Tuesday 31 August 2010

Teaser Tuesday #3


Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

  • Grab your current read
  • Open to a random page
  • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
  • BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
  • Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!


Taken from Covet by J. R. Ward, UK version page158

"Vin was in her mind... in her mind and speaking in that strange voice: He's coming for you.  He's coming for you.
When he'd gone into that bizarre trance in the locker room, the message that had come out of his mouth had been terrifying, but his fixedated eyes had been even worse.  And her first response?  It hadn't been, What the hell are you talking about?  No, she'd thought to herself, How do you know?"

Sunday 29 August 2010

In My Mailbox #2

In My Mailbox is a bookish meme hosted by Kristi @ The Story Siren and inspired by Alea @ Pop Culture Junkie.

This week I bought books, went to the library and received a book for review.  Good week for my books but not as good for finding enough time to read them all!  The book descriptions are all from Goodreads.

Received for review from M.L. Lacy
Chrysalis - The Awakening by M.L. Lacy
Book 1

All families have secrets. But at 32 years old, Bree Campbell is discovering that her entire life has been a secret. Like most people, it never occurred to her to question her mortality; that is until she learns that she is a mortal born into a family of Magicals and begins to question everything and everyone in her life. As the doors to Bree’s new world fly open and she finally hears the prophecy told at her birth she must face the revelation that she is a Chosen One; the last and greatest of a long line of Chosen Ones. And if this were not overwhelming enough, she has been charged with saving the earth by repairing the cosmic tear that binds the mortal world she has always known and the Magical world she is just now discovering. But the real question lies in whether Bree will survive the long transformation into the powerful Druid Sorceress that is her destiny or die in the process as many before her have gone. Bree’s journey will not be an easy one. She must face the realities of her new life and her new family; a clan of vampires who have been charged with protecting her for all of her mortal life. They have chosen her as a leader in their clan, a position that has really complicated things for her. For no sooner than Bree is finally reunited with her long lost love, Steven, Bree must learn how to navigate the jealousies and emotions within her new family. While Bree tries to free herself from her past, including her cruel and lethal husband, she must determine who she can truly trust. And while her clan loves her immensely, they will continually try to stand in her way; all in the name of protecting her from those set upon her death. Bree’s arch nemesis is Esmeralda, a powerful sorceress in her own right who will stop at nothing until this Chosen One is dead. If Esmeralda can claim Bree’s blood, heart and soul and restore her Demon to his body, she will be so strong that none will be able to oppose her and she will be free to rid the world of all mortals

Bought
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
The Wolves of Mercy Falls #1

For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf—her wolf—is a chilling presence she can't seem to live without. Meanwhile, Sam has lived two lives: In winter, the frozen woods, the protection of the pack, and the silent company of a fearless girl. In summer, a few precious months of being human ... until the cold makes him shift back again.
Now, Grace meets a yellow-eyed boy whose familiarity takes her breath away. It's her wolf. It has to be. But as winter nears, Sam must fight to stay human--or risk losing himself, and Grace, forever.
 
Got from the library
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
Vampire Academy #1
 
St. Vladimir’s Academy isn’t just any boarding school—it’s a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They’ve been on the run, but now they’re being dragged back to St. Vladimir’s—the very place where they’re most in danger. . . .

Rose and Lissa become enmeshed in forbidden romance, the Academy’s ruthless social scene, and unspeakable nighttime rituals. But they must be careful lest the Strigoi—the world’s fiercest and most dangerous vampires—make Lissa one of them forever.

Friday 27 August 2010

18 & Over Book Blogger Tag Along Friday

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This is a brand new 18 & Over Tag Along Friday is created and hosted by Laurie at Bitten By Paranormal Romance

Here's what she had to say about this new blog hop:

Ya, Ya, I know your saying not another follow. But this one is for a specific group. In order to do tag along you have to primarily have a book blog that reviews and post adult content. In other words, if you read books like erotic and adult romance and have adult pic., then you can play tag along. Sorry YA readers, but if you read both (I know some of you do)you can tag along also. Just make sure you have both YA and adult romance on your blog.

