Review: A lot of wasted potential
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 1, 2012
This book had the potential to have it all.  It's a great concept and could have been the start of an extremely successful series.  Instead, it's a barely adequate niche book that needs a serious SERIOUS rewrite.This could have been a great story if reality and fiction had been blended a little better.  The transition from uptight FBI agent to promiscuous shifter needed to be handled with a lot more elegance, tact and angst.  Many of the secrets spilled should have been kept.  The main character told EVERYBODY her secrets and, human nature being exactly what it is, there's no one who wouldn't have known all the secrets shortly. And finally, the whole story would have benefited from spreading vital parts of a story/discovery/secrets over several books.  Regular insertions of graphic sex doesn't make a good story.  It's a crutch; an excuse to avoid quality writing.This story needed a Patricia Briggs or Carrie Vaughn and, sadly, it got Galenorned.  This work was twice as disappointing due to wasted potential which makes it worth about half what I paid for it.