December 11, 2025 • 21 mins
In this episode, Megan dives deep into the fantasy series 'Bound to the Rebel Wolf,' exploring its characters, themes, and connections to classic literature. The story follows Maeve Thornvale, an wolf princess, and Saxon Blackmore, a powerful wolf, as they navigate their fated bond amidst a backdrop of family feuds and war. Megan discusses character motivations, the significance of the mate bond, and the parallels to Romeo and Juliet, ultimately sharing her thoughts on the series' impact and her personal rating.
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Welcome to my vertical Obsession. I'm your host, Megan, and
today we are talking about Bound to the Rebel Wolf
on Real Short. It stars Nila Joline as mave Thornhill
and Tyler Johnson Ellis as Saxon Blackmore. And this synopsis
for this is their families slaughtered each other and they're
sworn to hate one another, but the poll between them
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cannot be denied. May, the Alpha Princess, enters Laporium, determined
to survive the Kingdom's brutal war college. What she doesn't
expect is a faded bond with Saxon Blackmore, the most
powerful wolf there and her enemy. Now, the one wolf
she shouldn't want might be the only one who can
save her. And I have to say that I had
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so much fun breaking this series down and talking about it.
This one was so much fun. So going over the
characters we have. May grew up being taught that the
Blackmore were traders and had killed her mother, that when
given the chance, they would kill again, that she had
to be strong to get revenge for her mother's death.
Only she was a healer and took an oath to
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do no harm. She did not want this violence she
was forced into was her dad who wanted this. She
just wanted to make it through the college and prove
she was strong. She also believed that the Blackmore children
were given a chance to be better and thought that
was possible, not knowing how manipulated she was by the
people she cared about most. She wanted to prove herself worthy,
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and they wanted to keep the power and control they had.
She wanted to believe her father wouldn't lie to her,
but at the same time knew if he found out
about her gift, he'd use it as a weapon. Her
father tried to mold her into what he wanted, but
it was her mother that prevented that. That kept her
grounded and was able to be the kind person that
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she was. So the gift that may have had was
that she actually could heal people, So she wasn't just
simply another healer that helped or bandage and created antidotes
and things like that, but she actually had the power
to fully heal wounds. So like when she got hurt
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after being a fight, she was able to heal the
broken ribs she was given so that they were no
longer broken, and she knew that if her father found
out about this, he would use that to his advantage.
Which is one of the things too, is that even
though she knew from what her father told her that
the Black Moors were responsible for her mother's death and
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were traders, and she wanted to believe her father that
he wouldn't lie to her, she also knew deep down
that he would use her as a weapon. So he
wasn't all good that she wanted or tried to believe.
So she knew there was something bad in him. And
as for Saxon, he knew things were not what they
seemed and just trying to survive also keep his fellow
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family and PAC members alive. He figured out what the
War College is all about and is determined to change it.
This year, with the help of Kayla, he wanted to
bring down King Ellis, Thornveil and General's Zion once and
for all. He believes that he needed to bring down
May too, but that was until they were bonded. Then
he knew he had to show her the truth about
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the past. He became the strongest wolf so he could
defeat his enemies and avenge his father to be able
to show everyone that his father wasn't the trader he
was said to be. He wanted to preserve the Blackmore
name and bring down the corruption. While he knew May
was a thorn veil, he never seemed to really want
her dead, even before they were bonded. He seemed more
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like he wanted to open her eyes to the truth
and hope she'd help them. As the strongest wolf, he
could have killed her many times, but never did. Instead
tried to protect her from the War College. So even
before he knew she was a thorn veil, and even
after he knew, he still tried to tell her to
leave the college, that this wasn't where she was supposed
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to be. Mostly I think because she was a healer,
so he didn't want to see her part of this,
But also he knew what this college was. It was
just a way to take out the rest of the
Black Moors, So he was trying to get her to
leave the War College and go back to the Keeler's College.
And I really kind of loved that about Saxon, is
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that even though it was this notion that he wanted
to kill her, he had many opportunities to try and
still protected her. And this was even before they found
out that they were bonded. And this is where I
had the most fun breaking this down, because I was said,
how this story is a modern day telling of Romeo
and Juliet families storn apart and said to be to
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hate each other. Maybe in Saxon bond together and fall
for each other, only their families would never allow it.