Rules *place your blogs name in the first box of the Linky
*Then add your post for the tag along in the second box linky
*When you find a blog that you like to follow please leave comment, so they can tag along to your blog.
*There is a code on my left sidebar, so you can place the pic. on your post

I'm excited to take part in this blog hop as my blog is aimed at adults, even though I do on occassion read YA.  Look forward to visiting the other blogs participating!  Just remember you need to be 18+.

Follow Friday #3 and Book Blogger Hop #2



Wow, it's Friday again already!!!

Follow on Friday is hosted my Rachel at Parajunkee.com

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Book Blogger Hop

I am taking part in in the Book Blogger Hop again this week hosted by Crazy-for-books to explore all thegreat book blogs out there!

This week's question comes from Books Are A Girl's Best Friend 

Do you use a rating system for your reviews and if so, what is it and why? My blog is kind of new and I must admit I have not got my ratings system sorted yet!  I know it's something I want (and probably need to do) but there seems to be so much else to do!  My out of 5 stars will be up and running this weekend.

Happy Friday!

Thursday 26 August 2010

Review: Bitten by Kelly Armstrong

Title: Bitten
Author: Kelley Armstrong
ISBN 10: 0452286034
ISBN 13: 9780452286030

About the book (from Goodreads)
Ever since her parents were killed in a car accident when she was five, Elena Michaels has longed for a normal family life. Smart, beautiful, and engaged to be married, Elena hopes to fulfill that dream when disaster strikes. Not only has her fiancé lied about his secret life as a werewolf, but he's made her one, too. She has no choice but to join him at Stonehaven, the upstate New York home of an elite pack of werewolves.
In an attempt to break away, she moves to Toronto to lead a normal life. Working as a journalist, Elena now lives with her new architect boyfriend, works out in the basement gym of their high-rise apartment, lunches with girlfriends from the office, and —once a week, at four in the morning —runs naked and furred through a downtown Toronto ravine, ripping out the throats of her animal prey. But when a band of outlaw werewolves threatens the Stonehaven pack, Elena's feral instincts drive her back there to join the defense. What follows is a war for territory, for pride, and ultimately for Elena herself.
Writing with the visceral power of Anne Rice, Kelley Armstrong has created a fascinating story of a woman struggling for her identity.

Author Biography: Bitten is Kelley Armstrong's first novel.

Genre: Urban Fantasy
Series: Women of the Otherworld, book #1
Published: 1st October 2001
Publisher: Plume
Website: Kelley Armstrong
Excert: Prologue

My Review
Elena Michaels is the only female werewolf in the world. She was bitten and betrayed by her former fiancé Clay and is trying to make a normal life for herself in Toronto with her human boyfriend.

Called back to the pack to help deal with a Mutts problem, Elena hopes everything will be done in a couple of days so she can return to her normal life. However, once at Stonehaven she finds herself immersed in the werewolf way of life, seeming to fall once again for Clay. Elena deals with everything thrown at her in the course of dealing with the Mutts who are killing humans.

Elena is a great character to read, she is strong and smart yet vulnerable in many ways. She engages with the pack well and is not afraid to admit her own faults. She clearly does not want to admit she enjoys life as a werewolf, at least when it’s just the pack.

I grew to really like Clay, he is a lovable bad boy who has eyes only for Elena. The pack leader, the ever calm Jeremy, is a great character but he has his own vulnerabilities. I liked the other pack members too, who all seemed a believable group who complimented each other very well.

The detail given on pack and werewolf behaviour was well woven into the story and seems to increase my enjoyment of the plot not detract from it. I found the general werewolf view of women as sex or dinner as quite difficult, but the Pack’s attitude towards Elena was clearly much more respectful and equal.

