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Shapeshifter's Craving (2010)

by Lee Pearce(Favorite Author)

2.81 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Ellora's Cave Publishing

review 1: In a world of fantasy where nothing is really what it seems, Kate, a young and beautiful maiden swims leisurely through the cooling waters of a lake as her companion and bodyguard Aidan watches on from a few feet away. Constantly being in close proximity with each other it is easy to imagine a mutual attraction developing. Frustration stemming from inaction causes Kate to broach the delicate subject of their relationship. Here follows a few hot and steamy love scenes fantasized by a woman who’s like I’ve never come across in real life. The story rapidly changes direction and leads the reader down a dark and unexpected path. If you are looking for a short literary interlude, featuring sex and the unexpected, this just might be a book for you. The basic theme is well wor... moren, as is the sex but Lee Pearce adds a unique twist, making the ordinary, extraordinary.
review 2: Shapeshifter's Craving is the story of Kate, a princess, and her bodyguard, Aidan, in a quasi-magical land filled with shapeshifters, and in a kingdom where princesses banging their bodyguards is considered the norm, even to the point where "the King" pretty much expects it. In the beginning Kate has never used a bodyguard for pleasure, but like Ling in Kung Pow, Enter The Fist she quickly gets over her shyness. (Maybe even a little too quickly.)Now for such a short story there's a great deal of information to take in, and the reader is dropped into the middle of a world of the author's imagination without much warning. It's high school writing for the most part, but we're talking B+ quality high school writing that shows a great deal of potential, and with several other authors I think Ms. Pearce's biggest mistake is limiting her story to such a short format. With expansion I feel that Shapeshifter's Craving would make a great novel.Is it cheesy? A little. And it's definitely rushed, but I still found it interesting, and even a little endearing. Kate is a shapeshifter who has not chosen a particular animal form, so for the period the story covers she has the ability to become any animal. She also has a power which even she, at first, has no idea that she wields. Aidan has a little secret of his own, and together they work to explore the possibility of a life outside Kate's somewhat sheltered upbringing.Is Shapeshifter's Craving the greatest, by no means, but there's a great deal of potential there, which is more than I can say for a lot of writers, in several genres, who crank out whatever and slap a price on it to make a few bucks. Lee Pearce is probably on the right track, and I can't wait to see her tackle a story in a larger format, because she has the imagination to actually tackle something over four or five pages. I give Shapeshifter's Craving Three and a Half Stars, and look forward to what Ms. Pearce has to offer in the future. On several sites this story has gotten mixed reviews, a fair share of those negative, however, once you sift through them it's apparent that most people found issue with the length of the story more than anything else. less

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