My first shifter book, loved it.

I absolutely loved this book.

This is my first book in the shifter drama. I heard about shifter books and decided to see what the fuss is about. Ths book was a great way to be introduced to what shifters are and why people like these type of books.

I listened to this on Audible too, and my favorite narrator Joel Leslie did the voice work. He did a terrific job as usual with the voice acting and making it easy to distinguish each character.

Only issue i had with the book, and this is a minor spoiler but it’s mentioned very early, is one of the main reasons the main character has concerns with claiming his mate. So apparently he has to mate in front of his entire immediate family and the elders. He just does not want to, clearly never wants to, finds it an invasion of his privacy and wants to protect his partners body from being exposed to that.
The book does a LOT to make that agonizing for the reader and i feel like doesn’t do enough to ever help alleviate that anxiety. I at no point felt relief about this situation and was anxious every time this was brought up. I didn’t really like the excuse this has to be done and it sorta ruined some of the romance for me with how its portrayed. I felt somewhat sick to my stomach and by the end, still felt sick about it.

Another issue i had, is there’s a lot of repetition, i found myself very easily skipping ahead and not losing track of anything as some of the story drags. Like stuff would happen in the story and it just gets explained over and over again too many times. I think i even skipped an entire chapter when i noticed nothing was happening other then a ton of tensions explaining over and over. It doesn’t at all ruin the book though and i know why it was done. It felt like it was done for tension building to make you more anxious about what’s happening but maybe executed too much because like…. We get it… There’s tension, stop explaining it to me for an hour with no real movement in the story.

The romance though is extremely tense, the story to back it up holds up solidly. I also love love lovvve the world building too as it was explained in a way that was easy to follow with characters being introduced slowly.

I think this book despite some of the prior issues mentioned is highly recommended for new comers to shifter dramas because after this, I’m hooked and want more.