Review: Keeps getting better
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 6, 2013
I love a book series and particularly the kind written like 'Leopard's Spots' where you have consistent interaction with the characters you've met in prior installments. For me, that makes it feel like I'm reading about people I actually know, and thus the series is burned into my brain with a lot of warm and fuzzy feelings. So, for that very reason, I was excited to read this fourth installment of the series where Isaiah, Tim's little brother, is the featured leopard.Isaiah doesn't think of himself as smart. In fact, he has a pretty bad habit of beating himself up about what he considers his "lack if brains". His brother is the one with all the fancy degrees. Isaiah owns an auto shop and loves restoring classic cars. He's pretty shy and a little insecure outside of work but still yearns for his soul mate and hopes to find the love at first sight. When a customer recommends that he start volunteering at a GLBTQ center, he works up the nerve to go and meet the director.Bae is a veterinarian with a mobile clinic who also volunteers at The Heart, the GLBTQ center. He is an Amur leopard shifter, and because their race is almost extinct, the priority within his lepe is on reproduction. His family, for the most part, doesn't have a problem with him being gay, they've just always assumed his mate would be female and Bae would help to contribute the cubs they need. Never mind that Bae gets nauseous just thinking about having sex with a woman.In the midst of Isaiah and Bae beginning their mating, they are also plagued with a black SUV that seems to be stalking Bae. They have no idea who it is or what they want. When Isaiah and Bae go to meet with Bae's father and the head of the lepe to announce their mating and inform them that Bae will not be producing cubs, Bae is banished from the lepe and further contact with his family.I greatly enjoyed this installment because not only did it deal with different shifter types, it also dealt with completely different shifter cultures and societies. This book also tried to delve a little more into what creates a shifter and, from a scientific standpoint, what is in their DNA that makes them what they are. I definitely recommend this series but will also say that it should be read in order so that nothing gets missed.NOTE: This book was provided by Total-E-Bound for the purpose of a review on Rainbow Book Reviews