Review: 3.5 stars -  I little bit of ewww knocks this down a notch
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 22, 2014
3.5 stars- I have yet to read one of the full length books in this series but I do like the shorts and I did enjoy this one on the whole even though I had a few minor issues with a few aspects of the story.Lily's date with a distinguished older man she met through online dating did not end well, she ends up a blood slave to a vampire and survives where others don't, by being compliant, but planning for escape. And just before she gets too weak, she gets her opportunity and stakes her captor and flees only to pass out and wake up chained and captive to a shifter clan. When Ellis finds that his twin has chained the poor traumatized woman, he takes over her care and uses his years as a vet to try and win her trust. As Lily regains her strength she plots to escape by seducing Ellis, but doesn't expect to be so attracted to him.The fact that the relationship develops when Lily is a prisoner (for her own safety) makes this a little bit uncomfortable, though Lily does stop Ellis when he tries to move forward with their relationship, pointing out that she can't know how she really feels in situation where she isn't actually free to choose. But the biggest ewww factor for me is that initially on her first day with the shifters and later when she is being kidnapped yet again, she pees herself.  It is probably a realistic reaction in the first caat and sort of clever if icky strategy in the second, but again ewwww.Still, one the whole I still enjoyed this and look forward to more little fillin stories in this world, Sims does a good job of making them feel long enough.