Review: Very realistic shifter romance!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 19, 2013
Interesting characters, a mystery to solve and a plot with a twist - what a great way to start a new series. While Silas and Theo are shifters, that plays less of a role in the way their relationship develops than the kind of men they are; it was more of a background fact that determined their character than a real influence on what happened. I liked that a lot, and enjoyed reading a shifter book where the romance developed independent of a `mate bond'.Theo is a heart-breakingly lonely doctor who gets pulled into saving the survivor of a plane crash much against his will. I loved how I only gradually found out that he is a wolf shifter and what had happened to drive him into the solitude of the Alaskan winter. Even though he thinks he is a bad doctor, and carries around enough guilt for three men, he cannot help himself. He just has to do the right thing.Silas is a leader, used to getting what he wants. When he ends up wounded and with amnesia, he has to rely on himself for the first time since he was a kid. With the trappings of leadership all gone, he learns what it means to just be him and fall in love. Even though he wants to stay with Theo, he does the right thing too, wanting to find out who did this to him.The twist at the end may not have caught me unaware, but it was well done. The suspense as to how these two will make things work is high right up until the end and there are no unrealistically easy solutions. The fact that Silas has to figure out how to fit what he wants (Theo) around his duty as a pride leader makes him a better man in the end. If you like shifter stories set firmly in this reality (well, as much as they can be), if real men who struggle with their duties interest you, and if a slowly blooming relationship between `a lion and a wolf' sounds interesting, you will probably, like this book. I look forward to the next one.NOTE: This book was provided by Resplendence Publishing for the purpose of a review on Rainbow Book Reviews.