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Hunted
A New Adult Shapeshifter Anthology.
Hunt or be Hunted… sometimes you don’t have a choice.
9 Fantastic Shifter Stories from today’s best-selling authors,
BOOK 1
FLEDGLING By Natasha Brown
BOOK 2
SEVENTH MARK – Part 1 by W.J. May
BOOK 3
CRUSH By Chrissy Peebles
BOOK 4
ONCE BITTEN By Trina M Lee
BOOK 5
VENOM By Kristen Middleton
BOOK 6
IGNITE By Kaitlyn Davis
BOOK 7
LOVE BEGINS IN HELL By Ally Thomas
BOOK 8
WOLF SPELL By M.R. Polish
BOOK 9
VERITY By Claire Farrell
Hunt or be Hunted… sometimes you don’t have a choice.
9 Fantastic Shifter Stories from today’s best-selling authors,
BOOK 1
FLEDGLING By Natasha Brown
BOOK 2
SEVENTH MARK – Part 1 by W.J. May
BOOK 3
CRUSH By Chrissy Peebles
BOOK 4
ONCE BITTEN By Trina M Lee
BOOK 5
VENOM By Kristen Middleton
BOOK 6
IGNITE By Kaitlyn Davis
BOOK 7
LOVE BEGINS IN HELL By Ally Thomas
BOOK 8
WOLF SPELL By M.R. Polish
BOOK 9
VERITY By Claire Farrell
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About the author
W.J. May
236 books1,187 followers Wanita May grew up in the fruit belt of Ontario - St.Catharines. Crazy-happy childhood, she always has had a vivid imagination and loads of energy.
The youngest of six -- four older brothers, and a sister -- taught her at a young age to be competitive in all aspects of life.
At sixteen, she began competing in athletics (track and field) and before she turned seventeen, she was representing Canada in high jump. She continued to compete, breaking Canada's JR High Jump record (1.92m - 6' 3 1/2" for those metric-ly challenged). She attented University of Toronto, and Kansas State University - winning CIAU's and becoming All-American 6x - NCAA Indoors Runner Up + more.
But you're not interested in her athletic career - unless of course you're curious to know she stands 1.70m (5'7") and has jumped 20cm over her head on more than one occassion. She's represented Canada at the World Championships, World Jrs., won Francophone Games, and loved every minute of every competition. From the grueling workouts, the crazy weights she lifted on her back, the days she thought her lungs were going to spit out of her mouth for lack of oxygen, the travelling around the world and the opportunity to read - her favourite past time.
Life continued with her husband (a distance runner from Liverpool, UK, who she met at KSU) and then their first, then second and finally third child. Their house became full of more imagination and stories.
Wanita and her husband run an online business, dealing in antiques and collectables - particularly jewelry and porcelain (one of the business' website: www.wadeincanada.com ).
After her father passed away in 2009, from a six-year battle with cancer (which she still believes he won the fight against), she began to write again. A passion she'd loved for years, but realized life was too short to keep putting it off.
Her first book, Rae of Hope - from the Chronicles of Kerrigan - will be available October 2011 by kNight Romance Publishing.
She is currently represented by Dawn Dowdle of Blue Ridge Literary Agency. Wanita is a writer of Young Adult, Fantasy Fiction and where ever else her little muses take her.
The youngest of six -- four older brothers, and a sister -- taught her at a young age to be competitive in all aspects of life.
At sixteen, she began competing in athletics (track and field) and before she turned seventeen, she was representing Canada in high jump. She continued to compete, breaking Canada's JR High Jump record (1.92m - 6' 3 1/2" for those metric-ly challenged). She attented University of Toronto, and Kansas State University - winning CIAU's and becoming All-American 6x - NCAA Indoors Runner Up + more.
But you're not interested in her athletic career - unless of course you're curious to know she stands 1.70m (5'7") and has jumped 20cm over her head on more than one occassion. She's represented Canada at the World Championships, World Jrs., won Francophone Games, and loved every minute of every competition. From the grueling workouts, the crazy weights she lifted on her back, the days she thought her lungs were going to spit out of her mouth for lack of oxygen, the travelling around the world and the opportunity to read - her favourite past time.
Life continued with her husband (a distance runner from Liverpool, UK, who she met at KSU) and then their first, then second and finally third child. Their house became full of more imagination and stories.
