Review: Good beginning
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 11, 2013
Can you imagine having no clue that you are a jaguar shifter until your entire world goes to hell in a handbasket? I can't, and I love shifter stories, but I'm pretty sure I'd have lost my mind if I'd gone through what Jacyn experienced. 'Primal Passions' is book one in Stephani Hecht's series 'Lost Shifters' and I was super excited to read it because it had been recommended by more than one friend. The fact that this author is new to me also held its own appeal as I adore discovering new favorites. The premise and world building is very well done and will most definitely keep me coming back for more.Jacyn is an orphan who was tossed around in the foster care system. Now at twenty-five, he doesn't really have any friends and he pretty much works all the time as a paramedic. In one night everything he knows about himself and the world around him comes crumbling down. Attacked inside a convenience store by four large males, he is helped by Logan, a very sexy man. However, the Ravens manage to kidnap Jacyn, although he shifts for the first time (oh, holy crap, that's got to be a dream, right?) and puts his own beat down on his abductors. Once again, though, Logan saves him, they escape, and Logan tells Jacyn he's a jaguar shifter, part of the lost shifters that disappeared and everyone thought they were dead, but now they know they've been raised as humans and the search is on to locate them before humans discover their kind. Oh, and lucky Jacyn, he also has brothers and a sister. Logan also tells him the bird shifters hate everyone and have been systematically trying to decimate all the other shifter populations. Huh. I think my head would have been hurting after all of that.Logan is a black jaguar, which apparently is looked down upon, and to make it even worse, his parents were rogues. No matter how attractive he finds Jacyn, nothing can happen, because Logan isn't good enough for the brother of the feline shifter leader, Mitchell. Logan has some confidence issues, although they are not unfounded based on how the other shifters treat him, except for Jacyn's family. Logan is a loner who hunts down rogues, rescues kidnapped shifters, and fights against the Ravens. He's basically a jack-of-all-trades. Now Logan is stuck transporting Jacyn back to Michigan and these two in close confines become incendiary. But Logan is bound and determined to step back when they reach their coalition because he just knows that Jacyn will end up looking at him the same way most of the other felines do. *rolls eyes*This was a good and interesting read that builds the baseline for future stories. Jacyn and Logan get their happy ever after, but even more importantly, Jacyn is able to help Mitchell to track down more of the lost shifters. Jacyn and Logan were both good, strong, and very sexy characters that I liked, a lot. Now, I'm looking forward to more books in the series.