Helpful Score: 7
What a ride, I finished this book in one hugh gulp. Jennifer Ashley has constructed a world where the shifter community was "outed" by a member on live TV about twenty years previously. Once revealed, the shifter communities were hunted and killed as animals in some countries. In the US shifters were allowed to live in relative peace in shanty towns if they "took the collar". The restraining collar, part magic and part science, that once placed around the neck can not be removed. If the shifter becomes aggressive, the collar shocks the shifter in increasinly larger doses until the shifter is unconscious or has calmed down. The collar is why shifters are not considered a physical threat. Treated as 3rd class citizens, refused most jobs, knowledge, and technology most shifters concentrate on family life not material concerns. Or so it appears. The story opens with a female human lawyer trying to defend a male shifter accused of murdering his girl friend (also a human). Because of the collars, the lawyer knows that the case is false but trying to prove it becomes her crusade. Following the trail of evidence introduces her to her first shifter and to the shifter community at large. This was great book, a fully drawn "world" and I can hardly wait for the next installment, write faster Jennifer!
Helpful Score: 4
Loved this book~! I cannot wait for the next~! Its a new series on Shifters and so far so good.
Helpful Score: 4
I really liked this book. She did a great job on setting up a really great universe where shifters are a known quantity. I hope this just the start of a great series.
I loved this story. It was a bit different than shifter mates with unwilling female, saves her life, and then she falls in love with him. I enjoyed the book from start to finish.
Helpful Score: 2
Just like the other reviewer I finished this book in one sitting. It definitely kept my interest. I am really looking forward to where she is going with this series. While there were some areas where you felt a bit confused or not sure of the complicated hierarchy that is set up in this book, it was still an enjoyable read. I found myself frustrated by lack of knowledge WITH the heroine of the story. I enjoyed finding out about stuff WITH the heroine. Her reactions were ones I could see myself making if I was put in her situation. While you leave the book still feeling like there is a lot to learn about these segregated shifters who are discriminated against based on their ability to shift to animal form it is not a feeling that detracted from the book or the series for me. It just felt like any other series where you aren't given everything right off the bat. You find out about stuff as the series progresses and you need to know. A very promising start to a new series. A very good read.
