Not Quite Human by Kaye DraperMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Fascinating Start to The Series
I really enjoyed Gesa’s Menagerie by this author and I think I’m going to enjoy this series as much. Sam lives in a world that has been altered by a rift between Earth and another dimension, which though closed now has left a great deal of ‘fiends’ on Earth. Those fiends have interbred with humans to produce curs or mongrels. Sam is one such being. Their mother was a shifter and their father was human. Sam was seen as damaged goods being unable to fully shift and was almost drowned as an infant.
Besides being a deficient shifter, Sam is also intersexed which makes it doubly difficult to have relationships. They spend most of their time with the woman who raised them or hunting down fiends for the Hunter’s Guild bounties.
In this book Sam meets a leprechaun cur and an ogre cur. The leprechaun wants Sam to join a group that works together to get harder bounties. Sam doesn’t want to join up, but is convinced to try one contract temporarily. Things don’t go according to plan.
Sam is a fascinating character. They are tough and strong, abrasive and stand-offish but inside they are a marshmallow. The outer shell is to hide the soft centre. Sam is so used to being alone and only caring about the woman that raised him they find it hard to function in a group.
The other characters, Finlay, the leprechaun and Emerson, the ogre, both seem to have great promise as characters as well, though we didn’t get to know quite as much about them.
As with Gesa’s Menagerie, the book isn’t long, but it is enjoyable. I’ll definitely be reading the next in the series.
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