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4.0
NightShift by Kate Douglas, Crystal Jordan and Lynn LaFleur
Grade: B+
“She was coming here? If it was possible for his wolf to do a happy dance, his did.”
NightShift is a great anthology with stories from Kate Daniels, Crystal Jordan and Lynn LaFleur. Each story is very different but a wonderful PNR full of aliens, shifters and romance. I tried to do some research and see if any of these stories are part of a series but I couldn’t find anything. If they are part of a series my deepest apologies but I still enjoyed each story a lot.
The first story is “Dream Catcher” by Kate Douglas and it’s set in 1992 and is more of a science fiction the paranormal. In this story Mac Dugan is a graduate student on a scholarship and in the running for a grant to help fund his computer research when all of a sudden he is kicked out of school and looses all of his work and funding. Late at night his dream woman appears named Zianne and the chemistry and sex between the two is unbelievable. Zianne begins to help Mac to get his funding back and get back in school and as the two spend more time together Mac soon realizes that Zianne is way more then he ever expected.
This was my least favorite story out of the three and I blame that mostly on the fact that I was very confused about who or what Zianne was and what she wanted from Mac. I never connected with her at all and found myself way more interested in the relationship between Mac and his best friend Dink. I am usually not a fan of M/M/F but this book is the exception. I actually think I would have liked it even better if the whole book had been Mac and Dink and just left Zianne out completely. Not a horrible story but not a series I would want to read about in the future.
In “Taken Between” by Crystal Jordan, Kira is her queen’s head of security and has been in love with Max, the king’s brother and head of security for years. Max is a prince and Kira is the daughter of his father’s servant who raised Kira to believe she would never be good enough for Max. Kira finally acts on her desires and Max is shocked and delighted to finally have her in his bed but both of them have deep seeded issues that they must work out in order to be together. With a human stalking their queen Max and Kira must work together to keep her safe and try to figure out how to save their own relationship alive.
I really, really enjoyed this story. As I mentioned before I’m not sure if this is part of a series but if it is I need to be reading it ASAP. I loved all of the different relationships that were going on and I loved seeing characters heal each others old wounds. The threat of a human stalker gives the story some mystery and suspense which is a nice break from the hot romance and sex going on between Max and Kira. Even though the story is short I really got into the world of Betweens, humans that can shift into animals, and I would love to read more about this world and the great characters that Mrs. Jordan has created.
“The Right Number” by Lynn LaFleur has our characters meeting when Jay Millington of San Francisco dials a Ms. Veronica “Ronnie” St. James of Dallas, Texas. The moment Jay hears Ronnie’s voice his wolf knows she’s his mate and Jay will do anything to track her down, court her and make her his mate. Ronnie feels the same pull that Jay does and the two soon strike up a phone conversation that turns into naughty phone sex. When the two meet their attraction is undeniable but their relationship is anything but easy.
This was my favorite of the whole anthology by far. From the very first page Mrs. LeFleur sucks you right in to a highly erotic tale of fate, love and chemistry. The writing is so hot I thought my book was going to catch on fire a coupe of times and there was a lot of fanning of the face while reading this story. I loved Ronnie who is a very sexual woman and is not afraid to be who she is and get down and dirty with her man. Jay made me mad a couple of times but boy oh boy did he make up for it later. This story is hot, hot, hot!
I am usually not a fan of anthologies but I really enjoyed NightShift. “The Right Number” is worth buying the book for alone and the other stories are good too. I usually find in anthologies one or two of the stories are bad and there’s only one good one but that wasn’t the case here. This is a great collection of very steamy paranormal romance that will keep the pages turning until the very end.
Grade: B+
“She was coming here? If it was possible for his wolf to do a happy dance, his did.”
NightShift is a great anthology with stories from Kate Daniels, Crystal Jordan and Lynn LaFleur. Each story is very different but a wonderful PNR full of aliens, shifters and romance. I tried to do some research and see if any of these stories are part of a series but I couldn’t find anything. If they are part of a series my deepest apologies but I still enjoyed each story a lot.
The first story is “Dream Catcher” by Kate Douglas and it’s set in 1992 and is more of a science fiction the paranormal. In this story Mac Dugan is a graduate student on a scholarship and in the running for a grant to help fund his computer research when all of a sudden he is kicked out of school and looses all of his work and funding. Late at night his dream woman appears named Zianne and the chemistry and sex between the two is unbelievable. Zianne begins to help Mac to get his funding back and get back in school and as the two spend more time together Mac soon realizes that Zianne is way more then he ever expected.
