The Tyrant Alpha's Rejected Mate Paperback – Import, 12 November 2021

I was craving a good werewolf romance book and when I came across this book, the blurb sounded so intriguing. Una Hayes is a mere lone female who has a limp because of a tragic incident. She mostly keeps to herself and lives with three other females whom she cares for. She doesn't expect the packs Alpha, Killian Kelley to be her mate, but she also doesn't expect him to reject her in front of the entire pack. The whole plot where the female is low ranking than the male had me interested. At first, I didn't like Killian at all but when he started figuring sht out and simped hard over Una, I could help but admire him. But I started to respect him when he understood Una's point of view, changed his rules for her and would do absolutely anything to keep her safe. His character growth was my favourite part of the book. And Una was amazing! She didn't let him get away with his wrongdoings instead she had the courage to speak her mind and maintained her independence and self respect. She was freaking amazing and I loved her the moment I read her pov. Overall, this book was highly entertaining though it felt a bit long, I was still invested untill the very last page!

I have read plenty of shifter stories..but this story gives the real, raw emotions.... have to applaud the author for narrating the characters and story line thoroughly intriguing...Killian and Una are perfect heaven made mates for each other with good heart and soul...and the bond formation between them is explained very natural way...

I absolutely loved it, especially the concept of women's freedom.Una is a strong female protagonist with stong values of life.It's really good.

I am not usually into shifter romance, but after reading Run Posy Run, I wanted to reas more by thia author.The tropes going on are bad boy, helpless female, flawed character, fated mates, but both the MCs is so much more. Give this a go without one thought. Its totally worth the 4 hours you spend reading this tale

The author brought these characters alive. I loved the writing style so much! Everything was perfect. I am on the waitlist for the next book in this series. Can't wait❤

Starts a bit slow but has a strong storyline. It's not just about the physical aspect of the mate bond as made out in other books.strong characters.

It's one of Cate's right up their books. The angst, the jealousy, pain, grovel, reconciliation, plot, hot alpha, fiesty FMC. It has it all. Just go and grab it.

Best rejected mate book ever!!I devoured this book in one sitting. If you're familiar with the author's other works, you would know that all her books have all the feels. And this one too was no different. It gave me all the feels and oh god the angst was so delicious. Cate writes the best angst. To tell you the truth, I read this book again right after I finished. And that never happened before! In my defense it was so good that I couldn't wait to read it a second time.And I loved the hero so much. Killian Kelly was swoon worthy and just the type of guy I like to read in books. I confess that at the beginning I wanted to hit him a time or two especially when he rejected Una in front of everybody, but thankfully he redeemed himself for me. I loved his grovel. I loved how once he realised what Una meant to him, he gave his all to win her heart. This guy is definitely a keeper. Even though at the beginning he denied that Una wasn't his mate in front of everybody, his heart knew the truth. I cried when I learned their backstory. It was so emotional.Honestly, I prefer soft heroines over the so called strong, intelligent heroines. Because often times strong is just another word for annoying. I was so grateful when I discovered Una was my favorite type of heroine. Even though one of her leg isn't good and she was considered weak among her pack members, her inner strength was unrivaled. She made her own business and gave money to her friends to buy games. She also paid for the TV and other things from her own money. She infact was very intelligent. I loved her friendship with other girls. Also, I'm really looking forward to Mari's book. The breadcrumbs we got in this book got me hooked.Overall, this was a great book. At the beginning I was scared to read this book because I had very high expectations, but thank god this book surpassed all my expectations. I had a great time reading it.

I enjoyed this story so much! It’s well written and edited! The character interaction had a couple of moments that had me laughing out loud! I’m moving on to Book 2!

Best rejected mate trope I've ever read. I loved it from start to finish. Cate C Wells has quickly become one of my all time fave authors, her writing never disapoints and her stories always have that special something that makes me want to keep reading nonstop.

Romântico, disputado, personalidades fortes, perdão, superação. Tudo isso a gente encontra nesse livro na medida justa. Muito gostoso de ler.

