Review: Did not work for me
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 20, 2013
I do enjoy stories about the shifters. Granted, these days  I am very picky about those stories and reading significantly less of those, but I still enjoy the idea of having a character in the story who can become somebody else.  I liked another story by this writer and when I saw this one on Amazon bestseller list, I decided that I am going to get it.  Unfortunately while I did like the writing, the story itself mostly did not work for me. I am sure partially it is because the story is a short novella and the writer did not have time to develop the characters and their motivations in depth, but on the hand, I am so tired of excusing so many short stories/short novellas on that basis.  If the story is shorter in length it should have the scope appropriate for the page length in my opinion.As much as I prefer seeing some twist on "I am your mate, you are my mate, we are now going to be together forever" trope,  I can deal with the standard mate bond if the love between the guys is not born only because of the bond.  Hart supposedly knew that Dayton is his mate since his first heat. Okay then and does he make any effort to come and get him, court him, claim him? No, not really. That just made no sense to me. I mean, obviously it would not have been easy for Hart to do so, but considering what happened later in the story, I did not think it would have been that hard either.Hart's father motivations in kicking Hart out of the pride made even less sense to me. Oh I understood how it was supposed to look, but again considering of what happened later in the story, I just was thinking that this just did not make sense to me.Where do I start with Dayton? I was so pleased that he had some backbone during his first meeting with Hart, but then the backbone disappeared and he constantly needed to be saved. And if he grew up with Pride why be so shocked about the events later in the story?It did not work for me.