So instead of the two lovers dying like in Romeo
and Juliet, they are able to fight against the odds
to be together. Maybe has been told lies by her
father and has believed them, because why would her father
lie to her? She still knew there was still a
part of him that he couldn't be trusted. If he
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knew about her pas, he would use them as a weapon.
As I had mentioned before, she knew that part of
him that he would exploit her powers, which she knew
was not something good. And knowing that, I think helped
may have opened to the idea that maybe Saxon might
be telling the truth when he tells her what King
Thorne fail has really done well. The bond between the
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two helped as well, since it connects the two together.
I believe there was a part of May who saw
the monster her father was becoming. After all, he wanted
her to kill Saxon, but she never really saw him
as a threat or as someone dangerous. He had told
her multiple times to kill Saxon, but she never did,
and she had mentioned that she had to know as
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a healer to do no harm, so that also kind
of stopped her from killing him as well. But it
was more that she never saw him as the villain. Yes,
she was told that he was the villain, but seeing
him at the war college and seeing all he had done,
she never really saw him as the villain. And when
a note from her mother prove all Saxon was saying
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and that she was starting to see was the truth,
she knew she had to help stop her father. When
her father used his power and trick on May it
was the bond to Saxon that saved her where it
was what broke the spell and allowed me to put
a stop to her father's reign once and for all.
And in the end, truth and justice prevailed, because yes,
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because her father had this mind controlling trick, which is
what Saxon had said, the king had used on his
father to make his father the trader, and that was
the reason why he ended up killing Saxon's father and
most of the Blackmore pack, and it was called dominion.
I think it was was the mind controlling trick, and
Saxon kept trying to tell Mee that this is what
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he did, that her father did. He had used this,
and Saxon's father and Mae's mother were trying to stop
Mabe's father. They were working together and they were trying
to stop Mabe's father, but the king found out and
killed them bold but just blamed the Blackmore for the
death of Mee's mother so that way he could get
Mae to kill Saxon and the rest of the Black
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Moores when she grew up. He wanted her to fight
and exact revenge. So one of the things that I
kind of not questioned, but one of the things that
I had put down was when it came to Rory's Zion,
who was General Zion's son and Maeve's childhood friend, he
had stopped by her. He also tried to protect her
while they were at war college, but he also ended
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up trying to kill Saxon, and then it was an
arranged marriage between her and Mave at the end. But
one of the things that I truly tried to believe
was Rory was not bad. At least he wasn't fully bad.
I wanted to try and believe that because how I
saw it was. I didn't see him corrupt like his mother,
but blindsided by the love for mey Well. He did
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try to kill Saxon, but it felt more as a
way to protect Mae than to be ruthless. He too
believed the lies that were told to him the Blackmore's
and I believe his mother manipulated him a bit more
since she stood by King Ellis's side, since he was
a warrior like Saxon and not a healer was raised
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to destroy the Blackmore Wolves. I still think there was
a part of him that felt that there was something
not right. He just wanted to be with Maeve and
following orders would do that. That is why his mother
went to attack. Maybe after she stop her father, he
jumped in to save her. He would die for May.
He was misguided by how much he wanted to be
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her mate, And that's kind of how I saw Rorgy
as a character, is that he was blinded by his
love and wanting to be with May. That he listened
to his mother. He followed the orders of General Zion
because he knew if he didn't, he wouldn't be with Mave,
that he would never have this chance, and this arranged
marriage that they had was never going to happen. But
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I never truly believed that he was as corrupt as
his mother or as King Elice Thornvale. I just saw
him as kind of misguided and trying to do what
he thought was right, just not realizing that his mother
and the king were the ones in the wrong and
that they were the ones manipulating everything. And speaking of
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Rory's mother, I was kind of curious about her, which,
as I kind of put it in my head, I
realized that maybe she was just as corrupt as King Elis.
