Review: Nice start to a series!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 17, 2014
Attention all fans of military men and shifters! A new series has come to town!!Excellent paranormal book with simple yet effective world building- just what the doctor ordered! Charlie Cochet, your hard work has paid off. This was very enjoyable, though I almost knocked it down to 3.5 stars because the mystery element was weak.In a lot of paranormal books the reader has to do a lot of hard work getting up to speed with the author's created "world." There is often either an info dump or things aren't very well explained, both of which are pet peeves of mine. This was surprisingly simple and easily digestible world building. If you read the blurb and were a bit confused, here is what you need to know: Therian= Shifter. That's about it. The rest is easy peasy, just some details about how the world got that way and some other basics. I liked the care that the author put into the THIRDS world. Everything was well conceptualized and nicely executed.And the MCs?! *fans self* I loved Dex and Sloane and the chemistry between them. It was all very alpha male, very testosterone-y, and smoking hot. I could have used a wee bit more dirty talk, but I have a weakness for a dirty mouthed boy.Charlie Cochet also created side characters with a TON of meat on their bones... and I don't mean in the chubby-chaser kind of way. There is so much depth to them! I could see this series going on and on. Who DIDN'T feel the chemistry between Ash and Cael and between Calvin and Hobbs (yup, you read that correctly)?? There is a LOT to work with there and I can't wait to read those stories.And the writing... so tight! It had an excellent flow and pace, never getting boring or dull.Now on to the bad... The mystery. *wince* That was a blunder if I'd ever saw one. If you are going to make a bad guy, at least hide him better, Captain Obvious. If I'm going to read romantic suspense, or a mystery, I want to be more clueless. I think this author has to work on her red herring skills (PLEASE!).If I'm going to nit pick, there was also a ton of back and forth between Sloane and Dex that grew a bit tiresome. I don't like my guys to waffle quite so much, but that is just personal preference.All in all, a very nice book that will be sure to please paranormal and romantic suspense fans alike.