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3ll3's review
emotional
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
mal_bookdragon's review against another edition
3.0
Here's the thing. I wanted to love it. It had all the elements. Poly. Shifters. Human fated mate. Expanded para world. Fun side characters.
I just had to stop.
Because what in the Charlie Brown nonsense was with the obscene amount of "good grief". Seriously. It just left a bad taste in my mouth. And then during an intimate scene, "Holy cow". No. Stop. I can't. If the one dude hadn't been ba*** deep in the other I would have thought I was reading christian romance. That's the vibe. And that's my issue. If you don't have issues with all of that. Try it. You might like it, it's a resounding 'no' for me though.
I just had to stop.
Because what in the Charlie Brown nonsense was with the obscene amount of "good grief". Seriously. It just left a bad taste in my mouth. And then during an intimate scene, "Holy cow". No. Stop. I can't. If the one dude hadn't been ba*** deep in the other I would have thought I was reading christian romance. That's the vibe. And that's my issue. If you don't have issues with all of that. Try it. You might like it, it's a resounding 'no' for me though.
geeknb's review against another edition
I think that the fact I was most upset by the loss of the car speaks volumes.
* shifters
* instalove
* threesome
* powerplay kink
* shifters
* instalove
* threesome
* powerplay kink
bitchie's review against another edition
4.0
Cute shifter menage romance, with two cat shifters who find themselves mated to a human, which of course, causes problems within their pack, or clowder.
There was a plenty of hot sex in this one, and I loved that newly mated Kirk brings things to the relationship that Dolf and Tal, with a dash of a love for pain that Dolf loves to give, but Tal doesn't like. Together, these three really made a great trio.
There was a plenty of hot sex in this one, and I loved that newly mated Kirk brings things to the relationship that Dolf and Tal, with a dash of a love for pain that Dolf loves to give, but Tal doesn't like. Together, these three really made a great trio.
raynebair's review against another edition
4.0
A copy of this book was provided by Dreamspinner Press in exchange for an honest review.
I’m a total sucker for shifter stories. Especially the fated mates kind. So this book appealed to me right away. I liked that while Kirk was a bit freaked out to learn the stray cats he found are actually shifters and his mates, he also feels inexplicably drawn to them. So his acceptance of the paranormal world he’s just been thrown into is pretty quick.
Some of my favorite scenes are the ones where Kirk watches Tal and Dolf play as cats. I haven’t read too many books where you see the simple joy of the animal side at play in a shifter. Maybe because most of what I’ve read is wolves - predators, and not house animals, but they were such happy scenes. I smiled the most while reading them. Ms. Church really captured the essence of cats at play, yet at the same time allowed their human side to peek through in their interactions with Kirk.
Some authors get caught up in building their paranormal or fantasy world. Others don’t explain anything and expect readers to just get it. Ms. Church gives us just enough to carry the story forward and let us understand the characters’ actions and motives. In this world of cat shifters, humans are not welcome. They are not trusted. It is a pretty strong prejudice against the species. So when Dolf and Tal realize they have another mate and he is human, they don’t get the reception they expected when they tell the clowder they want to claim their human mate.
Kirk carries a recessive gene that gains him some of his mates’ paranormal abilities. But although once claimed he is no longer a pure human, he still isn’t a shifter and many of his new Clowder do not completely accept him as one of them. Even if he is mated to the next Alpha. So herein lies the trouble. Someone is after Kirk, because he’s human, or because he’s mated to the next Alpha. That’s what they must figure out before it’s too late.
This book had just enough action and mystery to keep me curious. I wasn’t expecting the outcome and I liked that it wasn’t so obvious. And as I mentioned, I loved the scenes where Tal and Dolf were cats.
The one thing I didn’t care for was the amount of sex in this story. I felt there was just a tad too much. There really is a lot of sex here. And while it is explained that shifter libido is high, I’m not sure I needed to see it as much. I enjoyed it. Don’t get me wrong. But I enjoyed the actual shifter parts of the story just as much and would have like to see more of that and less time in the bedroom.
Again, I’m a sucker for fated mates shifters so this book was a huge success for me.
This review is cross-posted at Gay Book Reviews.
I’m a total sucker for shifter stories. Especially the fated mates kind. So this book appealed to me right away. I liked that while Kirk was a bit freaked out to learn the stray cats he found are actually shifters and his mates, he also feels inexplicably drawn to them. So his acceptance of the paranormal world he’s just been thrown into is pretty quick.
