Night Shifters
Sarah A. Hoyt
Baen, Jun 3 2014, $14.99
ISBN: 9781476736518
“Draw One in the Dark.” In Goldport,
Colorado, the George waitress Kyrie the panther-shifter hears a scream so she steps
outside and follows the odor of blood to a corpse. Near the body is Tom the Nordic dragon with
blood on him. They shift to human form
and she takes him home to his devastated apartment where three Oriental dragons
attack them. The panther fights back
until Tom takes them out of harm’s way.
At her place, Rafiel the lion shifter tells her that the ancient great sky
dragon apparently is breaking shifter canon by massacring their kind with Tom
as the focus of a hunt for the Pearl of Heaven.
“Gentleman Takes a
Chance.” While a blizzard paralyzes
Goldport, GPD officer Rafiel investigates homicides at the Aquarium in
which his lion essence smells a shifter.
At the same time, while Tom showers the great sky dragon telepathically
communicates with him; terrorized he loses control and shifts destroying the
room. He and Kyrie head to the George
for shelter. Conan the red dragon explains
to Kyrie that the great sky dragon ordered him to keep Tom safe.
This omnibus contains the first two enjoyable
Shifter urban fantasies.
Draw One in the Dark is
slower than Gentleman Takes a Chance
as much of the opening act introduces readers to the civilian lives of former
foster child Kyrie and kicked out of his family home as a teen (for shifting)
Tom. With an engaging overarching theme
involving dragons and a myriad of other shifter-types, the twisting exciting
fun comes from the downside of shifting; i.e.; the bathroom.
Harriet Klausner
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