I'd rate this 4.5 stars but enjoyed it enough to round it up to a five. I'll admit, this book took me by surprise and I didn't think I'd enjoy it nearly as much as I did. Why? 1. This author is new to me - not saying that's an automatic disappointment, just that I didn't know what style/vibe I'd be getting, especially when I'd seen a couple of other readers get almost gushy over her books (in my experience, this normally ends really well for me or it's a car crash lol). 2. Rejected mates isn't generally my thing. Too much angst, too much back and forth and me knowing that by the end of the book, I'd still be a bitter kitty who wants to stab the hero. 3. When I read the blurb and it mentioned the female lead, Una, was rejected in front of the whole pack, it was an automatic turnoff for me. I'm one of those woeful readers who suffers from second-hand embarrassment and this sounded like a cringe-fest that would make me all sorts of uncomfortable. Despite these three things, I'm really glad I took the plunge because although Killian, the male lead, made me want to punch him in the junk for a good chunk of the book, the author's style and the amount of grovelling vs angst really worked for me, enough so that I've just pre-ordered Book 2 in this series. I know. I'm freaking out, too.This book had a downtrodden heroine but luckily the author didn't make her a damsel in distress, instead giving her enough of a spine that she was able to stand up to Killian and hold her own amongst a pack filled with a fair number of douche canoes. After an traumatic event when she was young, Una is left scarred and has a considerable limp on one leg. As an unmated female with no family, she's at the bottom of the pecking order of the pack along with a few other misfits who have befriended each other. Breaking the rules of the pack, they secretly find ways to secure a small but sustainable income so they're pretty happy being left to their own devices and only really deal with the rest of the pack when they have to serve them in the kitchen daily. Killian is an alpha and the top dog of the pack, able to shift easily between his wolf and human form. A take-no-prisoners, I'll-rip-your-throat-out-if-you-even-look-at-me-the-wrong-way kind of leader, he runs a tight ship, doing his best to try and change the rotten culture in the pack which was atrocious in the past, especially towards females and those weaker members. Killian installs discipline with his pack, mainly by running a formidable fight club (one that you can talk about - I'll show myself out) that has an excellent reputation throughout the human and Shifter world. When Una comes in to heat late in life, unexpectedly and in the middle of of dinner service, things go from bad to worse. I won't go into details, but it's brutally embarrassing for her (and the reader) and she's basically ostracised even more-so than usual. The only problem? Killian's wolf can't get the little Shifter out of his head and becomes somewhat obsessed with her. The other issue? Una can hold a solid grudge and basically tells him to take a long walk off a short bridge and I lurrrrrved it.I liked that Una didn't give Killian a get out of jail card easily for the most part. She stood up to him enough that I didn't get stabby and his amount of grovelling (and her acceptance of it) was mostly realistic and while I still think she let him off easily in a couple of instances due to instalust, it was still a satisfying read. I'll admit that I struggled with some of the pack dynamics, especially their past and current treatment of women, but the author did such a good job of world building that that it still worked for me. A small trigger warning, though: this book does infer regularly that women were assaulted often in the past, particularly (but not exclusively) if females were lower pack members. A lot of the pack culture continues to be regressive, even in this installment.I found some of the themes a bit repetitive (Una's disability, vulnerability and low ranking in the pack, the stereotypical mean pack members, both male and female, and the levels of instalust. I'm not a fan of the whole 'I don't like you but am so overcome with lust whenever you're near me that I gush like Niagara' but luckily there were a lot of other things for me that worked in the book so I still rated it highly. Some of the descriptions regarding their attraction was a bit of overkill for me (I'm talking slippery warmth, devouring anatomy and the like - this is a personal preference, though, I'll add). I loved both of the main characters. Una was definitely a down on her luck sort that needed rescuing, but she was actually a strong and likeable character with a spine even though her life was far from rosy. Like I said earlier, I thought she carried on a bit inconsistently at times regarding Killian's grovel, but it was mostly fine. The grovel itself was good and Una was all for it but would then get a bit cranky or get petulant which went against the strong character the author had built, but this was infrequent. As for Killian, he was fabulous. Big, bad, mean, aggressive, jealous, possessive, dominant and grouchy, I ate up every page he was on and still wanted more. He's got pack members wanting to overthrow him and this added a good plot direction for some of the book even though it was mostly predictable. The book offers chapters from both Una and Killian's point of view and I liked each perspective, with Killian's offering a good insight into how his disdain turned to almost obsession that he owned one hundred percent. His chapters definitely had a style of their own but I found his straight-forward, no nonsense take on things solid and also amusing at times.Overall, even though there were some elements that aren't something I'd generally go looking for, this book still really worked for me and I found myself unable to put it down. The author had the characters really embrace their animal side, particularly their lack of restraint, I think more so than a lot of other Shifter books I've read (and there have been many). There was also a decent epilogue, although I would have liked a bit more detail about the aftermath of one of the key events from the book (again, a personal preference). Maybe rejected mates is a new trope for me. Who would've thought? *Pretty sure if I read one by another author I'll go back to wanting to set things on fire*

Great story line, well written, spicey alpha book :-)Looking forward to reading the next in the series!I recommend.