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Warning: Spoilers Ahead!!! This is a recap blog which means I read the book and tell you everything that happens so you don't have to read it yourself. Do NOT continue to read unless you want to have the story completely and utterly spoiled.
Book Description: Take one unicorn with a helpless crush, add in a broken dragon, then toss a crazed 'horn chaser' into the mix and watch out! Things are about to get dangerously h*rny. After getting shot down by his crush, Bo Luke runs off into the night...only to find himself injured and at the mercy of a familiar stranger. When Mama Vee says jump you don't ask anything other than 'how high'? With all the best trackers away from the compound, Mitch has no choice but to help find the hot, young unicorn omega he'd ruthlessly pushed away. When he goes looking for Bo Luke, the last thing he expects to find is the other half of his heartsong. Between a dangerous woman who won't take no for an answer, an unexpected heat, and enough wacky clan members to send a sane man running...it might take a miracle – and a little bit of fate – to bring these two men to the happiness they crave.
TRIGGER WARNING: This book contains an abduction and an attempted sexual assault. I'm not going to go into graphic detail about either, but if these are topics you're sensitive to, please skip this recap. I love you and I'll see you next post.
This book was published in 2019 and this is my first time reading it. It's the second in the 'redneck unicorns' series. The first one was a mess – full of plot holes and had one of the ickiest age gaps I've ever encountered on this blog - but I still liked it. It was cute.
So I did a little research on this whole 'omega' thing since that's how Bo Luke is referenced. I guess the omega is typically the lowest on the hierarchy but rare and prized because they can be impregnated. They are often submissive and the alpha must protect them.
We begin with Mitch. He notices that Bo Luke is watching him again and asks if he needs something. Bo (I'm dropping the Luke because I'm a lazy bitch) tells him that Mama Vee sent him to see if Mitch was hungry. Apparently he's been skipping meals lately to work and Mama is concerned he's not eating enough. Mitch is a little annoyed and shoos Bo away, saying he's more than capable of feeding himself but he has too much work to do to stop now. Apparently his job is to go through news reports from around the world and look for odd stories that might lead them to more dragons. They're still on a quest to bring all the dragons in for education.
Bo offers to help Mitch. Now that he's an adult, he's ready to be trained to help in some capacity and he really wants to work under Mitch. In every way possible. Mitch tells him that it's not a good idea for the two of them to be working together in close quarters. Apparently Mitch is every bit as attracted to Bo as Bo is to Mitch but he's been warned away by Bo's “pappy”. I'm not sure if that's his dad or his granddad. Mitch can't tell him that part, though, so he just says he's not looking for a relationship. Bo protests that he's not asking for a husband, he just wants to learn a useful skill but Mitch can't think whenever Bo is around because he just smells too damn good.
Like blue cotton candy.
Mitch decides he's going to have to be harsh, so he tells Bo that he's never going to be into him because he doesn't want a unicorn, he doesn't want a mate and most of all, he doesn't want Bo. It's all a lie but Bo doesn't know that. He's hurt and takes off.
Just so you know, there's an age gap in this story too. Bo is 21 and Mitch is 33. I suspect there is a power imbalance as well since Bo is an omega and Mitch must be an alpha if they're attracted to each other. There's clearly also an education imbalance based on the way Bo speaks versus the way Mitch speaks and the fact Bo hasn't been trained to do anything yet. All these things would lead to an icky situation in real life with real humans but these characters are nonhuman and merely exist as words on paper so I'm just going to ignore it like I did in the first book. Please do not confuse my acceptance of this fictional situation as acceptance for a similar real-life situation because there's just too much imbalance for that to be healthy.
Mitch was rescued years ago after he unintentionally shifted during some kind of battle while he was in the Army. He ended up incinerating everyone around him and that caught the attention of Blaze and Sana. I remember Sana the healer from the first book because the main character's brother got him confused with Santa while high on horn powder. Mitch tells us that he was severely injured during that battle and should have died but Sana managed to heal him. He's full of scars, however, and “missing an important bit where it counted”. I'm not sure if that means what I think it means.......
Mitch knows that Bo deserves more than an “incomplete alpha” and hopes he might find some other man to make him happy. The idea of Bo with another man hurts Mitch but he knows it's for the best. Sometimes he thinks it would have been better if the dragons had left him to die in the jungle.
