#21 Night Broken by Patricia Briggs

I won this copy from tor.com so I got to read it a week before release and it was tough not to sit and read it all in one sitting. Adam's ex-wife comes to him begging protection from a stalker Mercy agrees and then has to put up with Christy  trying to reassert herself into Adam's life. At the same time Alistair Beauclaire has come calling and wants his father's walking stick back and of course Mercy doesn't have it anymore but Coyote does. What I liked about this was very little A story and B story overlap, but you did get a new character introduced and some background on past books. Not one to jump into for the first time but a great book for bringing casual fans of the series up to date on all the players without feeling like an info dump. Now to wait for the next book since I'm sure all the back story in this one will come to play in the next one.

#22 Circle of Desire by Keri Arthur

This is a reissue of an older work and the third book in the series of the Damask Circle. Once again we get new characters with the only tie to any previous ones are occasional phone calls to the leader of the circle. New monster/villain and a slightly different take on zombies. Both the hero and heroine are shifters, one is a bird and the other is a wolf. The hero is the wolf and he has for the most part cut himself off to any permanent relationships with women due to his heart being broken when he was seventeen. I got a bit of laugh at that since most of the time it seems the heroine has the broken heart and has but be coaxed out of their relationship shell. The hunt for the baddie that has kidnapped the kids just didn't feel right for the most part. They never coordinated with the local police one the two of them hooked up even with one of them being an officer and the uncle of one of the missing kids.  Set your brain aside for most of the logic of the story and enjoy how they constantly have to have sex while trying to rescue the kids.

Digital review copy provided by the publisher through Edelweiss