Overall Grade: B
Tropes: MFM; who did this to you; dom/sub; small town romance; found family
Lexi Blake’s The Accidental Siren, the next generation of her Texas Sirens/Nights in Bliss series, is everything you love about those series. The MFM drama, two of the throuple needing the steadiness of the alpha, some romantic suspense, and the healing nature of the found family trope are wrapped up in spicy, curl-your-toes romance. Blake isn’t trying to rewrite her MFM romances; instead, she’s welcoming us into another generation of throuples surrounded by people who love and protect them. In this book, much like the others of this ilk, Blake plays with the societal dilemma of a throuple in a small town filled with people who accept the three, narrow-minded people, and people who use religion to reduce the autonomy and authority of others. She magnifies the double standards of ‘acceptable’ behavior for men and women, as well. Blake wraps these heavier messages in the $exual yearnings of, in this book, Jared “Grim”, Josh, and Nicole, while weaving in characters from several of her series. She loves to remind us that Big Tag is only a call away, but there are a plethora of Blake universe characters in this story. I oftentimes have to remind myself of them because her prolific book list keeps her readers on their toes.
I enjoyed the easiness of Lexi Blake’s The Accidental Siren. It wrings emotions from you as Grim and Nicole struggle to accept the found family of the Barnes-Fleetwoods. Once they accept their fate to be loved, it’s a no-holds-barred tale of spicy love-making and happily ever afters.
In love and romance,
Professor A
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