But I had this whole question of was she always
this power hungry and that's why she was with Ellie
King Alice or did he use his power of dominion
to control her? And I figured that was a no,
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because when you looked at how the dominion worked on Kayla,
and maybe they didn't talk, they didn't really say anything,
they just kind of did what he told them. That's
where my brain was like, Okay, so maybe that's not
how it works. So maybe he didn't get her to
his side that way. But then I was also like, well,
he used it on sack Dad to get him to
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attack so he could kill him and then call him
a trader. But if you see how Mave ends up
attacking Saxon, it kind of makes sense as how he
could use it on Saxon's dad. So it's kind of
like going back and forth between this, but I still
kind of landed on Yeah, she was definitely power hungry
and she wanted the same thing that he wanted, so
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and that's what I had said. It's like I have
to think that she was just as power hungry and
betrayed Maeve's mother who was lunar of the pack, And
then started question did they plan this whole takeover together
this whole time, even with Maeve's mother there, it's still alive.
It's like, were they working then or was it years
after the fact, Like when did they start working together?
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And when did they first start sleeping together? Because they
were also sleeping together because too, It's like I had
so many questions about this relationship between King Ellis and
General Zion. It was just like, so when did this happen?
How did this get started. It's all unimportant questions to
the story, but it was still like roaming around in
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my head. And then the other thing when it came
to General Zion and her father, because General Zion had
mentioned how May wasn't supposed to survive war college, so
they had planned that Mave to go to war College
so it would get her killed. And General Zion had
mentioned that she was carrying the true Thornville air because
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May thought that she was sent to war College to
get stronger, but the truth she was sent to be killed.
King Ellis knew that there was still good in her
from her mother. She was also a healer, so that
she'd never be the ruthless warriors he wanted. He wanted
power and to kill anyone who opposed him. He knew
Mayve wouldn't do that, so Alison Zion figured that the
Blackmore pat Saxon Kayla and the other Black Mars would
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kill her for them. It would also give them another
reason to kill the remaining Blackmore wolves because if they
killed his daughter, he would have a legit reason to
retaliate and be like, well, you killed my daughter, so
you need to die. He just didn't know about Mave's
healing power, and that was the last thing that I wrote,
is how there was a couple issues with this whole plan,
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is Mave could heal herself, Saxon bond with Maeve and
his saving her, and Rory's need to protect her. So
those three things became an issue when it came to
Mayve not surviving war college. But when you see it
like that, you realized that he never cared for Mave.
She thought he wanted her to get stronger and avenge
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her mother's death, but in truth, he just wanted to
get rid of her, and he thought that this would
be the easiest way because he figured the remaining Black
Morris would take their revenge out on her. Oh, it's
just so disturbing and horrible that he would do this,
But he was just wanting the power so much that
he'd rather have a warrior that would do his bidding
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for him, which they figured the new Thornville Air would do.
And then one of the other questions that I definitely
had for this, which honestly unimportant, but it still kind
of confused me a little bit, was that I didn't
understand the titles. So you had Saxon, who was a
commander and Rory at General, and I was like, was
that from the college to the college give them those titles?
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And how long had they been at the college to
receive those titles or was this something that was given
to them in their packs and they just carried that
into War College, because I mean, it seemed like Rory
and Saxon and Kayla had been there for a while,
whereas Mave was just starting. So then I questioned how
long is War College actually supposed to be because it
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didn't seem like it was that long for me, but
I feel like the other ones had been there for
a lot longer. So it was just kind of like
where the whole titles in the whole how long War College?
Was kind of confused me, but again unimportant, but it
was just a question that I was like, wait, huh.
So for the story, I loved it. It was great,
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so fun to watch, And as I had mentioned when
I was kind of giving a brief kind of summary,
is that it gave me this sense of a modern
day telling of Romeo and Juliet with May being Juliette
and Saxon being Romeo. And that's definitely one of the
things that can be said about Shakespeare's plays is that
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there are a lot of series movies that are based
off shakespeare plays. And after I was kind of like
writing this, it came to me that Taming of the
Heiress and say probably the Arrangement too, are similar to
Taming of the Shrew, So you could kind of see
the similarities. And I just didn't notice it until after
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I was like writing this, and I was like, wait,
I totally should have realized that, and I could have
talked about that a little bit more. And I've slowly
kind of been like noticing that a bit more. With
some of these series is that can compare them to
like some other shows or movies and see the similarity.
Like there was one that I have that I will
be doing later which I kind of compared to another
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movie that I love. I don't want to give it
too much away, but so okay, I'll give you this one.
