Review: Shift by Joel Abernathy
SYNOPSIS:
An angel fell and a devil was there to catch him.
My fathers always told me the rules would keep me alive. For Mihail, I’ll break every last one of them.
Never let the blood run cold.
Never let the monster out in the light of day.
Never let a human witness escape.
He saw the secret I keep buried beneath my skin one night so long ago, and I let him get away. I should have killed him, but my soul knows him the way my fangs long to.
He’s got secrets, too. Secrets of the tarnished past. Secrets sharp and rusty enough to ruin us both.
Either he falls or I do.
REVIEW:
Okay by about 30% into this story, I wasn’t feeling it. Which is unfortunate because the book has the recipe for great success. I loved that Mikhail and Andrei are born enemies, one a hunter and one a shifter. But I just didn’t care for how fickle the characters were. Both characters definitely made poor decisions throughout the book but the process time was non-existent. They just blindly rolled with things and that rubbed me wrong.
Another big factor was the inconsistencies, not just in the book but throughout the series as whole. We spent the entire first book hearing about how rare omegas are and how they are supposed to be treasured when found, but Nicolae’s pack is surrounded by omegas in this book and not to mention, apparently some omegas can exist completely undetected as such?! The whole shifter law that was harped on endlessly in the first book is thrown out the window in the story. Nicolae isn’t detecting hunters in his vastly protected area? It was just too much and every time I moved past one and could potentially sink into the story, I was pulled back out.
The romance, I just didn’t vibe with. I liked how it progressed over their lives but Mikhail never seemed as into Andrei as Andrei was into him. There relationship lacked that crucial balance and even as the story came to an end, I still felt that the romance was off. The ending didn’t give the full closure to the series and it fell as flat as this book did.
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