Review: Knot Playing Fair: Book Two by Ember Blaze

Knot Playing Fair: Book Two (Knot Playing Fair #2)
by Ember Blaze

My Rating: 4 stars

Genre: Omegaverse
Age Category: Adult
Type of romance: Polyamory

Blurb:
Six broken people walk into a Michelin-star restaurant…
Unfortunately, that’s not the opening line of a joke. It’s my life.

With my marriage in tatters, I’ve fallen into the arms of a misfit pack of damaged men trying to do the right thing. They took me in, gave me a safe place to land, and helped me through my heat when my shipment of black market blocker pills fell through.

But even though Zalen, Emiel, Byron, and Luca want nothing more to do with the street gangs that defined their early lives, it seems that gang life isn’t finished with them yet. When the ghosts of their pasts start to haunt my present, I have to choose whether to run, or stand and fight for the life I’m trying to build.

I’m surrounded by people keeping dangerous secrets. But before we can have any kind of a future together, we’ll have to put the past to rest.

Too bad the past has other ideas.

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Knot Playing Fair is a reverse harem ‘whychoose’ non-shifter omegaverse duology with a male and female omega at the center of the pack, along with lots of steamy M/F and M/M scenes. Grab your copy of Book Two, and fall in love with Mia’s men today.

My Review

I started this one right after the first book as I wanted to continue the series. I had to set it aside for a bit during a super stressful time as I felt like reading something else, but after the worst of the stress was over I quickly picked it back up and finished reading it. I think I enjoyed this one even more than the first book. In this book the pack is really coming together and it was wonderful to see.

This was a great sequel. After the reveal at the end of book 1 I was eager to see how things would progress and I really liked the direction things took. There’s a lot of focus in this book on the pack coming together and the characters developing and connecting even more with each other. I really liked learning more about the characters and especially seeing the characters who didn’t think they could be part of a pack realize they can and start healing a bit was wonderful to see. I liked seeing the pack really form and them all grow closer.

I just wish this book was even longer as I still felt like I wanted more. I also would’ve liked a bit more about Byron and Zalen. I felt that while they had plenty of personality I wanted to see their pasts and personalities get explored more. I also felt they stayed the least interesting of the characters and I liked reading about the other characters more. I really liked seeing the healing for both Luca and Emiel, those parts were probably my favorite. I also liked seeing how Mia and Nat dealt with everything, I just wanted them to have to deal and talk about what happened a bit more a sit felt a bit too easy at times, but then again I did really like seeing how that all played out and were they ended up.

To summarize: This was a great sequel and wrapped up this story well. I liked reading more about the characters and seeing them all grow closer. There is a bit of a suspense plot line that wasn’t my favorite, but it important for kickstarting some of the character development. I liked seeing all the character relationships develop and it really felt like the pack came together in this book. I just wished it was even longer as I wanted even more and there were some parts I would’ve liked to see explored more. I really liked the healing and changing the characters did in this one and I liked how the character related plot lines all played out. I don’t read a lot of omegaverse, but I really love the books this author writes in this genre.

Links:
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