Wanita and her husband run an online business, dealing in antiques and collectables - particularly jewelry and porcelain (one of the business' website: www.wadeincanada.com ).
After her father passed away in 2009, from a six-year battle with cancer (which she still believes he won the fight against), she began to write again. A passion she'd loved for years, but realized life was too short to keep putting it off.
Her first book, Rae of Hope - from the Chronicles of Kerrigan - will be available October 2011 by kNight Romance Publishing.
She is currently represented by Dawn Dowdle of Blue Ridge Literary Agency. Wanita is a writer of Young Adult, Fantasy Fiction and where ever else her little muses take her.
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January 31, 2015
Good books
Good collection.
Each book pulls you in. Look forward to reading more from these authors.
And each book left you wanting more
Good collection.
Each book pulls you in. Look forward to reading more from these authors.
And each book left you wanting more
February 4, 2018
A choice of compelling stories that allow you to immerse yourself in the world of fantasy.
Lots of fun to read. A diversity of stories from a selection of author's. A good taster to the world of fantasy.
Lots of fun to read. A diversity of stories from a selection of author's. A good taster to the world of fantasy.
February 13, 2017
Worth reading
A selection of really good stories, however two have many grammatical mistakes that distract from the storyline. Still worth reading.
A selection of really good stories, however two have many grammatical mistakes that distract from the storyline. Still worth reading.
December 9, 2017
This book has nine different stories about shape shifters and the paranormal. Great read. Cannot wait to read other books that go along with each story.
January 10, 2018
Some great books.
Really loved this selection of books and the last one was the best. You just have to read them yourself. Would have scored them more if I could have
Really loved this selection of books and the last one was the best. You just have to read them yourself. Would have scored them more if I could have
August 9, 2018
Good
Some great stories. All of them just the beginning of their stories though. All of them leave you wanting more.
Some great stories. All of them just the beginning of their stories though. All of them leave you wanting more.
October 3, 2018
Rubbish
A couple of Decent stories here but generally they are terrible.the grammar and spelling mistakes are just pathetic. Waste of money
A couple of Decent stories here but generally they are terrible.the grammar and spelling mistakes are just pathetic. Waste of money
May 30, 2019
All are the first book in series
WARNING -- All the books in this anthology are the first book in the various authors series and as such some if not all are cliffhangers.
WARNING -- All the books in this anthology are the first book in the various authors series and as such some if not all are cliffhangers.
January 31, 2020
Great start wish the story went on
Just a teaser but enjoyed what I read. I will have to read more, hopefully Kindle will have more of the story
Just a teaser but enjoyed what I read. I will have to read more, hopefully Kindle will have more of the story
October 21, 2020
A good mix
This was an enjoyable mix of books compiled together. There's definitely s few i will search out the continuation of.
This was an enjoyable mix of books compiled together. There's definitely s few i will search out the continuation of.
April 14, 2024
Again I found a good read in this book. I would not mind more stories like these.
April 10, 2017
1. Fledgling (Shapeshifter Chronicles #1) by Natasha Brown **2 DNF Stars
This started off great, it was a sweet YA with nice characters and the slow buildup of something paranormal. Everything was going fine until Ana noticed what resembled Chance's necklace on a fox and decided to immediately accuse him of playing some horrible prank on her the whole time she knew him. This is the same guy who spent the entire day with her in a hospital while she had a procedure done. What kind of awful person wouldn't give someone like that the benefit of the doubt?!
2. Seventh Mark Part 1 by W.J. May ***3 Stars (PR)
So this wasn't great, Rouge befriends Grace and Michael and it quickly becomes blatantly clear that strange things are going on. You get little tidbits but no real information. This was a quick read and didn't really have a cliff hanger so much as this is literally the first part of the story. I think I may continue this series.
3. Crush by Chrissy Peebles *1 DNF Star (PR)
Taylor moves to California and runs into the supernatural. Like literally, everywhere. Unbelievable situations, unreasonable reactions...This just didn't have a good story, or good characters, or good dialogue.
