Someone is killing Archer’s dragons and they all believe it’s his brother’s tribe doing the killing. Thaisa is a researcher in a collector’s shop. When a page leaf is acquired by her boss that suggests it’s ‘the true telling of the Raisa Medallion’ Archer buys it. Thaisa ends up confronting Archer when she finds him late at night taking the leaf. He believes she was about to renege on his purchase, and he wasn’t going to let that happen. Thaisa has unique looks, she has Poliosis, which makes her self-conscious and defensive about her looks. She twists a lot of compliments into attacks on her appearance. She also acquires a funny sidekick Bree who is way more than she seems. When her boss discovers she’s sold the leaf he threatens her and her grandmother suffering from Alzheimers. While she’s desperately trying to get the leaf back from Archer, his brother tries to hire her to translate a photo copy of the leaf. Kidnappings occur, inappropriate touching, various threats, plots uncovered, secrets revealed…there’s a lot jam packed in this story. With a dangling threat to be resolved in a future story.
I read a review copy from NetGalley so some things may change before final release but in my copy there were some consistency issues with them sometimes being called Dragon Hunter and other places in the story they are called Demon Hunter and a few minor editing issues. There are a couple of spots where believability went right out the door. For example Thaisa was going to meet a potential client to translate and decode a document but was going to meet this complete stranger at a club at 9 pm. I’m sorry but I had a tough time wrapping my brain around that.
There’s definitely interesting reading here and I’m curious how this series will play out.


Wolf's Mate by Celia Kyle 4 of 5
Declan is an agent for the Shifter Operations Command, assigned to watch the company Abby hired to audit. Declan becomes obosessed with Abby, a cougar shifter. When Abby digs too deep and uncovers FosCo's secret dealings with Unified Humanity, a shifter hate group, her life becomes endangered and Declan and his wolf move in to save her. There's running and fighting and killiing and laughter and a lot of teasing. I liked this group of deadly, misfit, shifters. I'll definately be looking for the next book in the series Tiger's Claim. I received a copy from #NetGalley

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