One of the new series that's on Drama Pops that
I've been seeing clips of so far, which is until
Divorce Do We Part? I think it is the clips
that I have seen so far. I haven't watched the
series yet, but I want to. But the clips that
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I've seen so far, it's kind of giving me like
sweet Home Alabama vibes, and I was like, ooh, this
is fun. I'm like, okay, so we can kind of
give this whole like oh, it's comparing it to something
else to give it this background and show. Oh well,
it's good. And that's what makes the series even better
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is because it's still got the same vibe. And I
know I may not be making sense right now, but
that's kind of where my brain is going, which is
why I went into this going like, oh my god,
this is like a modern day Romeo and Juliet. And
I adore Shakespeare. I love his works, his plays. I
especially love reading them in their true form. I know
not everyone loves reading Shakespeare as it is, and sometimes
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it's hard to read it as it is, but I
love Shakespeare as it is. Unfortunately, I haven't read all
of Shakespeare's plays. I still want to. I know there
are some that aren't so good or they're harder to read.
A lot of them are tragedies. There are a few
comedies in there, but I just I love Shakespeare and
that is definitely. One thing that I've since learned is
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that there is a lot of media movies and shows
out there that are based off his place, this being one.
As I said, it's like how I explained it was.
You may not realize it at first, the whole being
based off Romeo and Juliet because they don't die at
the end. But I found it to be that the
added element of the mate bond. How if the mate dies,
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the other one goes mad, goes crazy and basically ends
up dying, or if it gets broken, they end up dying.
I think that kind of gives it that sense of well,
Romeo and Juliette would die at the end, just in
a different way. So how I write it was the
mate bond being that you die idea die helps connect
it to Romeo and Juliet. How it goes is Romeo
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ses Juliette is dead and can't live without her, so
he kills himself, not knowing that she wasn't truly dead.
When she wakes up to find him dead, she can't
live without him and ends her life so they can
be together in death. How the mate bond in this
series go is if the mate dies, the living mate
will go feral and driven into madness. The mate cannot
survive without the other hat therefore you cannot live without them. Thankfully,
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the series doesn't end in tragedy like the play does,
but it is fun to see and figure out how
all the different parallels to the play are in there.
And the other thing when it came to this series
is it wasn't just a Wolf series, but a series
that shows that fighting for truth and jos since isn't wrong,
that not everyone is what they seem. Sometimes the people
you trust most can portray you. Sometimes the people you
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didn't know can surprise you. And strength is doing the
right thing, And that is what Maeve ends up realizing
is that for her true strength was realizing that her
father was bad and that she needed to bring him down,
and that was something that her mother ended up giving
her a message too, is that she needed to stop
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him before he became more powerful, and she showed him
how to do that the same with as I said,
the may bond between Saxon and Mayeve helped break the
spell between Mave and Dominion that her father had put
on her, because the king thought that nothing could break
that spell, not realizing that Maeve had been made it
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to or bonded to Saxon, and because that bond was
so powerful, and because they couldn't live without each other
without one of them dying or going feral, it helped
stop any witchcraft that could separate them. So her love
for him is what helped break her up the spell,
and his love for her helped break that because it
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showed that true mates can save each other. And I
loved how they really kind of showed that. It wasn't
just simply as one would say, a true love's kiss,
as the fairy tales do, but it was more him
biting the bond, the mate bond that they had created
a couple days before that really helped break the spell.
So were there were definitely like little things in there
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that really were fun to watch and see, and it
made the story better and after kind of again realizing
that it's very similar to like a modern day Romeo
and Juliet, it made the story that much better for
me and made me enjoy it a lot more so.
It was it was definitely a highlight me. I loved it.
I highly recommend it for the rating. I gave it
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a seven point eight, and I kind of hate myself
for this, but when I was doing it, I had
my reasons, but I'm still like, going, no, this should
definitely be higher because it was just so good. I
loved it, and again I hate myself for giving this writing,
but I still recommend it. I still love it. It was
such a great story. It's fantastic. I love the two actors.
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They were phenomenal. Their chemistry was great. It really gave
you that like enemies to lovers, and it was definitely
I needed to see more. I would love a sequel.
I don't think there really is a need for one
because it ended very well. But at the same time,
I'm like, I want more, give me more, Please give
me more. But again, I would love to hear your
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thoughts on the series. Did you have any favorite parts?
