Book Blurb
As she learns about the other groups of shapeshifters that lurk around London – the Rabble, the Horde, the Cluster and the Conspiracy – she becomes aware of a deadly threat against all the shapeshifters. They must put aside all their enmity and hostility and fight together to defeat it.
Toot's Review by Stephanie Silva
Well for Meg Banks that instant was the beginning of her life. Since she was little her mother treated her pretty badly because she wasn’t like her. She wanted Meg to be thin, clever, feminine, to give more importance to appearances and money than to anything else…in other words, she wanted to turn Meg in a witch just like herself. When things didn’t go her way she started insulting her, humiliating her, slapping her…she even locked her in a wardrobe. The worst part was that her father and servant knew and did nothing to help the poor girl whose crime was being nothing but kind, sweet and original.
They only time she felt like herself when she was doing graffiti. That was her world, her true self and the only way she could tell the world what she really wanted to say. That was Meg’s life until the day she saw a dying fox turn into a human. Well…guess you can expect to return to your normal life after that, right?
Rosie definitely made some changes to the way most people picture shifters. Some novels and legends say you are born a shifter while others insist that a bite is needed. It is the first time I have heard of shifters that pass their gift while they are dying. I have to admit this idea is unique but a little sad too. We have built this idea that shifters live more and have all this special abilities. We have the idea that shifters have some kind of strength and we tend to picture them as perfect because of that but this book changes that. Everyone and anyone can become a shifter if they are at the right place at the right time or maybe at the wrong place at the wrong time, that depends on your perspective. I think that this can be seen at something positive in some way because it breaks this idea of perfection and exclusivity of the shifter world.
Another important thing about this novel is that it has a slow starts and it tends to be too descriptive. The author described plenty of details of the places, the sensation while touching or smelling something, etc. That description is quite a wonderful way to let others see the things just the way we do but we have to be careful because if we push it we may take away the imaginative component of the story. If we add just enough description we can let the reader owns a story too even if it is just a little and I consider that an important thing in order to build a connection with the reader and keep him or her interested.
Back to the story, Meg feels free when she becomes a fox shifter but what she ignores is that she is much more than what she thinks…she will find that out soon enough. Her new family isn’t what she expected either. Was some love, respect and warmth too much to ask for? There were just 6 of them and 2 of those were always arguing, 1 was a traitor and other a thief. What a happy new family right? But at least with them she felt a little freedom and she wouldn’t change that for anything.
What would you do if shifters were disappearing as well as the stones they guard? People are dying and you might be the answer to solve things but…you ignore it?
Would you let yourself fall in love in the middle of a crisis? What would you do in order to protect your own?
Well, you would have to find that out on your own?
Skulk is waiting for you.
3 stars
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