Mating the Huntress

This is my first paranormal romance (for grown-ups, anyway, Twilight doesn't count). How do you know if a subgenre is your thing or not? I'm not much of a fantasy reader overall, because world-building can feel tedious to me, and there's usually some suspension of belief that's necessary in order to get immersed, and I dunno, it's rare that a fantasy novel captures me.

That said, once the setup was done, this novella was kind of adorable and also pretty hot (and also if it had been a full-length novel it might have lost me near the beginning). The banter between Luke and Chastity was great once she was done trying to kill him (he's a werewolf, see, and her family are werewolf hunters, except she's not one and she's kind of really bitter about it), and them playfully chasing each other through the woods was the sweetest. The whole you're-my-mate-even-though-you-don't-know-me/imprinting thing feels kind of squicky to me (see also: Twilight), but also great consent scenes here, which kind of made it feel less squicky? I dunno. I liked a lot of things about it while still not being that into Werewolves as Romantic Partners, so I don't know how to rate this.

Most of you are surely already aware of how much I love Talia's writing in general, but her stories are usually contemporary romance—which she excels at, don't get me wrong, but I've been in such a paranormal mood lately that, when I heard she was releasing her first ever paranormal romance novella, I was freaking pumped.

They were fated, after all. They were written in the stars.

Mating the Huntress

mate,

not having it

Now, for the first time, he knew loneliness. Felt the gap of her absence. Felt true hunger.

trying to murder him...

are,

is

She wasn't sweet or gentle or biddable. She was a bloodthirsty fucking murderer. His heart sang.

Mating the Huntress,

monster

mutual

more

All quotes come from an advance copy and may not match the final release. Thank you so much to the author for providing me with this ARC in exchange for an honest review!

I admit I had no idea that Talia Hibbert wrote a paranormal romance novella until my friend Destiny recommended it to me recently for Tropeathon. I've read a few of her contemporary romances and really enjoyed them so I was looking forward to seeing what she would do with a paranormal romance.

It took me a little bit to fully get into this one but once things picked up they really picked up. I loved both of the main characters although Chastity did kind of make me want smack her a few times. I loved that it's a romance between a werewolf huntress and a werewolf. I loved seeing that dynamic. Their chemistry was obvious and I loved that Chastity communicated with her parents about what was going on even though it did take her a while to get to that point which leads me to my small complaint. I'm not a big fan of miscommunication/non communication. In this instance if she had talked to her parents sooner she wouldn't have had to suffer as long as she did. It was obvious to me what was going on from the beginning.

Overall it was an enjoyable read and I would totally read other paranormal romances novels by this author if she ever writes anymore.