Title: Avow
Author: Sandra R. Neeley
Series: Haven #4
Pages: 282
For the past two books we have seen General Lo’San and Synclair’s relationship progress and now we are finally seeing them admit their feelings and mate. Because we have seen their relationship develop over the previous books, this book basically starts with their mating and goes from there.
These two are happy and jump right into attempting to have children through fertility treatments, which are extremely hard on Synclair, and get worse as the story goes on. I will admit, I got a bit bored about hearing about her fertility treatments and how these two wanted kids. It felt a bit repetitive.
The majority of this book was focused on Lo’San’s family, which he has been estranged from, returning because he has mated under the guise of trying to mend bonds. This is all a ruse to get rid of Synclair though and bring Lo’San back under the mother’s control and bring honor back to the family. While I was interested in this storyline at first, I found myself getting irritated at Lo’San and Synclair both because they both knew these people were extremely manipulative and toxic and yet they just would trust them with stuff, like medication. In the end, the whole storyline with the toxic family was fine but a bit irritating at times.
Overall, this was not my favorite of this series, but I am still interested in seeing what will happen next with Ba Re and Elisha, and with Quin and Vivian after that announcement at the end of this book.
TW: toxic and manipulative mother and sister-in-law; drugging and kidnapping; infertility issues
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