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Finnshifters #1
Chuffed
Finnshifters Book One
Mikael Jarvela may only be a half shifter, but that doesn’t mean he can’t be alpha of the eastern Finland farm-turned-sanctuary his father founded. Six wolves, a red fox, a black jaguar, and a lynx all think of him as the head of the family. But Mikael doesn’t have anyone to call his own until he comes across an injured Siberian tiger in the woods.
From the moment the animal recovers and Mikael and Maxim meet face to human face, the attraction between them is undeniable. They strike up a tentative relationship, but they’re both proud men, and their egos keep getting in the way. Just when it looks like their romance is doomed, an outside threat to the family—to Mikael—forces Maxim to choose between the life of solitude he knows and the love and companionship that could be his if he stays.
Mikael Jarvela may only be a half shifter, but that doesn’t mean he can’t be alpha of the eastern Finland farm-turned-sanctuary his father founded. Six wolves, a red fox, a black jaguar, and a lynx all think of him as the head of the family. But Mikael doesn’t have anyone to call his own until he comes across an injured Siberian tiger in the woods.
From the moment the animal recovers and Mikael and Maxim meet face to human face, the attraction between them is undeniable. They strike up a tentative relationship, but they’re both proud men, and their egos keep getting in the way. Just when it looks like their romance is doomed, an outside threat to the family—to Mikael—forces Maxim to choose between the life of solitude he knows and the love and companionship that could be his if he stays.
133 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 5, 2012
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Tia Fielding
68 books229 followersTia Fielding is a Finnish author who loves witty people, words, peppermint, sarcasm, autumn, and the tiny beautiful things in life.
Tia identifies as genderqueer but isn’t strict about pronouns. Why? Because luckily, in her native language there aren’t gender-specific pronouns.
These days, preferring to live in the middle of nowhere with her fur babies is as big of a part of her psyche as writing. Tia likes to recharge in nature and tends to watch where she’s going through her cell phone’s camera.
In 2013 Tia’s novel Falling Into Place was recognized by the industry’s Rainbow Awards in the Best LGBT Erotic Romance (Bobby Michaels Award) category.
In 2019, her novel Four (Love by Numbers #2) won a Rainbow Award in the Best Transgender Contemporary category.
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August 31, 2015
Nope, nada, no thank you....
I am definitely not chuffed.
I missed the connection between these shifters.
I wasn't engaged.
I was baffled with some details.
It just didn't work for me.
*2.5 slow-loose-holes stars*
I am definitely not chuffed.
I missed the connection between these shifters.
I wasn't engaged.
I was baffled with some details.
It just didn't work for me.
*2.5 slow-loose-holes stars*
June 8, 2012
4.5 stars
This book was great but the ending of the epilogue made it even better. Who knew being chuffed at could be so cute? And emotional. Lol.
This was a short and easy read that had a simple but intense feel to it. I really enjoyed it because I've always loved stories that offer sanctuary homes. Add into the fact that Mikael is a half-shifter made things a little bit more interesting.
I liked the mix of all the shifters and how they were extremely loyal to Mikael even though he couldn't shift. I really liked Mikael because there's just something about him that is very appealing and charming. When Maxim came into the picture, I thought it was going to be instant mate but surprisingly it was not so that was a nice touch. Maxim had a lot to heal from and even when he was healed he needed to work things out. I really liked the fact that Maxim's pride was so easily bruised but he still maintained an aura of control.
The main conflict of the book was a bit predictable but it was entertaining seeing all the shifters on the farm come together. I really enjoyed the story but I wished it had been longer because a lot of information is told instead of shown so sometimes days/weeks/months at a time are over. I would have liked to see these things happen instead of being told of what has transpired while there was a scene break. But the world is such an interesting one with the Council and the Sanctuary. Once I started the book, I didn't want to stop. I especially liked that this was based in Finland and how the author incorporated some Finnish into the story as well. Is it accurate? I have no idea but it sounded good. LOL
Overall, I loved the book. It is easily something I could reread and I'm really looking forward to the next book in the series because I'm curious who will show up next and who will get their HEA next.