Some of my favorite scenes are the ones where Kirk watches Tal and Dolf play as cats. I haven’t read too many books where you see the simple joy of the animal side at play in a shifter. Maybe because most of what I’ve read is wolves - predators, and not house animals, but they were such happy scenes. I smiled the most while reading them. Ms. Church really captured the essence of cats at play, yet at the same time allowed their human side to peek through in their interactions with Kirk.
Some authors get caught up in building their paranormal or fantasy world. Others don’t explain anything and expect readers to just get it. Ms. Church gives us just enough to carry the story forward and let us understand the characters’ actions and motives. In this world of cat shifters, humans are not welcome. They are not trusted. It is a pretty strong prejudice against the species. So when Dolf and Tal realize they have another mate and he is human, they don’t get the reception they expected when they tell the clowder they want to claim their human mate.
Kirk carries a recessive gene that gains him some of his mates’ paranormal abilities. But although once claimed he is no longer a pure human, he still isn’t a shifter and many of his new Clowder do not completely accept him as one of them. Even if he is mated to the next Alpha. So herein lies the trouble. Someone is after Kirk, because he’s human, or because he’s mated to the next Alpha. That’s what they must figure out before it’s too late.
This book had just enough action and mystery to keep me curious. I wasn’t expecting the outcome and I liked that it wasn’t so obvious. And as I mentioned, I loved the scenes where Tal and Dolf were cats.
The one thing I didn’t care for was the amount of sex in this story. I felt there was just a tad too much. There really is a lot of sex here. And while it is explained that shifter libido is high, I’m not sure I needed to see it as much. I enjoyed it. Don’t get me wrong. But I enjoyed the actual shifter parts of the story just as much and would have like to see more of that and less time in the bedroom.
Again, I’m a sucker for fated mates shifters so this book was a huge success for me.
This review is cross-posted at Gay Book Reviews.
mikibooks's review against another edition
4.0
La verdad es que esto ha sido una grata sorpresa. Honestamente no le ponía muchas fichas a esto. Digo, miren la portada. Uno de los trabajos de photoshop más horribles que he visto en mucho tiempo. Pero cuando Gaby me lo sugirió y me puse a leer el resumen, la verdad es que (como bien dijo ella en su reseña) me vi completamente seducida por la idea de gatitos shifters. Porque, hey....son gatitos! <3
Con este serio y consistente motivo (Jejeje) por detrás, encaré la lectura con cierta curiosidad, un poco de dudas sobre qué me iba a encontrar, pero lista para horrorizarme o encantarme. Por suerte la segunda opción fue la vencida. Lo primero que debo decir es no se dejen amedrentar por la espantosa tapa. El texto es muy bueno en varios puntos que sobresalen, lo que equilibra la balanza hacia el puntaje final que le puse.
Por un lado, el "threesome" está equilibrado, balanceado, es creíble, y no te da la sensación de que hay uno que siempre queda afuera. Todos cumplen un rol, tienen algo que complementa a los otros dos, y se conforma una unidad entre Kirk, Tal y Dolf que es bella. Otro punto que destaco es la calidad con la que su autor le dio improntas diferenciadas a las voces. El libro está contado desde tres POV, cada fragmento del relato es presentado por uno de los protagonistas y no sólo no es una maraña incomprensible sino que están muy bien diferenciados, sentís las diversas personalidades y vivencias en relación con los que les sucede. Y aquí, por ejemplo, la sorpresa inicial de Kirk e incredulidad al enterarse que sus dos gatos son shifters, que quieren estar con él, y además, son sus parejas destinadas por la diosa de los gatitos, es recontra verosímil, e identificable.
Sí es cierto que la primera mitad es un poco estructurada o tosca, si se quiere, mientras que la segunda mitad es mucho más ágil, y estás "dos partes" están demasiado diferenciadas al punto que parecen dos libros pegados. Incluso el proceso de "apareamiento" inicial es medio estructurado y tosco.
La segunda parte compensa esto. Y es aquí donde es importante remarcar el comprometido enfoque del autor con las cuestiones vinculadas al racismo y la intolerancia, en este caso entre "humanos" y "shifters", pero que se extiende hacia todo tipo de discriminación que se ejerce hacia ese otro que es distinto a uno. El texto no elude el tema, ni lo toca livianamente como algo que socialmente está obligado a decir. Lo encara directamente, lo analiza y pone ese debate en la voz de sus personajes.
