Title: Wolf vs. Bat
Series: The Shifter Royalty 02
Author: Patrick Wendling-Markwell
Genre: Paranormal, Shifters
Length: Novella (87pgs)
Publisher: Lazy Beagle Entertainment (27th May 2013)
Heat Level: Explicit – Scorching
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥3 ½ Hearts
Reviewer: Pixie
Blurb: Four years after Riley became King of the Wolf Shifter Kingdom, he rescues Prince Anghel of the Bat Shifter Kingdom from a raging forest fire started by scared humans, but there is still a terrible price paid. The King and Queen of the Bat Kingdom, along with their daughter the Crown Princess and Heir to the Throne, perish in the fire, putting Anghel the second eldest on the throne.
When Anghel wakes after the disaster, he feels a terrible loss and finds comfort in the arms of the Wolf King. Soon the two realize that even though Anghel is now the King of the Bat Shifter Kingdom, they are mated and will have to unite both Kingdoms.
Can Riley learn to be mated, love and be a sub to the Dominant tendencies of the Bat King?
Nineteen years later, in present day times, they have to deal with yet another loss. Their son Collin has suffered the loss of his mate and is grieving himself to death. Not only do they have to deal with him and hopefully keep him from dying, they now have to deal with the Snake and Dragon Kingdoms being brought together through the mating of Crown Prince Nicholas of the Snakes and Crown Prince Edward of the Dragons (Serpent vs Serpent) and preventing a terrible war that is now brewing on the horizon within the Shifter communities for they bring Collin into their mating and their bodyguards have brought a Horse shifter into their mating bringing into alliance and into one major Kingdom combining Dragons, Snakes, Wolves, Bats and Horses as one against the rest of the single species Shifters.
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Review: This book is part of a series and can be read in any order. Riley became King of the Wolf Shifters four years ago. Now, he is coming to the rescue of the Bat Kingdom when he rescues their prince, Anghel. Unable to rescue the King, Queen, and heir to the Throne, Anghel is now the leader of the Bat Shifters and as Riley discovers, his mate as well. Anghel is devastated over the loss of his parents and sister. He never expected to take over the Throne, but meeting his mate, Riley, eases some of his pain. Bringing their two Kingdoms together is going to cause waves throughout the shifter world that will have long reaching effects as Mother Nature begins to put her ultimate plan into play.
This is an extremely erotic story that will give you a great sex fix while giving you an interesting shifter story. Riley has been King for four years, so when Anghel unexpectedly becomes King to his own Kingdom he helps him out. However, more importantly they are mates. Riley isn’t sure he wants to mate yet though. But, it isn’t long before he realizes his procrastinating is causing Anghel pain and he accepts that Mother Nature knows what she is doing. Anghel is a Dominate and he quickly realizes that his Alpha wolf is a submissive in bed. They have a perfect connection between them. Mother Nature has plans for the Kings and as they mate before her, she sets her plan in motion.
This story is set 20 years before Serpent vs. Serpent, introducing us to Riley and Anghel and the difficulties they faced as they merged their Kingdoms. Riley and Anghel are great characters, they have a fantastic explosive chemistry between them, and they really set the pages alight. We also are treated to some very explicit graphic sexual scenes between Riley, Anghel, Gaza (Riley’s twin brother) and Gabi (Anghel’s younger brother) along with some very interesting sexual scenes between Taylor (Horse Crown Prince) and Robert (Tiger Crown Prince).
I recommend this to those who love highly sexual shifters, explicit erotic explosive sex, the beginning of Mother Nature’s plans and a very happy ending.