This book was great but the ending of the epilogue made it even better. Who knew being chuffed at could be so cute? And emotional. Lol.
This was a short and easy read that had a simple but intense feel to it. I really enjoyed it because I've always loved stories that offer sanctuary homes. Add into the fact that Mikael is a half-shifter made things a little bit more interesting.
I liked the mix of all the shifters and how they were extremely loyal to Mikael even though he couldn't shift. I really liked Mikael because there's just something about him that is very appealing and charming. When Maxim came into the picture, I thought it was going to be instant mate but surprisingly it was not so that was a nice touch. Maxim had a lot to heal from and even when he was healed he needed to work things out. I really liked the fact that Maxim's pride was so easily bruised but he still maintained an aura of control.
The main conflict of the book was a bit predictable but it was entertaining seeing all the shifters on the farm come together. I really enjoyed the story but I wished it had been longer because a lot of information is told instead of shown so sometimes days/weeks/months at a time are over. I would have liked to see these things happen instead of being told of what has transpired while there was a scene break. But the world is such an interesting one with the Council and the Sanctuary. Once I started the book, I didn't want to stop. I especially liked that this was based in Finland and how the author incorporated some Finnish into the story as well. Is it accurate? I have no idea but it sounded good. LOL
Overall, I loved the book. It is easily something I could reread and I'm really looking forward to the next book in the series because I'm curious who will show up next and who will get their HEA next.
June 11, 2012
3.5 stars
Born from human father and shifter mother, Mikael Jarvela takes over his father's farm for stray shifters after his father passed away. Mikael's own mother died on childbirth, so he never really knows which shifter strain does his blood has. Though having his own different kind of family, Mikael does feel lonely sometimes. Not like he can easily find a mate with his responsibility to the farm. Then one day, he stumbles an injured Siberian Tiger, which might change his life ...
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A different kind of shiters story, and that is always welcome. I get tired of the old "you're my mate then BAM, POUNCE, MARK" plots. Mikael, the main character is a half-shifter (or half-human, depends on which side you're on :p), but he has a bunch of loyal shifters ready to defend him whenever needed. I love how the shifters look up to him as the 'head of the family', even if Mikael cannot shift himself.
I think the whole chapter of Mikael helping Maxim (the Tiger) to get better while the other man is in Tiger form is sweet. Maxim as character comes slightly less developed though, BUT it is also might due to the fact that this story is written solely from Mikael's perspective.
The first part of the story is the slightly mundane day-to-day life in the farm. Then when Maxim is found, it shifts into how the Tiger is being treated. While it does build the world of these shifters all the way in Finland, it might feels a bit slow-paced. However, I come to appreciate that the kissing and sex comes later in the book. There is a threat to the farm later on, which ups the pace, though the way it is solved might be predictable.
The "chuffed" meaning comes near the end -- and it's really SO CUTE, I can't help to smile when I read it. ALTHOUGH, in the book it is written as "chuffled" rather than "chuffed". So I don't know which one is the right term.
Will definitely look forward to the sequel in September. It's Noah's story, a jaguar shifter and the farm’s only American.
Born from human father and shifter mother, Mikael Jarvela takes over his father's farm for stray shifters after his father passed away. Mikael's own mother died on childbirth, so he never really knows which shifter strain does his blood has. Though having his own different kind of family, Mikael does feel lonely sometimes. Not like he can easily find a mate with his responsibility to the farm. Then one day, he stumbles an injured Siberian Tiger, which might change his life ...
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A different kind of shiters story, and that is always welcome. I get tired of the old "you're my mate then BAM, POUNCE, MARK" plots. Mikael, the main character is a half-shifter (or half-human, depends on which side you're on :p), but he has a bunch of loyal shifters ready to defend him whenever needed. I love how the shifters look up to him as the 'head of the family', even if Mikael cannot shift himself.
