Reviewer's Rating:
5
5.0Overall score
Turning up the heat index!
Sophie’s Shifters By Ann Gimpel
Paranormal Shifter Ménage Romance
Self Published
Series: Wolf Clan Shifters, Book 3
Released May 2, 2016
One spirited woman + three coyote shifters = e-reader ecstasy.
Late 1930s, California.
The winds of change are blowing hard as shifters gather deep in the Sierra Nevada Mountains for a war powwow. Tempers run high as they argue their next move. An unexpected attack from more Hunters than they’ve ever seen forces their hand, and Blake, alpha for the coyote clan, fights alongside his brothers. He’s grimly pleased when every single one of their enemies is finally dead, the bodies chucked into glacial crevasses.
Sophie Laughing Wolf tracked her hated brother into the mountains. Gifted with foreseeing, she wants to make certain he ends up just as dead as he was in her vision. When the large group of men he’s with are set upon by shifters, mythical dual-natured beings who can take animal forms, she hides, calling on earth power to shield her.
It doesn’t work. Two shifters, back in their men’s bodies, haul her from her hiding place once the battle ends and drag her before their chief. He spares her life—for now—but she senses the animosity the others have for her. They see her as a threat, a witness to multiple murders.
When the mate bond strikes, she fights its pull. So does Blake. He can’t believe the gods would be so cruel as to bind him and his lieutenants to a woman with blood ties to Hunters—their ancient enemy. She runs from her fate. So does he, but the bond burns bright, transcending everything.
Reviewed by Jean
Turning up the heat index!
Reading the blurb you might wonder what would entice a woman to follow her brother and make sure he met the fate she’d seen in her visions. Continual abuse from an early age has left Sophie disabused that men have any redeeming qualities. Combine that abuse with watching all the men in her tribe succumb to the hooch provided to them by their white oppressors and you might have a clue just how disillusioned Sophie has become in the male gender. Women of the 1930’s had limited power, even more so for a Native American woman. The prevalence of racism and the Indian wars aren’t so far in the past. Now Sophie finds herself at the mercy of shifters as they determine her fate. Things would indeed seem dire were if naught for the mates of these powerful shifters who take her under their wings and determine the best course of action is finding Sophie a shifter family to mate with. As you might imagine this might seem a most improbable outcome for someone who has such a low opinion of men.
Blake, as the coyote alpha is outspoken in his belief that they should take out the woman found in the Sierra’s in the aftermath of their fight with hunters. She couldn’t possibly have any redeeming qualities if she is related to a hunter. Then when he and his lieutenants show up a day early at the wolf alpha, Jed’s mansion in Hollywood he’s bowled over with the scent of his family’s mate. But no matter what a fickle fate has in store for him, he’s going to resist mating with the sister of a hunter. In fact, he is quite vocal in his opposition to the idea much to the dismay of his lieutenants who have waited what seems like forever to find their mate. When Sophie overhears his tirade and decides to run for it, things take a decidedly dangerous turn. Blake is soon swallowing his very harsh condemning words and seeing the error of his ways when he comes to realize that Sophie has hidden qualities that are quite impressive.
Sophie’s Shifters amps up the heat from the previous two books in the Wolf Clan series. At the same time, it juxtaposes the imminent threat and political hotbed the shifters live under with that of the Native American. I loved the comparisons as it gave the heroine and her shifter heroes common ground upon which to build a relationship other than a frenzy of sex brought on by finding their mate. Sophie’s Shifters furthers the series arc with further confrontations with the hunters. The elements of danger and action are present which I truly enjoyed. I can’t wait until Ms. Gimpel gives us the mountain cat alphas story.
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I’m basically a mountaineer at heart. I remember many hours at my desk where my body may have been stuck inside four walls, but my soul was planning yet one more trip to the backcountry.
Around the turn of the last century (that would be 2000, not 1900!), I finagled a move to the Eastern Sierra, a mecca for those in love with the mountains. Stories always ran around in my head on backcountry trips, sometimes as a hedge against abject terror when challenging conditions made me fear for my life, sometimes for company.
Eventually, the inevitable happened. I returned from a trip and sat down at the computer. Three months later, a five hundred page novel emerged. It wasn’t very good, but it was a beginning. I learned a lot between writing that novel and its sequel, and I’ve been writing ever since.
In addition to turning out books, I enjoy wilderness photography. A standing joke is that over ten percent of my pack weight is camera gear, which means my very tolerant husband has to carry the food — and everything else too.
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