3.5-4 stars
This was a pretty good addition to the series. I liked the story and both MCs but I say that the name of the book, Tacking Trisha, has definite meaning in this book because she makes Kelan chase her around until about 2/3rds of the way through the book.
Trisha is a pilot working for a private airline when the story begins. Trisha lost her mother when she was very young and was raised solely by her father. Her father’s an expert in tracking and ambush methods and ran a wilderness survival retreat. Trisha learned all those skills early and could outdo grown men easily by the time she was 12. Trisha was in the military and had been accepted for the space program but had to drop out after a horrible accident. She had to work hard to walk again afterwards and lost her husband (who was a slimebag) during the recovery.
Kelan is a dragon shifter from an alien planet. His older brother, Zoran, is the King of their people (he’s also the hero from book #1) and Kelan serves his people as a military commander, having command over his own warship. Kelan had no interest in finding a mate but when Zoran was kidnapped and then found his true mate, Kelan’s dragon started pushing for his true mate as well. Things just get worse for poor Kelan when he meets Trisha.
So if you’ve read book # 1 & 2, you know how the women end up getting caught in a drama Abby was having and end up kidnapped by aliens because they’d seen too much. With no choice given to them, the women are taken onboard the spaceship and away from Earth. Trisha doesn’t take this well at all and is determined to get home to Earth and her father who must be frantic at the idea of her being missing. Because of her determination to achieve her goal, Trisha ends up being extremely difficult to deal with when she first comes on board and between what Trisha is doing and what Cara (see book #2) is doing to his ship, Kelan is about at his wits end. Because of everything that’s going on, Kelan doesn’t have much free time and what time he’s able to spare to spend with Trisha doesn’t go well. There’s a mutual attraction but Trisha is determined to fight it and do anything she can to push Kelan, apparently hoping to push him into taking her home.
Things don’t go much better when they get to Kelan’s home planet. Thankfully, Kelan’s mom is able to intervene and come up with a solution that will allow Trisha and Kelan to be together. Unfortunately, even once Trisha is willing to accept Kelan, she still makes him chase her. Even when things seemed to be going well between them, Trisha confused me by taking off again. TBH, I wasn’t very thrilled with how she handled the new relationship with Kelan….she put him through a huge amount of frustration. On the good side, he seemed to like that his mate wasn’t a pushover but I started getting tired of it after a while. Thankfully, Trisha stopped running from Kelan but even then, there’s drama that keeps them apart for a while. Once they’re reunited, things are good and Trisha and Kelan start a HEA together.
This was a pretty enjoyable story. Outside of her tendency to run a lot, I liked Trisha pretty well. At least she was a skilled wilderness person and when she ran and hid, she did a good job at it and proved she didn’t need anyone to take care of her. Kelan was a good hero and I liked him. He had a lot of frustration to deal with in this book…I felt rather bad for him a good portion of the time and am glad things worked out in the end. Overall, this was an enjoyable story and I would recommend it. 🙂