Review: Showed promise but didn't live up to potential.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 2, 2014
Luckily this book only cost me $.99 so I don't feel like I was ripped off for that much money!  I did manage to finish the entire book but can't say I really enjoyed it.  The book jumped around way too much and came across as just plain weird, and not in a fun way.  The idea of bat shifters, corgi shifters, crocodile shifters and way too many others type of shifter just took made the book seem ridiculous.The entire first scene of the book didn't really feel like it belonged to me.  Why start out with a secondary character having sex with his wife and then not even mention him again until the end of the book.  I felt like that scene was in there just for a gratuitous sex scene.I also felt that too many things were hinted at as possible back story with out explaining why they needed to be there.  Maybe the author was trying to set up future books but it felt like to me just too much time was spent hinting at things with nothing explained.  I found this particularily annoying when the author states in the description of the book that this was a series of stand alone stories that could be read in any order.  Clearly Lynn Red is hoping to make readers want to read the next book in hopes of finding out what truly happened to the brother.Then there were things hinted at that should have been explained in more detail.  If Crag truly hated the promoter so much, why did he continue to fight for him?  If it was because he owed him money, how did he get so deeply in debt.  If he was being blackmailed, why was he being blackmailed.  Why did we need to read soooo many times about how the tape sounded after he wrapped his hands?I gave the book 2 stars because it shows promise of being a really good book but it wasn't quite there.  The book didn't flow smoothly and felt disjointed and weird.  I almost felt like 2 different people were writing it or one person was given an outline with several key scenes to include and they made up the story around those scenes.I have to admit the author didn't help by apparently handing out so many free copies and flooding the reviews with "honest" reviews.  The large number of people posting reviews stating they had received ARC in exchange for honest reviews almost turned me off before I ever started.  If a book is that great, you don't need to give out copies to everybody and their neighbor then have them post their supposed honest reviews.