4. Once Bitten (Alexa O'Brien Huntress #1) by Trina M. Lee *1 DNF Star
Alexa is a werewolf who hunts down paranormal creatures who step out of line. She has to find out who is trying to frame her former lover and Alpha for murder before werewolves are exposed to the public. This was just really all over the place. You have the story line of her dealing with the feelings she still has for Raul even though he's a complete tool...the feelings she has for Shaz (which at first are made to seem like they are sibling like) but they are nothing like the metaphysical draw she has towards the vampire Arys. She finally ends up sleeping with the vampire and they have some sort of power exchange and they both go a little haywire. When she goes into her office for work she asks her boss about the werewolf who killed her family....out of nowhere!! Earlier in the book she made it seem like she tried not to think about it because she wasn't even sure what she would do with the information. Then there's the random run in with a demon, witches and power crystals...all sorts of stuff. But it had no flow and one chapter to the next were so different it seemed like they were out of order.
5. Venom by Kristen Middleton ***3 Stars (PR)
Chelsey goes to the new nightclub in town to try and find out what happened to her cousin Melody. She does find her cousin but she also finds a bunch of vampires and werewolves. This was a short novella, I had a good amount of issues with this authors use of stereotypes without giving the characters any original voice. I think I gave it 3 stars because in comparison I enjoyed it a lot more that the last few I read from her.
6.Ignite by Kaitlyn Davis ***3 Stars (PR)
I've said this before...I have no problem with love triangles...that being said, this book didn't really have that going on. This was more about the romance between Tristan and Kira and the obstacles facing them as a couple. One of those obstacles being the society of conduits that fight vampires. They aren't super thrilled with Kira even existing so dating a vampire is an extra big no-no. The conduits are split on their views of how to deal with vampires, I thought that was interesting and added a nice layer to the vampires v. super-humans story....who's right and who's wrong and all that. I liked that the story moved quickly and didn't drag out and overall I enjoyed it but ....it just didn't get there for me. I didn't feel as strongly for the characters in the end as I probably should have.
7. Love Begins in Hell by Ally Thomas *1 DNF Star
This was "Virgin Moon" but slightly different telling. I was interested in the story before and the slight differences in this were not enough to make me read this.
8. Wolf Spell by M.R. Polish Not Interested
Arabeth/Esmerelda is kidnapped from her mother's funeral only to be told that she is a witch, her mother is alive...but she's not her real mother anyway. Ara was not pleased at being kidnapped, until Jarak shows up....hot guys fix everything you know. I thought the blurb sounding promising but I struggled to control my eye rolling through the first 3 chapters.
9. Verity by Claire Farrell ***3 Stars (PR)
Ok, so the story wasn't so bad...I just wish there was more of it. Instead of why these random werewolves were attacking and who exactly they were after and why we had to read about Dawn flirting with Nathan, Tammie being a bipolar biatch and Perdy's Dad and Grandma being the worst parenting duo ever.
This started off great, it was a sweet YA with nice characters and the slow buildup of something paranormal. Everything was going fine until Ana noticed what resembled Chance's necklace on a fox and decided to immediately accuse him of playing some horrible prank on her the whole time she knew him. This is the same guy who spent the entire day with her in a hospital while she had a procedure done. What kind of awful person wouldn't give someone like that the benefit of the doubt?!
2. Seventh Mark Part 1 by W.J. May ***3 Stars (PR)
So this wasn't great, Rouge befriends Grace and Michael and it quickly becomes blatantly clear that strange things are going on. You get little tidbits but no real information. This was a quick read and didn't really have a cliff hanger so much as this is literally the first part of the story. I think I may continue this series.
3. Crush by Chrissy Peebles *1 DNF Star (PR)
Taylor moves to California and runs into the supernatural. Like literally, everywhere. Unbelievable situations, unreasonable reactions...This just didn't have a good story, or good characters, or good dialogue.
4. Once Bitten (Alexa O'Brien Huntress #1) by Trina M. Lee *1 DNF Star
Alexa is a werewolf who hunts down paranormal creatures who step out of line. She has to find out who is trying to frame her former lover and Alpha for murder before werewolves are exposed to the public. This was just really all over the place. You have the story line of her dealing with the feelings she still has for Raul even though he's a complete tool...the feelings she has for Shaz (which at first are made to seem like they are sibling like) but they are nothing like the metaphysical draw she has towards the vampire Arys. She finally ends up sleeping with the vampire and they have some sort of power exchange and they both go a little haywire. When she goes into her office for work she asks her boss about the werewolf who killed her family....out of nowhere!! Earlier in the book she made it seem like she tried not to think about it because she wasn't even sure what she would do with the information. Then there's the random run in with a demon, witches and power crystals...all sorts of stuff. But it had no flow and one chapter to the next were so different it seemed like they were out of order.
