Waitress Sherrie Stolz never thought she’d need her chatting-up skills to play along with a hot, sexy kidnapper who rants about were-animals and psychic possession. Then he proves his story by changing into a wolf before her eyes.
Human contact never interested John Walker, but his mission is desperate. The pack seer insists Sherrie is the only one who can save his people from a rash of mysterious comas. His connection with Sherrie is instant, powerful and beyond rational explanation. And then a third piece of the puzzle enters the picture.
Grant Perron follows his instincts only to find his prize in the hands of his rival. He’s poised for battle—until he learns his panther shifter clan suffers the same fate as John’s pack. But there’s more. When the three of them touch, the primal, erotic power surge swells like the waves of an earthquake.
Sherrie’s hands—and bed—are suddenly full, figuring out how to manage two snarling alpha males without giving in to the urge to knock their heads together. And channel her new-found power before a villain uses it to destroy them all�
I began telling stories as a child. Whenever there was a sleepover, I was the designated ghost tale teller. I still have a story printed on yellow legal paper in second grade about a ghost, a witch and a talking cat.
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Sherrie is kidnapped on her way home from work by John, a werewolf shifter, who has been told by their psychic that she can help with all the people going into coma. The werepanthers are going through the same thing and Grant finds her at John's house after he dreams that she can help them too. They gain power through sex and use that to defeat the baddie. I liked that although they enjoy the 3-some aspect for a while she finds that it's John she really loves and that Grant was fine but now it's time to get serious with John. This seems more normal to me than the HEA with 3 people, although if they're aliens I think that's okay. Huh? I'm thinking of Kaitlyn O'Connor's books where the 3 or more seems alright. I guess you have to have been there.
Sherrie is minding her own business when she's kidnapped by a man claiming to be a wolf shifter and that she is apparently the only woman who can save all the shifters that are falling into comas. She doesn't believe him until she shifts in front of him. And she can't believe why she wants to have sex with the guy so badly, especially since he's her kidnapper. She warms up to the idea pretty quickly. John Walker, a wolf shifter, is more drawn to Sherrie than anyone before. He knows she belongs to him. Except then Grant, a cougar shifter shows up, and Sherrie clearly shows an attraction to him as well. In fact, everytime the three of them touch, an amazing psychic energy is created. It's just the power that Sherrie will need to defeat their villain.
First off, why does the picture on the cover make that girl look pregnant? That aside, this was some run of the mill erotica for me. I like shifters and I like threesomes, and I didn't mind that there was some insane insta-lust with both of them. I wasn't such a fan of how that chemistry basically drove her to just spread her legs for either of them so quickly. The one thing I don't like in threesomes is jealousy...or at least not for it to last very long. John basically spends the entire story being jealous anytime Grant and Sherrie have to touch, but he allows it because what is he going to do? There's clearly a push though for John and Sherrie to be falling in love and Grant just to be an extra penis in the equation. Only, that's not really how it felt at times. It's made clear that Sherrie and Grant have a psychic connection and care for one another. So that sort of ruins my buying into that "Grant means nothing" business. Grant is also portrayed as a more sophisticated lover. Even there at the end, Sherrie talks about how she'd be willing to give up the threesomes with Grant to make John happier because "Grant means nothing." Then she's staring at the two of them and thinking, "this is home." So wait, does she want both of them or is she only in love with John? I was confused by that. The story it self was okay. I was torn on whether the whole astral projection thing was unique or just cheesy. I'd also like to know if Sherrie had always been this psychic or if it was just new...and how did John learn to project so quickly?
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Shifters' Captive is the second placement on my Cheap Thrills & Kozmic Blues bookshelf.
If you're interested in reading legitimate criticism of this novel as a work of fiction, check out Nenia Campbell's review. Everything Nenia writes is correct. It's also the reason why Shifters' Captive is a perfect selection for this bookshelf.