I think the whole chapter of Mikael helping Maxim (the Tiger) to get better while the other man is in Tiger form is sweet. Maxim as character comes slightly less developed though, BUT it is also might due to the fact that this story is written solely from Mikael's perspective.
The first part of the story is the slightly mundane day-to-day life in the farm. Then when Maxim is found, it shifts into how the Tiger is being treated. While it does build the world of these shifters all the way in Finland, it might feels a bit slow-paced. However, I come to appreciate that the kissing and sex comes later in the book. There is a threat to the farm later on, which ups the pace, though the way it is solved might be predictable.
The "chuffed" meaning comes near the end -- and it's really SO CUTE, I can't help to smile when I read it. ALTHOUGH, in the book it is written as "chuffled" rather than "chuffed". So I don't know which one is the right term.
Will definitely look forward to the sequel in September. It's Noah's story, a jaguar shifter and the farm’s only American.
June 15, 2012
slow story without too much conflict which includes concepts about shifters that made me shake my head -for ex, even though they are shifters (one of them half shifter) they got TESTED so that they could have bareback sex - I guess in this world shifters transmit diseases, remain with scars that were gained in battles, take a long time to heal, and their reasoning is weird (cant go to hospital to take care of cuts and bruises for fear of discovery, but a BLOOD TEST is ok!
November 8, 2019
The story was a bit thin, though I liked the shifter lore. I was just disappointed because I enjoyed Something New so much.
July 3, 2012
I just didn't connect with this one for some reason. Nothing particularly wrong with it, I just felt a bit like I didn't care all that much. There was lots of world building thrown in with little bits about nasty shifters and I wasn't sure how Mikael got out the word and where all the people on the farm came from beyond the fact that he took in shifters. I'm also curious in books set in foreign countries, what language are they speaking. This was set in Finland and while Mikael went to school in the US and UK, so spoke good English, Maxim was Russian and apparently didn't speak that great of English, but Noah was from the US and the bad guy was Italian, so were they always speaking English? I know this is a weird thing to focus on, and I know Finns speak many languages including English, but I wondered if they all spoke English as the common denominator? Hmmmm
July 22, 2012
Story about a shifter sanctuary in Finland run by a half shifter Mikael ( and really just a human, since he can't shift and doesn't have any special abilities).
There is a wolf pack and a lynx and a fox and more in this menagerie , and Maxim a lion shifter comes to them badly injured and is Mikael's love interest.
This was a nice enough story and I will probably read the next one, but it didn't have anything special about it to make it stand out to me.
There is a wolf pack and a lynx and a fox and more in this menagerie , and Maxim a lion shifter comes to them badly injured and is Mikael's love interest.
This was a nice enough story and I will probably read the next one, but it didn't have anything special about it to make it stand out to me.
October 14, 2015
I liked it! :)
It started off kinda slow, but not that slow that you lost interest.
I am really(seriously) looking forward to the next! I have intel that it's going to have my favorite species of animal. Aha!! I SOoooooooo cannot wait! <3 <3
It started off kinda slow, but not that slow that you lost interest.
I am really(seriously) looking forward to the next! I have intel that it's going to have my favorite species of animal. Aha!! I SOoooooooo cannot wait! <3 <3
June 11, 2012
3.5 stars (I usually round up)
Really nice story about a couple of shifters who live in some sort of commune. The reason why I couldn't give this more stars is that nothing really happens in this book.
Really nice story about a couple of shifters who live in some sort of commune. The reason why I couldn't give this more stars is that nothing really happens in this book.
October 8, 2012
This was simply one of those stories that tickled my fancy.
March 25, 2014
This was a nice sweet quick read. It was fun to read something clearly written by a Finnish author and set in Finland instead of the US for once. This story has a fun and diverse cast of characters who’ve created their own version of family. It’s all sweet and light even when things get a little tense around the farm.