5. Venom by Kristen Middleton ***3 Stars (PR)
Chelsey goes to the new nightclub in town to try and find out what happened to her cousin Melody. She does find her cousin but she also finds a bunch of vampires and werewolves. This was a short novella, I had a good amount of issues with this authors use of stereotypes without giving the characters any original voice. I think I gave it 3 stars because in comparison I enjoyed it a lot more that the last few I read from her.
6.Ignite by Kaitlyn Davis ***3 Stars (PR)
I've said this before...I have no problem with love triangles...that being said, this book didn't really have that going on. This was more about the romance between Tristan and Kira and the obstacles facing them as a couple. One of those obstacles being the society of conduits that fight vampires. They aren't super thrilled with Kira even existing so dating a vampire is an extra big no-no. The conduits are split on their views of how to deal with vampires, I thought that was interesting and added a nice layer to the vampires v. super-humans story....who's right and who's wrong and all that. I liked that the story moved quickly and didn't drag out and overall I enjoyed it but ....it just didn't get there for me. I didn't feel as strongly for the characters in the end as I probably should have.
7. Love Begins in Hell by Ally Thomas *1 DNF Star
This was "Virgin Moon" but slightly different telling. I was interested in the story before and the slight differences in this were not enough to make me read this.
8. Wolf Spell by M.R. Polish Not Interested
Arabeth/Esmerelda is kidnapped from her mother's funeral only to be told that she is a witch, her mother is alive...but she's not her real mother anyway. Ara was not pleased at being kidnapped, until Jarak shows up....hot guys fix everything you know. I thought the blurb sounding promising but I struggled to control my eye rolling through the first 3 chapters.
9. Verity by Claire Farrell ***3 Stars (PR)
Ok, so the story wasn't so bad...I just wish there was more of it. Instead of why these random werewolves were attacking and who exactly they were after and why we had to read about Dawn flirting with Nathan, Tammie being a bipolar biatch and Perdy's Dad and Grandma being the worst parenting duo ever.
June 2, 2015
I was taught that if you don't have to say something positive about someone, you'd better keep your mouth shut.....but I can't.
In all fairness, I expected something different, "normal" shifter stories, not horror ones. Still, I like horror stories (King, Koontz, etc), but this collection of stories was just......bad, sorry to say. And I would say, contrary to the title description, more intended for young adults than adults.
Bad style, bad narration, in one case, the author hadn't even gone to the effort to cross check his/her own story - there were so many context errors, wrong genders, wrong names etc etc.
I will not even mention the plethora of spelling and grammar errors!
There was only one story I personally liked, that was the last but one.
Apart from that: if the majority of plots had been good, I would have overlooked bad narration style and what I call "stick-figure" characters, but alas, that was not the case. Most plots and characters were badly thought out and did not have any depth at all.
Sorry, but I cannot recommend this to anyone.
In all fairness, I expected something different, "normal" shifter stories, not horror ones. Still, I like horror stories (King, Koontz, etc), but this collection of stories was just......bad, sorry to say. And I would say, contrary to the title description, more intended for young adults than adults.
Bad style, bad narration, in one case, the author hadn't even gone to the effort to cross check his/her own story - there were so many context errors, wrong genders, wrong names etc etc.
I will not even mention the plethora of spelling and grammar errors!
There was only one story I personally liked, that was the last but one.
Apart from that: if the majority of plots had been good, I would have overlooked bad narration style and what I call "stick-figure" characters, but alas, that was not the case. Most plots and characters were badly thought out and did not have any depth at all.
Sorry, but I cannot recommend this to anyone.
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August 19, 2016OVERALL:
FLEDGLING By Natasha Brown
SEVENTH MARK – Part 1 by W.J. May
Crush (The Crush Saga, #1) by Chrissy Peebles- 2 stars
When Taylor sparks moves with her family to California her meeting with the locals doesn't go as expected. Her new crush Jesse is hiding something from her.
