Raffaella's Reviews > Belonging to the Mountain Man

I think it’s that mountain air that has something to do with the peculiarities of those people.
And I also think that the author watched the movie Seven brides for seven brothers where seven handsome young men living on the mountains basically kidnapped the women they liked and kept them until they were in love with them.
Actually the premises are very crazy and unlikely and I was at first wondering what I was reading but in the end I must admit I like the whole crazy stuff with all its triggers.
Because be warned. This book has many.
But it was very fun and I’ve read it with a smile on my face all the time.
There’s also a small amount of angst but it is soon solved and not much drama.
The hero is one of seven brothers who have this peculiarity that is a curse or a blessing depending on how you see it, they will know the woman of their life at first sight. And when I say first sight I actually mean it.
It’s the talk of the town, and it’s already happened to many of his seven brothers who apparently mad some really crazy stuff as kidnapping their women, messing with their birth control and similar, basically becoming cavemen where they are involved.
It could be they were some kind of werewolves but they have lost their powers and now the only thing they have left is the mythical bond with their fated mated? It seems something of the kind.
The hero is 42, but don’t worry he doesn’t have grey hair or balding spots or a paunch, he’s over 6 feet tall, well built and has all his teeth and hair, so all women in town try to hit on him hoping he will choose one of them.
He’s also sexy as hell and with a high sex drive.
But he’s quite content as he is and hasn’t any intention to find his fated one.
Anyway when he meets the heroine he feels the instant connection and understands she is the one.
Sadly fate gave him a 20 yo girl who is running from an abusive cousin who not only threatens her virtue but also keeps her as a slave stealing all her money and preventing her from seeing anyone.
The poor thing decided to leave home because her creepy cousin tried to rape her- again- and go somewhere else and she eventually sleeps in a RV near the hero’s home.
The hero, despite understanding she’s the one, decides he can’t keep her because she’s too young and needy. He thinks it wouldn’t be fair to force her to stay married with a man who could be her father and filling her with babies before she has ever started to live.
This was very cute because the curse turns those men into real cavemen who feel the need to protect, feed, have sex and babies with their women so he really fight his instincts.
When the heroine knows that despite she is the one he doesn’t want her, she leaves and goes to another state.
The hero realizes almost immediately his mistake and tries to follow her but she’s already gone.
Thank god his younger brother followed her and decided to give her a home and a job so the heroine starts being free and independent.
After three months the hero, who thinks she’s actually his brother’s gf, has enough and since he can’t live without her decides to go and get her.
He’s enough of being selfless. She’s his and she will become his.
So starts the whole possession charade and the heroine, who is actually more mature than him despite being half his age, decides to give him a chance, and the rest of the book is about them having sex, him being too jealous and possessive and eventually all is well.
No ow, no om, a lot of sex and caveman behavior who is more fun than sexy. The hero is actually pleasant because he didn’t want to force her to be with a man much older than her. He actually cared for her. The heroine is nice and sensible, she had an abused childhood.
The sex was somehow excessive especially in the beginning when the hero forces the heroine to have multiple coupling on their first night together. And she was a virgin. And he was big. And after the second time she wasn’t very willing. I found the thing disturbing and useless because he didn’t care about her discomfort. Nope.
Maybe it was his werewolf side of the thing but I hoped he really let her alone. I was wincing all the time thinking how uncomfortable it was for the poor girl.
And he didn’t even give her time to recover.
Whatever.
If you are not fastidious about age gap, love at first sight and caveman behavior I think this is a safe and entertaining reading. Try not to find too much sense in what you’re reading though.