Review: More Than Fur
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 28, 2013
***Received from Entangled Publishing for an honest review***Cursed by a witch over a misunderstanding, Yves Sucat has spent the last nine hundred years wandering the earth...as a Saint Bernard. All he wants is to be human again, but to accomplish that he needs to find a way to permanently break the curse that's kept him trapped him in a dog's body.Regina, owner of a dog grooming business, stumbles upon the saddest looking Saint Bernard ever. He's hungry, dirty, and in desperate need of a haircut. So she takes him back to her shop, cleans him up, then decides to take him home. Except a quick trip for a walk in the park has her rethinking her plan to take him home and turns her world completely upside down.I liked Regina's initial resistance to her attraction to Yves. Each time she walked away from his attempts at seducing her only heightened their awareness of and desire for each other, making their first time together that much more enjoyable to read. I also liked the differences in Regina's personality depending on where she was and who she was a with. Amongst her canine friends, she was open, loving, welcoming. But when with her employees (who cared about her very much) or even with Yves, she was aloof, closed off, cautious. It was nice to see such different sides to the heroine.I wasn't very fond of one of the twists in this story though. **Spolier Alert** That Regina is a reincarnation of an apprentice to the witch who cursed Yves seemed to come from nowhere.**End Spoiler** In the end, the twist made sense but it would've been awesome to have events throughout the book prepare the reader for that particular revelation.Overall, this was an enjoyable story for me. Ms. Gissendaner has written about an attraction that grows into a love that's strong enough to overcome the unusual--a curse that turned the Hero into a dog and the collar that turns him into a man--to bring Yves and Regina the happy ending they both deserve.