Story 4 of 5 stars
Heat 5 of 5 stars
Series – League of Gallize Shifters
Hero – Justin, grizzly Gallize shifter
Heroine – Elianna, grolar shifter (half grizzly, half polar bear)
Justin is one of the elite Gallize shifters, forced to leave helping his friend to escort Elianna across the country to his old clan. Elianna is a grolar (half grizzly half polar bear) shifter. Elianna was shunned by pack because she was an ursine hybrid, Justin was shunned when he was young because he still hadn’t shifted by the time he was eighteen. They have a lot in common but his preconceived notions and her defensiveness and limited English cause a lot of friction before attraction and their bears recognizing that they were mates brings them together. If that wasn’t enough going on, they are chased and shot at, then kidnapped and she refuses to mate with Justin because of a deal she made with her estranged father.
There was a lot to like about their story but there were also a lot of extraneous things that didn’t really go anywhere and were more of a distraction than added to the story. Maybe they are part of the next book but it isn’t clear. I thought the inner dialogue between each shifter and their animal lent to a lot of smiling and the bears sometimes stole the scene. Enjoyable read, looking forward to the next book in the series.9
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