Review: Liked the Idea of Bird Shifters..Breath of Fresh Air
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 25, 2014
This book was a breath of fresh air.  I have grown slightly tired of the "four legged" shifter personae so I purchased this book.  The first story involved a reclusive author who shifts into a hawk and works to have minimal contact with humans. A "damsel in distress"  catches his attention but she has alternate motives that may cost her the love of her life.  This story was a little bit slow for me but it has a really good ending.  It has just the right amount of steam.  Now, the second story was my favorite and the longest and most intense. You have an a gorgeous Native American warrior who shifts into a condor or "Thunderbird" and a scientist who rescues him when he is in bird form and an assassin shoots him.  He almost instantly recognizes her as his mate and marks her. It takes her a while to accept that she is his mate even after some seriously hot, passionate sex episodes.  The outdoor, public sex scene was done really well.  It has a bit of violence--some spanking and a killing--but it does not take away from the story.  Lastly, you have a snowy owl shifter that owns a coffee shop with his best friend and a jaeger bird shifter running from her overbearing fiancee and criminal minded father.  This relationship was almost instantaneous which I understand due to the length of the story.  The strong silent type meets bubbly but secretive.  There is a serious fight scene and secrets are revealed.  This one drama filled story.