(2.5 stars)

this was an okay-ish little anthology of paranormal mm stories, all of which except the first involved shifters and appeared to take place in the same universe. they were fun little stories, but the plots were usually pretty simple and there were a lot of sex scenes, which i do like but got repetitive after seeing similar erotic scenes in every story. i don't really think i'd recommend it; if you want some paranormal mm there are better things out there to read.

A fun collection of short stories, though I often wanted more detail from each.

Well it's a sad day but I guess it had to happen eventually, I finally got a book from LT3 that I didn't really like. Don't get me wrong, this isn't necessarily a bad collection but it definitely wasn't for me. There are five stories in this anthology and the entire thing is only 70 pages long so none of them are very detailed. Also the dialogue feels very stiff most of the time and there really wasn't quite enough of a fantasy element to it for me. All the stories feature shifters of some kind but it's never really that relevant to the 'plot' of the story. Although really at least half of the page space is dedicated to explicit sex scenes so I'm not sure how much plot there is to start with. While I'm definitely not against the occasional sex scene in the books I read, there was just way too much for me in this particular anthology. If you're just looking for a very quick and 'steamy' read then this collection of M/M stories will probably be perfect for you but I would have rather the stories been a bit more developed and for there to be a little bit less sex overall.