Name: HeartMate
ISBN: 9780425212400

Robin D. Owens

In a world whose inhabitants are defined by their individual psychic gifts, Danith Mallow, a young woman with little psychic talent, is drawn to the aristocratic Rand T'Ash, a respected nobleman and artisan who has crafted a magnificent necklace to attract his destined beloved. Reissue.

HeartMate

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Rand T'Ash lost everything as a young boy, his home, his family, and had to learn to fend for himself most of his life until recently now that he is a nobleman and highly sought after artisan, he is now looking for his heartmate, and when he finds out who she is, he sets out to seduce her, only she doesn't seem to want to be seduced and keeps rejecting Him. Rand at first where Danith is coming from, because he once came from the kind of life that she is living currently, and he only desires to hold onto her, protect her and love her....he just has to convince her that sharing a life with him would bring her pure happiness, because the love they would share would be timeless.Heart Mate is the first installment in this series, and it was a very likable read, the beginning was a bit slower to get into, but once I did I had a fantastic time with these two characters. Rand is so Alpha Male type, very possessive and stubborn to the extreme, and more resilient than most, although he does have a soft side. Danith, is somewhat spitfire but does have a more gentle nature about her. Danith's situation is unique, because she thinks of herself as beneath Rand, however she is anything but, and the heat in this book was very sizzling at times, I just love this world that Robin D. Owens has created, its so fun to get into the scene and just enjoy the ride. It wasn't the type of book that would keep you from setting it down, but it was more relax before the fire type of read, and a very enjoyable and exciting at times novel, that was so fun and sexy, and I can hardly wait to read the rest of the series.

Lauren Sullivan

This is complete over-the-top fated mates insanity, further complicated by the fact it's a mash of Celtic and Wiccan traditions with some scifi thrown in (because WHY NOT at this point). I'm blaming the scifi parts for the incomprehensible weirdness of things like having a day named "MidWeekendDay" and "caff" and "Fam" and "housefluffs", my God, I could go ON but let's just stop there, OK? 

Add in pretty much my least favorite bits of the fated mates trope and I should totally hate this, but somehow this fits in the "so bad it's good" zone. Maybe it's Zanth, the telepathic cat, who's pretty much the only character I actually liked, because T'Ash was too busy angstily chewing the scenery and Danith was just... there....

So anyway, I found this ridiculously fun to read, despite the fact I spent a good portion of the book rolling my eyes over, uh, basically everything.

Amanda J 

Wow have such mixed feelings about this book. I went in for the paranormal romance aspect of the novel. Imagine my surprise when I really didn't like the romance. I kept reading because the worldbuilding and the character's personal struggles. 
To start the technology and language aspect are just dumped on you so there's a bit of a learning curve, but once I got used to it I really appreciated the lack of infodump. That being said, I wish there was more of an explanation of what a heartmate is and what exactly a passage is. I have vague understandings that seem to be from the AU's vague understanding and not an intentional you'll learn later in the series vibe. Also, the fam's, especaily Zanth's dialogue is amazing. The world is so different than anything I've read before that I would have enjoyed it a lot more sans the romance plot.
I also really enjoyed the interior struggles and growth the characters went through. I empathized and understood where they're coming from and just wanted them to succeed.
But yet the romance didn't work. I'm not sure if its because the two lacked chemistry. But I think its because each of their individual arcs were so compelling and the romance seemed shoehorned that I wish the romance was just done differently.

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