Powerful things come in small packages. I think the small cat shifters are very very cool. I want more! More! I Say! 

 

Here are some great love stories with the smaller of the wild cat shifters that have made this so!

 

My list are never in any particular order.

 

1. Timeless Moon C. T. Adams Bobcat. This series is amazin. 

 

Josette Monier is a legend among the Sazi. 

 

One of the most powerful, beautiful, and oldest Sazi in existence, she lives in self-imposed exile.  Her gift of sight is so strong that to be around other living creatures is to be in pain. 

 

What Josette has experienced lies beyond the scope of the Sazi, for her mate is in love with someone else.  But when her gift of sight reveals trouble for her community, she knows that she has no choice.  She must set aside her personal pain and save her people.  And perhaps save herself and find love again. 

 

2. Predator's Refuge by Rosanna Leo,  Lynx

 

A tiger shifter searching for a safe place to hide. A lynx shifter trying to prove herself. Neither expecting the desire that flares between them … nor the danger stalking them. Suspense and passion fill the pages of Predator’s Refuge, Book 3 of Rosanna Leo’s thrilling romance series, Gemini Island Shifters.

Lynx shifter Marci Lennox has worked at the shifter-friendly Ursa Fishing Lodge and Resort all her adult life. It’s more a home to her than a job. When her boss goes on vacation, putting her in charge, Marci is thrilled. Finally a chance to prove she has the mettle to run a resort.

Her confidence is shaken when new employee Anton Gaspar appears. One look at the mysterious tiger shifter spells trouble for Marci and for her sex-crazed lynx. Anton is judgmental, condescending, and a little misogynistic. Unfortunately, Marci’s lynx thinks his tiger is more delicious than an oversized bag of Maltesers.

It becomes difficult for Marci to remain neutral near Anton, especially when she learns of his troubling past and unusual family circumstances. However, when dangerous incidents occur on the resort, the lynx woman and tiger man join forces to combat the threat to the lodge and its guests.

Harder still is the quest to combat their explosive feelings for one another. As they explore their mutual passion, they realize the danger at the resort is more insidious than they ever envisioned. Their dreams, their love, and their very lives are at stake.

 

3. Awakening the Beast by Lisa Renee Jones, Lynx

 

Enter the darkly seductive world that exists within Nocturne Bites' with tales woven by some of the most spellbinding authors: Lisa Renee Jones, Olivia Gates, Linda O. Johnston, Barbara J. Hancock, Caridad Piñeiro and Lydia Parks. Let them take you on a thrilling ride where you'll catch a glimpse of sensuous, sexy men who share their wildest desires in ways you thought only existed in dreams….

Werewolves, vampires and shape shifters…oh my! Don't be afraid to wake them. They've been waiting for you….

 

4. Purr For The Alpha by Georgette St. Clair

 

Cats and dogs don’t traditionally get along, but there’s one pussycat that Alpha shifter Ty Battle wants to set a-purrin’: sexy lynx shifter Karen Padfoot. Unfortunately, he’s got a terrible reputation as a player, and she’s scorned all of his advances after one interrupted encounter a year earlier.

When she comes to the Battle compound to plead for the release of her troublemaking father, who stole from the Battle’s warehouse, he’s finally got his chance; she’ll have to work for him as a waitress at his nightclub to pay off her father’s debt. Karen may be hissing and spitting mad, but if Ty has his way, he’ll collar this sexy kitty for good. Unfortunately, someone else wants to cage the feisty feline, and Ty’s the only one who can keep her safe. Will Karen let her barriers down and trust the sexy bachelor with the bad boy reputation before it’s too late?

 

5. A Kitty in the Lion's Den by Jenika Snow, Pallas Cat 

 

 

Maverick Storm is a lion shifter, but he is also a monster. For the better part of nineteen years he was a hitman for some of the most ruthless shifters in the world. He is a cold-blooded killer without remorse. But that isn't him anymore. He is trying to live a normal life, but it seems fate has other plans, especially when his mate is the daughter of his enemy.

Kettah Milokov is a Palla's Cat shifter, and the daughter of the biggest Russian mafia boss in America. Her life is not her own, so she leaves, but can't escape when she runs into her mate, Maverick. He is a heartless killer, and the male nightmares are made of—or so she first believes. Maverick must protect her when she is found, and that means he will have to unleash his lion to keep her safe, and kill his enemy.

