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Caidi is looking for a shape shifter to father her child, but she doesn’t want a mate. In order to accomplish her goal, she’s got an elaborate scheme set up to find the right shifter, and she’s hoping it works. Her people are very territorial, and women shape shifters have been forced to go into hiding for fear of being captured by the stronger males. But the women still need the males to have children, so Caidi came up with a plan… Drug the males so they couldn’t smell that the women where shape shifters, seduce them, and leave. It seemed like the perfect plan; until she met Raven and found out he was her mate.
Raven is a Zarain, or shape shifter, but not just any. He’s a Shadatai Zarain, and they are more primitive than most. He’s at the bar for a drink, and never expects to find a woman that intrigues him quite so much. He doesn’t realize until it’s too late that he’s finally found his mate.
The best part of the book is when Caidi is on her own and acting like the independent, resourceful woman she was brought up to be by trying to rescue her friend who ended up captured. When Raven and Caidi met, even all the instant mating and large amounts of sex going on, it didn’t feel like they connected. I was just appalled that a woman who had been brought up to be a fiercely independent leader would just hand over her pack and life to a man she really only had sex with one night, regardless if he was her biological mate. Just because he is her mate doesn’t have to mean she turns into a helpless female… it was maddening! The worst part was, as I was reading I kept thinking that she was going to assert her independence, and was disappointed every time. Raven was a complete chauvinist; I just couldn’t bring myself to like him very much. Anyone who was as strong as Caidi was supposed to be would have not tolerated him at all. Never have I been so aggravated while reading a book! I think I was very disappointed because I thought that the writing had so much potential and I really liked Caidi; she could have been a great heroine.
Reviewed by Julie Bryan
for The Road to Romance
March 22, 2006
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