Chasing Seth
If you want (Fill In The Blank) then you want to read this book.If you want a premise with promise then you want to read this book.
Seth, a vet, comes to town to find his new beginning. Kasey, a wolf shifter and the town sheriff, is looking for his mate. A lot could have been done with this. A lot has been done with this...in other books.
It's clear that JR Loveless was trying to break some new ground. She came up with the idea of The Created. They're shifters who are not born but bitten. If they survive the bite they end up becoming psychotic wolves who apparently took some lessons from Charles Manson. I waited for the whole book for them to burst onto the scene, ripping out throats and giving people the crazy stink eye. It never happened.
Loveless also gives Seth a mystical, paranormal power that has him taking in negative energy and vomiting it up as black goop. Here's the thing, it's also mentioned that sometimes he has to bloodlet to get rid of the negative energy. Along with waiting for the Mansonite shifters, I waited for Seth to have to bloodlet. It would have been intense. It never happened.
I did a lot of waiting and it was all for naught. Opportunities lost? This book had them.
If you want Native American stereotypes then you want to read this book.
Kasey. Oh, I did not like Kasey. You see, Kasey is a racist and he hates white men. Who else, right? He hates them because they destroy the land and the animals that they will never understand.
Also, Kasey is repeatedly referred to and described as "the big Cheyenne".
For a hot second I expected Kasey to throw on a loincloth, some feathers and some mocassins so that he could go and chant around the fire. I mean, I figured if Kasey was going to be defined and stereotyped based on his race that the author would go for broke.
If you want characters crying, what seems like, continuously then you want to read this book.
I don't know when it happened but at some point Kasey and Seth started to spend every other page crying. These weren't small tears either. These were gut-wrenching, body shaking sobs.
I don't know how Seth stayed hydrated because he was vomiting and sobbing and barely eating. That man was a hot mess that should have shriveled up due to all of the fluids coming out of him.
If you want a WTF ending then you want to read this book.
The ending of this book was so random. It really did have nothing to do with anything and actually felt like a bit of a cop out. Now, I have the feeling there will be a sequel. Maybe the sequel will explain the out-of-nowhere ending to this book.
All in all...I don't know. I wanted to really like this book. Unfortunately, it's hanging onto those 2 stars by the skin of its teeth.