Here's the story: Sherri works as a waitress in Boulder, Colorado. She's abducted by John, a man who shapeshifts into a wolf. John takes Sherrie to his community of wolf shapeshifters. Several of the members have fallen into comas, and a psychic has determined Sherri is the community's savior. Sherri doesn't know what to do. Grant shows up. He's a man who shapeshifts into a panther. Some members of the panther clan have fallen ill, too. Grant senses Sherrie is the one to save them all. Sherri, John, and Grant go on a journey to confront the evil force which is causing this terror.
Think of it as but featuring menages a trois, bestiality, and supernatural orgasms.
Besides a wonderfully weird set-up, the novel includes a number of great lines. Here are a couple favorites:
"Animals. Good God, they’re actually animals. Her head spun at the surrealistic experience."
"As John growled against her shoulder and his hips pumped, a series of firecrackers snapped through her nervous system—pop, pop, pop. She jerked as if she’d been hit by voltage from a defibrillator and her eyes rolled back in her head."
(Check out Nenia's review for more amazing quotes, some actual and some paraphrased.)
Shifters' Captive will never be mistaken for a great work of fiction. By that measure, the novel deserves a 2.5 to 3 star rating at best. You must admire, however, the over-the-top creativity the author demonstrates. For the Cheap Thrills and Kozmic Blues shelf, it's definitely a 5 star.
And tell me honestly, if you're a little beaten up and a bit blue, do you watch "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" or Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal"?
Great book, steamy sex, a very quick and definetly not a young adult book!!! Loved the actual story!! A wolf, a panther and a waitress...a must read for anyone that likes shifters!!!
Ugn... This book doesn't even deserve one star. Talk about disappointment! Once I hit the first m/f/m pairing, I lost complete interest and skimmed over the rest of the story to get the gist of it. The sex didn't hold me. The story was far-fetched. The writing needs some serious help.
AND SOMEONE GET THIS WRITER A FUCKING DICTIONARY!
Yeah, so "panther", "cougar", and "mountain lion" are considered the same animal. HOWEVER, it also depends on WHAT PART OF THE WORLD YOU LIVE IN! Each country that has this cat calls it by something else. Then to make matters worse, the author couldn't stick TO JUST ONE FUCKING NAME! She kept jumping back and forth between what the cat was called--panther, cougar, or mountain lion. ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?! BLATANT INCONSISTENCY!!!!!
I thought this would be a decent enough read. But as usual, the back cover blurb LIES. THERE IS NO FUCKING WAY SOMEONE WOULD FALL IN LOVE WITH HER ABDUCTOR SO SUDDENLY! Even Stockholm doesn't happen that fast! But within the first 24 hours of her captivity, she fucks her abductor. There is no fearing for her life, no panic and attempted escapes, no fighting back. It's like she just accepts what's been done to her because, "Oh well, he didn't tie me up so he must not be that cruel." Are you fucking kidding me?
Two days pass, and then she's fucking another random character she just then meets. Another day passes and suddenly she's fucking the two of them together! Give me a fucking break. Stories can be fantasy, but even they have to have a level of realism to them. THIS BOOK HAS NONE!
I swear the author fantasies about being kidnapped and fucked senseless. Normally, that'll be called rape. But ya can't rape the willing, is that it?
Give me a fucking break. This book is as bad as a heaping pile of dog shit on cold asphalt.
On a side note: the writing felt so easy, it was as if I were reading fanfiction. And that's bad. Very little fanfiction is actually written well.
I struggled to finish this story. While the plot was decent enough, there was no connection between the three main characters. All they had was lust, which got old very quick.