"We shifters are speciecist. Well, at least most of us. Some less than others, true. We don´t trust anyone who isn´t paranormal, and some paranormals we like better than others. We´re just as afraid of anything different from us as the humans. Being secretive is one thing. Being racist is another. This is what Jews fought against, what African-American and GLBT people have been fighting for years. We´ve let this go too far"
"How, as a species, did we get so off track?"
No es menor lo que se dice. Implica un nivel de compromiso con el tema como no he visto en otros textos. Y eso le vale las 4 estrellitas, sólo eso.
Es una historia con algunas particularidades, pero si deciden qué leer sólo en base a esquemas muy estructurados como "Yo no leo libros con shifters", se van a perder de un libro jugado y comprometido. Algo de lo que carecen muchos de los mas populares exponentes actuales dentro del género m/m
Con este serio y consistente motivo (Jejeje) por detrás, encaré la lectura con cierta curiosidad, un poco de dudas sobre qué me iba a encontrar, pero lista para horrorizarme o encantarme. Por suerte la segunda opción fue la vencida. Lo primero que debo decir es no se dejen amedrentar por la espantosa tapa. El texto es muy bueno en varios puntos que sobresalen, lo que equilibra la balanza hacia el puntaje final que le puse.
Por un lado, el "threesome" está equilibrado, balanceado, es creíble, y no te da la sensación de que hay uno que siempre queda afuera. Todos cumplen un rol, tienen algo que complementa a los otros dos, y se conforma una unidad entre Kirk, Tal y Dolf que es bella. Otro punto que destaco es la calidad con la que su autor le dio improntas diferenciadas a las voces. El libro está contado desde tres POV, cada fragmento del relato es presentado por uno de los protagonistas y no sólo no es una maraña incomprensible sino que están muy bien diferenciados, sentís las diversas personalidades y vivencias en relación con los que les sucede. Y aquí, por ejemplo, la sorpresa inicial de Kirk e incredulidad al enterarse que sus dos gatos son shifters, que quieren estar con él, y además, son sus parejas destinadas por la diosa de los gatitos, es recontra verosímil, e identificable.
Sí es cierto que la primera mitad es un poco estructurada o tosca, si se quiere, mientras que la segunda mitad es mucho más ágil, y estás "dos partes" están demasiado diferenciadas al punto que parecen dos libros pegados. Incluso el proceso de "apareamiento" inicial es medio estructurado y tosco.
La segunda parte compensa esto. Y es aquí donde es importante remarcar el comprometido enfoque del autor con las cuestiones vinculadas al racismo y la intolerancia, en este caso entre "humanos" y "shifters", pero que se extiende hacia todo tipo de discriminación que se ejerce hacia ese otro que es distinto a uno. El texto no elude el tema, ni lo toca livianamente como algo que socialmente está obligado a decir. Lo encara directamente, lo analiza y pone ese debate en la voz de sus personajes.
"We shifters are speciecist. Well, at least most of us. Some less than others, true. We don´t trust anyone who isn´t paranormal, and some paranormals we like better than others. We´re just as afraid of anything different from us as the humans. Being secretive is one thing. Being racist is another. This is what Jews fought against, what African-American and GLBT people have been fighting for years. We´ve let this go too far"
"How, as a species, did we get so off track?"
No es menor lo que se dice. Implica un nivel de compromiso con el tema como no he visto en otros textos. Y eso le vale las 4 estrellitas, sólo eso.
Es una historia con algunas particularidades, pero si deciden qué leer sólo en base a esquemas muy estructurados como "Yo no leo libros con shifters", se van a perder de un libro jugado y comprometido. Algo de lo que carecen muchos de los mas populares exponentes actuales dentro del género m/m
liminalcryptid's review against another edition
leelee68's review against another edition
5.0
I loved this book and loved that it was about regular cat shifters..I thought the three of them actually worked really well together. All three of their personalities worked. I'm excited for anymore books about their Clowder. They were sexy and hot too...
teresab78's review against another edition
4.0
I really enjoyed this menage and take one the paranormal world. While this focuses on large house cat sized feline shifters, the paranormals mentioned encompass a lot. I really liked all three MCs and I liked the dynamics. While I had my suspicions about the bad guy, I was surprised in the end.
I look forward to book two!
I look forward to book two!