Mikael Jarvela inherited the farm after his father died and rather than continue travelling and exploring the world he chose to return home and maintain his father’s legacy. While those in town may thing their group is a little odd, one openly gay man and his ragtag group of misfits Mikael knows better. He’s proud of the sanctuary his farm provides to shifters of all different breeds. He may only be half shifter himself, an unknown breed at that since his father refused to talk about his mother after her death bearing Mikael, but he loves the multitude of shifters in his makeshift family. But finding an injured Siberian tiger shifter in the woods could potentially ruin everything. None of them are strong enough to go up against the cat if he decided he wanted to claim the territory as his own.
Maxim knows what it means to have a stronger shifter group come in and force you out. A stronger group of shifters wanted his families business and land and their attack resulted in the death of Maxim’s parents and forced him to run for his life. Since then his body has been further weakened by other animal attacks. When Mikael discovered him Maxim was barely conscious and certainly didn’t have the strength to shift back from his animal form. Maybe Mikael’s farm is just what Maxim needs to heal and finally feel safe again.
I really like Mikael. He’s strong and steady. Someone you can trust and count on to handle things even if he’ll never have the innate strength of a full shifter. I love that he’s pulled such a diverse group in and given them all a chance at a home and a family not caring out wit what their troubles might have been as long as they were there with good intentions. The loyalty and love he inspires in those around him is clear. I liked watching his slow game of steps by inches with Maxim as well. They’re clearly well suited for each other and Maxim’s arrival finally gave Mikael answers he’d been searching for all his life.
Because this book is on the shorter side there are a lot of in between moments that are skimmed over. Time passes and events are explained rather then lived through as the reader. It’s what keeps this story as what I think of as a surface book. The story is sweet, the characters are individuals (not cookie cutter), but everything is very simple and there isn’t a lot of complexity or undiscovered depth to anything. Not that I’m in anyway saying this is bad. There’s a very nice quality to the writing and I enjoyed the read as well.
The downside of this story for me is that in order to fit everything in even the events that did happen weren’t given much time. Of course this book also ends on something of a cliffhanger with a new shifter arriving and throwing things into chaos. I do hope things with her get resolved in the next book, or at least we’re given an explanation of what happened to her since it was our teenage boys starting to grow up that found her and saved her.
Overall I found this to be a quick entertaining read. I’d give this a solid 3.5 stars in the end, but I’m probably going to round it up since it suited my mood while I was reading. On a complete side note…and this is really just for Eepa more than anything if she ever reads this review…culturally I now have a much clearer idea of just what exactly Eepa means every time she says she’s going to go hit the sauna. The cultural relevance of a sauna for the Finns is so completely different than it is here in the states. Most people probably haven’t even been in one here, and if they have it’s not with a bathing idea involved. More just for soaking up the heat and sweating out the toxins. I’ve always thought of them as a health spa idea, not something in every person’s home. Silly maybe, but I couldn’t get over it as I was reading. :D
Mikael Jarvela inherited the farm after his father died and rather than continue travelling and exploring the world he chose to return home and maintain his father’s legacy. While those in town may thing their group is a little odd, one openly gay man and his ragtag group of misfits Mikael knows better. He’s proud of the sanctuary his farm provides to shifters of all different breeds. He may only be half shifter himself, an unknown breed at that since his father refused to talk about his mother after her death bearing Mikael, but he loves the multitude of shifters in his makeshift family. But finding an injured Siberian tiger shifter in the woods could potentially ruin everything. None of them are strong enough to go up against the cat if he decided he wanted to claim the territory as his own.
Maxim knows what it means to have a stronger shifter group come in and force you out. A stronger group of shifters wanted his families business and land and their attack resulted in the death of Maxim’s parents and forced him to run for his life. Since then his body has been further weakened by other animal attacks. When Mikael discovered him Maxim was barely conscious and certainly didn’t have the strength to shift back from his animal form. Maybe Mikael’s farm is just what Maxim needs to heal and finally feel safe again.