Bo decides to pack a bag and get the hell out of the compound. He can't stick around and see Mitch every day after the way he was just rejected and since he's never been trained to do anything actually useful, there's no reason for him to stick around. His plan is to shift into a unicorn and run off through the woods or wherever they are but then he notices the car outside his Aunt Annie's house. Annie has a personal assistant named Dahlia who is allowed to visit once a month to bring Annie her mail from her PO box in town. Dahlia doesn't know they're shifters so no one is allowed to shift when she's around.
Bo is irritated with himself for not remembering Dahlia was around before he went to see Mitch. I'm not sure it would have mattered because it's not like he went there to declare his love or anything. He asked if Mitch was hungry and if he could have a job. Neither of those things should have logically resulted in him getting rejected so there's no way he could have prepared for it. Whatever. He ends up having to walk away from the compound and finds that his endurance as a human is nowhere near as good as it is as a unicorn. He can't shift now because he's out in the open on a main road.
So how was he going to make his escape as a unicorn? This doesn't make sense. Was he just going to be a unicorn inside the compound and then shift back? What would be the point of that?
His plan is to go to Vivian who is the mother-in-law of the dragon king. She owns a little shop in town and he's been there with Mama Vee a few times so he kind of knows her. He's going to ask her to rent him a room for awhile so he can work and save up money and then he'll move along to the big city. Wherever that is. He's so deep in thought about what he'll say when he gets to Vivian's that he doesn't watch where he's going and ends up tripping over a rock and twisting his ankle.
He can't stand because it hurts too much and he can't shift because he's right on the side of the road. He has horn powder in his bag which will heal him right up but it's about ten feet away from him in the grass. He's getting ready to crawl for it when Dahlia comes along in her car. She stops and gets out to see if he's okay and recognizes him immediately as Annie's nephew. He asks her to hand him his bag but she picks it up and throws it into her car instead. She tells him she'll give him a ride into town if he can manage to hop into her car.
Bo can tell she's eyeing him but it's a lost cause since he's on Team Dick and not Team Vag. She doesn't seem to pick up on that, however, and eye fucks him as he gets into her car. Bo's getting major ick from her but doesn't know what to do to escape the situation. He can't take the horn powder in front of her because if humans find out unicorns have healing properties, they will poach all the unicorns out of existence to get to the horns.
Dahlia doesn't take Bo into town. She drives him into the hills instead and he panics a little. At one point she mentions how pretty all the unicorns are and asks him if he'll pop out his horn and let her touch it. He's confused because he thought she didn't know about them. He tries to play it off like she's joking and she slaps him. She warns him not to lie to her again and then repeats her request to touch his horn. Bo decides his only hope is to jump from the moving vehicle but then something hits him in the head and everything goes black.
Mama comes knocking on Mitch's door in the middle of the night. She tells him that Bo has gone missing and since this story is happening at the same time as the previous story, the best tracker is away on that case. Mitch is the only hope they have of finding Bo. She says their connection went dark the night before which means Bo is either unconscious or dead. Vivian apparently had some kind of vision that Bo was being held by a woman south of the compound in an area surrounded by hills and trees. It isn't a lot to go on but they're confident Mitch can track him down.
Mama says a couple of her “boys” tracked Bo's scent a couple of miles down the road but it ended abruptly. They assume he got into a car. Mitch checks the security footage to see if there were any cars in the area at the time and the only one belonged to Dahlia. Mama calls Annie who tries to reach Dahlia but gets voice mail. It's never happened before so it's enough for Mama to believe that Dahlia has Bo. She's right but that feels like a stretch to me. It's the middle of the fucking night. Maybe Dahlia was just asleep.
I mean, she wasn't but....you know what I mean.
A man named Brick and a man named Jerome volunteer to help. I think Brick is a dragon because he offers to try to get an aerial view but Mitch points out that the woods are too dense for it to do much good. Jerome is definitely a unicorn and I think he might be related to Bo because he mentions that “pappy” sent him to help. Mitch asks Mama to have someone named BeePee do a records search to find any property that Dahlia or one of her close friends or relatives might own. He figures she had to think quickly so she would have taken him someplace familiar.
