Dark Alpha’s Lover

Dark Alpha's Lover by Donna Grant
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I have read a lot of Donna Grant books, but have managed to miss a few along the way. I have read ahead, so I know how a few of the larger storylines end up playing out, but it was still nice to fill in some gaps in my Reaper backstory knowledge.

The stars of this book are Cat & Fintan. Cat is a halfling (half fae, half human) from a very powerful line of magic users. She, however, is the “dud” of the bunch. Her entire life she’s watched her family wield magic like it was nothing while she never presented any signs of being magical at all. When some big fae stuff happened in books previous to this one, her entire family was killed except her and her grandfather. She protects him but has accepted the fact that she may join her family or be ignored due to her lack of skills.

Fintan is a Reaper, and like all of his kind, he has a bit of emotional baggage around betrayal. He is obsessed with Cat upon first seeing her, but obviously ignores his feelings until they grow to unmanageable proportions. He takes up watch at first, curious why fae are so interested in her, but soon discovers she may have caught the big bad’s attention. Things take a few twists and turns, showing that Cat is both stronger and more powerful than anyone imagined (except, annoyingly, the big bad). I liked this one, showing Cat as less a damsel in distress and more of a power to be reckoned with. We still go through the standards misunderstanding, martyr motions, but it gets tied up nicely at the end.

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