I really like Mikael. He’s strong and steady. Someone you can trust and count on to handle things even if he’ll never have the innate strength of a full shifter. I love that he’s pulled such a diverse group in and given them all a chance at a home and a family not caring out wit what their troubles might have been as long as they were there with good intentions. The loyalty and love he inspires in those around him is clear. I liked watching his slow game of steps by inches with Maxim as well. They’re clearly well suited for each other and Maxim’s arrival finally gave Mikael answers he’d been searching for all his life.
Because this book is on the shorter side there are a lot of in between moments that are skimmed over. Time passes and events are explained rather then lived through as the reader. It’s what keeps this story as what I think of as a surface book. The story is sweet, the characters are individuals (not cookie cutter), but everything is very simple and there isn’t a lot of complexity or undiscovered depth to anything. Not that I’m in anyway saying this is bad. There’s a very nice quality to the writing and I enjoyed the read as well.
The downside of this story for me is that in order to fit everything in even the events that did happen weren’t given much time. Of course this book also ends on something of a cliffhanger with a new shifter arriving and throwing things into chaos. I do hope things with her get resolved in the next book, or at least we’re given an explanation of what happened to her since it was our teenage boys starting to grow up that found her and saved her.
Overall I found this to be a quick entertaining read. I’d give this a solid 3.5 stars in the end, but I’m probably going to round it up since it suited my mood while I was reading. On a complete side note…and this is really just for Eepa more than anything if she ever reads this review…culturally I now have a much clearer idea of just what exactly Eepa means every time she says she’s going to go hit the sauna. The cultural relevance of a sauna for the Finns is so completely different than it is here in the states. Most people probably haven’t even been in one here, and if they have it’s not with a bathing idea involved. More just for soaking up the heat and sweating out the toxins. I’ve always thought of them as a health spa idea, not something in every person’s home. Silly maybe, but I couldn’t get over it as I was reading. :D
June 21, 2012
I liked this book, but I’m going to start off with the not-as-good so I can end on a lighter note. Again, you can click on the picture to get a full synopsis of the book. He’s a brief synopsis: Half-shifter, Mikael, runs a shifter sanctuary on a farm and finds a tiger-shifter, in the woods and nurses him back to health. It’s the first in a series it seems.
The book is set in countrysides of Finland and the author herself is Scandinavian and lives in the Northern Europe area much like where Chuffed takes place.
I would have like more background on the world of shifters. There are different kinds of shifters living on the farm, but Fielding never really dives into how they came to live there or why. Somehow an American were-jaguar and former marine medic made it there, but again, how/why (though it might be explained in a sequel) is not really explained. Was there a tragedy of some kind? What is the shifter counsel?
With other shapeshifter erotica, the concept of have a ‘one true mate’ made for you and only through the supernatural Powers That Be. With OTM, two mate meet and instantaneously are overcome with lust and an empathetic connection is formed. Mikael and Maxim, the were-tiger, seem to have a connection but I’m not sure if it’s OTM or they just happened to fall in love on their own. Perhaps a bit of both? I think Fielding could’ve given us a bit more information.
Though I had a lot of questions about the shifter mythology, it didn’t detract from the over all story. The only parts that did detract a bit from the story was the focus on the two teenage boys living on the farm and their shenanigans.
I found the characters to be well-rounded and individualized. They worked as a unit and functioned like any large extended family. While Maxim and Mikael’s relationship seem to steadily play out even though Maxim had maybe been on the farm for two weeks and Maxim was only human through less than half of the time he was there. The sex scenes were hot and paced well. I hope Fielding expands on their relationship a bit more (Could Mikael be able to shift with Maxim’s help?) but at the same time, their story seems finished.
Overall, this is would be a good book to add to your shapeshifter collection and the rest of the series will probably be interesting as well.
The book is set in countrysides of Finland and the author herself is Scandinavian and lives in the Northern Europe area much like where Chuffed takes place.
