Review: Finding the Town's Protector through her Inner Beast and Outer Love
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 5, 2012
Book 1 "Cougar Falls" series. Book 2In Plain Sight.Plot:Finally free of her ex, Rachel comes to Cougar Falls and her inheritance from Aunt Charlotte: A Magic Missing Totem, and three sexy catamount shifters for neighbours. A New Beginning? Yup. But not one she ever could have imagined.Comments:- Contemporary paranormal erotic romance with an explicit menage scene.- 2377 kindle locations, 28,957 words but finishes around 1766 locations. (Novella sized).- m/f with a 1f:3m experience. Explicit, sometimes Dominant (authoritative). No m/m (brothers). Aiming for a committed m/f (the foursome was to "mark" her).- Includes excerpts fromThe Wallflowerby Diana Marie Bell,Treasure Huntingby Jenna McDonald,Tiger by the Tailby Kaye Chambers,Even For Meby Taryn Blackthorne, andClaiming Their Mateby Paige McKellan.Opinion:A somewhat unusual paranormal series where different shifter creatures live and mate together (a la Shelly Laurenston), and even join the same Pack. In "Rachel's Totem" our Heroes are catamount (puma) shifters, but we meet a raptor, a bear, some foxes, and some wolves. The humans are expected to take on some of their animals traits (the foxes are "sly", for example), and so the shifting aspects become integral to the story line. It's an interesting take on the Shifter World, and set up well in this first novella of the series."Rachel's Totem" as a whole is a good book. It's solid. The erotic scenes are heated, including a menage required to bring her animal to the fore, but they perhaps aren't as well-developed as others of the genre. What it has going for it is an interesting World Premise. A Small Shifter Town with Bad Wolves on the horizon and Native American Magic playing a bass line. How these sub-plots will play out in future books is yet to be seen, but right now it gives the series Promise.3.5 stars rounded up. It needed more character depth, and I'm not convinced on the menage scenes. But as the set up for a more complex series, I liked it.-CR-