Did you see the similarities to Romeo and Juliet that
I did? I could probably talk so much about this one,
and I know, like some of the little tangents I've
gone off on, but this one was fun and I
enjoyed so much, kind of breaking down how it was
similar to Romeo and Juliet, and I'm like, I could
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probably do more, but it didn't want to make this
too long, so this has been bound to the Rebel
Wolf on real short and I am your host, Megan,
this has been my vertical obsession and until next day
Welcome to my vertical Obsession. I'm your host, Megan, and
today we are talking about Bound to the Rebel Wolf
on Real Short. It stars Nila Joline as mave Thornhill
and Tyler Johnson Ellis as Saxon Blackmore. And this synopsis
for this is their families slaughtered each other and they're
sworn to hate one another, but the poll between them
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cannot be denied. May, the Alpha Princess, enters Laporium, determined
to survive the Kingdom's brutal war college. What she doesn't
expect is a faded bond with Saxon Blackmore, the most
powerful wolf there and her enemy. Now, the one wolf
she shouldn't want might be the only one who can
save her. And I have to say that I had
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so much fun breaking this series down and talking about it.
This one was so much fun. So going over the
characters we have. May grew up being taught that the
Blackmore were traders and had killed her mother, that when
given the chance, they would kill again, that she had
to be strong to get revenge for her mother's death.
Only she was a healer and took an oath to
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do no harm. She did not want this violence she
was forced into was her dad who wanted this. She
just wanted to make it through the college and prove
she was strong. She also believed that the Blackmore children
were given a chance to be better and thought that
was possible, not knowing how manipulated she was by the
people she cared about most. She wanted to prove herself worthy,
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and they wanted to keep the power and control they had.
She wanted to believe her father wouldn't lie to her,
but at the same time knew if he found out
about her gift, he'd use it as a weapon. Her
father tried to mold her into what he wanted, but
it was her mother that prevented that. That kept her
grounded and was able to be the kind person that
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she was. So the gift that may have had was
that she actually could heal people, So she wasn't just
simply another healer that helped or bandage and created antidotes
and things like that, but she actually had the power
to fully heal wounds. So like when she got hurt
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after being a fight, she was able to heal the
broken ribs she was given so that they were no
longer broken, and she knew that if her father found
out about this, he would use that to his advantage.
Which is one of the things too, is that even
though she knew from what her father told her that
the Black Moors were responsible for her mother's death and
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were traders, and she wanted to believe her father that
he wouldn't lie to her, she also knew deep down
that he would use her as a weapon. So he
wasn't all good that she wanted or tried to believe.
So she knew there was something bad in him. And
as for Saxon, he knew things were not what they
seemed and just trying to survive also keep his fellow
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family and PAC members alive. He figured out what the
War College is all about and is determined to change it.
This year, with the help of Kayla, he wanted to
bring down King Ellis, Thornveil and General's Zion once and
for all. He believes that he needed to bring down
May too, but that was until they were bonded. Then
he knew he had to show her the truth about
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the past. He became the strongest wolf so he could
defeat his enemies and avenge his father to be able
to show everyone that his father wasn't the trader he
was said to be. He wanted to preserve the Blackmore
name and bring down the corruption. While he knew May
was a thorn veil, he never seemed to really want
her dead, even before they were bonded. He seemed more
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like he wanted to open her eyes to the truth
and hope she'd help them. As the strongest wolf, he
could have killed her many times, but never did. Instead
tried to protect her from the War College. So even
before he knew she was a thorn veil, and even
after he knew, he still tried to tell her to
leave the college, that this wasn't where she was supposed
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to be. Mostly I think because she was a healer,
so he didn't want to see her part of this,
But also he knew what this college was. It was
just a way to take out the rest of the
Black Moors, So he was trying to get her to
leave the War College and go back to the Keeler's College.
And I really kind of loved that about Saxon, is
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that even though it was this notion that he wanted
to kill her, he had many opportunities to try and
still protected her. And this was even before they found
out that they were bonded. And this is where I
had the most fun breaking this down, because I was said,
how this story is a modern day telling of Romeo
and Juliet families storn apart and said to be to
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hate each other. Maybe in Saxon bond together and fall
for each other, only their families would never allow it.
So instead of the two lovers dying like in Romeo
and Juliet, they are able to fight against the odds
to be together. Maybe has been told lies by her
father and has believed them, because why would her father
lie to her? She still knew there was still a
part of him that he couldn't be trusted. If he
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knew about her pas, he would use them as a weapon.
