Review: I love these two characters and their emotional journey. Lovely!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 11, 2011
I first read of Trey inBeautiful Monsteryears ago and found him one enigmatic character. I wanted the writer to give Trey his own story but with so many MMs popping up I forgot to check in with this writer. Fortunately a fan brought this one up. I am one very satisfied reader as I finished Trey's and Jonah's story in one go. OK so I wished it could have been longer with perhaps a short epilogue years into the future telling us of these two guys living peacefully and safely. They certainly deserve that after their ordeal. But hey the writer did mentioned at the end that this couple will continue to feature in her series. Also I notice this writer never waste words with mundane stuff. LOL.Back to Lynx. I have to say Skye's shapeshifters' characters certainly make others like those in JL Langley's "With or Without series" very lame. Trey and Jonah are so vividly drawn out, their human personalities in sync with their animals' ones. In fact they are more wolf-like and lynx-like and not humans who merely shapeshift, which make these characters more credible. But they are humans too as these guys have their own emotional baggage and wounded pasts which have scarred them so badly. I love Trey but Jonas is the wonderful surprise in this story. The writer has done a wonderful job with Jonah's character. Jonah is a lynx and I love that his human personality reflects this wild, solitary, unwavering cat with an independent streak so well.There are pages in the story which brought lumps to my throat. Jonas' aloneness, desperation and hurt at being abandoned. Trey's control yet vulnerability and sense of futility when he thought all was lost. Emotions so well expressed by this writer.As for the plot, it certainly is no vanilla stuff like "The Holland Brothers" series. True that I wished I have read Marked and Feral before I headed straight into Lynx. There is a little distraction as I wished I know a bit more of what has happened or is transpiring at the same time. But it by no means affect my complete enjoyment of the story. I just want to know what happens next. Will Jonah finds Trey or Trey finds Jonah. As for that part when Jonah lets his animal side take over, wow! I also love that the writer takes time to tell the story from these two guys' animals view points, which makes these shape shifters' characters all the more real.Trey and Jonah really get to me and their touching and emotional journey as they found, lost and found each other again grip me from the beginning to the end. This is what MM paranomal romance is all about. Not just one usual sap fest. Love it.