Review: I had higher expectation.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 17, 2014
Like the two "3 stars reviewers" before me, my problem is also the transformation in Dex's character. At the beginning he came across a serious and dedicated detective abandoned by his boyfriend. But once he joined the THIRDS, the guy became clownish and a smart aleck and his comic antics just irritated the heck outta of me. As the story is practically told from Dex's views, he is of course the hero riding to the rescue of the supposedly Alpha of his team at the end.  I like the brooding Sloan initially but all too quickly he became too vulnerable which did not fit his status as the team leader and a jaguar shifter. I also don't see the point of some parts of the story told from Sloan's viewpoints. Keep to Dex completely or better still alternate equally between the two.  I love mysteries and am always slow at guessing the villain, if at all. But the villain in this case is so obvious, turning caricature toward the end. Another major problem is not enough actions with the shifters in their animal forms interacting with their human partners because isn't this the clutch of THIRDS. As for the romance between Sloan and Dex, it was rather typical and quite boring. Would I buy Book 2 ? Probably because I do like the idea of the THIRDS and the secondary characters but the writer really need to be more imaginative with the plot (how this book ended is already a disappointment) and more complexity in the romance.