Redemption of a Wrangled Spirit by Liddie CainMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Paranormal Reverse Harem done Western Style
I’d probably give this 4.5 ⭐️ if I could.
I really enjoyed this book. It was a bit different from the run of the mill paranormal RH. The book is set in Texas and written as a ‘western’ with bounty hunters and six shooters.
Eva is 24 years old and lives with an abusive alcoholic father. Her mother died when Eva was young but she has lots of memories of her, including sharing her ability as a Spirit Shifter, which Eva inherited. This is one of the more unusual aspects of the book. A Spirit Shifter is someone who can shift from the physical world into the spirit world where they can communicate more effectively with spirits and become intangible on the physical plane.
Eva’s father is trying to escape bounty hunters, when they finally catch up with him. What he doesn’t know is that the bounty hunters are also shifters, but they shift into animals. They understand what Eva is and try to help her escape from her father.
I liked how innocent Eva was. She was kept isolated and her father didn’t really talk to her. Her mother died when she was young and therefore had no one to explain the birds and the bees. She understood the general principle because of reading science books and I imagine living on a farm but that is very different from understanding the reality.
I also liked the way the emotional relationships developed at different rates and that not all the bounty hunters were destined to be her mates.
The characters were all really interesting. They were all distinct with hints of interesting pasts to go along with their current emotional states. I get the feeling that these characters will all be built up over coming books. I don’t know how long the series will be, I just know that they have been given a really solid foundation with this a first book. I can’t wait to find out more about them all, and not just the main characters but those that surround them too.
I was really impressed with the world building in this book and the way the author created this interesting distinct shifter society that runs parallel to but secret from human society. Placing the book in a historical setting makes it lots of fun and enhances the story.
The plot is interesting but not so overwhelming it overshadows the development of the characters or the world building in this first book of the series. The pacing was really well done and kept me reading without feeling dizzy at how quickly everything was moving.
The book doesn’t have a cliffhanger. It leaves off at a good place to finish so you don’t go crazy waiting for the next book, but also intrigues you enough to be excited about when that book will be released. I’m really looking forward to the rest of the series.
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