Now I am gonna have to go back and read the first in the series. =)

I really liked this story. The author lulled you into complacency then added in some pretty gritty scenes. The fem heroine was not annoying. Cool! ( )

A shapeshifting koala social worker falls in love with a wolf shifter with PTSD from childhood abuse who works for the FBI. They meet cute when he brings her a box of abandoned wolf shifter puppies. The worldbuilding is interesting and there’s a large cast of shifter characters, presumably all candidates for other romance novels focusing on them (there’s already one before this, about a bear shifter and a non-shifter human). The protagonists are immediately attracted to one another and communicate well, though both are uncertain of their ability to succeed in a relationship. The barriers to the relationship are otherwise external and include some grim shifter-abusing people—the ultimate source of the shifter puppies. Well-written enough that if you liked the description you will probably like the book. ( )