The Bears of Valor Lake Box Set is worth notice. Each book covers a different family/clan of bear shifters who live around Valor Lake. The clans don’t agree on much. Managing resources, distributing wealth, and above all, keeping the secrets of the shifters are a constant source of problems between the clans. Then you have the exiles who don’t want to live by the rules but are forced to stay in the area. All in all it has the ingredients for a rich world full of conflict and romance.
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Luther – Base Camp Bears by Amelia Jade
So, a bear shifter walks into a bar and runs into a friend. Then he’s smitten with a cute waitress and says all the wrong things. Then… all hell breaks loose.
Bear shifter Luther just lost his job with the Green Bearet border patrol due to budget cuts. He wanders into a bar in the neutral city of Cloud lake to drown his sorrows and decide what to do next. Once there he’s smitten with Allix, a human who works as a waitress at the bar. When shifters from the Fenrir enclave arrive and cause trouble, he acts to defend her. It turns out that the Fenrir shifters enclave have started attacking humans and shifters all over town. Fenrir has just declared war. Luther and his friend have no choice but return to their old base in the Cadia enclave.
Allix has been wandering all her life looking for something. She sees Luther in the bar and there’s definitely some special bond there. Suddenly, Allix finds herself in the middle of a shifter war and in need of rescue. Can love bloom in the shadow of war and can Allix finally find a place to belong?
This was an exciting story based in Amelia Jade’s Cadia shifter world. Green Bearets – Luther is Book 1 in the Base Camp Bears series. I thoroughly enjoyed the book. It combined a lot of different elements such as shifter/human conflicts, conflicts between shifters, Military tactics and training, and of course romance. The story is unpredictable and keeps your guessing what will happen next.
Jacob, by Becca Fanning
Jacob is part iv of Rodeo Bears.
Cara first ran into Jacob when she needed help at 17. She’s followed his career ever since, and now she’s 22 and ready to follow up on her crush. But before she can talk to Jacob, she runs into men involved in the anti-shifter violence and Jacob comes to her rescue again.
In this book, the rodeo takes a backseat to the ongoing mystery of shifters disappearing. Cara offers to help search since she volunteers with the sheriff’s posse and knows the area.
This story was exciting as we’re given more information on the mystery and how serious it has become to the Tyrell clan. Much more remains to be solved in future stories, though.
There was a good mix of action and romance and I’m looking forward to the rest of the series.
Silver bullet bear, by Amelia Jade
Silver bullet bear is book 3 in The Agency series. Josh, one of the Bear shifters working in the King City underground, is given a special solo assignment by Valen: serve as bodyguard to the sister of a political speaker while they’re in town.
When Josh meets his contact at the airport he quickly learns three things about his charge, Hs She’s gorgeous, she doesn’t want a bodyguard, and she’s not human, but Josh isn’t sure what Hannah and her brother Chad are hiding, and that’s probably dangerous.
Hannah has been following her brother on his round of speeches until she decides what to do with her life. She’s mad at Chad hiring a babysitter for her but at least he’s good looking. The attraction is instant but Hannah knows nothing will come of it. She’ll have to move on.
As the story unfolds the dangers begin and now there are new enemies: mercenaries. Who are they working with, and can Hannah and Josh find a way to stay together?
This book is another great addition to the series. For maximum enjoyment, read the books in order. The larger plot develops slowly as each book adds information and new characters.
I received a free copy of this book in exchange for a review.
Feral, by Laxmi Hariharan
Maya, raised by shifters after the destruction of Bombay, learns at 17 that she was adopted. Leaving her boyfriend and family behind, she goes off to the city to find out about her real family. As she tries to fit in with the repressed human society, she meets a boy she instantly feels a connection with, Will Maya find her family and make a place with the humans, or will she return to the shifters and the wolf she left behind?
Feral is a good coming of age tale and we learn more about the tragedy and the world that arose from it as Maya looks for her place in the world. Feral is a great start to a new world and a solid coming of age story. Writing is well done and doesn’t distract from the plot.