Review: Needed More Story, Less Sex.. But Good
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 18, 2010
This was a short, but entertaining read with an intriguing story line. In the Amazon jungle, there lives a secret society of shape shifters. They can go from human to jaguar and back. Iada is one of the most powerful of these jaguar people and her uncles have groomed her to take over the kingdom. When her uncles say, "jump," Iada asks, "how high?" They have her under control.. or think they do.In order to obtain control of the kingdom, Iada must first win a fight. Until now she has been unbeatable. Her new opponent is what they call a mutant, half human, half jaguar. (Not just able to shape shift, but actually has a human biological parent.) His name is Gabriel. He spares Iada's life on one condition: she must be his bride and convince the rest of the shape shifting jaguar society to follow him, not her uncles.What follows is an adventure in both the jungle and in human society. Iada must accept her new husband's people, her people must accept her husband, her uncles must be defeated and their control over her relinquished, and most important of all, Iada must learn to trust and possibly open her heart to love. She also discovers her exiled sister's whereabouts and aims to remedy things with her.Really cool story and I wish there had been more of it. I'm fully aware this falls into the romance category, but about 25 percent of the book was sex and I would have preferred for it to go deeper into the plot. Thus, it doesn't hit the 5 star mark, but I did enjoy it.