Their sexual chemistry though? Super hot and it made for some holy-wow-I-need-a-cold-shower scenes. The chemistry between the two in terms of anything not sexual though didn't quite feel as authentic. I found the explanations behind Ethan and Miguel's unusual pairing quite interesting and it made for an intriguing read. But while some things in the shifter world may usually play out along a certain set of rules, not everything will always follow those rules, and this is one of those times-giving us the unique deviation that forms their relationship. This story deviates a bit from the standard shifter mates type formula since while Ethan is a shifter, Miguel is a vampire. So, I was very happy to see that Until Forever Comes was their story. When I read about their characters in that book, I found them intriguing and was hoping that I'd get to find out more about them.

In this second book in the Mates series, we get to revisit two characters that showed up briefly toward the end of the first book, Ethan and Miguel. He captured youthful and innocent Ethan and exotic worldly Miguel both well. I haven't read the first book in the series but I had no problem following the story so it worked well as a stand along. The conflicts between vampire and werewolf worlds were done well, although I'd have liked to see even more of it.

Their society didn't come off as a place you'd want to live, with false beliefs about heterosexuality being believed to be necessary to maintain a balance between their wolves and human nature,and the pack was surprisingly naive about how to live among human society, but those problems made the community a more interesting backdrop. The shifter culture was explored enough to whet my interest for more. The sex was hot, the romance moved along pretty fast, which isn't surprising in a true mates situation. Luckily Ethan was outgoing enough he compensated for that really well. He was powerful and very old but I didn't get a strong feel for his personality. His mate Miguel is sexy, but I found his character to be drawn in broad strokes. He generally was a victim to be rescued every time the action picked up. He's funny and sweet, although I was a little frustrated at how helpless and powerless he was. Instead Ethan meets sexy vampire Miguel, who is his very unexpected mate, and everything changes. Not expecting to live long anyways due to his health problems, Ethan joins the other young shifters in his pack on a poorly planned attack on some vampires, expecting to at least die with honor. This essentially makes him disabled in shifter society and he had his family have been ostracized because of this. Ethan is a werewolf who's never been able to shift, something that even very young boys should be able to do. There's a lot of interesting paranormal things going on here.

Until Forever Comes by Cardeno C.