best friend got dragged everything too.The way the draconic society is structured.Both men were moved by instinct not logic.Alistair thought humans were beneath him.Nate didn’t ask a ton of questions about dragons.

It contains a Grindr hook-up gone very wrong (or very right) giant magical lizards a pig named Olive a wank throne and a HEA, right down to the white picket fence. One that Alistair and his brothers have carried all their lives… and one that Alistair and Nate’s future children will carry, too.īound to each other by the three precious impossibilities, Nate and Alistair have no choice-no matter the consequence, they will fight for their forbidden clutch.Ĭlutch is a 64,000 word steamy omegaverse mpreg-ish romance that will leave you in stitches. When a Grindr message brings him to Nate’s doorstep, then straight to his bed, he has no reason to believe that what they share will be more than a simple hookup, until, three months later, a tug on his soul informs him otherwise.įor the Drake family has a secret-one that will force Nate and Alistair together as much as it will demand that they be torn apart. Between teaching classes at the university and working toward his PhD, he doesn’t need a partner to occupy his time, and he certainly doesn’t need a man like Alistair Drake complicating his future.Īlistair Drake, black sheep of the tremendously wealthy Drake family, is more interested in adding another notch to his bedpost than another zero to his bank account. Bookish, snarky, and fiercely independent Nate Boudreaux leads a solitary life.

Mate by Piper Scott