 

6. Bobcat by Bianca D'Arc, Bobcat 

 

Can Bob Redstone help a shifter woman face the demons that shadowed her youth, or will they both fall while trying to prevent disaster?

On a mission far from home, he finds a sweet vulnerable lady…

Bob is a cougar shifter, one of the elite Redstone Alphas. On a mission for his Clan, he meets a fragile young woman and finds himself drawn to her as he’s never been drawn to a woman before.

A woman with a brutal past…

Serena is a bobcat shifter. Orphaned as a child, she was raised among humans until she was discovered by a Clan of unscrupulous bobcat shifters. Adopted by a shifter couple, she was beaten on a regular basis because she refused to be a mule for their drug trade across the US-Canadian border. She doesn’t have a lot of experience with men, but when she meets Bob Redstone, she finds him nearly irresistible.

A savage attack…

When their haven comes under siege, they take to the road. Bob has been tasked with keeping her safe, but they’re also on a mission to find a mysterious warrior-shaman who’s gone off the grid. Finding him means returning to Serena’s former territory and possibly confronting those who abused her trust, but they have no other choice.

Can she overcome her past to embrace a future with Bob, or will the evil in her former Clan overpower their fragile, fledgling relationship?

 

7. Sentinels: Lynx Destiny by Doranna Durgin, Lynx

 

A lone shifter and a stranger must embrace their deepest fears to defeat a deadly enemy in Doranna Durgin's newest Sentinels romance 

 

Forced to return to her family cabin deep in the Sacramento Mountains, Regan Adler is determined to keep her visit brief. Voices that drove her mother crazy are now threatening to do the same to her and she can't ignore them. Then she meets Kai…. 

 

Kai Faulkes is a lone shape-shifter who takes the form of a lynx. He's aware of the danger approaching and must protect his home at all costs. When Regan's soft and sultry voice reaches him, he is thrown into a whole new world of passion and desire. Suddenly the stakes are higher, and Kai and Regan must fight for everything they hold dear.

 

8. Tagging Her Lynx by Abby Wood, Lynx 

 

Living in the bush of Alaska, Chloe Barrant wanted to take care of the animals at her wildlife refuge and ignore the times she shifted into a lynx. Even she knew that wasn’t normal. Little did she know that the day she’d turn away the poachers she’d find a male lynx coming to her rescue. What surprised her even more was when the lynx turned into a man claiming her as his life mate.

Granger, alpha of the Lynx clan, would do anything to protect the Lynx. They’d lost too many members to the hunters who preyed on them. Finding his alpha life mate gave him back dreams for the future that he’d given up on long ago.

Chloe didn’t understand how the other Lynx expected her to fill the alpha role within the clan, when around Granger she only wanted to slip into beta role and submit to him. Could she figure it all out in time to save the Lynx?

 

9. Bearly Breathing by Lynn Red, Lynx

 

Clea Kellen is the owner of Jamesburg's most popular daycare. And on top of that, she’s a lithe, witty, pointy-eared lynx shifter whose biological clock is tick-tick-ticking away.

She's part-time mama to a gaggle of bouncing shifter babies... but a mate? For Clea? Who has the time! A family? Just a dream. That is, until she catches a glimpse of a golden bear with pale brown eyes, watching her in the distance, and all at once, her stomach gets tied up in the best kind of knot.

Bear-shifting, rogue biker Orion Samuelsson is on the run and nursing more than a little bottled up rage. For years, he’s been haunted by the cruel, brutal leader of his old club, the Dirty Devils. Love? Happiness? All distant fantasies. That is, until he lays eyes on a gold and black lynx-shifter dashing through a river.

On a daycare camping trip, Clea’s whole world – in the form of a giant fir tree – comes crashing down. She dives to cover one of her cubs, sure she’s done for. When she finally opens her eyes, she can’t believe the massive, golden bear standing in only feet away with fire in his eyes and a tree on his back.