I would have like more background on the world of shifters. There are different kinds of shifters living on the farm, but Fielding never really dives into how they came to live there or why. Somehow an American were-jaguar and former marine medic made it there, but again, how/why (though it might be explained in a sequel) is not really explained. Was there a tragedy of some kind? What is the shifter counsel?
With other shapeshifter erotica, the concept of have a ‘one true mate’ made for you and only through the supernatural Powers That Be. With OTM, two mate meet and instantaneously are overcome with lust and an empathetic connection is formed. Mikael and Maxim, the were-tiger, seem to have a connection but I’m not sure if it’s OTM or they just happened to fall in love on their own. Perhaps a bit of both? I think Fielding could’ve given us a bit more information.
Though I had a lot of questions about the shifter mythology, it didn’t detract from the over all story. The only parts that did detract a bit from the story was the focus on the two teenage boys living on the farm and their shenanigans.
I found the characters to be well-rounded and individualized. They worked as a unit and functioned like any large extended family. While Maxim and Mikael’s relationship seem to steadily play out even though Maxim had maybe been on the farm for two weeks and Maxim was only human through less than half of the time he was there. The sex scenes were hot and paced well. I hope Fielding expands on their relationship a bit more (Could Mikael be able to shift with Maxim’s help?) but at the same time, their story seems finished.
Overall, this is would be a good book to add to your shapeshifter collection and the rest of the series will probably be interesting as well.
June 11, 2012
3.5 stars. Good paranormal m/m romance about a half shifter who owns a farm in Finland that's a sort of shifter refuge, sort of an oddly assorted family.
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October 7, 2020
Fielding continues to be a comfort read for me. Some past trauma with lots and lots and lots of domesticity.
March 27, 2017
Ehrlich gesagt, weiß ich nicht so genau, was ich von der Geschichte halten soll.
Das Setting ist klasse. Eine abgelegene Farm in Finnland, nah an der russischen Grenze, die als Zufluchtsort für Gestaltwandler dient. Geleitet wird die Farm von Mikael, einem Halbgestaltwandler, der sich damit abgefunden hat, nie zu erfahren, welche Art von Wandler seine Mutter war. Die Hoffnung irgendwann einen Gefährten zu finden hat er ebenfalls schon lange begraben. Doch dann stolpert ein verletzter Tiger in sein Leben und bringt es gehörig durcheinander.
Zum Ende hin wurde die Geschichte einen Ticken spannender. Davor plätscherte sie ruhig vor sich hin. Obwohl sie recht kurz ist, war sie stellenweise ziemlich langatmig.
Ein Buch, das man lesen kann, aber nicht muss.
Schade.
Das Setting ist klasse. Eine abgelegene Farm in Finnland, nah an der russischen Grenze, die als Zufluchtsort für Gestaltwandler dient. Geleitet wird die Farm von Mikael, einem Halbgestaltwandler, der sich damit abgefunden hat, nie zu erfahren, welche Art von Wandler seine Mutter war. Die Hoffnung irgendwann einen Gefährten zu finden hat er ebenfalls schon lange begraben. Doch dann stolpert ein verletzter Tiger in sein Leben und bringt es gehörig durcheinander.
Zum Ende hin wurde die Geschichte einen Ticken spannender. Davor plätscherte sie ruhig vor sich hin. Obwohl sie recht kurz ist, war sie stellenweise ziemlich langatmig.
Ein Buch, das man lesen kann, aber nicht muss.
Schade.
July 1, 2020
Rating: 3.5 stars
I think this book suffered from being only from Mikael’s perspective. I never got a sense of who Maxim really was. Subsequently the romance between the two suffered. What I did like was the different take on the shifter genre. It was good to see a group of shifters that while having enhanced senses were not super advanced with superhero powers. I think the main focus of life on the farm was what made the story interesting. I just wish the romance between the two MCs lived up to the rest of the story.
