The Alpha’s free wills are useless in an arranged marriage setting. Alpha Blake’s acts of putting on mate conditions to his parents in Arranged To The Alpha are the proof.
Alpha Blake said, that if his parents wanted him to mate to a human, no men would ever have touched her in the past. So, his parents introduce him to one name: Natalia Adams.
What is this Natalia Adams’ uniqueness? How can she make the Alpha comply?
- Part 1: The Highlight Chapters Of Arranged To The Alpha Novel
- Part 2: The Primary Story Of Arranged To The Alpha Novel
- Part 3: Some Impressions About Arranged To The Alpha Novel
- Part 4: Some Conclusive Remarks About Arranged To The Alpha Novel
Part 1: The Highlight Chapters Of Arranged To The Alpha Novel
Chapter 7
Blake had previously clarified his position of not wanting to deal with Natalia in the previous chapters. Now, we’ve reached Chapter 7 of Arranged To The Alpha novel, where Natalia has gone through her ten days of marriage with a man who never bothers speaking to her or wants her to join the dining table.
Ten days might be brief, but Natalia has gotten used to Blake’s mannerisms. So, in Arranged To The Alpha Chapter 7, she takes over control of her life by smiling while she starts her car to head to her workplace. At this point, Natalia feels proud that she doesn’t have to care about Blake’s responses until her suddenly ringing phone shows Amanda’s incoming calls.
Chapter 11
The previous chapters’ battles have exhausted Blake so much that he has to be hospitalized. Arranged To The Alpha Chapter 11 shows Natalia takes good care of her Alpha mate by running her fingers through Blake’s hair while he sleeps. She also fixes her eyes on Blake while the already-tired Alpha’s passive healing factor ability tries to normalize his body temperature and calm his features.
At the same time, Arranged To The Alpha Chapter 11 also shows that Natalia isn’t the only person caring for Blake. Ryan, one of Blake’s closest friends, is also present around Natalia and Blake. What will Natalia do when Ryan hands her over a plate of food and tells her to eat something? Is it an attempt to stop her from caring for Blake? Only by reading this novel’s full chapters will you understand the stories’ continuations!
Part 2: The Primary Story Of Arranged To The Alpha Novel
Element manipulators and werewolves are supernatural beings; that’s why humans mistake them for the same beings. After all, these two creatures can shift, use abilities that humans can’t use, and have the potential to endanger other living beings’ lives when they can’t control their abilities.
We follow the stories of Natalia Adams, an element manipulator woman, in Arranged To The Alpha novel. Natalia’s father has established a long-term business deal with the werewolves, in which the future Alpha is Blake Knight, the rude and ruthless future Alpha werewolf.
At the same time, Natalia’s father tends to give his daughter a series of physical punishments, because, like Natalia’s mother, he has gotten tired of trying to control Natalia’s elemental manipulator power. That’s how Natalia’s parents position her as the family’s witch and don’t allow her to have her say as they make Natalia Arranged To The Alpha.
Natalia’s parents reassure her that Blake Knight is the best man she will ever marry, and convince her, “Parents know best,” The same goes for Alpha Blake’s parents. They disregard Blake’s conditions for his Luna. At first, they don’t care if Blake marries a fellow werewolf or human. Yet, as the stories of Arranged To The Alpha progress, Blake’s parents force him until Natalia Adams’ name appears as the only Luna candidate for Blake.
Such an arranged marriage scene leads Natalia to feel indifferent when she meets Mason, the lawyer, to arrange for her marriage vows to Blake. Later, in Arranged To The Alpha novel, it turns out Mason is one of Blake’s friends. Natalia also discovers that Blake has a monster-like presence, and is far from her parents’ idealized versions of her mate.
Blake doesn’t allow Natalia to join the dining table and avoids speaking to Natalia. Furthermore, he clarifies that his marriage with Natalia only exists as a business deal.
So, will Natalia continue her wifely duties to shower Blake with love? Or will Blake and his friends get to Natalia’s ways of caring for him?
Part 3: Some Impressions About Arranged To The Alpha Novel
Marriage arrangements over long-established business deals might be the themes we often see in romance novels. The same thing also applies to the male MCs’ indifference towards the female MCs. His urge to end the marriage ties through handing over the divorce agreement and constant belittlement to his significant others are some other aftermaths of arranged marriage scenes in those novels.
Indeed, I often see the same scenes as I read the first until the second half of the stories in Arranged To The Alpha novel. After all, Blake Knight is the pack’s future Alpha, which only intensifies the beastly feelings when he roars at Natalia, the last person he wants to see on the same table as him.
From what I observe in Arranged To The Alpha novel, that’s where the marriage arrangements become the selling points. “Freedom of choice” doesn’t apply in this novel, regardless of the characters’ genders and social positions. I see such conventional messages of “Parents know best,” and “Children should obey parents because they’ve lived in the world for a longer time,” get more emphasis in this novel.
Such a thing is unhealthy and toxic for the children’s growth. Marriage is supposed to be a life separate from parents, and such emphasis can only give the MCs’ parents more room to mess around with their lives. As a result, parents become the parties that control the marriage, and they will make it all about themselves instead of the couples.
Had Blake stuck with his mate’s decisions, he would get a kickass she-wolf as his Luna. The same thing also goes for Natalia; if she stuck with her decisions, she would live a better life as an elemental manipulator with other living beings who recognize her unique talents.
Part 4: Some Conclusive Remarks About Arranged To The Alpha Novel
Upon reading Arranged To The Alpha novel, I believe people should rethink the phrases that defend parents’ superiority over their children, such as, “Parents know better than their children,” That way, we don’t only free ourselves from seeing the parents as God. Instead, we can reassure ourselves that we are humans with free will.
Natalia and Blake might be obedient children to their parents until their adulthood and marriage times. However, Arranged To The Alpha novel shows their obedience has consequences. Natalia’s realization of Blake’s monstrous nature in the first half of Arranged To The Alpha novel’s stories is the catalyst for readers to think that Blake’s images of a perfect man only exist in the parents’ fantasy realms.
In my opinion, Natalia possesses one of the most unique talents in the werewolf-verses. We’ve read all about werewolf powers and abilities according to their hierarchies. Yet, what about an elemental manipulator? Natalia can stay human for a long time, leading other werewolves to mistake her for a wolf-less lady or even a human.
Yet, Natalia is not a witch, and in this case, I believe her more than her emotionally abusive parents. Somehow, I get the impression that elemental manipulators like Natalia possess more powerful magical powers than werewolves, including Alpha werewolves like Blake.