As he stares into Clea’s soul, straining under the fallen fir, Orion’s buried desire for a mate, and a family to call his own, burns deep in his heart. Right then, he knows he’s found her. He knows he won’t rest until she’s his, until he possesses her, takes her for his mate... forever.

But, with Orion on the run from his former gang, and Clea’s brain telling her to put on the brakes while her heart is screaming for her to hit the gas, will these two fated mates give in to love... and to each other? 

 

10. Lynx Loving by S. K. Yule, Lynx

 

Landon is blown away when he realizes his soon to be sister-in-law, Krista, is the woman of his dreams.

Krista is smitten with Landon from the moment they meet, but is confused by his cold/hot signals and brooding nature.

When the chemistry between them burns out of control during an out-of-town trip, Krista finally realizes the guilt from Landon's past may be an obstacle they cannot breach.

Is Krista the woman who can finally help Landon let go of past haunts? Or will his guilt be the demise of their relationship?

 

I would love some more! Vote for the best of the best on my Goodreads list: Bobcat and Lynx Shifters in Romance.

Lets see, what do we have here?

- a man who:
i. is older
ii. wants control

- a woman who
i. is a bit young
ii. is scared of losing control

They collided and guess what we get?

A sizzling hot chemistry (or whatever it is that lead to hot sex nowadays)

This novella is surely a steamy simple short read. It had a huge potential and tbh, I was surprised that it wasn't bad at all :D

So what's with the rating? Well the story was too...I don't know.

Hurting To Feel - Abby Wood Abuse is not sexy, cute, hot or erotic!



First, I want to explain my two stars, because I feel like I'm being way too generous. I'm giving 2 stars only because the beginning was good and the cover is nice. At the same time, the cover is very misleading and way to vanilla for this type of story.
I thought the story is going to be about tortured hero. It kind of was, but I didn't expected for the story to take a turn to the crazy-town. I was keep hoping that Nathan will snap out of it, but he never did. It got worse with every page.

Without further ado, here are some of the things that pissed me off, because I could not understand what author was trying to accomplish by creating such characters:

"Nathan Rafferty really was a thug from the wrong side of town. A man who'd rather beat her than love her. Maybe then, he could get her out of his head and get his life back on track."


***
He said this after he broke in into her house. She found him sitting in the dark.
"There is something about surprising someone." He stretched out his legs and crossed his ankles. "I can almost smell the fear" he inhaled "and feel your heart hammering inside your chest from clear across the room."

***
His head lowered and he spoke into her ear. "Try to play me, doll," he whispered. "You want to know the real Nathan, I'll show you. You want to speed things up and take what I need instead of pussy footing around with what I was giving to you. I'll give it all to you."

And I know that that can sound hot, but it wasn't, because at that point she was scared out of her mind.
***
"I will die trying to get inside your head. You can't run from me. What you think, feel, fear, is now mine. I will know every secret you've buried and every worry you've fed and nurtured by yourself. You think I'm scary now, just know that I can make you or break you."
***
Then he was going to beat her to forget what seeing her here did to him.
***
"If I ever catch you talking, walking, looking at the people on the street, I will beat you until you're too sore to walk out the door."

***
His euphoria came from watching someone plead. He lived off delivering pain.

I get it, there are some people that get off on that. I don't know much about it, but as long as it's consensual, who cares and who am I to judge anyway. The scary part about it was that he wasn't kidding about it. He wasn't talking about inflicting some mild pain, he was talking about seeing a woman in agony and completely broken both emotionally and physically.

Heroine - I dont know what she is about. She owns a company called Carpool Dolls. For the life of me I could not understand what she did for a living. It's not an escort service, even though it sounded like it at first. They help men to get from point A to point B (???). I didn't get it.

You get the impression that she is with him willingly, but then again, she cries a lot, most of the time is confused and scared.

If she would stayed in his house. If she followed his commands. If she allowed herself to love him, she'd lose herself in the process, and she feared if she let him have everything from her, she'd never survive.

I'm not even sure what that means. But it doesn't sound right.

It felt like the whole book was translated from some foreign language using a google translate. Writing wasn't good, at all. It must be bad when someone like me notice it, because I'm not an expert on a subject matter.

Weird, infuriating and confusing story.

Hurting To Feel - Abby Wood What.the.fuck ????!!!



