Review: The Hidden (Shadowed Wings Series Book 1) by Ivy Asher

The Hidden by Ivy Asher
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Sooooo Good!

This is such a good story that I didn’t want it to end. It’s the story of Falon, a woman who thinks she is a latent wolf shifter. The grandmother that raised her, after the death of her parents when she was five, has just died. She has been given strict instructions on where to spread her ashes, which is up in the wilds of Canada. When she finally arrives after a huge trek up from Colorado on the back of her motorcycle, she goes to spread the ashes and feels like she’s been struck by lightening. She wakes up in the body of a magnificent flying creature in a landscape that doesn’t look like the one she left behind. It's rather a surprising start to the story.

I loved Falon. She is awesome. She’s 6ft of fierce and strong woman who doesn’t take any crap from anyone, especially men. She’s dominant and aggressive and I love that she really hates the alpha crap the men in her life pull. I really like that she gets angry about that behaviour because it makes me angry too. Some of it can be excused from cultural differences, but it doesn’t make it right and she calls them on it.

I liked that Falon had arguments with her animal self about what was acceptable behaviour from big strong alpha males and gets mad that her animal self likes it. I think this is much more believable behaviour than a shifter who hasn’t been able to shift for 25 years suddenly giving in to instinctive behavioural traits that haven’t been evident before. I agree with the author that she is much more likely to fight her instincts than to go along with them.

These battles between Falon and her inner animal make for interesting reading, as do her battles with the men she’s attracted to in her new land. Sometimes she is battling both man and animal at once.

Falon has been dropped into an unknown and difficult to understand world and it’s not surprising she come out swinging. The whole book feels like a battle; against instincts, against a community, against the history of her people and against her attraction to two men.

I really want to read the next book in this series, because I know it’s going to be good, based on the other books by this author that I’ve read. I highly recommend this one!

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