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  • Devotion

  • Forbes Mates, Book 1
  • By: Grace R. Duncan
  • Narrated by: Joel Leslie
  • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (151 ratings)

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Devotion

By: Grace R. Duncan
Narrated by: Joel Leslie
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Publisher's summary

Finley Cooper is tired of waiting for his destined mate to be ready to claim him. In deference to human laws, he's already agreed to wait until he's 18. But now his birthday has come and gone-and his mate has a new set of excuses. Finley doesn't understand it any more than his wolf does, and he's beginning to wonder if fate made a mistake.

Tanner Pearce wants nothing more than to claim his mate, but he worries that Finley is too young. Tanner will never forget what happened when his best friend mated at Finley's age, only to have that mate end up feeling trapped and breaking their bond. While rare, it can happen, and the fallout Tanner witnessed as his best friend tried to deal with the break has haunted him for years.

When Finley finally has enough, he threatens to find someone who will claim him if Tanner doesn't, and Tanner realizes he needs to come to terms with his fears or risk losing his mate forever.

©2015 Grace R. Duncan (P)2017 Dreamspinner Press
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This book felt a little lopsided to me. The overall performance by the narrator was great; however, once the resolution happened between the protagonists the story fell off. I enjoyed for first half of the story with the miscommunication between the two love interests but once that was resolved the ending of the book felt like it dragged on. Overall, it was an okay book but I wish the supporting characters would have had more to do with driving the story instead of the misunderstanding between the protagonists.

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My first shifter book, loved it.

I absolutely loved this book.

This is my first book in the shifter drama. I heard about shifter books and decided to see what the fuss is about. Ths book was a great way to be introduced to what shifters are and why people like these type of books.

I listened to this on Audible too, and my favorite narrator Joel Leslie did the voice work. He did a terrific job as usual with the voice acting and making it easy to distinguish each character.

Only issue i had with the book, and this is a minor spoiler but it's mentioned very early, is one of the main reasons the main character has concerns with claiming his mate. So apparently he has to mate in front of his entire immediate family and the elders. He just does not want to, clearly never wants to, finds it an invasion of his privacy and wants to protect his partners body from being exposed to that.
The book does a LOT to make that agonizing for the reader and i feel like doesn't do enough to ever help alleviate that anxiety. I at no point felt relief about this situation and was anxious every time this was brought up. I didn't really like the excuse this has to be done and it sorta ruined some of the romance for me with how its portrayed. I felt somewhat sick to my stomach and by the end, still felt sick about it.

Another issue i had, is there's a lot of repetition, i found myself very easily skipping ahead and not losing track of anything as some of the story drags. Like stuff would happen in the story and it just gets explained over and over again too many times. I think i even skipped an entire chapter when i noticed nothing was happening other then a ton of tensions explaining over and over. It doesn't at all ruin the book though and i know why it was done. It felt like it was done for tension building to make you more anxious about what's happening but maybe executed too much because like.... We get it... There's tension, stop explaining it to me for an hour with no real movement in the story.

The romance though is extremely tense, the story to back it up holds up solidly. I also love love lovvve the world building too as it was explained in a way that was easy to follow with characters being introduced slowly.

I think this book despite some of the prior issues mentioned is highly recommended for new comers to shifter dramas because after this, I'm hooked and want more.

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The perfect union of words and voice.

What did you love best about Devotion?

Everything! Seriously. I'd read the e-book, a couple times, and now to have narration, these wolves I do so love brought to life by Joel Leslie's stunning narrative skills. Perfect union.

What did you like best about this story?

The struggle, actually. I love shifter stories but they are almost always the same. Meet mate, mate mate, rinse repeat. In this story Duncan sets herself apart by adding the struggle Tanner deals with on a daily basis, not claiming his meet from the start. Finley struggles as well, but because he thinks Tanner may not necessarily want him as a mate. I loved the different view of the destined mates trope.

Which scene was your favorite?

The claiming itself at the end.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Both, actually. I laughed so hard a couple of times, just little things. But when Finley made the decision to put some distance between himself and Tanner, the pain and confusion that caused, made me a little bleary eyed.

Any additional comments?

Tams e-book review from August 2015

Tanner Pearce is the son of the Alpha wolf, heir apparent and future Alpha. Finding his destined mate should be a cause for celebration. But Tanner is in his twenties and his mate is only sixteen. Tanner never considers not mating with Finley, he just wants his mate to at least be of age and have lived enough life not to have any regrets once they do mate. But young Finley is growing tired of waiting and being pushed away at every turn.

Finley finally reaches a breaking point and flees to his grandparent’s home which is thousands of miles away. Tanner wants to give Finley his space, it’s the reason he has refused to actually mate with his mate these last few years, so Finley could enjoy his youth and be truly ready when they did mate. But now Tanner fears he has driven away his heart, and he’s not quite sure how to get him back.

Fantastic start to a new series! I thoroughly enjoyed the traditional Shifter aspects Duncan included in her story, while bringing a few unique ones of her own to the mix, keeping it fresh. There was the right amount of drama and angst in the story without being immature or awkward. Tanner has his reasons for wanting to wait to complete the mate bond, but he’s not entirely honest with Finley and it could cost him everything. The story flowed well from beginning to end with crests and valleys along the way to keep the reader interested and entertained.

Shifter fans are going to flock to this one of course, but there is so much more to the story. Coming of age, figuring out who you are and your place in life, learning to bend and give, especially when the decisions you make not only affect you, but your partner too. There’s some sexy time as well, these two wolves are pretty passionate about each other. And even, dare I say, a bit of romance… Le Sigh.


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Awesome Listen

The narrator is a perfect choice for this one. I absolutely loved the kindle version and had to add the audiobook. I’m glad I did. This truly comes to life digitally.

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The narration of this story is awesome. I started another audio book before this one and the narration killed it....This the second book different series that has been narrated by joel leslie and wow...I think the only critic is less use of the wordy baby...other wise the plot line was great. just enough story vs erotica to keep the listener going will be listening to the second book next month

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Decent Read(listen)

I had never read this author, not my cup of tea. Narration was just OK

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