Review: Overcoming a life of abuse
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 10, 2014
I've enjoyed this author for awhile especially her series Southwestern Shifters, Love in Xxchange, Southern Spirits and Leopard Spots. Owning several in paperback form, prior to purchasing my first kindle. Unfortunately I haven't been able to read every book in all of the series. Had I read more of the recent books in the Leopard Spots series maybe I would have been prepared for this spinoff series, Spotless.Luckily I read enough to be familiar with some of the leopard shifters and their mates that crossed over into the new series. The first book of Spotless involves a halfbreed and his newly found mate. Neither had a clue fumbling through their mating bond. One didn't know he had a heart until his mate touched it. The other was untouched, innocent, abused, damaged halfbreed (leopard puma mix) covered in scars. For all his life only his brother attempted to protect him and cared about him. Lonely scarred hated despised and living in fear, Adal had lived a miserable life in a leopard community led by his father who made sure everyone despised him and his older halfbreed brother.While there is a lot else going on, the opening chapters are not for the faint of heart. The cruelty inflicted, the depth of hatred, the vicious fighting between shifters. The rest of the story entails the mixed shifter's struggle to overcome all his health and physical problems in hopes of being able to finally live a "normal" life. Having a strong protective loving mate helped. If only he could be reunited with his brother and permanently escape the wrath of his father then his life would be complete.