They set out. Mitch has to ride Jerome (in unicorn form – get your minds out of the gutter) because he hasn't been able to “access his dragon” since his first transformation when he charred a bunch of soldiers. Jerome's only stipulation was that Mitch not touch his horn (the one on his head you filthy minded pervs). About an hour into their ground search, Mama calls to say she's going to send him some coordinates that BeePee found. It's a cabin registered to Dahlia's grandfather. Mitch flags down Brick who's been flying overhead in dragon form and relays the information. The cabin is about a two hour ride but Brick volunteers to go ahead and get his eyes on the place while Mitch and Jerome catch up.
When they finally make it to the cabin, Brick appears to tell them that things have been quiet. The three of them sneak up to the cabin and look in the windows. They can see Bo naked on a bed with his arms and legs tied to the posts. As they watch, Dahlia appears and climbs on the bed and it's clear she's about to do something that she has not received consent for. Mitch has a gun but he doesn't want to miss and hit Bo so Brick volunteers to cause a diversion so Mitch and Jerome can move in and rescue Bo.
Bo is conscious again and freaking out because he's gone into heat. He can feel his “slick” dripping from him and he's hella hot.
I now interrupt this recap to tell you something I forgot to tell you before. When I was researching the omegaverse, it mentioned that the omegas have a “slick” that happens when they're in heat. It's extra lubrication from whatever hole they are meant to receive their mate in to aid in the process. In the case of a male, it comes from the ass. In the case of a female, it comes from the vagina.
When Dahlia comes in, Bo tries to reason with her, telling her that Annie isn't going to be happy with her. Dahlia doesn't care. She was only working for Annie to try to get proof that unicorns exist. I don't know what led her to Annie in the first place but I guess she found the proof in the form of a picture in Annie's nightstand. Now she wants Bo impregnate her so she can have a bunch of unicorn babies. That's not even possible since Bo's an omega. He only shoots blanks. He doesn't tell her that, though, because if she finds out he can get pregnant, she might keep him to breed him for her unicorn babies.
Suddenly Brick, Jerome and Mitch break through the front door.
What happened to that diversion Brick had planned? Did Hawke just forget about it?
Dahlia pulls a gun but Jerome takes it away from her easily enough. Dahlia tries to get away but the vines from the rose bushes outside the window start to grow and they wrap around her, imprisoning her. I guess Brick has some kind of magical powers.
The men discuss what to do with her and, as soon as Bo hears Mitch's voice, his horn pops out. Dahlia goes crazy, screaming for them to let her go so she can touch it. Jerome recognizes that Bo is in heat and all hell breaks loose. Brick is already mated and needs to get the hell out of there because his mate will be jealous if he stays with an omega in heat. Jerome is an alpha and needs to get the hell out of there because he doesn't want to get turned on by his cousin. Mitch volunteers to stay and tells them to take Dahlia to the nearest police station.
Jerome asks what they should tell the cops and Brick says they'll just say Dahlia had some kind of psychotic break and kidnapped Bo thinking he was a unicorn. They'll tell the cops that Bo is too traumatized to make a statement but he'll come in as soon as he's ready. Mitch asks how long a unicorn heat lasts and Jerome says it depends on whether it gets “satisfied” or not. If it does, Bo will be fine tomorrow. If it doesn't, it could take days to go away on it's own.
Brick and Jerome leave with Dahlia, promising to send someone to check on them if they don't come back within a week. Why wouldn't they just send someone now? It's not really explained to us. Mitch unties Bo and then apologizes to him for what he said the day Bo left. Bo tries to play it off but the heat has him so horny he can barely think. Mitch's hand brushes Bo's skin and suddenly Mitch can hear music. Without even thinking about it, he grabs Bo's horn and Bo's world explodes into colors.
If you remember from the first book, the song the dragon hears and the colors the unicorn sees means they're fated to be mated.
Because of course they are.
Bo kisses Mitch and then starts rubbing against him. Mitch pulls away and tells Bo that he definitely wants him – he was lying the other day – but he's broken and Bo deserves better. Bo says all he wants is Mitch and then the.....ahem....heat gest satisfied if you know what I mean.
