ARC REVIEW The Clan Legacy: Shifters by J.S. Striker

Mate Hunt (Clan Legacy #5)  The Ultimate Shifter Leader Dylan Masters is in charge of everything shifter related, well except for those panther shifter down in Brazil but they leave each other alone. When Dylan gets word that his brother maybe involved in a shifter child slave ring on an island off the coast of Brazil. Dylan decides to handle this personally, taking with him a young wolf shifter names Simon and a young witch Robin they head off to Brazil to ask the panthers for help. Dylan is fully prepared for them to turn him down but they have a reason of their own besides the fact that the whole situation is wrong. Isabella Hart snuck on to the island to see what happened to her brother, what she ended up doing was breaking his cover. Lucky to escape she is eager to get back to help all the rest of the kids and her brother. Their plan is to use Simon and Robin to infiltrate the island and scope it out before doing anything but one thing leads to another and all hell breaks loose. But freeing the kids from the pirates is only the beginning. A sudden kiss between Dylan and Isabella sparks the passion that they have kept hidden from each other. But now that Dylan knows what she is to him not even her Alpha can keep him away from her. 

I enjoyed this one. It had plenty of action and Dylan is smokin' hot and of course with as powerful as he is Isabella would have to be pretty badass herself, trained as an assassin and can hold her own in a fight it's match made in heaven; or at least Brazil.

Hans (Clan Legacy #6)  The Bear Clan Leader Hans Greyson was the only one to refuse to help when the shit came down with the vampires, witches, and shifters, but he knows it was a mistake. He still hates vampires, and even more so now, witches. The bear clan has been cursed by a witch and it's up to Hans to track down the cure hidden up on an enchanted mountain in Scotland. Hans is prepared to make the trek to keep his clan alive what he's not prepared for is that horde of rogue vampires. Ever since becoming a vampire Nell has expanded her talents to not just the assistant to Lucinda, the leader of the vampires, but now a rogue vampire hunter too. Armed to the teeth with plenty of potions and enchanted items that may help Nell is set to destroy the nest of vampires who infested a Scotland mountain, she never expected to find the leader of the Bear Clan fighting for his life against a couple dozen rogues. Nell is able to save Hans and heal him with the help of a potion, but Hans' hatred of vampires is well known so she conceals (with the help of another potion) who she really is, Hans knows she's lying he just doesn't know why. It isn't until they face the gnarly witch that started the whole thing that the truth comes out but by that point Hans feels a certain pull towards Nell. They agree to help each other achieve their goals and get off the mountain alive. 

I love that Nell and Hans took their time with their love affair. For being a jerk in the previous books Hans sure did redeem himself. I think this was my favorite out of the box set. It was entirely focused on Hans and Nell and had a pretty constant flow of action.   

Isaac (Clan Legacy #7) Isaac Hart the leader of the panther clan, cursed to never leave the clans land. Cursed by a vindictive and petty fairy. So when one shows up in his home he prepares for the worse. Roxie went to Isaac as a last resort to save her mother, it was a long shot that Isaac would help her but with the promise to lift the curse and he reluctantly agrees. Once they get their it's clear that Isaac has been played, he's taken prisoner and used as a plaything for the fairies. Roxie feels bad she didn't know the King of the Winter Court was going to do this so she breaks Isaac out and together the have their own misadventures going from sadistic fairies of the Winter Court to horny ones in the Spring Court to the Summer Pirate Fairies and finally back to Roxie's home the Autumn Court where her mother banishes her into Isaac's keeping for an undetermined amount of time. But Roxie's mother keeps her promise and removes the curse from Isaac. Isaac and his clan welcome Roxie with hesitant but open arms and the more time Isaac spends with her the more he wants her to stay, and Roxie wants to stay she'll even risk her own life to protect the clan. But can either of them ever truly admit their feelings?

This was a nice one it had a good flow and I liked the characters. I wasn't expecting a trip through the Fairy Realm so that was a nice surprise.   

Erik (Clan Legacy #8) not included in the box set but can get for free I believe when you sign up for her newsletter.

Simon (Clan Legacy #9) Simon and Robin continued to train together after the events of Mate Hunt. After Robin's time was up she went back to Africa to continue her training with her mentor, Red, to be the most powerful witch on Earth. Fast forward a bit Robin is one of the most powerful witches and Simon is well Simon, he has worked his way up and one of Dylan's best. Robin has earned some time off and the only person she can think of to spend it with it Simon. But upon her arrival Dylan asks a favor that she work with Simon one more time to rescue yet again shifter royalty Lucy, and along to help out is Jake. But things are not what they seem when they get there with demons and hidden mazes throw in the fact that Simon just realized his feeling for Robin are not and have never been platonic and he's feeling jealous as hell and conflicted because falling in love with her messes up all the plans he made to have a shifter mate. But that all goes out the window when he realizes that Robin's life is still on the lines and he can't stand the thought of life without her.

This was the only one I have read and reviewed previously, it's not my favorite mainly because it doesn't flow as easily as the others do, but I love Simon and Robin they are great characters and had a great adventure together.  

ARC REVIEW Simon: Clan Legacy Series by J.S. Striker

If I'm not mistaken this is book 9 in the Clan Legacy series by J. S. Striker. I like the premise of the whole Clan Legacy series, the different shifters working together while maintaining a peace treaty with the witches and vampires. I was able to read the first four in the series and book 8 before reading this one, both Erik (book 8) and Simon can be read as standalones. Simon had some brief appearances in books 3 and 4 I liked that he was brought back and has a story of his own.

Simon and Robin worked as teens (young adults??) training together. They each had their own dream Robin would become the best witch in the world and Simon would eventually find a nice wolf shifter to settle down with and have a parcel of kids running around. Several years down the line Robin is closer than ever to her goal and after another successful mission she's earned some time off to travel and the only person she wants to travel with is her old friend Simon. But when she gets to New York she is talked into working with Simon again.  With another shifter, Jake, they go undercover in Japan where there target was last scene, but it's not as easy as rescuing a damsel in distress.

All grown up Simon is looking at Robin in a new light and even though she's undercover playing a part he still gets jealous at the attention she's getting from their suspect. Robin has been fighting her own feelings for Simon since she saw in again. They both think that it's not in their future to be together but one ill times potion on Robin and they give into the sexual desire.

Overall, I liked it. The characters were great and non- stop adventure. It was a very full book it seemed longer than what it was. The one thing that kinda bugged me and I didn't see this in any of the other book but some parts of it were very succinct, they weren't pertinent to the rest of the story it was just kind of summarizing what has happened, but it happened more than once and at those time it just seemed like it was more of  telling me rather than showing me. The last it happened is the time it really bugged me. It could have gone to expand more on those events and get in a higher word count or cut it down more because those three paragraphs worth of events did nothing except tell why Robin was exhausted and too tired to defend herself. Other than that one part I really did enjoy the book and I look forward to reading the ones I missed and the ones to come, especially if it's Jake.
Was given an ARC and giving a voluntary review