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Book Review of The Shape of Desire (Shifting Circle, Bk 1)

The Shape of Desire (Shifting Circle, Bk 1)
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I liked it when I first read it back in 2015, and it's an easy fast read, moving along briskly with some good action scenes. But this time around I was a little more skeptical. The whole "you can't help who you love" thing makes Maria sound more like Kathleen than I found comfortable. She doesn't seem to have matured any in the 15 years she's been involved with Dante...she has little life outside work and then waiting for him to come back. She mopes around and pines. Why is he so wonderful? We don't know anything about him other than he shows up and they have sex. What do they talk about if he won't talk about the majority of his life? Why does he think he's some kind of abomination, when he has family members with the same condition and there are others scattered about the country? Who was the husky? Anyway...there's lots of sex, and it has a happy ending for Maria, I guess.