Wild Cat (Shifters Unbound, Book 3) (A Shifters Unbound Novel) Mass Market Paperback – January 3, 2012

I seriously love this series. If you haven't read it- DO SO. I mean, it's great. I rate the hotness level as high as New Species by Dohner. I mean it. Normally I don't like any stories that involve fae at all. (just not my thing)- but I so make an exception for JA.I put off reading this book because I prefer my heroine to more soft, and was worried that a human wouldn't be tough enough. SHEW!! I shouldn't have worried. He was HAWT. Oh my goodness. tough tough tough. It was great.I hate to give away any kind of spoilers in my review- I just say what I like/why I read purchased them. I like that in JA's species world- the whole world is thought out- the culture, the way they interact, and it's those little things that really help me to get into the book. An example, there are a lot of other characters- human and shifters. Diego and one of the Bears kinda made peace talking about 'moms'. Then now and again throughout the rest of the book, there would be reference made to 'if mom found out' or 'I'd tell your mom' or something like that. I found myself laughing at those times. Cause A. I could picture men saying that and actually being scared of moms and B. I have a mom like that.But, there are things like that all through the book. Things that make it real. Things that make it unreal too- in a sense (the fae stuff), and things you want to believe in- the love they have.

Answering a call for backup in an abandoned Vegas high rise,Vice Detective Diego Escobar arrests the feline shifter female Cassidy Warden even after she saves him from a plummeting death, but Diego does manage to keep her from being caged and left to the dubious mercy of the officers in the Shifter Division who have little love for 'the animals' they police. Instead Diego, wrangles her two weeks of probation by agreeing to be responsible for Cassidy now the trick will be keeping his behavior professional around the alluring female shifter.Exploring another corner of Jennifer Ashley's Shifters Unbound universe, Wild Cat is set in a Las Vegas Shiftertown (instead of the Austin one of the previous books) and introduces a whole new interesting cast of characters and this time Ashley pairs a human hero with a shifter heroine.I loved the hero, Vegas Vice detective Diego Escobar and the way that he interacted with Cassidy and her shifter family. He was every bit as alpha and as slinkily sensuous as any of Ashley's other shifter males. I especially liked the way that his background, catholic Latino with strong family ties raised in a gang infested neighbor, gives him the experience to draw on when dealing with the shifters in dominance games and allows him to honor their rituals as well. Cassidy is good as well as the female who can't believe she having feelings again so soon after having lost her mate - and that she's having them for a human. I also really liked the new characters in Cassidy's town, her cat-shifter alpha brother and nephew, and her bear shifting neighbors.Probably my biggest nit with the story was that, while I did like some of the other subplots - a dark elf trying to get back home and an uncollared half shifter/human female determined to stay in the closet - I didn't really need them to be resolved here. The main story line could have wrapped after chapter 27 (85%) at which point the background conflicts for Diego and Cassidy are pretty much finished and I'd have been happy. But the Wild Cat just keeps going and going... to add a bit more setup for the next book about Cassidy's brother Eric and also continuing on with a hasty side trip to tie off the dark elf subplot.Even so, I still liked Wild Cat - though not quite as much as the previous book Primal Bounds or the recent novella Bodyguard - and the teaser at the end has me looking forward to Ashley's next shifter novel, Mate Claimed.

n this one Diego is a human cop who is saved by Cassidy, and then arrests here, thus beginning their interaction. Cassidy's mate has been killed, and she is searching for revenge. Diego is also in pursuit of revenge.This book chronicles the relationship of Diego and Cassidy, of course, but also talks a lot about vengeance and it's impact. The characters are all three-dimensional, and those we at first think of as "bad guys" are not so clear-cut in the end. I love that in a book. Things are not always as they appear, and people make mistakes, sometimes really terrible mistakes. As iwth all Ashley's shiftertown stories, I love the relationships formed and described. I can't wait to hear more about this town (different from the first couple books, this one outside Las Vegas, run by Eric Warden, briefly introduced in prior books). We get a brief cameo of Dylan from prior books, and the ongoing collar issues from previous books are in this one too. Love this series - 5 stars.

Author, Jennifer Ashley, always has a new idea about something in the paranormal worlds she creates with the magic of her pen. I have to say, this one is a great one that opens up a whole new arena, or one I've never read before.This is book #3 and that is where normally I think a series will slow down or even end. It takes a great writer to keep turning out books in a series that you don't want to put down. Well, I didn't want to put this down but finally I had to stop at 2:00 am.If you are looking for well balanced, exciting paranormal romance, look no farther. KUDOS Ms. Ashley on a tale well told. I loved it! Oh, you wonder what I learned in this book...nahhh, sorry, you just have to read this book to find out. I am off to read book #4 "Mate Claimed"....

Someone created the concept of impossible white man to describe movies like Die Hard, Rambo, etc. This is the story of cop impossible latino Diego crashing in to the scene right when a shifter is being hunted to death. He gets tangled up in shifter business, finds the killer of his new girlfriend’s former mate and the killers of his partner, doesn’t backdown from any shifter feline or otherwise, blows up a town, gets married and makes his mother happy. The book is fun, action packed, romantic and full of sex.

Slightly used but still in great shape!! Love the series, this is #3, it is starting to yellow, I am happy to have it!!