This is a cute shifter romance, with a likable couple, but it suffered from a lack of character development. I wanted more background on both Shawn and Joanna, but especially on Joanna. It gets 3.5 stars from me, rounded down to 3 stars.
I liked how both Shawn and Joanna's friends automatically accepted that Shawn/Joanna were mates, and treated both of them like family. I loved how all of Shawn's friends were so good with his daughter, and treated her like their family, too. I also really liked how Shawn's friend Fiona was happy to help Shawn/Joanna solve the problem with the bad guy.
I liked both Shawn and Joanna, and thought they were good together. I liked how Joanna automatically accepted Shawn's daughter as her own, and that they were both so good with her.
I did think it was a bit unrealistic how they were able to catch the bad guy in the story. It was just too easy.
My rating system is below.
1 star -- Hated it, or did not finish. I usually only give this rating if some of the content is truly objectionable to me, like if one of the main characters does something really awful, and gets away with it.
2 stars -- Didn't like it. This rating usually means that I thought the writing wasn't very good, the editing was terrible, I didn't like the characters, or it had other major flaws.
3 stars -- I liked it, but had some minor issues with it. This rating means that there were minor editing issues, the story needed more character development, it was just too unrealistic, or had some other fairly minor issue. The majority of books I read get this rating – I do not consider it a bad rating.
4 stars -- I liked it a lot. This is a high rating for me, and I rarely give a higher one.
5 stars -- I loved it, and will probably read it again. Very few books are good enough to get this rating from me. The ones that do are usually classics.