Really? One stupid mistake after another for the characters. The characters don't have much of an attention span, they jump from one thing to another. Taylor just acts dumb and has no common sense whatsoever. The characters were flat, there was no substance to them at all. I thought the writing was sloppy and the story did not have as much action as I thought it would.
ONCE BITTEN By Trina M Lee
VENOM By Kristen Middleton
IGNITE By Kaitlyn Davis
LOVE BEGINS IN HELL By Ally Thomas
WOLF SPELL By M.R. Polish
VERITY By Claire Farrell
FLEDGLING By Natasha Brown
SEVENTH MARK – Part 1 by W.J. May
Crush (The Crush Saga, #1) by Chrissy Peebles- 2 stars
When Taylor sparks moves with her family to California her meeting with the locals doesn't go as expected. Her new crush Jesse is hiding something from her.
Really? One stupid mistake after another for the characters. The characters don't have much of an attention span, they jump from one thing to another. Taylor just acts dumb and has no common sense whatsoever. The characters were flat, there was no substance to them at all. I thought the writing was sloppy and the story did not have as much action as I thought it would.
ONCE BITTEN By Trina M Lee
VENOM By Kristen Middleton
IGNITE By Kaitlyn Davis
LOVE BEGINS IN HELL By Ally Thomas
WOLF SPELL By M.R. Polish
VERITY By Claire Farrell
September 12, 2016
Hmmm
The story written by W.J. May was good, no surprise for me there.
I enjoyed all the other stories with the exception of one. As much as I don't like to give bad reviews, Love Begins in Hell, read like a first draft, including switching from first to third person in the same sentence, on a few different occasions. There were a lot of typos and there were parts of the story that made absolutely no sense. I was disappointed that this story was allowed to be in the anthology with someone like W.J. May.
The story written by W.J. May was good, no surprise for me there.
I enjoyed all the other stories with the exception of one. As much as I don't like to give bad reviews, Love Begins in Hell, read like a first draft, including switching from first to third person in the same sentence, on a few different occasions. There were a lot of typos and there were parts of the story that made absolutely no sense. I was disappointed that this story was allowed to be in the anthology with someone like W.J. May.
October 30, 2016
There was more bad than good with this group
There were a few decent reads with this set of books however most were ill written and more for teenagers - certainly not adults. I didn't even finish three stories because they jumped around so much . I would not waste my time if I could have a do over.
There were a few decent reads with this set of books however most were ill written and more for teenagers - certainly not adults. I didn't even finish three stories because they jumped around so much . I would not waste my time if I could have a do over.
February 20, 2015
Some good some bad
Claire Farrell's VERITY,cursed series book one was great. The last one I read is always the easiest to remember. I skipped over 2 books because they were not my type. Otherwise, I enjoyed all the others.
Claire Farrell's VERITY,cursed series book one was great. The last one I read is always the easiest to remember. I skipped over 2 books because they were not my type. Otherwise, I enjoyed all the others.
April 13, 2016
Great young kids/teen series but I found most of the stories a bit too slow for my normal reading
January 18, 2015
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Have not read it yet I need to read it first ok ok o.k. ok cool thanks again for eyeglasses
Have not read it yet I need to read it first ok ok o.k. ok cool thanks again for eyeglasses
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February 11, 2015
I am a little old to really get enjoy the books to the fullest.
Not too bad but for a younger reader.
I would rate this at a 3 star for an elderly male.
Not too bad but for a younger reader.
I would rate this at a 3 star for an elderly male.
February 19, 2015
Don't bother...it's awful!
These are just the first book to get you to buy the series...don't read unless you want to buy the whole series!
These are just the first book to get you to buy the series...don't read unless you want to buy the whole series!
April 7, 2015
A fun set of books. A few are for a younger audience. Some you can't put down. A couple leave you hanging. All in all entertaining.
April 18, 2015
Hunted
Gave it a four stars, because some of the stories I already read before but overall the stories were good.
Gave it a four stars, because some of the stories I already read before but overall the stories were good.
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September 13, 2015
I really enjoyed reading these books very much. Will read more of these authors.
June 22, 2016
This is where I read Hunted
October 20, 2016
Excellent
Well worth the read, but not if you don't like cliffhangers. Will leave you wanting more and look for book 2
Well worth the read, but not if you don't like cliffhangers. Will leave you wanting more and look for book 2
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