Review: Shift by Karina Espinosa

It's hard enough being an undergraduate student, an intern at Downtown Manhattan's police station, and a bouncer at a local bar. Add her now ex-boyfriend who recently dumped her for the school's resident bimbo—oh, and she's a werewolf. 

Mackenzie Grey meets her match when she is kidnapped by the Brooklyn Pack and tossed between Sebastian and Jonah—the Alpha and the Beta. Being a lone-wolf in the city is dangerous, and now that the Pack has found her, so can every supernatural being in the Tri-State area. And not even her sarcastic, smart mouth can get her out of this. 

When a string of kidnappings involves Mackenzie in supernatural politics, she questions her new acquaintances and finds unlikely allies. Can she escape Pack law and keep her freedom—or will she be condemned to an unwanted path?

*Read via Kindle Unlimited*

ebook

Full-length novel.

First person.

No.

No, book one.

No. 

The story of this book is complete but it's a series so there are lots of points left open for future books.

N/A

N/A

A definite potential one is brewing but romance is very light in this book.

Of a wolfy variety, yes.

I’m a huge UF fan and I’m always on the hunt for a new series to binge read. The leading lady in this series is a werewolf, and I haven’t read an UF where the leading lady is a shapeshifter, so I thought it'd be a nice change and really shake up the status quo for me. Combine this with the fact this is a complete four book series and I was like yeeeeesssss!!!!!

I really hoped that it’s be an awesome new series to sink into… But after reading book one, I’m not sure.

Mackenzie is a strong kick ass character, and she’s written that way, but at times she goes a little too far and is straight into ‘unlikeable bitch who needs to grow up’ territory and by the time I got to the end of this book - for it was a very decent length! - I couldn’t make up my mind whether I liked her or not. 

I also couldn’t decide whether I liked the hot/cold behaviour of the Alpha & Beta wolves, the potential love triangle I see looming, the treatment of female werewolves in general, and all the mystery surrounding Mackenzie’s origins… However, I did like many of the supporting characters and I am curious about exactly who Mackenzie is so I think I’ll give the next book a read - seeing as they’re all on KU - and make up my mind whether to continue with the series at that point.

I like the cover. It captures UF and kick ass female well and, always a plus, it actually matches the description of Mackenzie!

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Book Blogger Hop: Do you have an Instagram account? If so, do you only follow book folks?

Do you have an Instagram account?  If so, do you only follow book folks?

Yes, I have an Instagram account.

I set it up with the intention of creating a 'bookstagram' to compliment my book blog but it didn't work out that way. 

I love taking pictures but I'm not the type who will spend hours playing with my bookshelves to make them look pretty (honestly, they're a bit of a dusty disgrace!) or the type to collect bookish memorabilia that could be used to make beautiful pictures... In the end, I just decided not to even try.

I do share bookish things on my Instagram but it's not the sole focus of my Instagram. 

I like to post lots of cat pictures.

I also post random pictures of places and things I find interesting.

As for who I follow, I follow authors I like, bloggers I like, people I find interesting and bookstagrammers who post all the pretty book spreads. 

Ultimately, I'm just not a big fan of Instagram. 

I'm a simple creature and I haven't spent anywhere near enough time working out how it works and how to get the best out of it. 

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Book Blogger Hop: What author have you read the most in the past two years?

What author have you read the most in the past two years?

This is a really simple question.

I didn't even have to think that hard about it.

Two years ago, I was in the middle of a reading crisis and by crisis I mean I was barely reading a book a month because I'd lost my mojo and nothing was pulling me out of my funk, pretty much because I was in a dark place and until I managed to dig myself out of the hole I was drowning in, nothing was going to be fun.

As part of the digging myself out of my misery pit, I deleted my old blog, cut off social media and simplified my life.

Simplifying my life worked a treat and before long I was reading regularly again and I discovered I missed my blog but it was too late to reinstate it - and the associated social media - so Sunny Buzzy Books was born.

Within weeks of starting Sunny Buzzy Books, I decided to read the Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews. I was in an Urban Fantasy mood, I had about 6 of them already, between the book shelf and the kindle, so I picked them up and started reading... And I didn't stop until I'd inhaled all nine plus multiple novellas set in the Kate Daniels world.

But I didn't stop there.

Over the past year, I have read everything available by Ilona Andrews with the exception of the two Kingsman novels and two of The Edge series.
That means I have read approximately 25 novels and novellas by this writing duo since May last year.

Two more Ilona Andrews novels - and one more novella - are on the TBR for this year: all pre-ordered.

I just LOVE their world building, their attention to detail and the strong characters they develop. The romance junkie in me also loves how they build the relationships between characters in their books. It always feels so genuine... Raw, real, believable and sexy.

So, yeah.
The simple answer to this would have just been to say Ilona Andrews, but that would've been boring.
😝

What about you? Who have you read the most of in the past two years?

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