Reject Me

Immortal Vices and Virtues, Book 1

By: Kel Carpenter, Aurelia Jane

Narrated by: Teddy Hamilton, Michelle Sparks

Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins

Publisher's summary

"Markus Del Reyes, I reject you." He left me no choice.

I refuse to spend the rest of my life with my childhood bully for a mate. I may be a cursed shifter, incapable of shifting—but I wasn't desperate. Not till the Alpha Supreme cast me out of the House of Fire and Fluorite for rejecting his son.

Now I'm packless. Homeless. No longer under the protection of a House. Until the dark vampire king of Blood and Beryl turns his sights on me.

In return for protection from my former House, I have to become his fake mate. I'll be a queen and a fraud. It's a treacherous lie to live—and I find myself forgetting what's real and what's not with every stolen touch and heated kiss we share.

What starts as a business arrangement turns complicated when my heat hits, and the king insists on being the one to help me through it.

I've lost everything for doing what I know is right, but the greatest danger I ever faced was never losing my life . . . it was opening my cursed heart.

Contains mature themes.

©2022 Raging Hippo LLC (P)2024 Tantor

Wonderful story!

This book was great, twists, turns, love, family, and great readers to match the story line.

Audio was fantastic!

I had started this series out of order so I decided I would redo it from the beginning so I could try and understand these different factions better haha. I will say this one and Worship Me, featuring one of the awesome side characters in this book have been my favorites so far!

I enjoyed this concept and liked the characters a lot. Dannika was great and her sister was hilarious haha. Elias really grew on me, I did roll my eyes with some stuff but I never wanted to shake him silly like some of the other guys in this shared universe haha. I thought we got some nice glimpses into the shifter part of the story, but it wasnt the overarching storyline. Dani is a beast, even if her wolf is different than every other wolf shifter. At the end....oh em gee hahaha. I won’t give it away but great job by the authors with that haha. I loved seeing the awkwardness fizzles out, seeing the two think about making things real, allowing their feelings to overtake them. I was annoyed with the miscommunication but I understand why they did that, couldn’t be an easy romance now could it haha. I thought there could have been some more on the page steam but it seems like all the authors were limited to theirs in this one. Maybe to make it more plot focused? But that is why I would give it a 4.5 stars instead of 5 because there were scenes that could have been on the page but was chosen not to.

The bigger plot, with Dani, Marcus, and his horrible father was done well. It was predictable about the confrontation but I liked some of the unforeseen little twists in this one. I liked seeing Elias step up, he was definitely a swoonworthy mate for her. I enjoyed some of the side characters in his world/faction, waiting to see if we get to know any of them in future books haha. I felt for Marcus and was annoyed with his persistence but I was happy to see him finally get his head out of his you know what. I know what happens to him but won’t say anything for those who havent read all these stories yet!

Overall good book, I enjoyed the narrators a lot. I have listened to the female narrator a bunch and she always does a great job. I have listened to the male narrator a couple times and really have no feedback for either of them, which is huge for me haha. I thought they both did a great job channeling their different characters, bringing out their emotion and making scenes believable, despite everything going on. I laughed, cringed, yelled, whooped for joy, and rolled my eyes and they helped with their performance making the rollercoaster of emotions come out! 5/5 for the narration, making me round up for the overall audiobook ❤️

Great read

I think the ending could have been longer. Felt rushed with fight. I liked the surprise during the fight

Enjoyable PNR

I liked this story because it was easy to follow and there wasn’t any crazy world building like some PNR or Fantasy’s can have. I really loved the fierceness of not only the FMC but the other female characters. They were all strong willed and did cower to the Alpha dominant males. Great start to a series that will no doubt keep building up the next story. Michelle and Teddy were fabulous as always. This is a dual narration story and these 2 are great with opposite sex voices.

Great story!! .

Love both narrators, can't wait to read all the series, awesome storyline got me hooked from the start.

Terrific standalone paranormal romance!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💚🖤❤️💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍
Character development: ☺️😊🙃😋🥰
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Dannika - she is a wolf shifter who couldn’t shift. Years ago, her mother hired a witch to separate her from her wolf, so now the wolf part of her is a separate being that goes everywhere with her. She is part of a house called Fire and Flouride, whose Alpha was her father until her father was murdered on the day she was born, a night they called the Great Sacrifice, because so many died on that night while all the supernaturals were fighting each other. Now there is peace between the houses with the Supreme Alpha of her pack, Mathis who rules with an iron fist.

The Hero: Elias - he is a vampire, and the leader of the Blood and Beryl house. He doesn’t like Mathis and his favorite thing to do is make Mathis look bad, which usually isn’t too hard. So, when he is forced to attend a gathering to recognize the anniversary of the Great Sacrifice and the peace treaty that followed, he does his best to make Mathis appear as small and petty as he actually is.

The story: Dannika didn’t want to spend her birthday at the Celebration Mathis was holding on their house grounds. She especially didn’t want to be anywhere near Mathis’ son Markus who was her childhood bully and made her younger years a living hell. When she runs into Markus and he recognizes Danni as his mate, she immediately rejects him, and Mathis is furious. He planned to get Markus mated and for Markus to get his mate pregnant as soon as possible, so that their family had a new heir and would stay in power for generations.

Mathis ordered Markus to fight Dannika to the death for her insult to their family, but when neither Markus nor Dannika would kill each other and refused to fight, he banished them from his house and property. Though in reality, he planned on killing Dannika before she was able to leave his land. Elias just happened to be there and proposed a solution to Dannika that would keep her safe. Elias was hiding from what a witch predicted would happen when he met his fated mate, so he proposed that Dannika, who wasn’t a vampire like him and whom he thought couldn’t be his mate, would pretend to be his mate and he would give her protection in return.

I really liked this book; it was exciting and sexy. There was the whole storyline about Elias and his cohorts trying to remove Mathis from power, and a lot of political machinations going on, there were traitors in the ranks and Mathis was exerting his power by harassing Dannika’s family. There was also a ton of chemistry between Danni and Elias. The intimate scenes were quite steamy and there wasn’t too many of them. I really liked both characters quite a bit. There were a bunch of great supporting characters as well, including Markus, and Dannika’s peacock shifter adopted sister Adora.

This audiobook was told in two points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Teddy Hamilton and Michelle Sparks. Teddy is one of my favorite male narrators; He has a terrific voice and always sounds so natural, you can’t tell he is reading at all. Michelle Sparks has a great voice as well and sounded very natural as well. I liked her soft, youthful sounding voice. It was perfect for Danni.

Vampire

Wonderful word building, enjoyed the straight forward conversation and the truth in their relationship , great ending

Very good!

So much better than I had expected it to be! These authors are both new to me, so I was skeptical because books in this genre are either garbage or gold, rarely in the middle lol But these narrators are two of my absolute favorites so I figured it couldn't hurt to give it a try .... but WOW, I was hooked right from the beginning! I listened to the book in 1 day and in the end my only complaint is that the next book won't be available for a few weeks 🙃

Loved Female Lead Rejecting Mate!

Loved both narrators, they did an amazing job for each characters. I loved how the FMC rejected her mate after she gathered herself. The way things played out leading to her being banished as well as her ex mate. The MMC decides to put her under his protection under a condition that should be beneficial to both parties. The FMC held strong on her rejection to her ex mate as he still hadn’t accepted the rejection. Can’t wait for the next story.

I loved this!!

This story was fantastic. full of action and laughs. Narration was absolutely amazing!! This book kept my attention and was absolutely worth the credit.