I think this book suffered from being only from Mikael’s perspective. I never got a sense of who Maxim really was. Subsequently the romance between the two suffered. What I did like was the different take on the shifter genre. It was good to see a group of shifters that while having enhanced senses were not super advanced with superhero powers. I think the main focus of life on the farm was what made the story interesting. I just wish the romance between the two MCs lived up to the rest of the story.
June 8, 2012
3.5 stars
Now I am really pleased because this time I enjoyed a shifter story and its a good one, very different to your usual big bad, biting, alpha mate which is pretty much standard nowadays. I liked it, appealing and adorable especially the Chuffed bits. Mikael and his family of shifters are very protective of their home, its the one safe haven they have. I guess now the wait is on for the sequel.
Now I am really pleased because this time I enjoyed a shifter story and its a good one, very different to your usual big bad, biting, alpha mate which is pretty much standard nowadays. I liked it, appealing and adorable especially the Chuffed bits. Mikael and his family of shifters are very protective of their home, its the one safe haven they have. I guess now the wait is on for the sequel.
October 25, 2014
First time reading a Tia Fielding book. I liked it! The characters are memorable and I liked the concept of the shifter safe house. The threats with rogue ones coming in to try to take over the place was a nice touch. What I liked was the healing part for the Tiger shifter. I also feel as though there should be more to the story so I'm happy to see it is only the first. Recommended to shifter lovers who enjoy m/m romance.
June 11, 2012
Nothing extraordinary..more of a daily life in a shapeshifter community. There's a little drama thrown in ( the lion ) but predictable..within few pages - the action is done.
Maybe this is the first in this series, so there will be more plot coming into the picture.
Maybe this is the first in this series, so there will be more plot coming into the picture.
December 12, 2013
2.75 rounded up to 3
This one was OK. There was a lot of unnecessary details thrown in and and a lot of "telling" but all in all not too bad. I may read the next one in the series but probably not too soon.
January 3, 2013
Loves it looking forward to the next one :)
September 19, 2012
A very unique location and story. I loved that it was set in Finland. However, I felt the love story element was a bit lacking.
February 17, 2024
Mikael inherited his family farm near the Russian border in Finland. He's a half shifter but doesn't know what his shifter half is since his mother died in childbirth and his father would never talk about it. From the time his father met his mother the farm has become a sanctuary for other shifters that are looking for help. There are a variety of shifters on the farm but they all follow Mikael's leadership even though he cannot shift. Hearing something he can't quite identify, Mikael finds an injured tiger in the woods. Maxim has been driven from his home by another pride and is malnourished and has been attacked and unable to defend himself. Mikael is the only one the tiger really trusts until he's able to shift. The two develop a bond that becomes intimate. Their romance seems to be in peril. An outside threat brings them and the whole sanctuary together to address the threat. Will the solitary tiger find a way stay with the man he loves and the family that is the sanctuary?
August 23, 2020
Mildly Romantic
Decent storyline development, minimal character development and a shifter worldview which has few benefits for the shifters, and little acceptance from the humans. The writing is better than average, especially for KU books, but the overall story just did not resonate with me.
Decent storyline development, minimal character development and a shifter worldview which has few benefits for the shifters, and little acceptance from the humans. The writing is better than average, especially for KU books, but the overall story just did not resonate with me.
March 25, 2020
Shifters
This was an okay read and I'll definitely be checking into the rest of the series. But nothing heart stopping. Definitely give it go.
This was an okay read and I'll definitely be checking into the rest of the series. But nothing heart stopping. Definitely give it go.
April 12, 2020
Alright
This was a good story overall, but the execution seemed off. A lot of telling instead of showing, and not a lot of character development.
This was a good story overall, but the execution seemed off. A lot of telling instead of showing, and not a lot of character development.
September 24, 2020
Finnshifters 1
M is the guardian of sorts to the different shifters who live and work on his farm in Finland including a wolf pack
M is the guardian of sorts to the different shifters who live and work on his farm in Finland including a wolf pack
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