Review: Great Novella
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 16, 2014
Max's Skunk by Jane Wakely is the sixth book in her Chestnut Rock series.  Each book can be read as a stand alone book.In Max's Skunk, Maxine Donovan is a baker who bakes muffins for Chestnut Rock Resort, owned by Ethan's family.  For two years Ethan and Max have been building a relationship. Maxine hopes to be more then friends and so does Ethan but he likes to take his time....That threw me for a loop because most shifter stories are insta-love romances so for Ethan to be patient enough to not claim Max for two years seemed a bit off to me but Ethan is a skunk and I really don't know much about skunks...who are apparently very slow on making any decisions.  So yeah I didn't agree with that aspect of the story but then again I think the slowness of the relationship was an important part of the storyline.***spoiler alert******spoiler alert***So Max is human and Ethan is a skunk.  Ethan is very sensitive about his skunk status, maybe picked on as a kid. I don't know. It has been over a month since I read this story and i can't quite remember why Ethan was sensitive about this.  Max loves skunks (has no idea about shifters) but she absolutely loves skunks...so much so that her home is a shrine to skunks. Now most people might think this is weird but as a collector of stuff (not skunks) I thought that part was funny and I got it.  Ethan on the other hand didn't. He thought Max was messing with him so he breaks off their relationship. At this point I was ready to punch him in the face.  Seriously what guy would think a woman would spend hundreds of dollars on collectibles just to mess with him? *Sigh*  So yeah at this point I wasn't an Ethan fan but eventually someone smacks some sense into him and the couple get a HEA.I did enjoy this story. It was different from a typical shifter story. It was interesting to read about skunk shifters and as a fan of this series for me it is always fun to read brief mentions from characters from the previous books.