Title: Captivating his Cattle Baron
Series: A Paranormal’s Love 24
Author: Charlie Richards
Genre: Paranormal, Fantasy
Length: Novella (156 pages)
Publisher: eXtasy Books (August 10, 2018)
Heat Level: Low
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥ 3 Hearts
Blurb: Elder Bodb has walked the earth for over a thousand years. All that time, he’s waited patiently for Fate to bring him his mate. When he travels to the Falias clutch to share sentencing information on one of their former members, he catches just the faintest whiff of something…something intoxicating. His mate is finally near. After discovering the smell originated from the brother of a man mated to a gargoyle, Bodb learns that Nicholas Lindson doesn’t know about the paranormal world. To make matters worse, Nicholas is engaged to some socialite in Texas, and the wedding is only a few weeks away. Bodb discovers that’s not the worst thing, though. Nicholas is the heir to a Texas cattle baron empire, and his father is very involved in his life—overly so. Can Elder Bodb figure out how to not only share that paranormals exist and woo Nicholas, but to extricate his human out from under the father’s domineering hand?
ISBN: 978-1-4874-2105-2
Product Link: eXtasy Books | Amazon US | Amazon UK
Reviewer: Lisa
Review: Bodb is a very old gargoyle who has been searching for his mate for a very long time. Eleven hundred years he has been on this earth serving his people and as an Elder he has had to do many strange things. This was not one of those times, he was just going to take a small vacation and give Chieftain Maelgwn his news. He had not expected to find his mate but I think he is about to be in more shock then he thought.
Nicholas’s brother is mated to a gargoyle, but our Nick doesn’t have a clue. He is about to get introduced to the paranormal world real fast. He is a human who is a mate to a gargoyle, not what he was expecting. Wonder what he will say to his wife.
I am not really sure where to start with this review. I found myself a bit lost with this one. Our main guy is married to a woman, mated to our sexy gargoyle and living a lie to help his wife. I mean they did go through with the wedding. How the other woman could take it was just off to me. I am sorry but if you love someone you are not going to sit on the burner and take what is given. To me it was all a lie and that is a turn off for me in books. Also it made the females come off as cowards and money hungry, what with wanting her cake and eating it too. Thank god there was no sex between them, what with the females being together. All in the closet so to speak.
Then Nicholas comes off as a very easy going person who is a pushover. He is straight but doesn’t mind a little action from a twink at clubs. He gives in to sex real fast with Bodb and that just didn’t work for me either. You would think he would have been a bit more hell no at first, but nope. Hell he didn’t even bat an eyelash with the paranormal side of it. Bodb goes along with it all which is not what a gargoyle would do but in this book he just caves real fast.
The part about daddy dearest felt like it was just thrown in for a bit more word count.
Charlie has been one of my top five authors of all times, but I hate to say this book did not do it for me. This whole story just was off and didn’t work for me. I hate to say it but this book was definitely not one of my favorites. I just hope the next book comes off a bit easier with not odd ball sections.