Book Reviews

Book Blurb

Letting go of the past to embrace the future…

 

Things are changing for Marcus and Nathan, in more ways than one. Nathan is still trying to deal with the action he took in order to save Marcus’ life. It isn’t easy to do, and sometimes he fears he’ll give in to all the doubts and fears plaguing him.

 

What they need is some time alone, without guards shadowing their every move, no one to interrupt. Because soon, they’ll be busier than ever.

 

A short vacation before the annual gathering of Alpha Anaxes at the compound, that’s what they decide to do. But their vacation isn’t so private when they discover a wild pack of young shifters barely surviving.

 

Changes are coming.

 

A strange young shifter with abilities neither Marcus nor Nathan have ever seen before. Alpha Anaxes and attitudes. An intruder in their midst. And with the help of Shania, the pack doctor, the most important event of Marcus and Nathan’s shared life is about to happen.

 

Changes are coming, and they’re coming fast.

 

Book Review

This eleventh, and according to the author penultimate book of the ‘Southwestern Shifter’ series, is all kinds of unexpected, exciting, and making me sadder than ever that this series is supposed to come to an end.  On one hand, considering all the action and everything that happens in this book, it’s hard to believe that the author will manage to tie up all the loose ends in just one more book. On the other hand, a few of the plans Nathan and Marcus are beginning to make would mean that this stage of their lives will come to an end, and something else is about to begin. It’s been a tough few years, what with all the fights, assassination attempts, and other threats Marcus’s pack has weathered. All of that comes to a head during the Alpha Anax conference, and the latest violence is the catalyst for Nathan and Marcus to decide that enough is enough.

I loved that Nathan and Marcus are featured as the main couple again in this book. It makes sense since the story may have started with Gabe and Mika, then Adam and Todd pairing up, but the story arc kicked into high gear with book three, when Marcus and Nathan found out they are mates. So now they are the couple who get to decide what’s next for the shifters of their pack, and to some degree to all of the North American packs, since Marcus is their Alpha Anax, the alpha of all the alphas. Marcus’s idea and Nathan’s resulting plan are brilliant, and I can’t wait to see them pull it off in the next volume. The fact that they decide to have children via a surrogate, the pack doctor Shania, is not just great fun and very exciting, but also focuses them more on the future than they have ever been before.

The totally unexpected and very exciting appearance of an unknown pack of shifters, all abandoned children, including their seventeen-year-old alpha, Milo, is another fascinating development. One of them has some very special abilities, and I suspect he will have a major role to play in the next book. I certainly hope so!

If you like series with an overall story arc that successful spans the entire series, if you want to know more about a couple struggling to do the right thing not for their relationship but for all the people/shifters they are responsible for, and if you’re looking for a read that is action-packed, suspenseful, revealing, and very imaginative, then you will probably like this novel as much as I did. Make sure you read this series in order – it’s not just difficult to understand what’s going on if you don’t know the background, it’s also well worth reading all of the stories. Their interesting, star hot couples with tough obstacles to overcome, and are set in a fascinating and pretty unique paranormal world.

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook
Length	Novel, 63278 words
Heat Level
Publication Date	03-November-2015
Price	$5.50 ebook
Buy Link	https://www.pride-publishing.com/book/retrograde