Review: An intriguing start to a new series
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 4, 2014
Warning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS.Rating: 6/10PROS:- I love hurt/comfort stories, and this author manages to convey both hurt and fierce protectiveness in a short amount of time.- There’s an interesting take on shifters here. Nothing too original, but I liked a few of the little details here and there, like how Drew has to consciously fight to keep himself from shifting back into his wolf form.- The small animalistic behaviors that the characters exhibit while they’re in their human forms are amusing.CONS:- I always look forward to the slow buildup of trust in stories like this, and here it happens just a little too quickly. There weren’t as many setbacks in the development of the men’s relationship as I expected there to be.- It took a little longer than I like for me to get oriented at the start of the story. There are quite a few characters and new ideas introduced in a small amount of space.- This story contains the typical Sean Michael editing mistakes throughout (although not as many as I’ve seen in others of his works), but one in particular annoyed me more than the others. The word “shift” should be used deliberately in stories about shifters, and it is used more than once here to mean that the character simply moved rather than that he turned into his other form. That made me pause every time I encountered it.Overall comments: I thought this was a fun little story; I would have liked it to be longer, but it didn’t feel gapingly incomplete to me. It doesn’t fit either of Michael’s existing BDSM series because of the paranormal angle, but if there are more Kennel Klub stories in the future, I can see myself becoming as addicted to them as I am to the Hammer and Velvet Glove stories. The human elements among the 3 series are the same.