Review: Too Many People, Too Many Unanswered Questions
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 15, 2012
The story according to the product page is 116p long.  Which should have given the author more than enough time to give proper answers to some of the questions in the book.  I realize that there are other "The Protector" stories, however nowhere in the description did I get a hint that maybe I should read the others first.  So I am assuming this novel is supposed to be a stand alone. If so it failed in so many ways.Question 1  Who are "The Protectors"?  Why are they called "Protectors"? According to the story they don't know who they are just that they ..are.  Other than themselves I don't understand whom they are protecting.Question 2 Who are the Council and what gives them the right to make unilateral decisions.Question 3  Why must all of them have horrendous childhoods?Question 4 Why are there so many extraneous characters that really don't have a place in the story.  They feel like tools to get the main characters from A to B. I find that cheating. If someone is a BFF then flesh them out not just have walk on roles.There are other questions but that would really get into spoiler territory.I would like to say that the writing is coherent, the romance/sex scenes are done well.  Although I felt the romance portion was so rushed.  They got to love way to quickly.  They are groping each other after 2 seconds.  Now I might understand that in a shifter novel where mating is instinctual and immediate.  However, nowhere in the story does this feel as if this instant attraction is common to their species.I kept wanting to like the story.  Overall I liked the main characters but always felt out of synch, as if the timing was not correct.  I might try one of the other novels to see if I feel the same way because the writing is good.  It's just the story craft that is lacking.