I really enjoyed Bitten and am looking forward to reading more of Kelley Armstrong’s Women of the Otherworld series.

Wednesday 25 August 2010

"Waiting on" Wednesday #2

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine which spotlights eagerly anticipated upcoming releases!

Is it really time for "Waiting on" Wednesday again already!! I came across this one when searching around on Goodreads, I liked the cover and also thought the book sounded good when I read the blurb!


Title: Nightshade
Author: Andrea Cremer
Series: Nightshade #1
Genre: Young Adult Paranormal
Publisher: Philomel
Release date: 19th October 2010

Book description (from Goodreads)

While other teenage girls daydream about boys, Calla Tor imagines ripping out her enemies’ throats. And she wouldn’t have it any other way. Calla was born a warrior and on her eighteenth-birthday she’ll become the alpha female of the next generation of Guardian wolves. But Calla’s predestined path veers off course the moment she saves the life of a wayward hiker, a boy her own age. This human boy’s secret will turn the young pack's world upside down and forever alter the outcome of the centuries-old Witches' War that surrounds them all

Tuesday 24 August 2010

Teaser Tuesady #2

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

  • Grab your current read
  • Open to a random page
  • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
  • BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
  • Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

In my edition this is on page 72, I'm reading the UK version so the page numbers are probably slightly different!

"I opened my eyes, thinking.  Most gentry were too technologically inept to function seamlessly in the human world, yet he had navigated it well.  He'd has a car back at the bar, one we'd passed over in favor of letting me drive.  He'd also had a wallet and cash to pay for drinks and condoms.  And if he was checked into a hotel, he had to have a credit card.  Credit cards were traceable.  If he had a dual life in our world, I should be able to find out something."

Sunday 22 August 2010

In My Mailbox #1

In My Mailbox is a bookish meme hosted by Kristi @ The Story Siren and inspired by Alea @ Pop Culture Junkie.

Today is the first time I've tried this one! All the books I've got are bought or library, no wins or anything this week. The descriptions are all from Goodreads.

Bought

Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning
Fever #1

MacKayla Lane’s life is good. She has great friends, a decent job, and a car that breaks down only every other week or so. In other words, she’s your perfectly ordinary twenty-first-century woman.
Or so she thinks…until something extraordinary happens.

When her sister is murdered, leaving a single clue to her death–a cryptic message on Mac’s cell phone–Mac journeys to Ireland in search of answers. The quest to find her sister’s killer draws her into a shadowy realm where nothing is as it seems, where good and evil wear the same treacherously seductive mask. She is soon faced with an even greater challenge: staying alive long enough to learn how to handle a power she had no idea she possessed–a gift that allows her to see beyond the world of man, into the dangerous realm of the Fae….
As Mac delves deeper into the mystery of her sister’s death, her every move is shadowed by the dark, mysterious Jericho, a man with no past and only mockery for a future. As she begins to close in on the truth, the ruthless Vlane–an alpha Fae who makes sex an addiction for human women–closes in on her. And as the boundary between worlds begins to crumble, Mac’s true mission becomes clear: find the elusive Sinsar Dubh before someone else claims the all-powerful Dark Book–because whoever gets to it first holds nothing less than complete control of the very fabric of both worlds in their hands

From the library

Storm Born by Richelle Mead
Dark Swan #1

Just typical. No love life to speak of for months, then all at once, every horny creature in the Otherworld wants to get in your pants...


Eugenie Markham is a powerful shaman who does a brisk trade banishing spirits and fey who cross into the mortal world. Mercenary, yes, but a girl's got to eat. Her most recent case, however, is enough to ruin her appetite. Hired to find a teenager who has been taken to the Otherworld, Eugenie comes face to face with a startling prophecy--one that uncovers dark secrets about her past and claims that Eugenie's first-born will threaten the future of the world as she knows it.

