Review: So sweet
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 6, 2013
'A Wicked Caress' is book five in Stephani Hecht's 'Lost Shifters' series and I was so excited to get to it. I met Noah in the last installment and my heart had gone out to him for having suffered abuse and captivity for over a year. When the coalition rescued him he was very near death and it's taken Noah a number of months to heal. The fact that his siblings are treating him with kid gloves isn't helping his mental state as he already feels so different since he's much smaller than them. Noah also is the only one with midnight black hair but when he asks Mitchell about it, Noah is told not to worry. Hello? He's always worried about being different, first because of being an orphan, then because he's gay, and now since he is obviously even different within the feline shifters.Seth is a tiger and he's the man who kicked in the door and found Noah almost dead. Picking him up and cradling Noah in his arms left an impression but he's been gone from HQ for six months on a job for the government. Seth is a little shocked when he sees how everyone is babying Noah since that isn't going to help him if the Ravens come after Noah again.Noah doesn't feel like he fits in and so he just smiles, says everything is fine, and hides his horrible insomnia and nightmares. Running into Seth one night when Noah sneaked out of the family apartment seems like manna from Heaven, and Noah can't resist flirting. Flirting doesn't get Noah anywhere except Seth offering to train Noah at night so he won't be so vulnerable when the Raven who abused him comes for him. Because he will, he's already put a reward out on Noah's return.This was definitely the sweetest of all the love stories, in my opinion. Seth and Noah are adorable together and this was an easy read. The danger is still out there, but this book took place entirely within HQ and mainly focused on their romance. The twist came at the end when the last lost member of their family made himself known, and not in a good way. I'm looking forward to the next book.