Fun smut! If you like Shifter smut, definitely read it. It's got a good story to go with the smut and it's well written

Captive Wilderness is the first book in the Goldenlach Ridge Shifters series by J.E. McDonald. The book begins with Brooke, a bobcat shifter, who wakes up, captured and in a plane with no idea how she got there. Brooke's sister "saves" her by pushing Brooke out of the plane with a parachute. Brooke lands in the middle of the remote Canadian wilderness. Enter Kane, a sexy but short-tempered bear shifter. So much action and thrills, and of course Brooke and Kane's story was well written, love their chemistry. If you love shifter stories, this one is for you. ( )

I should have had this book read, and the review written, several months ago. I am trying not to beat myself up because life does sometimes get in the way. The simple fact is the book is so good, I wished I had read it sooner. I ending up reading it in just two sittings. It is everything I love in a paranormal romance and has two great characters that are meant for each other even if they don’t know it yet.
Brooke and her sister are both Bobcat shifter. They have been kidnapped by unknown people, a collar placed on them that they can’t remove, and they can no longer shift into their animal form. When they both regain consciousness, they are on a cargo plane headed to an unknown destination.
While Brooke manages to get free and parashoots to safely, she is forced to leave her sister behind. Landing in a remote wilderness, Brooke stumbles across a primitive cabin that is inhabited by Kane, a mute bear shifter. Brooke wants nothing more than to leave and find out where her sister was taken and rescue her. However, without the ability to shift, she will never be able to survive in the wild in her human form. The only way out is the next supply plane, which will not arrive for another two weeks.
It will be a long two weeks before she can start looking for her sister. Unfortunately, her abductors are not about to lose their prize. Will the growing connection between her and Kane end up being a good thing or a determent to them both?
I enjoyed the plot, nothing overly new, but there were a few new ways of looking at shifters that I thought brought some new life to the plot. I especially liked the setting and the descriptive prose that I felt was better than most books in this genre. In addition, the character development was really good. I especially liked that we got a fair amount of backstory on both Kane and Brooke. I really connected with the characters and wanted everything to work in their favor.
I know this type of book is fluff; but it is great fluff. Highly entertaining! If you love paranormal romance with a good side of steaminess, this is the book to read.
I received a free copy, via Library Thing’s early reviewer program, in exchange for my honest review. For more of my reviews, and author interviews, see my book blog at www.TheSpineView.com. ( )

This was an interesting shifter/mate romance. I enjoyed the story. If you are looking for a spicy shifter read, this is for you! The storyline of the missing sister was super intriguing and left a lot of questions. Unfortunately, there was no resolution in the end. I understand as a series that it will continue, but when I turned the page to 'epilogue' I was upset that it seemed like nothing was resolved in the mystery.
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A good story, and I'd like to read more in the series. The author manages to make "fated mates" and uncontrollable lust worth reading - those are two strong connections between them, but they also learn to like one another, and want to spend time together. It's an interesting world - many shifters, hiding among humans, and now someone's hunting them using something Kane built/designed long ago. Brooke is pretty much hauled along by events - she doesn't have a lot of choices at any point - but she still manages to be interesting and have at least a little say in what happens to her (if only deciding what to fight and what to surrender to). There is a lot of very explicit sex in the book - I'm not kidding about "uncontrollable lust". But it still manages to be about the relationship, not just the sex. This story comes to a good end - they're a solid pair - but it's clearly only the first step in the series arc (the matter with the hunters is not at all resolved). Next book is Brooke and...Walker? That would be good. I guess I'll have to get it and find out... ( )