Now Eugenie is a hot target for every ambitious demon and Otherworldy ne'er-do-well, and the ones who don't want to knock her up want her dead. Eugenie handles a Glock as smoothly as she wields a wand, but she needs some formidable allies for a job like this. She finds them in Dorian, a seductive fairy king with a taste for bondage, and Kiyo, a gorgeous shape-shifter who redefines animal attraction. But with enemies growing bolder and time running out, Eugenie realizes that the greatest danger is yet to come, and it lies in the dark powers that are stirring to life within her

Night Shift by Lilith Saintcrow
Jill Kismet #1

Not everyone can take on the things that go bump in the night.

Not everyone tries.

But Jill Kismet is not just anyone.

She's a Hunter, trained by the best - and in over her head.

Welcome to the night shift

Saturday 21 August 2010

One Lovely Blog Award!

I won an award from Danielle at Romance Book Junkies,I'm very happy to receive the One Lovely Blog Award so thank you Danielle! My blog is still really new but I'm enjoying working on it a lot!

This is how the award works:
Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award and his or her blog link.
Pass the award to 15 other blogs that you’ve newly discovered.
Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

Here are the blogs I'm going to award the One Lovely Blog Award to (in no particular order!) I just wish I could do more than 15 as it was hard to choose!

Supernatural Shark
The Bookish Snob
Larissa's Bookish Life
Among the Muses
Bitten by Paranormal Romance
Book Faery
All Things Urban Fantasy
Not-really-Southern Vamp Chick
Parajunkee's View
Romance Book Junkies
Rex Robot Reveiws
Smexy Books - Romance Book Reviews
Urban Girl Reader
Paranormal Heaven
Books With Bite

Friday 20 August 2010

Follow Friday #2 and Book Blogger Hop #1



A week has passed since my first Follow Friday already!! Still finiding my feet with my blog too.



Follow on Friday is hosted my Rachel at Parajunkee.com

To join the fun and make now book blogger friends, just follow these simple rules:

Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Host { Parajunkee.com } and any one else you want to follow on the list
Follow our Featured Bloggers - edgyinspirational.blogspot.com
Put your Blog name & URL in the Linky thing.
Grab the button up there and place it in a post, this post is for people to find a place to say hi in your comments
Follow Follow Follow as many as you can
If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love...and the followers
If you want to show the link list, just follow the link below the entries and copy and paste it within your post!
If your new to the follow friday hop, comment and let me know, so I can stop by and check out your blog!


Book Blogger Hop

For the first time this week I am also taking part in in the Book Blogger Hop hosted by Crazy-for-books to explore all the great book blogs out there!

This week's question comes from Libraryscatbooks!

How many blogs do you follow?
I follow about 75 which are almost exclusively book blogs! I try to visit them as often as possible!
Happy Friday!

Thursday 19 August 2010

Review: The Devilin Fey by Jess C Scott

Title: The Devilin Fey
Author: Jess C Scott
ISBN-10: 1453718958
ISBN-13: 978-1453718957

About the book
A paranormal romance novella of two stories, featuring an incubus and succubus. Story #1 features a demure young woman unleashing the "devil in" her, through the intimacy with an incubus. Story #2 features a voyeuristic succubus driven by jealousy and a dangerous fixation. GENRE: Paranormal Romance / Urban Fantasy / 33,000 words REVIEWS: "Devilishly delicious." - Horror Author, Andy Love "I really enjoyed this story of an incubus and the woman he transforms...the author really hits her stride in paranormal stories." - Review @ Bitten by Books "A very passionate and strong paranormal love story that ignites the feeling of intimate sensation that heats up the room. [The pages] were filled with passion, adventure, mystery and a love that pulls at the heart strings." - Review @ Addicted To Romance.