As I had mentioned before, she knew that part of
him that he would exploit her powers, which she knew
was not something good. And knowing that, I think helped
may have opened to the idea that maybe Saxon might
be telling the truth when he tells her what King
Thorne fail has really done well. The bond between the
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two helped as well, since it connects the two together.
I believe there was a part of May who saw
the monster her father was becoming. After all, he wanted
her to kill Saxon, but she never really saw him
as a threat or as someone dangerous. He had told
her multiple times to kill Saxon, but she never did,
and she had mentioned that she had to know as
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a healer to do no harm, so that also kind
of stopped her from killing him as well. But it
was more that she never saw him as the villain. Yes,
she was told that he was the villain, but seeing
him at the war college and seeing all he had done,
she never really saw him as the villain. And when
a note from her mother prove all Saxon was saying
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and that she was starting to see was the truth,
she knew she had to help stop her father. When
her father used his power and trick on May it
was the bond to Saxon that saved her where it
was what broke the spell and allowed me to put
a stop to her father's reign once and for all.
And in the end, truth and justice prevailed, because yes,
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because her father had this mind controlling trick, which is
what Saxon had said, the king had used on his
father to make his father the trader, and that was
the reason why he ended up killing Saxon's father and
most of the Blackmore pack, and it was called dominion.
I think it was was the mind controlling trick, and
Saxon kept trying to tell Mee that this is what
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he did, that her father did. He had used this,
and Saxon's father and Mae's mother were trying to stop
Mabe's father. They were working together and they were trying
to stop Mabe's father, but the king found out and
killed them bold but just blamed the Blackmore for the
death of Mee's mother so that way he could get
Mae to kill Saxon and the rest of the Black
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Moores when she grew up. He wanted her to fight
and exact revenge. So one of the things that I
kind of not questioned, but one of the things that
I had put down was when it came to Rory's Zion,
who was General Zion's son and Maeve's childhood friend, he
had stopped by her. He also tried to protect her
while they were at war college, but he also ended
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up trying to kill Saxon, and then it was an
arranged marriage between her and Mave at the end. But
one of the things that I truly tried to believe
was Rory was not bad. At least he wasn't fully bad.
I wanted to try and believe that because how I
saw it was. I didn't see him corrupt like his mother,
but blindsided by the love for mey Well. He did
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try to kill Saxon, but it felt more as a
way to protect Mae than to be ruthless. He too
believed the lies that were told to him the Blackmore's
and I believe his mother manipulated him a bit more
since she stood by King Ellis's side, since he was
a warrior like Saxon and not a healer was raised
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to destroy the Blackmore Wolves. I still think there was
a part of him that felt that there was something
not right. He just wanted to be with Maeve and
following orders would do that. That is why his mother
went to attack. Maybe after she stop her father, he
jumped in to save her. He would die for May.
He was misguided by how much he wanted to be
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her mate, And that's kind of how I saw Rorgy
as a character, is that he was blinded by his
love and wanting to be with May. That he listened
to his mother. He followed the orders of General Zion
because he knew if he didn't, he wouldn't be with Mave,
that he would never have this chance, and this arranged
marriage that they had was never going to happen. But
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I never truly believed that he was as corrupt as
his mother or as King Elice Thornvale. I just saw
him as kind of misguided and trying to do what
he thought was right, just not realizing that his mother
and the king were the ones in the wrong and
that they were the ones manipulating everything. And speaking of
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Rory's mother, I was kind of curious about her, which,
as I kind of put it in my head, I
realized that maybe she was just as corrupt as King Elis.
But I had this whole question of was she always
this power hungry and that's why she was with Ellie
King Alice or did he use his power of dominion
to control her? And I figured that was a no,
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because when you looked at how the dominion worked on Kayla,
and maybe they didn't talk, they didn't really say anything,
they just kind of did what he told them. That's
where my brain was like, Okay, so maybe that's not
how it works. So maybe he didn't get her to
his side that way. But then I was also like, well,
he used it on sack Dad to get him to
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attack so he could kill him and then call him
a trader. But if you see how Mave ends up
attacking Saxon, it kind of makes sense as how he
could use it on Saxon's dad. So it's kind of
like going back and forth between this, but I still
kind of landed on Yeah, she was definitely power hungry
and she wanted the same thing that he wanted, so
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and that's what I had said. It's like I have
to think that she was just as power hungry and
betrayed Maeve's mother who was lunar of the pack, And
then started question did they plan this whole takeover together
this whole time, even with Maeve's mother there, it's still alive.
