Primal Bonds (Shifters Unbound, #2)

by Jennifer Ashley

Collared and controlled, Shifters are outcast from humanity. But waiting within are passions that no collar can contain in this novel in the New York Times bestselling Shifters Unbound series.
 
When a female Shifter comes to town seeking refuge, feline Shifter Sean Morrissey claims the new arrival, expecting a submissive little she-wolf. Instead, he finds a beautiful woman who looks him straight in the eye without fear, stirring the mating frenzy within him.
 
As a half-Fae, half-Shifter, Andrea Gray is used to looking out for herself. But in order to relocate to a new Shiftertown and escape an unwanted mate claim, Andrea must accept a new mate. A Guardian seems as good a candidate as any, but Andrea’s intense attraction to Sean is something she never expected—and a perilous complication for a woman with a troubled past.

• ISBN10: 1101477466
• ISBN13: 9781101477465
• Publish Date: 1 March 2011
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: Berkley Books
• Format: eBook
• Pages: 320
• Language: English

Reviews

[nitzan_schwarz]

2.5 stars

I didn't really like it??

Honestly, I'm super surprised the same woman who wrote [bc:The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie|11470394|The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie (Mackenzies & McBrides, #1)|Jennifer Ashley|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1335894658s/11470394.jpg|6155268] and the Highland Pleasures series wrote this novel. This one just felt so chessy and kind of pandering? Like, I rolled my eyes a lot at all the love declarations and the likes, and I felt like there wasn't much substance to the whole story?

Also, if you're going to write Andrea having some backstory that deals with harassment and stalking, maybe show me its effects and things that happen rather than keep telling me "what Jarad the bastard did to her"? because I honestly have no idea what happened in her last shiftertown, aside from the fact she refused a guy and he harassed her, but everyone treats it with such vehemence that it feels really weird that the novel never explains or utilizes it.

It's almost as if... Ashley needed someone to die for Sean to survive in the final stretch of the novel, but she didn't want to sacrifice any character she likes, so she made up a harasser that decides to follow all the way from Andrea's past so that he not only die, but kind of be redeemed slightly as he does. Like, that's the entire purpose of Andrea's backstory

In general, this book lacked the age-old adherence of "show, not tell" lol

[Melanie]

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