Review: Cliffhangers & 1-day whirlwind romance shorts & baby killers
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 26, 2014
Modern day setting, unique in that it takes place near New Orleans in the Bayou (fancy name for swamp, but it does sound prettier). This is 6 whirlwhind romance erotica tales where the man is a shapechanger to a cougar. The short stories take place in the same small community, one after the next, building on a larger plotline.In each tale, man and woman get up, meet, feel lust, like each other, have sex, and declare their undying love / consider ourselves married before bedtime. Good writing and plots but way too rushed hurry hurry feeling. Every story ends on an annoying cliffhanger, including the last one, and while there is an over reaching plot with nasty super villains, we never learn much and our heros are never allowed to make forward progress. The romances themselves are pleasant reads.My biggest complaint is to the overarching plot, which involves the super villains murdering all unborn babies of this shapechanger community. They've killed all shapechanger babies for the last 50 years. Throughout this book, there is one lady pregnant with a shapechanger child, and her child is perpetually on the verge of dying. The authors seem okay leaving her in limbo to perpetuate the motivation for how "boy meets girl", but I was really bothered the nasty background theme of unwillingly imposed infertility and killing babies.