It's like, were they working then or was it years
after the fact, Like when did they start working together?
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And when did they first start sleeping together? Because they
were also sleeping together because too, It's like I had
so many questions about this relationship between King Ellis and
General Zion. It was just like, so when did this happen?
How did this get started. It's all unimportant questions to
the story, but it was still like roaming around in
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my head. And then the other thing when it came
to General Zion and her father, because General Zion had
mentioned how May wasn't supposed to survive war college, so
they had planned that Mave to go to war College
so it would get her killed. And General Zion had
mentioned that she was carrying the true Thornville air because
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May thought that she was sent to war College to
get stronger, but the truth she was sent to be killed.
King Ellis knew that there was still good in her
from her mother. She was also a healer, so that
she'd never be the ruthless warriors he wanted. He wanted
power and to kill anyone who opposed him. He knew
Mayve wouldn't do that, so Alison Zion figured that the
Blackmore pat Saxon Kayla and the other Black Mars would
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kill her for them. It would also give them another
reason to kill the remaining Blackmore wolves because if they
killed his daughter, he would have a legit reason to
retaliate and be like, well, you killed my daughter, so
you need to die. He just didn't know about Mave's
healing power, and that was the last thing that I wrote,
is how there was a couple issues with this whole plan,
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is Mave could heal herself, Saxon bond with Maeve and
his saving her, and Rory's need to protect her. So
those three things became an issue when it came to
Mayve not surviving war college. But when you see it
like that, you realized that he never cared for Mave.
She thought he wanted her to get stronger and avenge
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her mother's death, but in truth, he just wanted to
get rid of her, and he thought that this would
be the easiest way because he figured the remaining Black
Morris would take their revenge out on her. Oh, it's
just so disturbing and horrible that he would do this,
But he was just wanting the power so much that
he'd rather have a warrior that would do his bidding
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for him, which they figured the new Thornville Air would do.
And then one of the other questions that I definitely
had for this, which honestly unimportant, but it still kind
of confused me a little bit, was that I didn't
understand the titles. So you had Saxon, who was a
commander and Rory at General, and I was like, was
that from the college to the college give them those titles?
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And how long had they been at the college to
receive those titles or was this something that was given
to them in their packs and they just carried that
into War College, because I mean, it seemed like Rory
and Saxon and Kayla had been there for a while,
whereas Mave was just starting. So then I questioned how
long is War College actually supposed to be because it
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didn't seem like it was that long for me, but
I feel like the other ones had been there for
a lot longer. So it was just kind of like
where the whole titles in the whole how long War College?
Was kind of confused me, but again unimportant, but it
was just a question that I was like, wait, huh.
So for the story, I loved it. It was great,
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so fun to watch, And as I had mentioned when
I was kind of giving a brief kind of summary,
is that it gave me this sense of a modern
day telling of Romeo and Juliet with May being Juliette
and Saxon being Romeo. And that's definitely one of the
things that can be said about Shakespeare's plays is that
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there are a lot of series movies that are based
off shakespeare plays. And after I was kind of like
writing this, it came to me that Taming of the
Heiress and say probably the Arrangement too, are similar to
Taming of the Shrew, So you could kind of see
the similarities. And I just didn't notice it until after
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I was like writing this, and I was like, wait,
I totally should have realized that, and I could have
talked about that a little bit more. And I've slowly
kind of been like noticing that a bit more. With
some of these series is that can compare them to
like some other shows or movies and see the similarity.
Like there was one that I have that I will
be doing later which I kind of compared to another
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movie that I love. I don't want to give it
too much away, but so okay, I'll give you this one.
