Croc's Return (Bitten Point, #1)

by Eve Langlais

Chandra Skyye (Narrator)

• ISBN10: 151595160X
• ISBN13: 9781515951605
• Publish Date: 26 January 2016 (first published 9 November 2015)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 13 March 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Tantor Media, Inc
• Edition: Unabridged edition
• Format: Audiobook (MP3)
• Duration: 6 hours and 18 minutes
• Language: English

Reviews

[Linda]

This review was originally posted on (un)Conventional Bookviews
Croc's Return hit the right spot - hot, fast, mysterious and funny - all in one neat little package that was well narrated.



If you enjoy shifters, you've got to love a croc, right? Croc's Return is well done, especially because the croc himself isn't all that sure about what went down before he left Bitten Point a few years ago. All Caleb knows is that he wants to come back home, and if he'll see Renny, that might just make things better. That is until he learns that Renny has a child. And that she works in a strip-club to make ends meet because her son's father didn't step up. Caleb swears he'll find that man and show him his crocs for not being good to Renny and leaving a child without a dad...

There are some great interactions between Caleb and his brother Constantine, and between Caleb and his best friend Darryl. The best interactions are between Caleb and Renny, though, because they're both a little defensive, afraid of getting hurt by the love they shared before Caleb left everything and everyone behind. Croc's Return is about redemption and love, and I really enjoyed getting to know the characters that inhabit Bitten Point. There is a nice mystery going on as well, with Luke and some of the other children stating there's a dinosaur on the loose. And when Caleb gets recruited as a security guard, he also gets the inside scoop on a weird hybrid that seems to be the same as the thing trying to snatch his son!

I already know I want to continue to listen to the Bitten Point series, because Chandra Skyve narrated it very well. The storyline and the plot really worked for me, and there was enough character development to make the plot and the storyline move forward very nicely!



"You know you're a dickhead, right?"
"Biggest dick around..."
"Not according to the ladies..." and that was that.

 

[Melanie]

My review and an extended sample of the audiobook are posted at Hotlistens.com.

This is the first book in a new series by Eve Langlais. It is sort of a spin off of the Kodiak Point series. However, unlike some other spinoffs that I’ve read, you can read this one without having read Kodiak Point (though I highly recommend Kodiak Point, one of my favorite series by Eve). Basically, Bitten Point is a shifter friendly town, just like Kodiak Point. Our hero, Caleb, is just coming back from the same army installment that the Kodiak Point guys were in.

Anyway, Caleb is a croc shifter and is just coming back into town after being away at the war. He had left town totally unexpectedly. No one knew why he left and joined the army. It really upset his mother, brother and also his girlfriend. HIs pregnant girlfriend. Now it is five years later and his son is four years old and has no idea who his father is.

Renny hasn’t had it easy since Caleb left her with a child. She is working two jobs to afford to pay all the bills. Four-year-old Luke doesn’t understand why mom is never around. He gets angry with her. He also has a bit of animalistic side to him that he got from his father.

There is also some suspense going on in this story. People are going missing. The children are reporting seeing a dinosaur. The shifters are smelling things they’ve never smelled before. We learn more about why Caleb up and left out of nowhere to join the army. It was exactly what I expected from a Eve Langlais story. It was fun, sexy and had some suspense to it as well. I love how Eve isn’t afraid to use animal shifters that aren’t the norm. Caleb’s brother is a snake shifter (one takes after mom and the other takes after dad). I hope he gets a book in this series.

Narration
Chandra Skyye is a narrator that I’ve listened to before with the Kodiak Point series. At first, I wasn’t a huge fan of her narration, but she has grown on me. While she will never be on my list as a top narration, I’ve come to be able to enjoy her narrations enough. In this story, we see her ability to add children into the mix, which I thought she did a pretty decent job. I do listen to her at an increased speed.