Edit : 02/Feb/2013

"We need rules."
"No rules." He planted his knee on the mattress, stretched toward her, and grabbed her ankle. "I told you how it would be between us. I proved how I knew you were the one, the only fucking way I know how. I don't take this lightly. You are the one who gets to see the real me and you agreed."



That was me when I first read the blurb ...

No safe words ... That should be interesting .. At least that's what I thought .

I guess what I really got in the end was not what I had bargained for !

Before I progress any further , let me just clarify certain things ...

a) I rated the book 2 stars . And according to Goodreads 2 stars = it was ok . And this book was ok .. Really , it was .

b) This review would probably turn out to be a mess , because I have no idea what I'm going to be talking about here . In the end you may just end up thinking , 'sheesh , this woman is out of her mind ! Talk about contradiction !!!! ' and whatnots .

Here we go ...

I'm gonna straight up cut to the chase here ! The biggest flaw that I figured out about this book was - the definite lack of chemistry between the lead characters , Nate/Nathan and Addison/Addy ! Especially in a story where the two lead characters are a pair straight out of the 'fucked ups ' , I couldn't see what actually ticked into place for them to fall in love * scoffs * If I can call it that ! Both of them were broken , Nate was a child not born out of love , he lived most of his life on the streets ,and grew up trying to survive the hardship that life threw on him . Addy , well , her dad never accepted her as his child and her mom always felt that Addy wasn't good enough . Addy felt ... rejected . So to see these two individuals really successful in their own spheres was like a really proud moment .

And then shit happened !!!!

Addy and Nate meet , and I didn't even realize what fueled their desire to be together . Its just one moment she's rescuing him from the heavy traffic and the next he is asking her out on a date and to be his partner for the evening and stuff . And then the next moment its like Addy cant stop thinking about Nate , even though it was SHE who gave him the cold shoulder treatment and told him she wasn't interested in him !!!

I really liked both Nate and Addy in the beginning . You know , Nate being this broody , dominating , control freak . The kind of man we love ... or should I say , gives me the chills and Addy , who took control of her own life and turned it into a much better place than her past !

It was nice to see both of them holding out strong on their different corners , but once the lust dam broke and all their sexual desires came pouring out , I was like .... WTF !!!

You see , Nate is a sadist . He enjoys watching people in pain . Couple that up with sexual elements , and you have a beast waiting to ravage anything that can be ravaged . He sets his sights on Addy . He tells her what he is all about , and she is like I think I can handle it . This is the part where the book features some really steamy sex scenes . Addy isn't looking for love , but she feels different with Nate and all jazz . But Nate isn't really satisfied and he wants more .. rougher than he usually is . But he is scared that Addy will run away and he cant let that happen . And I was like " Aww he cares" , But then I realized that I never really understood their attraction to each other .

I was okay with that , but then Nate is such a control freak that he starts stalking Addy . Let me explain , there is this scene where Addy goes out to meet this homeless unemployed woman who has a really sick daughter . Nate instantly interfers and forbids Addy to go that place and meet the woman . At first Addy was all adamant and stuff , but then she cracks down and starts sobbing , and then he softens up a bit and he is like it calm down . But then they get back home and Addy is like Nate dont leave me . Nate says , its okay i'm right here I'll just be back and Addy is adamant and refuses to let Nate go . The next thing you know Nate grabs a fistful of Addy's hair , pushes her down on her knees , unzips his trouser , and slaps her with his dick !!!! And if that isn't enough he tells her that he is the only one who can give her whatever she wants . And that she wouldn't meet that woman again ! At this point I was praying that Addy doesn't give in , but then she says yes and I'm all



And then there is the scene where he beats up this prostitute jut because he cant beat Addy up .... That insensitive jackass ..



After this it all became really irritating ..





* sigh * I'm tired just thinking about it ..

Hurting To Feel - Abby Wood WARNING: No safe word allowed. Broken hero and an emotionally wounded heroine. One inflicts pain, one needs pain to feel. Both carry secrets that might destroy everything.

hmmmmm.....from the review i read apparently H is sadist.... again hmmmm....

wondering should i read it or not, but i already know i will and that i will probably be NOT very happy...

but curiosity will kill the cat....