Feral Heat

Read: September 2015
The couple: Jace & Deni

The plot: Jace Warden is a feline shifter who is invited into shiftertown by Dylan, Luke and Sean Morrissey in order to continue their experiments on removing their collars. On his first night in town Jace meets Deni; she has been traumatised by a motorbike accident and she feels like she is slowly losing her mind and becoming more feral.

I love returning to the world Ashley has created in the Shifters Unbound series. These shorter novellas cannot be missed in order to keep up with the overall plot. Deni is a very different sort of romantic heroine, she is older with two adult sons and is suffering from some sort of PTSD that is made worse by her shifter nature. Jace is perfect for her in that show more he sees past that and wants to help her recover, along with her sons and brother.

The continuing study of the Fae collars that control shifter behaviour takes a huge step forward and a possible new romance is also set up as well.

There are three main things I love about the Shifters Unbound series; the unapologetically hot romances, the unique perspective of shifters as second class citizens and the way the tension between human and shifter is handled, and how Ashley writes such multi-faceted characters - no one is ever clearly defined as 'good' or 'bad'. In short, I don't think I can overstate how good this series is.

Rating: 4/5 stars show less

Read for Fun (Library)
Overall Rating: 3.75
Story Rating: 3.50
Character Rating: 4.00

First Thought when Finished: Feral Heat by Jennifer Ashley was not my favorite in the series but still pretty darn good!

Overall Thoughts: While I never really saw Jace and Deni before this as a couple---I could think of no two better suited now that they are together. I loved how Jace calmed her, brought out her inner strength, and was willing to do anything for her. I love that she in turn got to save him. Overall story didn't move forward too much but that is OK this was a novella :)

Part of my Read It, Rate It, File It, Done! Reviews

(NOTE: only on more and I am caught up *sad face*)

~ 3 Feral Stars ~

Feral Heat is #5.5 in Shifters Unbound series by [a:Jennifer Ashley|28569|Jennifer Ashley|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1235782216p2/28569.jpg]. This novella was ok! It’s not my favorite in the long line of novellas or full length books in this series, but it does give us more in-site into the collars and a Faerie who happens to be a father to one of the shifters. There’s a lightheadedness that’s lacking in this novella when compared to previous ones, but she has opened doors to new possibilities thanks to the movement of the collar story.

Jace is Eric Warden’s son. Eric Warden ([b:Mate Claimed|13409305|Mate Claimed (Shifters Unbound, #4)|Jennifer show more Ashley|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1333582322s/13409305.jpg|18642925]) is leader and alpha of a shiftertown in Las Vegas. Jace has come to Austin to help the Morrissey free shifters from their collars without them going feral. He is a very lade back dominant alpha, but when it counts he is a fighter and a warrior. Soon after arriving in Austin he meets Deni Rowe who is Ellison’s ([b:Lone Wolf|16176614|Lone Wolf (Shifters Unbound #4.6)|Jennifer Ashley|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1360986972s/16176614.jpg|22026688]) sister. Deni had a bad accident that robed her of the calm shifters strive for. She is only hanging on by a thread. It’s sad to see a strong independent women get hurt so bad, but then Jace comes along, he does help boost her confidence, but she fix’s herself. The chemistry was hot, but not as powerful as other couples in this series.

We do get a little drama with a human female trying to sabotage the shifters. By the end she is caught and has to explain why she did what she did, so another story is blooming as well as another human/shifter relationship hinted at. I liked visiting the older characters again as well as Fionn the Faerie. We learn a little more about him and it’s interesting to see a Faerie on the shifter side. He's an interesting character though not a main one. What made this not as fantastic to me like the prvious novellas is how quickly Deni and Jace end up haveing sex. The author explains why they hook up fast, but it just felt to rushed for me and I’m not a fan of the hoping into bed before you really know one another.

If you have not picked up this series then start from the beginning. This is not a stand a lone novella, it goes with the rest of the series. Fan’s of Shifters Unbound will want to read it just to see what happens with their favorite shifts in Austion, TX. I’m always ready to be taken back into Ms. Ashley’s Shifters Unbound world. It was nice to see Jace an Deni have their sweet HEA.

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Jace is an out of town shifter come to help with the removal of shifter collars. Deni still suffers trauma and flashes of feral fever from her attack. Their attraction is explosive, he helps and encourages her to take back what she lost. They lean on each other and draw strength from each other.