Reading For Pleasure

Mate by Ali Hazelwood


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What's the difference between angst and yearning? Why are vampires so frequently the good guys (but bad boys)? What’re the implications of posing white people as indigenous in the USA?


Trigger/Content Warnings: 

  • Death of several people within the context of a war between different species (vampires, werewolves, and humans) is mentioned

  • Frequent mentions of blood

  • Abductions

  • Descriptions of suicide

  • Threats of assault, including sexual, and of violence

  • Poisoning and attempted murder

  • Attempted kidnapping/harming of a child (she is unharmed)

  • Death of parents

  • Explicit and graphic sexual content

  • Knotting

  • Cursing and vulgar language

  • Cults/brainwashing

  • Mating cycles

  • Child neglect (in the past)

  • Discussions of terminal illness

  • Drugs

  • Discussions of infertility

  • Tropes: paranormal romance, fated mates, shifter romance, orphan, Help her through her heat, slow burn, touch and her die


    Master Kim's corner:

    AVAB - all vampires are bad


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