Sherrie is a waitress one night after walking home from work finds herself kidnapped. Wakes up in a cabin in the mountains, her captor a good looking man named John Walker who tells her he won’t hurt her, he needs her help, his packs seer said she was the only one who could help their pack. He tells her his a wolf shifter naturally she thinks his crazy until he shifts in front of her convincing her. He tells her about a mysterious illness striking several residents of the small town of Browning even children are targeted falling into comas until they life force is drained away. John takes Sherrie to Brian and Lydia Cox’s home where their youngest child Liberty is In a coma, Sherrie touches her and psychic powers develop she sees inside Liberty’s mind and the dark man holding her and others prisoner in the astral plane. Back at the cabin Sherrie and John are physically intimate and a surge of power is felt, he goes prowling in the woods, she goes to sleep only to wake up to another stranger standing over her this time a panther shifter named Grant Perron whose pride is suffering the same strange sickness he has developed psychic powers together they learn by physical contact amongst the three of them sharing psychic powers, they go into the woods but are separated, Sherrie confronts the dark man who calls himself Janus who is really Evan Blake and tells her they’re half siblings and he wants her to join him, he targeted the shifters because they’ve never accepted him, his father is a shifter his mother a human who abandoned him and left him with his fathers parents but due to being an outcast his bitterness and anger exploded along with the discovery of his powers he learnt how to steal their powers and drain their life in revenge, Sherrie fights him and wins releasing his connection to his hostages, Sherrie, John and Grant take him back to the pack to face judgement, Grant goes back to check on his friend, Evan Blake is banished, John and Sherrie confess their love for each other, she’s his mate, she agrees to move In with him, Grant occasionally visits and joins in for threesomes, he does tell Sherrie that the panther shifters killed Evan. She accepts she won’t be able to find out about her father and focuses on her new happy life with her two lovers.
Okay, I had mixed feelings for this book. First off, kidnapping, fine, whatever. It wasn't thrilling and her instant attraction to him was interesting but didn't capture me like I thought it would. To save a species she must have orgasmic sex with two men, awesome, but rather childish. Couldn't she have built other connections to the men to build up power? Seriously, the sex was interesting and rather heated but their butting heads, denials, and hang ups put me off a bit because the book was so short. Although if the opposite were true I might be complaining about that as well. She was a strong heroine but there was something about her I just didn't like, maybe she gave in too easily, I don't know for sure but I found it off putting. Her powers were interesting, psychic and possibly elemental - that hadn't been too clear. Sure she could enter other peoples minds once she put her own to the matter and her acceptance was good, for it forwarded the story to completion but somehow the story felt incomplete. I think I wanted the three to stay together instead of what happened. I really don't know. It was a strange feeling I had when I got to the end, and it wasn't entirely all the happy feels of finishing a book, something felt unfinished and I believe it could have been her heritage, but again, I am unsure. I am unsure about a lot of things in this book. So many, many things. I was even unsure about how to rate it. I waffled and stuck with a 3 star but it was more of a 2.5 kind of thing. Short, rushed, and too accepting. Her powers urged her to accept, cool, but I felt she should have questioned more. Learned more about the people she was with. Maybe what's bothering me is how quickly they gave into each other, I know it was an erotica, and a short one at that - one thing it had going for it was that it had a true plot. Even if it wasn't the greatest.
Holy smokes! This novel was way better than it had any right to be for a menage / erotica novel. No disrespect intended, but unlike so many other books in these genres, "Shifter's Captive" actually had a plot!
The storytelling is top-notch, the dialogue fantastic, the plot intriguing and the erotica smoking hot! Bonnie Dee has captured all the best of menage and erotica while incorporating the best of general fiction (believable characters, compelling story and well-written dialogue).
The inclusion of Grant didn't feel extraneous or overly contrived. He served a true purpose in the story, and the author was canny enough to write in his personality, and the circumstances that would mean he'd only be an intermittent part of Sherrie's and John's lives. After all, a little does goes a long way.
The only parts I would have expanded were 1) a little more detail on how and why Sherrie and Evan were able to tap into some psychic mojo; and 2) a little more romance before Sherri and John became physical (although here, I'm willing to go along with intense animal attraction that morphed into more the longer they spent together.)
