Review: unusual shape-shifter story, but a bit too short
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 21, 2012
I love Jae's stories and her take on shape-shifters in Second Nature. So I very much looked forward to Manhattan Moon. Jae does as always an excellent job in telling a good and psychologically well founded story: this time it is about a shape-shifter who does the unthinkable, falling in love with - gasp - a human. Although excellent I felt that the story announced as a novella (nothing wrong with novellas) was a bit too short: the mystery of a not-heard off mating scent, the threat of the secret police, the possible shift in shape-shifting policies, the reaction of Shelby's immediate family were left unresolved and I would have loved a deeper exploration of all those juicy threads kept dangling around.