Review: Enjoy the Hunter Clan!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 4, 2014
home.AboutAcronymsRatingsReview ScheduleReviewersSubmissionsFriday, April 4, 2014title pic Madam Aus Reviews The Kayan’s Mage by Jess BuffettPosted by Madam Aus on April 4, 2014“Besides, if any of them try anything, I can fry them.”“Nice, Riley… real nice,” he muttered, rolling his eyes at his twinLeaning down, Jake whispered in his ear, “Good thing you can put him out.”Yeah, this should be fun. Cue sarcasm.GENRE: M/M, shapeshiftersRATING: 5 Sweet Peas!CLICK TO TWEET: Madam Aus reviews The Kayan’s Mage by Jess Buffett. 5 Sweet Peas!photo jb-hc-kayansmage3.jpg”width=BLURB: Sawyer McLeod lost his family and his entire Guild, except his twin, seven years ago. Now almost twenty-one, he is coming to the age to receive his abilities as a Mage. Unfortunately there are others who will stop at nothing to see the brothers don’t survive that long.When Jake Hunter, Kayan for a Clan of Wolf Shifters living in Australia, finally finds his true-mate, he doesn’t expect it to be in the midst of a brutal attack. Through omissions of truth, misunderstandings, and fear, Jake struggles to prove to Sawyer that he can trust him.When Sawyer is finally willing to give Jake a chance, a ghost from the past returns to destroy everything they have built together. Will they be able to overcome the foe long thought gone, or will it be the end for the Kayan’s Mage?MADAM AUS’S OPINION: It’s refreshing for me to see a shifter novel set in my own home town. It’s good to be able to see in my mind’s eye where they travel and where they go, and where important events occur. It doesn’t make much difference to my overall enjoyment, just the thrill of being in the same space as the author was when they set the scene. Firstly this is number one of the Hunter Clan series and there are already five out so,if you get them, like me, you can (Paraphrasing Dory here) just keep reading, reading, reading….There is a lot we ask of the first in a series, even if it is loosely bound together one, which this is not. There is establishment of the world, the rules (or at least the basic ones) that govern the characters and the world they inhabit, especially in a paranormal, the MC’s plus the upcoming MC’s, the family relationships, the inhabitants and the ‘secrecy’ level. The Kayan’s Mage is a strong start to this series and Jess Buffett has done well, showing us all of the above whilst not taking away from Sawyer and Jake’s story, setting up the following romances and give us a strong foundation in the Alpha couple.She also does great banter… And if you have never read any of my reviews before I need to tell you I am such a sl#t for good banter. Riley, Sawyer’s twin, is the queen of sarcasm and dry black humour and I think we might have been separated at birth. Jess writes with such a dry sense of humour and a lovely sense of the absurd and I thought the story and the series arc was beautifully weaved , the threads of which were left for the next book without a hugely dramatic cliffhanger, which was nice and could be jarring if not done well. The story, though short, has tension constantly building with the upcoming threat to the paranormal community, but takes place over the space of a couple of months. So whilst we go through the main action and gloss over the normal day to day stuff it doesn’t take away from the flow of the main story, it in fact enhances it.The instalove, paranormal in origin, actually suits a book of this length, there is the no muss, no questioning does he like me or not, so some angst .. gone…. Although these two actually take time to get to know each other, which delays the hardcore action until later, it is kinda nice. What we do get, lovin wise, is really hot… big smiley face here! I really loved this first book and really all the ones that followed, join me in enjoying the Hunter Clan.