It's not until after I finished reading the book and saw the publishing company's tagline on the back cover that I thought, "Ah yes, oh so true". And what is that tagline, you wonder? "It's all about the story".
If "Shifter's Captive" is a true representation, I think I've found my go to source from now on when I'm in the mood to read erotica. Samhain Publishing / Bonnie Dee have now set the standard for me.
Shifter’s Captive was a captivating book, if you pardon the pun. The sad part was that it ended! I wanted to know more about this world, these characters, and everything that happened after the book ended.
When waitress Sherrie Stolz is kidnapped by a man claiming to be a wolf shifter who needs her to heal his pack members who have falling into comas, she thinks he is nuts and possibly a serial killer. However, John proves what he is saying is true, which puts Sherrie in a strange situation she wants to save herself but at the same time is incredibly turned on by John.
Panther Grant Perron saw Sherrie in a dream as a solution to his packs problem. When he arrives he sees that John has already set to claiming her, but Sherrie is attracted to him as well and in order to release the latent powers she carries she needs both men sexually.
I was a bit confused by what this was supposed to be, John and Sherrie seem to have a bond so I was left unclear what Grant was supposed to be in this triad.
Bonnie Dee writes well. The characters are nicely developed here and the action compelling. I, personally, just could not get that into this story because it felt like the the power of three stuff was against the nature of the characters and that the bonding wasn't really a long term one. This part of the book just wasn't very romantic to me and even and maybe especially in menge, I like romance.
I also enjoy an already known paranormal world and don't really like the plot time wasted on the heroine coming to accept the new world she now knows exists. Even though I don't care of it, this moment or sets of moments was well done in this book.
Many readers will enjoy this book a great deal. I just thought it was well written but not for me.
I am not a big Astral/Paranormal Romance person. I didn't realize how much that would play and how very very little the shifter part would or probably wouldn't have read it. Add to that that the ending really leaves you hanging and it took a lot just to give it 2 stars. I only did that as the writing was okay. It was my personal dislike for it not having enough shifter in it that knocked it down, but I think the worst part was the end. From what I read about book 2 you don't learn what happens to these three and the end of this one leaves you feeling totally lost and wanting to know where the real end is.
For the most part I liked this book. It was a little predictable, the secondary characters could have been deepened and explored a bit more to give the overall arc a little more oomph, but it was fun. Story? Sherrie Stolz was just a waitress doing her own thing when she was kidnapped and forced to confront that shapeshifters are very real. Mysterious illnesses, psychic sex and sexy shifters show Sherrie that there's more to the world than she ever imagined. Not great, but a fun little romp hat isn't too taxing on the old brain.
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I really should read and heed any of the warning that may be list on any of the books I read... I was unprepared for one scene...
I also should note that this was a slightly confusing read that may confuse some. This storyline didn't mesh well and in my mind it seemed implausible and far fetch, overall just plain weird...
I totally wasn't vibing this menage, or the plot. Its more porn, less plot, and not in a good way. Sherri is magically drawn to not one but two hot shifters. Together they can magically have sex all over the woods and save all shifter kind. Yeah that's all you need to know about the plot! LOL its an ok distraction for a rainy sunday but I'd never read this one atain
Didn't enjoy it very much. There was no chemistry between the two men. And one is against having a third in the relationship. Overall it didn't strike me right. But I live Bonnie Dee's other books. This was just a miss.
This book was pretty short but an interesting little paranormal romance/paranormal mystery type deal. A little confused about the relationship with the 3 of them but I guess it makes more sense that way. Will probably check out the next one.
This book was actually really good! Great plot and storytelling. But the author completely failed when it came to the m/m action she was hinting at. And I hate how she ended it.
Tried to read it, but was unimpressed with the crude terminology. Couldn't bring myself to read more than a couple chapters. I've been spoiled by Diana Gabaldon!