Review: Enjoyable PNR short
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 3, 2014
3-3.5 starsThis was an enjoyable story. I liked both Samantha and Chase and the story was good but there were a couple points that left me a bit frustrated. This is the first story I've read by this author. Based off this story I may try more of her work in the future.Samantha (aka Sam) is in her last year of medical studies at Duke. She's a wolf shifter and the eldest born of her sisters. Her family is of the "Noble" shifter bloodlines and holds a council seat. Since she has no brothers, her future mate will take over the council seat. Her family holds to a tradition of not waiting for their fated mate but instead mating for power and money. Since Sam just turned 25 (the "time" when the mating should occur according to their traditions) Sam has been doing her best to avoid getting pushed in to the mating hunt but she has to go home for the holidays and worries about her situation.Chase is a wolf shifter and in the Army. He's 75 years old and has been waiting for his mate to show up and in the mean time has been away in the army most of his life. Chase is just getting off a flight coming home for the holidays when he meets another shifter in the airport and she connects with him in a way he's been waiting for feel for years.Chase and Sam exchange names but don't get more at the airport. Chase's family isn't of "noble" shifter blood and her mother makes her opinion of Chase known but Sam doesn't care about any of that and wants to see more of Chase. When Sam gets home she finds that her parents decided to spring the mating hunt on her in surprise and there are 3 strange men there waiting to hunt her to be their mate. Sam is completely freaked and her and her sisters go out. While out they happen (with a little help from a friend) to meet up with Chase and his brother. Sam and Chase talk and Sam doesn't want to tell him about the mate hunt because she's worried he could get killed in the hunt. She does tell him in the end however and he demands to join the hunt. Fortunately tradition makes it so anyone that request entry has to be allowed so Chase is in whether her parents like it or not. There's some drama as the race comes up and Sam's parents had me wondering WTF!!! a couple times because there were some weird vibes going on with the actions of both her mother and father. The hunt takes place and ends with Chase and Sam together with their mate bond complete so they'll have their HEA.While I liked the story and liked both Chase and Sam, I wish we'd gotten a little more time with them together. The story leading up to the hunt was pretty good but I have to admit that I was slightly frustrated with the ending. Chase and Sam are mated so they can't be separated now but there was no discussion of how they would proceed into the future and there was no explanation of her parents behavior or confrontation with them once all was said and done. Regardless of the plot points that were left unresolved, the story was good and I did enjoy it. :)