Needed a change of pace and this is what I landed on. The world build makes this story hard to take serious enough to even get through. I made it. I’m not sure why.
There was a war between shifters and humans. Human lost. Ella’s clan has been hiding ever deeper in the forests, their numbers reduced to the point where it is becoming obvious to the younger clansmen that their species won’t survive.
Ella, falls into a trap set by a hunter. Ty, a federal land management guy, finds her and sets her free. Of course, she’s his mate and he has to find her. So he goes camping in the national reserve the clan happens to be hiding in, finds Ella and takes her back to civilization. Everyone he introduces her to is really surprised because humans are supposed to be 300 years extinct.
Yeah. It’s like he went into the jungle, found a tribe previously untouched by the modern world, and brought one home to meet the family.
Her people have been living in the wild while shifters build the world we all know as civilization. He’s explaining planes and cell phones. He’s a bear shifter who talks to his inner bear. He’s big and brawny, but gets ambushed by his mate constantly as we’re being convinced how much more outdoorsy she is than he. She’s brushing her teeth with a willow stick and somehow wearing cotton long johns. Her people live in a deciduous forest where it snows but build treehouses to live in. They’ve got a feminist movement. Ella has a staff she carved herself that Ty’s artifact-hunting sister can’t wait to get her hands on.
Another reviewer dubbed this Hunter-Gatherer Barbie. I can’t quit laughing.