Review: Trust No Alpha by Wendy Rathbone
SYNOPSIS:
It’s a world gone mad. The Alphas are out of control.
When you discover you’re not who you thought you were, the nightmare begins.
KRIS
At age eighteen, life as he knows it is over for Kris. A secret to his nature he was not aware of has been revealed.
Now, kept as a prisoner in a locked room in the mansion of his wealthy father, Kris is at the mercy of Alpha laws and Alpha domination.
Things take a turn for the worse when his own litter mate threatens him, and his father starts behaving strangely around him.
Escape is his only hope. But where can he go in a world that allows him no rights?
THORNE
Marked as a dangerous Alpha, and living a secluded life alone and unloved, Thorne still grieves for the mate whose death he feels responsible for.
Years have passed, and he refuses to even try to function in normal society.
One day he discovers a young man on his property, disheveled, desperate, and scared. He acts like a runaway Omega, but he doesn’t smell like one.
What is this boy? And why does Thorne feel an immediate need to protect him? To bond him? To make him his?
REVIEW:
At first I thought this was going to be a delightful, quick omegaverse story but it quickly turned into a whole lot of NOPE. Kris grows up and spends his life as an alpha, then suddenly before his 18 birthday he is deemed an omega (for having repressed omega organs). Suddenly his whole life is uprooted, he is now property, owned by his father, and nothing more than a hole.
Which is harsh but truly how brutally the world is portrayed…which I thought I could move past but then his own father attempts to rape him. And wait if that isn’t enough, one of his brothers (he is a triplet), threatens to rape him and basically goes from treating him like a sibling to treating him like scum of the Earth. So much cringe, I was so uncomfortable and struggled to even move past this.
The rest of the story is centered around a budding relationship with Kris and his neighbor Thorne. They form a deep bond while Kris is hiding from his family and then when Kris’ family decides to take him back and threaten to ship him away to an omega farm. Basically Kris’ family was horrid and I will never get over it.
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