Review: 3.75 stars-enemy to lovers
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 9, 2013
3.75 starsBRITTON is the third instalment in Abby Niles contemporary, paranormal romance series-The Awakening. The series should be read in order as some of the current timeline references history and premises from the previously storylines. This is jaguar shifter Britton Townsend and half-shifter Val Calhoun’s story.The focus of the story is the search for a missing child-a mutant shifter-one who has shifted before his time; a shifter with uncontrolled shifts that has the capability of exposing the species to the human population. With the child’s mother in prison for hiding her child from the authorities, the young child goes missing from a shifter compound where he is ordered to stay until his eighteenth year. Britton and Val are called in by the High Council for a search and rescue mission but Britton’s dislike for Val is palpable and over the top. Without any explanation, Britton has had a hate-on for Val since the moment they met and spending several days together will only make things worse.The relationship between Val and Britton is an enemy to lovers story. Britton’s internal jaguar had been quelled by the High Council for breaking shifter law and when the animal is freed, the beast wants only one thing-his mate-and his mate is Val. While Val is keenly aware of her attraction to Britton, it is Britton’s animal that let’s the human side know that Val is their mate.Abby Niles pulls together a storyline with several references to the previous storyline characters and the ‘drall’ of the shifter in need of its’ mate. We watch as two people with a history of rude and condescending behavior towards one another learn that perhaps Britton’s hatred is not under his control.The world building continues from the previous storylines as more is revealed about the High Council and the laws that govern shifter society.BRITTON is a storyline where two people will learn to work together to rescue a young child and discover that there is more to their relationship than the push and pull. As Val fights to save the man that she loves there will be more questions that need to be answered when the High Council reconsiders the rules and regulations for a species unto itself.