🐺Great storyline🐺!
I've read all six books and they are great as a set or individually. Here are my reviews of each one as I read them:
A Mate for Seth:
🌿Can Seth ever expose his true self to his hot new neighbor?!🏠🏡
November 26, 2018
👍4.5 🌟stars🐺
Selena Scott has come up with a new series featuring hunky shifter brothers, romance, passion, and an ominous element threatening to destroy their lives. I loved her Secret Shifters of Spokane series in this vein, where the brothers were Eastern European 🐻shifters hiding in the forests of Washington State and the villains were cruel scientists. In this one, government and vigilantes are both boxing the shifter brothers into a tense, hidden life.
This first volume in the Forbidden Shifters series is a great start, with a solid introduction to the varying personalities of the brothers, their adoptive mother, the women in their circle, and the prejudice and threats they face.
Wolf shifter Seth and his newly-arrived neighbor, Olympic medalist Sarah, are the chief protagonists in this story and they sizzle, with some very extended intimate moments in the latter part of the book. Seth was an energetic sweetie, always on the move, taking care of others and putting his own interests last. Though he is a bit obsessively organized and neat, he was also my favorite character. The way he takes Sarah under his wing despite her indifference and occasional resistance -- cute and priceless! Sarah seemed a bit Bolshie and self-contained, but as her backstory is revealed, it made sense.
There's plenty of action as the brothers fight to control their shifts and the threat of public exposure intensifies. But the central focus is the building romantic tension. I liked the plot, the characters and the romance, though I could have been happy with less extended bedroom scenes.
A Mate for Raphael:
🐺Best friends find more than comfort in each other's arms😘
December 19, 2018
👍4.5🌟stars
❤🐺🔥A good shifter romance with several pairings in play, steamy encounters and a vigilante anti-shifter on the prowl. The main romance pairs Raphael and Natalie, two bosom buddies who concoct a plan to use each other to mutual benefit, while looking for long-term partners, with unexpected results. In this world author Selena Scott has created, known shifters are rounded up and kept in detention camps if not killed by vigilantes. The Durant brothers have kept their true wolf shifter nature hidden to all but their closest social circle to avoid persecution. I thought the writing was good, the main characters (Durant family and close friends), interesting, the plot engaging with some twists I did not see coming as the anti-shifter activists close in. A couple of the intimate encounters were a bit drawn out for my taste, but that aside, I truly enjoyed the story.
A Mate for Jackson:
🐺Can Jackson surrender to their attraction without risking Kaya's safety?!😞
January 20, 2019
👍4.5🌟stars💕🐺🔥🗻
Excellent! Very exhilarating end to the three book series. This shifter romance adventure features two couples who work through their issues to unite, and more endangered shifters come out of the woodwork. A troubled ex-con returns to Boulder to plot against the Durant shifter brothers, and some brave humans risk their lives and freedom to help protect the persecuted shifters.
It's all exciting and Jackson's repressed obsession for Kaya is smoldering as the 🔥fire between them builds. They are a great pairing and Kaya is pretty strong and fearless! But I really adored Jackson who wants to protect everyone so much that he often makes decisions on what's best for them without their input. He does not seem arrogant or controlling so much as just fearful for their safety and ready to risk himself and his happiness for their good. His efforts to improve himself and confide in and consult others demonstrate he recognizes his weaknesses. The second couple's romance is more low key and gentle.
I am not a big fan of extended intimate episodes and this story has a few. But they are well on in the story and easy to skim through if you are so inclined.
The story and series end is joyful, following on a thrilling action climax. Well worth the wait!😊
A Mate for Phoenix
🌾Phoenix is reborn but to a life dramatically changed by a petite redhead!😍
July 8, 2019
Format: Kindle Edition
4.5🌟stars 🔥🐺💕
👍Really good plot with some excellent twists and a new family of🐺 shifters to introduce into this series. I especially liked the dramatic and danger-filled start to the story.
💟Phoenix and Ida, his human mentor, were a great pair. Their scenes were alternately hot or humorous, often touching as Ida helps Phoenix adjust to living in human society after almost a whole lifetime ranging in the wild. I am looking forward to learning how Phoenix's sister Dawn and his brawny brother fair in the romance department, and what the villains try next in their schemes to covertly exploit shifters.
🔥The romance takes a decidedly extended, steamy turn in the latter chapters, alternating with a build-up of suspense as the villains make their move. Personally, I preferred the more light-hearted scenes earlier in the book where Phoenix learns the facts of life human-style from Ida.
A Mate for Orion
Another brave 🐺wolf shifter wins his woman, evil agents notwithstanding 😉I
4🌟stars
💕This story has a lot of quiet, connecting moments for shifter Orion Wolf and Diana, daughter of a witch turned hyper-efficient social center adminstrator. I liked the pair, but especially Orion. He's pretty optimistic about his chances with gorgeous, in-control Diana, despite being illiterate and just recently integrated into human society after a lifetime lived in the remote Northwestern woods.
👥The romance unfolds simultaneous with a subplot that places Orion and his family in danger. There's some knuckle-biting action, loyal friends and lovers and conflicted betrayers all interspersed with some progressively steamier action between Orion and Diana. Phoenix's story in the previous volume in the series had more humor, but Orion's basic, open goodness, kindness and efforts to please and protect made this a feel-good, enjoyable read.
A Mate for Quill
🐻 🐺Quill: what a conflicted, self-sacrificing romantic hero!😌😍
5🌟stars
👍👍Here's a shifter romance with oodles of action and a great couple, separated only by the evil doing orchestrated by a monstrous researcher called the Director. I loved the effort author Selena Scott put in to creating deeply conflicted Quill, both his tragic backstory and his attempts to distance himself from Dawn. I could take or leave the steamy bits, but the heartbreaking resignation of a hero willing to commit the ultimate sacrifice to protect his friends and the woman he loves: that's the stuff that made it a great read for me. Must admit to tearing up a few times😪.
Just a shout out to the Florida state trooper who steps in and changes the balance. He was an unexpected addition with a conscience and a good heart😊.
Although it does not end in a cliffhanger, I believe that it's best to read Orion and Phoenix's earlier stories in the series to get the fullest picture of Dawn's life journey from forest to town and why Quill is so closely involved with Dawn and her siblings.
I read a complimentary advance copy of all the books in the set; this is my voluntary and honest review.