Genre: Paranormal Romance
Published: 27 May 2010
Publisher: CreateSpace
Source: Received from the author for review
Website: Jess C Scott
Excert: Excert

My review
The Devilin Fey is a novella made up of two stories - “The Devilin Fey" and “Tongue Tied”. Both focus on life as a succubus in one way or another. (Note there may be a couple of spoilers below)

The Devilin Fey features Catlin Fey who at the start of the book is planning on a scathing article about Zac Walsh, best selling author of “Seduction 101: All The Dirt on Women”, she want’s to highlight the damage his ideas are doing to society. However she ends up falling for all his lines, and nothing like in her dreams. The man in her dreams is so different, she finds out why when she goes for a walk to the beach and see Lucius in his true incubus form, wings and all. She should not have been able to see him like that!

Catlin gradually notices some strange changes after a few encounters with Lucius, she can read peoples desires and know their love history. She goes on a journey which lets out her inner devil, human by day succubus by night, having revenge on Zac on the way.

I enjoyed The Devilin Fey, I like the way Catlin took becoming a kind of succubus in her stride, simply adapting to it and finding Lucius along the way!

Tongue Tied is a short story about a lesbian succubus who finds something different about Adriana and watches in on her life to find out if her instincts are right. This is the only story I’ve come across so far with a gay succubus, I’d kind of expected the usual going after men but Tongue Tied made a refreshing change. However, if you don’t like F/F stories then this one may not be for you.

Wednesday 18 August 2010

"Waiting on" Wednesday #1

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine which spotlights eagerly anticipated upcoming releases!

Today is my very first Waiting on Wednesday and I've chosen a book which is the third in a series, I loved the first book Soulless (you can read my review here) and I am reading the second book Changeless. Mind the spoiler!!! It's actualy only a few weeks until Blameless is out which is great as I'll get to read it really soon!!



Title: Blameless
Author: Gail Carriger
Series: The Parasol Protectorate - Book #3
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Publisher: Orbit
Release date: 1st September 2010

Book description (from Goodreads)
***SPOILERS AHEAD - Don't read this synopsis of Blameless until you have read the 2nd book, Changeless, unless you want to be majorly spoiled.***





Quitting her husband's house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season.

Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all off, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all of London's vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite thoroughly dead.

While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately tries to hold the Woolsey werewolf pack together, Alexia flees England for Italy in search of the mysterious Templars. Only they know enough about the preternatural to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition, but they may be worse than the vampires -- and they're armed with pesto.

Tuesday 17 August 2010

Teaser Tuesday #1

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

  • Grab your current read
  • Open to a random page
  • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
  • BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
  • Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

"Changing form is much like any other bodily function in that it comes most easily when the body needs to do it. An uncontrolled werewolf undergoes the transformation under two circumstances: when he is threatened and when his internal cycle dictates the need."

Saturday 14 August 2010

Review: Soulless By Gail Carriger


Title: Soulless
Author: Gail Carriger
ISBN-10: 0316056634
ISBN-13: 978-0316056632

About the book
Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette.

Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire -- and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate.

With unexpected vampires appearing and expected vampires disappearing, everyone seems to believe Alexia responsible. Can she figure out what is actually happening to London's high society? Will her soulless ability to negate supernatural powers prove useful or just plain embarrassing? Finally, who is the real enemy, and do they have treacle tart?

Genre: Urban Fantasy
Series: The Parasol Protectorate, book #1
Published: 1st October 2009
Publisher: Orbit
Website: Gail Carriger

My Review
Alexia Tarabotti is a 26 year old spinster who is intelligent and fashionable, who is prone to dark skin and drinks a lot of tea! Always found with her parasol and two hair pins made of silver and wood, she would one day like to fly in a dirigible. She also happens to be a preternatural, “Soulless” which is almost as embarrassing as having an Italian father.

A preternatural is born without a soul. When she touches a supernatural Alexia effectively neutralises them, the vampires fang retreat and the werewolf becomes human again. Alexia accidentally kills a rogue vampire at start of book with a wooden hat pin when she is attacked. She is most perturbed when he did not seem to know she was a preternatural!