So I don't know exactly what Mitch is missing and why he thinks he's broken but it appears the frank and beans are intact and working just fine. In the middle, one wing sprouts out of Mitch's back and he's stunned since he hasn't transformed in years. It feels like it would be a really bad idea to transform now. Nothing else happens but Bo assures him that he'll find his dragon again. All he needs is love.
Bo asks Mitch why he thinks he's broken and Mitch tells him to reach down and check out the equipment. The frank is fine but apparently there's only one bean. I mean, that happens and it doesn't mean you're broken. They lay there and talk a bit about Mitch's first and only shift and his injuries from the battle. Bo doesn't have a tragic backstory but he shares that his name came about because his dad loves The Dukes of Hazard.
I KNEW IT!
Bo's heat passes so they find his bag in Dahlia's living room. All his clothes are destroyed but the horn powder is still there and Bo takes some to heal his ankle. Mitch is alarmed and that doesn't really go away when Bo explains that the horn powder isn't cocaine - it's shavings from when he trims his horn. This literally gags Mitch and it only gets worse when he finds out the 'shine he's been drinking for years and Mama's special tea he drinks whenever he's sick both have horn powder in them. After he recovers from the ick, Mitch steals Dahlia's car to drive them back to the compound. As soon as they get there, Mama smells the baby in Bo and tells Mitch that there better be a wedding. I swear the last book ended the same way. Mitch is more than happy to comply and drops down on his bad knee to propose to Bo. Bo accepts and everyone is happy.
We skip ahead in time. Not too much because Bo hasn't had the baby yet. Mitch has been working with the dragons and he's finally able to shift. Bo watches from the ground as Mitch flies around with the other dragons. Then Mitch gives Bo a ride which nearly causes Mama to have a stroke. Later, they switch and Bo gives Mitch a ride in unicorn form.
Bo's in his second trimester now and already nesting. His first trimester was hard and he spends most of his day in his nest of clothes and pillows and blankets. Mitch is at work one day when Sam comes in. He says that Dahlia was released on bail and they've lost track of her. The clan arranges to guard Bo and Mitch consults with Sam to get a security system installed on their trailer.
I honestly feel like they should be watching more than just Bo. I know he was her original target but she's aware that there are more unicorns there. If I were her, I'd just snatch the first one I came across.
It would be hilarious if she accidently took a dragon. (((Note from future me: it didn't happen unfortunately but I think it would have been hilarious and made for an even better book.)))
Two months pass with so sign of Dahlia and everyone relaxes a bit. Bo sneaks out one day to run around as a unicorn because he's just so sick of being inside all the time. Sure enough, he gets lassoed by Dahlia who just happened to be in the right place at the right time I guess. She starts to pull him into a trailer but then Mitch appears in dragon form overhead and he's not alone. A whole bunch of dragons are with him.
Mitch shoots a very well-aimed stream of fire at the rope, burning through it and setting Bo free. Before he can get away, Dahlia jumps on his back. Bo starts to buck, trying to get her off him while she tries her hardest to grab his horn. Finally he gets her off his back. The dragons surround her as Mitch surrounds them all with fire so she can't get away. This seems like a really bad idea in a forest. She pulls out a gun and aims it at Mitch's eye but Bo stabs her in the butt with his horn. She regroups and aims again, firing the gun. The shot misses but the recoil knocks her backwards into the ring of fire. Brick puts it out with his powers but it's too late. She's charred.
Bo and Mitch finally manage to get to the altar but Bo goes into labor before they can actually get married. Mama insists that first babies take forever and she tells Pappy to get on with the ceremony so the baby can be born in wedlock but Sana comes up and says the baby is coming NOW. Mama is determined, though, and Pappy performs the ceremony as Bo pushes out the baby.
Um.
I thought babies were born by c-section in this universe. Isn't that what the first book said? Maybe dragons deliver by c-section but unicorns deliver.....uh.....I don't know from where and I don't want to know. The baby is a boy and they name him Jamie after one of Bo's favorite TV characters.
Do you think he watches Outlander?
The book ends a few weeks later with Bo and Mitch getting wedding rings tattooed on their fingers.
This one was little more together than the last one. I know the primary author on this one was different than book one so that probably explains it. I checked and it doesn't look like they wrote any more for this series so I guess we'll have to move on to something else for the next post. I'll kind of miss the unicorns and the dragons though.
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