Review: An Impossible Mate by Joy Lynn Fielding

Loner Matt Urban has somehow ended up as alpha to a pack of outcasts and misfits. When an injured shifter blunders onto their territory one night, swearing he didn’t know it was pack territory, Matt is suspicious. It doesn’t help that the stranger, Jesse Turner, is as stubborn as Matt. Wanting answers, Matt persuades Jesse to stay a while, and the intense attraction they feel for one another soon blazes into heat. That’s when Matt realizes—the stranger with the smart mouth and the attitude problem is his mate.

Matt, still mourning the lover he lost years ago, doesn’t want a mate, and Jesse doesn’t believe in mates. Yet neither of them can deny the pull they feel toward one another.

They’re still struggling with the situation when a hostile alpha claims Jesse. Matt has to fight to protect Jesse. First, though, he has to fight Jesse’s stubborn independence if he’s to win his heart.

Series: Strength of the Pack #1
Release Date: October 10th 2013
Publisher: Siren-Bookstrand Publishing
Source: Manic Readers
Reviewer: Kenna
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Reviewer’s Thoughts

This is the first time I’ve read a book from Joy Lynn Fielding. She caught my attention at M/M wolf shifters. I’m sort of a sucker for those guys.

“An Impossible Mate” is the story of Matt Urban. He owns a ranch, and that ranch has become somewhat of a haven for misfit wolf shifters who find themselves without a pack. This wasn’t his plan for life, and he often wonders how he wound up being an Alpha, when all he really wanted was to be left alone.

While out on patrol, some of his pack come across a lone wolf on their territory. A fight ensues, and the stranger is brought back to the ranch for medical attention…and also to find out who this interloper is and why he’s there.

Jesse Turner finds himself in a difficult situation. Wounded and on the run, he initially doesn’t want any part of Matt and his merry band of misfits. He’s been on his own long enough that he doesn’t trust anybody. However, he does feel a strong pull toward Matt, even though he has no idea why.

I’m stopping there. I don’t want to give away the WHOLE story, and it is a good story. Lots of intrigue and action, and lots of hot sex and romance between the two heroes. To me, though, it felt rather rushed. I know that the book isn’t very long, and there was a time constraint here, but one minute there is fighting and mistrust, and then in the next, sheets are burning thanks to the sexual sparks.

There are a lot of background characters to be had. Matt does have a “pack” at the ranch, and we get to meet them, and that was another issue that I had. In order to get them introduced, quite a bit of time that could have been spent on the main story was taken away. There’s an upside to it, though. All of those boys seem to be pretty interesting, and you’ll want to get to know them better.

This is the first in a series called “Strength of the Pack”, so it’s a nice start to a much bigger plot. All in all, I enjoyed it and made the decision to read the other three stories as well. If you like action, romance, great manlove sex, and the added excitement of wolf shifters, this is the book for you.