Review: New Shifter World
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 2, 2013
Thank you, NetGalley and Entangled, for the opportunity to read xxxWhile I liked the premise of this story, shifter mates and the why's and how's that happens, I began to be seriously annoyed by Jaylin's thought process. She has decided to never allow a bonding with a shifter mate. Even if he IS her mate. The reasoning behind this is that she has seen her mother languish, yearning for death, after the death of her bonded mate, Jaylin's father. Perception is key here. Jaylin perceives her mother's suffering and her wishes to die so that she can be with her husband for an eternity. Her dad  has been gone for 20 years. And she feels that's a LONG LONG LONG time for her mother to miss someone so intensely.So...she decides she will never bond with a shifter because then if HE dies, she'll be sad until she dies. If SHE dies, then he'll be sad until he dies and joins her in shifter heaven.To thwart that, she plans to marry a human...because then when either of them dies it won't hurt so bad. What? Because humans don't care that much? I found this reasoning to be faulty. Which leads me to believe that this author didn't write this book for me. There are many highly rated reviews for this book which proves that she did write it for a wide group of people. Just not me.There was lots of world building, including an assortment of words to name the various stages of bonding between shifters and their mates. That was pretty interesting.I will be watching the next one in this series to see where she takes it.