This was my least favorite story out of the three and I blame that mostly on the fact that I was very confused about who or what Zianne was and what she wanted from Mac. I never connected with her at all and found myself way more interested in the relationship between Mac and his best friend Dink. I am usually not a fan of M/M/F but this book is the exception. I actually think I would have liked it even better if the whole book had been Mac and Dink and just left Zianne out completely. Not a horrible story but not a series I would want to read about in the future.
In “Taken Between” by Crystal Jordan, Kira is her queen’s head of security and has been in love with Max, the king’s brother and head of security for years. Max is a prince and Kira is the daughter of his father’s servant who raised Kira to believe she would never be good enough for Max. Kira finally acts on her desires and Max is shocked and delighted to finally have her in his bed but both of them have deep seeded issues that they must work out in order to be together. With a human stalking their queen Max and Kira must work together to keep her safe and try to figure out how to save their own relationship alive.
I really, really enjoyed this story. As I mentioned before I’m not sure if this is part of a series but if it is I need to be reading it ASAP. I loved all of the different relationships that were going on and I loved seeing characters heal each others old wounds. The threat of a human stalker gives the story some mystery and suspense which is a nice break from the hot romance and sex going on between Max and Kira. Even though the story is short I really got into the world of Betweens, humans that can shift into animals, and I would love to read more about this world and the great characters that Mrs. Jordan has created.
“The Right Number” by Lynn LaFleur has our characters meeting when Jay Millington of San Francisco dials a Ms. Veronica “Ronnie” St. James of Dallas, Texas. The moment Jay hears Ronnie’s voice his wolf knows she’s his mate and Jay will do anything to track her down, court her and make her his mate. Ronnie feels the same pull that Jay does and the two soon strike up a phone conversation that turns into naughty phone sex. When the two meet their attraction is undeniable but their relationship is anything but easy.
This was my favorite of the whole anthology by far. From the very first page Mrs. LeFleur sucks you right in to a highly erotic tale of fate, love and chemistry. The writing is so hot I thought my book was going to catch on fire a coupe of times and there was a lot of fanning of the face while reading this story. I loved Ronnie who is a very sexual woman and is not afraid to be who she is and get down and dirty with her man. Jay made me mad a couple of times but boy oh boy did he make up for it later. This story is hot, hot, hot!
I am usually not a fan of anthologies but I really enjoyed NightShift. “The Right Number” is worth buying the book for alone and the other stories are good too. I usually find in anthologies one or two of the stories are bad and there’s only one good one but that wasn’t the case here. This is a great collection of very steamy paranormal romance that will keep the pages turning until the very end.
avoraciousreader68's review
3.0
This is an anthology with three stories by authors I had not yet read, Kate Douglas, Crystal Jordan and Lynn LaFleur. I wish I had known that Crystal Jordan’s story 'Taken Between' was the second story in the The Between series. I loathe reading a series out of order. It’s partially my fault for not digging deeper before picking 'NightShift', but it would be nice to have it mentioned somewhere in an anthology’s blurb that an included story is part of a series.
Overall each story was enjoyable and incredibly HOT. I consider the Kate Douglas story 'Dream Catcher' more of a sci-fi story than a shifter story, but since I enjoy sci-fi I had no problems with it. Crystal Jordan’s 'Taken Between' had too much sex (I know, I know, how can that possibly be?!) and not enough plot, but still an enjoyable read. I think Lynn LaFleur’s story 'The Right Number' was my favorite of the three although 'Dream Catcher' was a close second.
If you’re looking for a few quick hot reads then you won’t go wrong with this anthology. I need to look into more stories by these authors.
*The publisher provided a copy of this book to me for review. Please see disclaimer on my blog.
Overall each story was enjoyable and incredibly HOT. I consider the Kate Douglas story 'Dream Catcher' more of a sci-fi story than a shifter story, but since I enjoy sci-fi I had no problems with it. Crystal Jordan’s 'Taken Between' had too much sex (I know, I know, how can that possibly be?!) and not enough plot, but still an enjoyable read. I think Lynn LaFleur’s story 'The Right Number' was my favorite of the three although 'Dream Catcher' was a close second.
If you’re looking for a few quick hot reads then you won’t go wrong with this anthology. I need to look into more stories by these authors.
*The publisher provided a copy of this book to me for review. Please see disclaimer on my blog.
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