Alexia is a wonderfully strong and interesting character. She is very much the alpha female, yet manages to do this within the social constraints of 1870’s London!

In the Victorian London world created by Gail Carriger, vampires and werewolves have been integrated into society. Queen Victoria even has a werewolf and a vampire advisor (dewan and potentate) who we are told have helped immensely in developing the British Empire. The werewolves are, of course, lead by their alpha - Lord Macon while the vampires live in hives. This world is very enjoyable and the requirements of Victorian society makes a wonderful contrast with werewolf society, Lord Macon finding it especially difficult to maintain the proper etiquette around the full moon!

There are many excellent characters in Soulless. Lord Aceldama, Alexia’s eccentric flamboyant friend who happens to be a gay vampire. Professor Lyall, the beta werewolf, carries his role as ‘second’ to Lord Macon wonderfully in a capable and humorous way! Not forgetting Miss Hisselpenny with her questionable taste in hats and Floote the butler.

Soulless is not primarily a romance but there is Lord Macon who Alexia has been at odds with since “The Hedgehog Incident”, who it turns out rather like Alexia after all!

The style and language takes a little getting used to but once you do it helps build the atmosphere of Victorian London.

Souless is humorous and very well written with a little bit of mystery mixed in with the fantasy and it may just leave you hankering after a treacle tart! Well worth the read and I’m very much looking forward to reading the second book in the Parasol Protectorate series, Changeless!

Friday 13 August 2010

Follow Friday #1



For the first time today I'm participating in Follow on Friday hosted by Parajunkee { Parajunkee.com }. Excellent idea and a great way to get out and meet fellow book bloggers! As you'll see my book blog is VERY new so please be gentle with me!

Here's how to do it from the Parajunkee site: Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Host { Parajunkee.com } and any one else you want to follow on the list. Follow our Featured Bloggers - http://nymfaux.blogspot.com/. Put your Blog name & URL in the Linky thing. Grab the button up there and place it in a post, this post is for people to find a place to say hi in your comments. Follow Follow Follow as many as you can. If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love...and the followers. If you want to show the link list, just follow the link below the entries and copy and paste it within your post! If your new to the follow friday hop, comment and let me know, so I can stop by and check out your blog!

Sunday 8 August 2010

Review: Stray by Rachel Vincent



Book Blurb
I look like an all-American grad student. But I am a werecat, a shape-shifter, and I live in two worlds.

Despite reservations from my family and my Pride, I escaped the pressure to continue my species and carved out a normal life for myself. Until the night a Stray attacked.

I'd been warned about Strays -- werecats without a Pride, constantly on the lookout for someone like me: attractive, female, and fertile. I fought him off, but then learned two of my fellow tabbies had disappeared.

This brush with danger was all my Pride needed to summon me back . . . for my own protection. Yeah, right. But I'm no meek kitty. I'll take on whatever -- and whoever -- I have to in order to find my friends. Watch out, Strays -- 'cause I got claws, and I'm not afraid to use them . . .


Genre: Urban Fantasy
Series: Shifters
Published: 1st June 2007
Publisher: Mira
Excert: Excert
Website: Rachel Vincent

My Review
Faythe is one of only eight Tabbies in the country and now they have started to go missing. After she is attacked on campus she returns to the Pride but in characteristic fashion refuses to just do as she is told. Once returned she is also confronted with dealing with her ex-boyfriend Marc, more unfinished business.

Faythe can be a challenging character to like at times, she is strong, determined and can seem a little immature at times but comes to take on her responsibilities and matures nicely towards the end of the book. Maybe she is this way because she has hidden as much as she could from being a werecat for so long but now must face her destiny.

I liked the world Rachel Vincent builds for her Werecats because it is believable in a modern day country. Being a first book in a series quite a lot of time is devoted to telling us about the world Faythe and the Pride operate in.

Stray is a great start to the Shifters series which leaves you wanting to know what comes next for Faythe and the other Werecats.
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