With Everything I Am - The Three #2 - Kristen Ashley
Sum up: (Goodreads)
One night, Callum is driven into the woods by instinct, an instinct to protect. In the form of wolf, he meets a young human child who he is instantly drawn to in a fierce way he doesn’t quite understand.
Sonia Arlington has lived a lonely life. She has certain abilities that make her strange and she has a rare disease that, if untreated, could kill her. Her father makes her vow that she will never let others discover her abilities. This forces Sonia to stay distant, always guarding against exposure.
Intelligence leaks that Sonia is Callum’s human mate. He is now King of the Werewolves and has war on his hands. He’s forced to claim his mate and integrate Sonia into a world that is strange and frightening.
As Sonia attempts to adjust, Callum attempts to cope with the knowledge that his mate is mortal. He will have her beauty and gentleness only the length of a mortal life making their union unbearably bitter even as Sonia makes it unbelievably sweet..
This book contains violent and sexual scenes that may offend sensibilities of readers.
Plot:
The second book of the Three Series introduces Callum and Sonia. Both are pre-destined mates. Callum is the King of the werewolf and Sonia is a human, raised by vampires (it is not a big spoiler since Gregor was introduced in the first book) after her parents died tragically. Since she was a little girl, Sonia dreamed of a wolf whose life she saved from hunters when she was barely six years old. Little did she know that this wolf turned out to be Callum.
Callum always knew that Sonia was his mate, but he waited for her to reach adulthood before claiming her. When rebels go after Sonia, all bets are off and Callum "kidnaps" Sonia and brings her to his private cabin in order to tell her everything about them, but mostly to finally claim her.
However, unaware of the existence of werewolves, Sonia dismisses everything Callum says and thinks he is just a crazy looney tunes. Guess Callum will have to prove her that everything he says is true and he better do it fast, before the rebels try to go after his queen again...
Opinion:
Oh my... Once again, I fall in love with Kristen Ashley's work! I loved this book. A. LOT.
I liked that Sonia was pretty resilient and Callum - somehow - patient. However, I was sometimes frustrated that he was not upfront with everything, which led to crappy situations. I feel like when you carry secrets, it's better to do like you would a band-aid: do it fast, do it all and you're done. It hurts, but at least, it's done. Even though it took time for them to be in the right set of mind about their relationship, they always managed to find their ways back to each other.
I loved that despite being pre-destined mates, they did not fall in love with each other straight away. They still had to go through this discovery stage and learn about each other. It was not easy and a lot of secrets/lies were on the way. I enjoyed Sonia's quirky personality and sense of humor and I loved Callum's protectiveness towards Sonia. But he still deserved a couple of slaps for not explaining straight away to Sonia, even though it was mentioned that it is because of his nature and the fact he did not know about humans reactions. But still... Poor Sonia was completely overwhelmed by everything and he just made it worse.
Anyway, I loved the actions, the storyline, the characters (even the secondary characters), the suspense/surprise, the steamy sex scenes...
Can't wait for book #3!!
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