Review: Steamy, angst-light, MM Shifter Short Story
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 1, 2013
A Hearts On Fire ReviewTHREE STARS--"Silver-Tipped Justice" is book #8 in the "Kontra's Menagerie" series and it stars the man himself, Kontra. Now I have never read this series so I am unsure of the struggles this bear shifter had to endure on not having his mate. I think the story was okay to be read as a standalone.Kontra has met his mate before, sixty years before but because his mate was then 15 years old he figured he would wait until he was of age. And when his mate, Tim was of age, he decided to make him live a little and lost contact with him.I enjoy shifter paranormal stories especially the entire 'you're-my-mate-and-the-only-one-made-for-me' trope so it took a while to get why Kontra would just give him up so easily. He was possessive when he finally came into contact with Tim but not so much that he didn't end up losing him...again! And then he did such a weak job of protecting from his enemies a second time after retrieving his mate with the help of his shifter pack.I didn't find Kontra as uber-alpha as I would have liked and his reasoning for losing Time and all of the years they could have had together niggled slightly on my nerves. And Tim, he went from grieving over his deceased partner to super hot for Kontra really quick.That being said I still enjoyed the story and it was engaging enough for me to try others from this series. The sex scene was pretty steamy, the story was not horribly written. It felt a little lacking in some areas like the bad guys not actually being that bad or the lackadaisical feeling I got from Kontra. I do commend the first mating scene because I really didn't think the author was going to go there with injured party but I liked it.A good few hours or so of mindless, steamy fluff...not bad at all.