Although I really liked it a lot, it was not as good as her last 2 before this one.
That said, it was still pretty awesome. ( )

Immortally Yours
Argeneau, Book 26

I Picked Up This Book Because: Continue the series.

The Characters:

Beth Argenis:
Cullen “Scotty” MacDonald:
There are people but I waited too long to write this and now I don’t remember any names *insert face palm emoji here*

The Story:

I love Ms Sands writing. Always a fun and funny tale with a side of smex. This story is no exception. A rich backstory for an Argeneau cousin and her life mate that was willing to wait for her. They both had some things to overcome but I think they did so well.

The Random Thoughts:

-I think Beth should totally make her Immortal dating app.
-Kudos to the narrator for flawlessly executing all of the accents.

4 Stars ( )

58 points/100 (3 stars/5).

Beth Argenis, adopted into the Argenis family, is now a rogue hunter when the life mate she has unknowingly had for over 100 years, Laird Cullen “Scotty” MacDonald shows up again and she is suddenly in danger constantly.

This book takes after pretty much every other book in the series does. Some random extension of the Argeneau line we have never heard of before finds a life mate, the have lots of sex, dangerous things happen, and they ride off into the sunset to have their happily ever after. This one just happened to be an immortal already, and Beth was adopted in.

Beth had one hell of a life before becoming a vampire, which the Sands felt the need to spend several dozen pages on in the middle of the book. She also apparently hasn't had much of a life after becoming an immortal because Sands didn't feel as much of a need to say much of anything about that. Scotty is old and lived a life and the author really didn't feel the need to say anything about all of that, only the handful of years he felt relevant to getting Beth on his side for another dozen or two pages. Seriously, I read like an hour worth of back to back history on these two in the middle of the book randomly.

The romance itself is at least different from the rest of the series. These two make dumb-headed decisions constantly, which isn't new at all. But, at least Scotty had the presence of mind to let Beth heal and become her own person without subsuming her with his personality after he found out. It is a very predictable romance, if you've read one Argeneau book you've read them all.

This was actually the best book in quite a few books, now that we aren't dealing with Dressler in this book. I felt connected to the character and the story in a way I haven't in at least 6 or 7 books (which is a shame because I thought I was going to love Dante and Tomasso sigh). This wasn't as quick a read as others because of the heavy use of Scottish brogue and the overuse of the word ken.

I'll continue to read Argeneau books probably until it ends. They're light reads, and I always know how it is going to end - with a happily ever after. There may be danger throughout, there may be drama within, but always they end up together and happy. ( )

Listened to audio narrated by Michael Rahhal. The rogue hunters are short staffed, so Scotty, leader of the UK Hunters comes to Canada to help out. Scotty has put off claiming his lifemate for over a century but when he sees her again the pull is hard to resist. Beth has believed Scotty hated her and was disgusted by her from their first meeting. Scotty has issues and thank god Beth is unwilling to let his hangups mess her up. While they are dealing with all of that angst, someone is trying to kill Beth. This was just an okay read for me, I did enjoy all the accents narrated. Some fun moments and some annoying ones.
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Beth has had a thing for Scotty, the Scottish laird for as long as she's been an immortal but unfortunately, Scotty has proven time and time again that he's far from Beth's number one fan. With most of the North American hunters in Venezuela, Scotty shows up in Toronto to lend a hand to the North American hunters. Beth's libido might be happy to see Scotty again but she's not exactly pleased to be working with a man who thinks so little of her. Scotty and Beth become intertwined when they are forced to travel to B.C. to deal with the daughter of the head of the Russian Council, exposing Beth to a second attempt on her life. Knowing someone is trying to kill you is a tough thing to deal with but Beth is actually more uncertain about the fact that Scotty seems to have changed his mind about how he feels about her.

This is the twenty-sixth novel in the series and so by now, it's pretty formulaic. Unlike the previous books, Sands doesn't try to add anything new to the world. Immortally Yours, is entirely predictable with no real twists and turns. Sure, Sands tried to turn the identity of the person trying to kill Beth into a mystery but a two year old could have figured out who the antagonist is from the very beginning. Because the mystery is so uninteresting, the only real thing to draw the reader is the relationship between Beth and Scotty.

As a female protagonist, I like Beth very much which is not something I often have to say about Sands's female characters. Beth is very strong, independent, smart and most importantly, she's a survivor, who has no interest in being saved or having her past erased. Beth has completely accepted who she is and the path that led to her current identity. Beth was sold into prostitution by her father, had her virginity auctioned off to the highest bidder and was beaten regularly until an immortal intervened in her life. For most of Beth's life she worked as a prostitute, determined to be self reliant until the end. I absolutely love that she pushed back against the shame society and even Scotty tried to make her feel.

This review wouldn't be complete if I didn't take the time to talk about Sands's treatment of sex workers in this novel. Sands floated back and forth between the socially constructed hooker with a heart of goal, and the money grasping evil whore. It would not be understating it to say that Sands's treatment of sex workers is absolutely toxic and misogynistic. Scotty spends much of the book disparaging Beth because of her past as a sex worker.
Now that he was being forced to confront his feelings on the subject, he admitted that before meeting Beth he'd always thought prostitution to be the lowest of trades. He'd been raised to believe prostitutes were shameless, deceitful whores who cared only about coin... and he couldn't bear knowing that Beth had once been one. (pg. 200)
Odilia, in part based her hatred of Beth on the fact that Beth was once a sex worker.
"You are a prostitute! A whore! You probably spread your legs for half of London back in the day, and half of Toronto since you got here. He will believe it, and he will see how cheap a slag you are and how unworthy you are of him and the love he proclaimed for you. (pg339)
Even characters like Magnus are more than happy to make excuses for Scotty's slut shaming by suggesting, "We come from an earlier era, one that forged our morals and opinions. We were taught prostitution was an abomination to our Lord God. Of course you would struggle with it." Even when Scotty does do a turn around, it's only because Beth has redeemed herself in his eyes with her willingness to care and sacrifice herself for others. It was further cemented by him realising that Beth chose to continue her profession because she didn't see that she had any other options. By telling her story, Scotty came to realise that not all women prostitute themselves because "it was easy coin, or because she enjoyed the power of controlling men with her body."

To make matters worse, we learn that Scotty's disdain for sex workers is because of his hatred of his cruel mother.

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