One of the new series that's on Drama Pops that
I've been seeing clips of so far, which is until
Divorce Do We Part? I think it is the clips
that I have seen so far. I haven't watched the
series yet, but I want to. But the clips that
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I've seen so far, it's kind of giving me like
sweet Home Alabama vibes, and I was like, ooh, this
is fun. I'm like, okay, so we can kind of
give this whole like oh, it's comparing it to something
else to give it this background and show. Oh well,
it's good. And that's what makes the series even better
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is because it's still got the same vibe. And I
know I may not be making sense right now, but
that's kind of where my brain is going, which is
why I went into this going like, oh my god,
this is like a modern day Romeo and Juliet. And
I adore Shakespeare. I love his works, his plays. I
especially love reading them in their true form. I know
not everyone loves reading Shakespeare as it is, and sometimes
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it's hard to read it as it is, but I
love Shakespeare as it is. Unfortunately, I haven't read all
of Shakespeare's plays. I still want to. I know there
are some that aren't so good or they're harder to read.
A lot of them are tragedies. There are a few
comedies in there, but I just I love Shakespeare and
that is definitely. One thing that I've since learned is
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that there is a lot of media movies and shows
out there that are based off his place, this being one.
As I said, it's like how I explained it was.
You may not realize it at first, the whole being
based off Romeo and Juliet because they don't die at
the end. But I found it to be that the
added element of the mate bond. How if the mate dies,
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the other one goes mad, goes crazy and basically ends
up dying, or if it gets broken, they end up dying.
I think that kind of gives it that sense of well,
Romeo and Juliette would die at the end, just in
a different way. So how I write it was the
mate bond being that you die idea die helps connect
it to Romeo and Juliet. How it goes is Romeo
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ses Juliette is dead and can't live without her, so
he kills himself, not knowing that she wasn't truly dead.
When she wakes up to find him dead, she can't
live without him and ends her life so they can
be together in death. How the mate bond in this
series go is if the mate dies, the living mate
will go feral and driven into madness. The mate cannot
survive without the other hat therefore you cannot live without them. Thankfully,
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the series doesn't end in tragedy like the play does,
but it is fun to see and figure out how
all the different parallels to the play are in there.
And the other thing when it came to this series
is it wasn't just a Wolf series, but a series
that shows that fighting for truth and jos since isn't wrong,
that not everyone is what they seem. Sometimes the people
you trust most can portray you. Sometimes the people you
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didn't know can surprise you. And strength is doing the
right thing, And that is what Maeve ends up realizing
is that for her true strength was realizing that her
father was bad and that she needed to bring him down,
and that was something that her mother ended up giving
her a message too, is that she needed to stop
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him before he became more powerful, and she showed him
how to do that the same with as I said,
the may bond between Saxon and Mayeve helped break the
spell between Mave and Dominion that her father had put
on her, because the king thought that nothing could break
that spell, not realizing that Maeve had been made it
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to or bonded to Saxon, and because that bond was
so powerful, and because they couldn't live without each other
without one of them dying or going feral, it helped
stop any witchcraft that could separate them. So her love
for him is what helped break her up the spell,
and his love for her helped break that because it
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showed that true mates can save each other. And I
loved how they really kind of showed that. It wasn't
just simply as one would say, a true love's kiss,
as the fairy tales do, but it was more him
biting the bond, the mate bond that they had created
a couple days before that really helped break the spell.
So were there were definitely like little things in there
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that really were fun to watch and see, and it
made the story better and after kind of again realizing
that it's very similar to like a modern day Romeo
and Juliet, it made the story that much better for
me and made me enjoy it a lot more so.
It was it was definitely a highlight me. I loved it.
I highly recommend it for the rating. I gave it
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a seven point eight, and I kind of hate myself
for this, but when I was doing it, I had
my reasons, but I'm still like, going, no, this should
definitely be higher because it was just so good. I
loved it, and again I hate myself for giving this writing,
but I still recommend it. I still love it. It was
such a great story. It's fantastic. I love the two actors.
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They were phenomenal. Their chemistry was great. It really gave
you that like enemies to lovers, and it was definitely
I needed to see more. I would love a sequel.
I don't think there really is a need for one
because it ended very well. But at the same time,
I'm like, I want more, give me more, Please give
me more. But again, I would love to hear your
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thoughts on the series. Did you have any favorite parts?
Did you see the similarities to Romeo and Juliet that
I did? I could probably talk so much about this one,
and I know, like some of the little tangents I've
gone off on, but this one was fun and I
enjoyed so much, kind of breaking down how it was
similar to Romeo and Juliet, and I'm like, I could
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probably do more, but it didn't want to make this
too long, so this has been bound to the Rebel
Wolf on real short and I am your host, Megan,
this has been my vertical obsession and until next day
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