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Book Review of Stray (Shifters, Bk 1)

Stray (Shifters, Bk 1)
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I enjoyed this story. Miss Vincent did a great job crafting the tale here, no pun intended...heehee. I found myself enjoying the book, and it held my interest with some excellent suspense. The characters personalities are forming well for the 1st in a series, I didn't find the building of this story to be dragging as I did in Kim Harrison's Hollows series.


That said, let me state that I found Faythe very trying on my patience. She is a bit of a spoiled brat who can't make up her mind if you ask me. Should she be a kid or a mature adult, tussling back and forth between the two. I also don't like Marc, her hand picked by Mama and Daddy wanna be fiance, too much. His temper and jealousy really got on my nerves and thought if it was me, and I was her parent, I would have given him the boot till he had some anger management classes.


Faythe is one of 4, in her family, the only girl who has been away at college for the last 5 years. Escaping the pride, and her chosen on the eve of their supposed wedding to go to school instead. The sudden abduction of the various pride tabbies has spooked her father to reel her in.


Coming back home she reunites with the "guys" and you see that she was and still is quite the tom-boy who loves to be with them. Jace, one of the pride members is stuck on her real bad, and I like him much more than Mark to be honest. She gives him a bit of hope and he suffers for it.


She is moody, stubborn, nasty to her mother unnecessarily, fickle and just a pain in my opinion. Her decisions throws her into a very dangerous situation and we travel down the road with her on this journey. A very shocking discovery along the way could have been played a bit better, but all in all I think this series will be a great one that I will continue with.