Monday, July 6, 2020

Chimera's Gift by Susan Trombley [Review]

Chimera's Gift by Susan Trombley
Chimera's Gift (Into the Dead Fall #4) by Susan Trombley
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
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Date read: July 14, 2019

Into the Dead Fall
1. Into the Dead Fall
2. Key to the Dead Fall
3. Minotaur's Curse
4. Chimera's Gift - PaperbackKindle
5. Veraza's Choice

Susan Trombley
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Synopsis (Goodreads):
The chimera is a mystery that baffles the residents of New Omni—when his attitude isn’t making them want to kill him.

Even as a gladiator champion with many battles under his belt, the chimera finds the Dead Fall to be a challenge, so when the four-armed fire-warrior, Tak, saves his life, the shapeshifting chimera attempts to socialize, but his arrogance leaves the easygoing Tak in a fury with his thoughtless words.

Desperate for answers to understand how a mated male thinks, he seeks out Alice, Tak’s intriguing mate, while in his serpent form, and inadvertently discovers that Alice has secrets of her own. Secrets she must keep to protect her family.

The chimera and Alice enter into an uneasy bargain while he holds his silence, but he isn’t happy about the price of that silence on Alice and her mates. As he spends more time with Alice and experiences feelings for her that he’s never had before, it becomes a struggle for him to keep her secret, and he can’t help offering a solution—one that will cost him instead.

One that might cost his life.
Thoughts on Chimera's Gift: Oh, man, I liked this one. The chimera is a hot mess of a dude in the beginning. On the plus side, it's not because he's a grade-A jerk. At least not once we get to know him. He's just been taught that certain things are a certain way and he needed to follow the rules laid out for him.

In other words, if you're strong enough to defeat Kisk, you're worthy of his time. Which kinda makes him sound like the aforementioned grade-A jerk, but he's not. I SWEAR.

He's just gloriously socially awkward and has no idea how to relate to others.

Due to a series of circumstances, he finds himself trying to understand Alice and how she used her sorceress ways to ensnare Tak and Iyaran. The more time he spends around her, the more he comes to enjoy being near her. Which confuses him immensely because she's everything Kisk has been told is beneath him.

Ultimately, Kisk makes some big mental changes and becomes someone worthy of standing beside Tak and Iyaren as Alice's mate. All this while helping the other three come to terms with loss and the potential for new beginnings.

Oh, yeah. And while dealing with the crazy stuff the Nex is throwing at them. Man, the dead fall is just chock full of crazy. With more to come. Yessssss.

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