A Paul B Review: Bear In Mind (The Bears of Falcon’s Ridge #2) by Susan E. Scott

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

Bear In Mind Gabe Falcon has been seeing Blake whenever his art work took him into Atlanta. He first met Blake five months ago. Shortly before their first date, Gabe found out that a woman he had been seeing in Savannah was pregnant with his child. As Gabe has been a love them and leave them type of guy, this changed the equation for Gabe. Karen, the woman from Savannah, would not agree to marry him, nor did she want to keep the baby. Gabe hoped he could convince Karen to give him the baby to raise. But this possibly puts an end to any future for his relationship with Blake as he states that he did not want to have kids someday.

Blake works at an art gallery in Atlanta. Through his job, he meets Gabe, a sexy Native American artist. While he agrees to become friends with benefits with Gabe for whenever he was in town on business, lately Blake has wanted to take the relationship to the next level. He fears that if informs Gabe of his decision that he will lose Gabe. When he doesn’t hear from Gabe in a while, Blake figures that the relationship, such as it is, is dying a natural death. After being laid off at his art gallery, Blake decides to pay his friend Connor and Conner’s new boyfriend Falcon a visit.

When Blake arrives at Connor’s place for his visit, he can’t help but notice the resemblance Falcon bares to his Gabe. When he learns that Falcon is actually his last name, it confirms that the two are brothers and in fact twins. Blake then learns that Gabe is in Savannah for the birth of his own twins. Blake is sure he does not want to be a home wrecker and wonders where he fits into Gabe’s new life. He will certainly be busy with the new additions along with possibly their mother, leaving him alone. Is there any hope for a life with Gabe and his kids?

This is the second book in the Bears of Falcon’s Ridge series. I missed out on the first one but that did not detract much from the story. (The first book was the story of Connor and Falcon.) In this book, Gabe and Falcon being bear shifters is treated almost like they had brown eyes or were Native American, just another part of their being. The only shifting that took place happened off page.

Both men seem to want their relationship to develop further but are both afraid but telling the other of their desire that they will lose them. Only after the subtle help of Connor after Gabe brings the babies home do the men come to realize that they both want the same thing. I plan on catching up with the first book and look forward to others in the series.

The cover by Eden Connor fits the character of Gabe well. A shirtless Native American male with long dark hair is standing in front of a forest scene. It is just how I would picture Gabe as he was described.

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Book Details

EBook, 130 pages
Edition Language: English
Published: August 1, 2016 by Dark Hollows Press
ISBN: 978-1-044054-74-8

Series: The Bears of Falcon’s Ridge

Bear With Me (The Bears of Falcon’s Ridge #1)
Bear In Mind (The Bears of Falcon’s Ridge #2)

A Paul B Review: Kenai (Watchers #1) by Caitlin Ricci and A.J. Marcus

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

Kenai is a young watcher. He has known since he was young that he was meant to settle disputes between shifters. He has also been told that being a watcher is a lonely life. The watcher separates himself from his family and there is no prospect of love, much less a mate. This as they say is how it has always been. His life is one of prophetic dreams and settling disputes. To keep himself from being distracted from his duties, Kenai lives in the forest of Washington in a single room cabin by himself. This also allows him to shift into his cougar form. The one dream that recurs to him is of a bear shifter fishing salmon from a nearby stream.

Derek is a bear shifter in the wilds of Washington. While walking through the woods one day, a cougar bounces around him as he walks. Annoyed at the playful shifter, he asks the man what he is doing. Kenai states that he just wants company. Derek tolerates the cougar for a bit until Kenai’s bouncing leads Derek to growl at him. Kenai apologizes and heads home. Derek follows him and asks if Kenai would like to go on a salmon run with him the next day.

At the salmon run, things progress between Derek and Kenai. Both agree that whatever goes on between them is just for fun and nothing more could come of it. However, when another bear shifter attacks Kenai, things change. Kenai defends himself, pushing the bear shifter over a cliff. Frightened what the other bear shifters might do, he runs to the city seeking refuge in a bottle of vodka. Derek tracks him down but Kenai must perform his watcher duties. Will the legends of the lonely watcher prove to be true?

This is the first book in the new Watchers series by Caitlin Ricci and A J Marcus. The first part of the book serves both as an introduction to Kenai but also to this world of watchers that the authors have created. It is a different twist on the supervision of paranormals as these watchers seem to be born into the role. While this is a decent shifter book, I felt something was missing in the connection of the main characters. I did however like how Kenai used the situation that he is called on to mediate to help him come to a conclusion about his relationship with Derek. Overall, it is a good start to the series but I hope that more details are fleshed out in coming books.

The cover art by Carmen Waters has Kenai in his cougar form with a shirtless man behind the cougar set in a forest. It fits the book well.

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Book Details

ebook, 46 pages
Published December 8th 2015 by eXtasy Books
ISBN139781487406011
Edition LanguageEnglish

SeriesWatchers #1

A Paul B Review: Paws, Preening and a Pumpkin Patch (Wolves of Stone Ridge #31) by Charlie Richards

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

Hessian (Hess) Roshburg, a Kodiak bear shifter, has come to the Stone Ridge wolf pack territory to meet with a former military acquaintance. It seems the pack has gotten itself mixed up with some vampire, gargoyles and the CIA. He also has information about the shifter council that he believes that the pack alpha Declan McIntire should know about.

Gilbert, a raven shifter, and his flock have recently settled in the territory of the Stone Ridge wolf pack after being held captive in Russian for several years. The wolves helped liberate them from the captors and offered them sanctuary until they have readjusted to real life. Things like clothes and how to use a telephone is lost on members of his flock who were taken captive at an early age. To help in their transition Gilbert and his flock decide to go out dancing at a local club that is frequented by the local shifters.

At the bar, Gilbert watches members of his flock flirt hopelessly at the bar staff and other bar patrons. While headed to the bar to retrieve drinks for his friends, he runs into a big bear of a man. Gilbert realizes that not only is this man a shifter, but also his mate. Gilbert tells Hess that Fate must be mistaken since they are total opposites and that now was not exactly a good time to find his mate as his flock needs him. Hess must convince his mate that he can have both if he wants. However, will the information that Hess has retrieved for his friend put a premature stop to this mating before it even begins?

This thirty-first book in the Stone Ridge series introduces two new characters in the series. We have met Gilbert in passing while he was held captive in Russia but know nothing about him. His reluctance to mate with Hess is understandable. First he is the de facto beta to this flock of birds that have been held captive for up to forty years for some of them. Next, he feels that Hess has betrayed them because government agents are after Hess because of the information that he stole. The character of Hess was somewhat confusing to me. He left his clan at 27 because he was stronger than the alpha but is still roaming about as a loner. And he speaks to others in somewhat youngish manner. He calls a cougar shifter “kitty” and his mate “pretty slender.” It just seemed out of place for someone who is as strong as Hess is supposed to be. But I still enjoyed the book despite this.

The cover art by Angela Waters once again delivers. It shows Gilbert in the foreground in his human form with Hess in his bear form wandering around a pumpkin patch in the background. The cover perfectly fits the book.

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