I am really embarrassed to say I liked this book. A shape-shifter man-leopard assassin-but-really-a-goodguy-paying-for-one-bad-mistake meets a woman in the middle of the jungle who turns out to be a shape-shifter woman-leopard who doesn’t know it and is running from an assassin. Not only that, but her older brother is a shape-shifter man-leopard and her uncle who murdered her parents knows it and wants him to run his drug cartel. Got all that? Good. Moving on. The characters are really easy to like and seem like real people (even though they aren’t really people – but leopard-people) and the romance doesn’t seem forced. Neither one is telling the other the whole truth, so while the female character goes through the mysterious “change that’s kind of like a female cat going into heat” the male character is busy fighting bad guys, patching up wounds, caring for his two companion leopards, and making friends. All this goes on while he believes he is untrustworthy and he deserves to live in exile.

Did I mention I really liked this book? I can’t explain why… but this story just grabbed me and wouldn’t let go. It seems silly to like such a mock-worthy novel now, but I will hang my head in shame and hide the poor paperback under my bed when polite company comes over so they don’t see the goofy grin on my face when they pick it up and read the back.

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