• Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
• Rachel Vincent’s Website
• List Price: $ 7.99 US/$9.99 CDN
• Publisher: Mira; (March 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0778327604
• ISBN-13: 978-0778327608

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**This book blurb & review contains spoilers from the previous novel, Prey**

Being the first female werecat enforcer isn’t easy. Scars accumulate, but I’m stronger in so many ways.

As for my personal life? It’s complicated. Choices worth making always are. Ever since my brother’s death and my father’s impeachment, it’s all I can do to prevent more blood from spilling. Now our Pride is under attack by a flight of vicious thunderbirds. And making peace with our new enemies may be the only way to get the best of our old foe.

With the body count rising and treachery everywhere, my instincts tell me to look before I leap. But sometimes a leap of faith is the only real option….

In the last Shifter’s book (Prey)  all sorts of things happen to Faythe Saunders & her pride. Marc was exiled, Ethan was killed (sniffle) and Faythe & Jace slept together, which triggered Jace’s Alpha instincts.

Shift is a straight continuation of what’s happened in Prey, dealing with Ethan’s death and Faythe trying to figure out how to tell Marc she slept with Jace. On top of that drama, there’s a Pride War about to break out between Faythe’s Pride & Carl Malone’s (Jace’s step-father) and the other Prides are taking sides, than there are the Thunderbirds attacking the Pride & kidnapping Kaci.

I love Rachel Vincent’s writing, is always fast-paced & you don’t know who she’s going to decide to kill off! I’m still irritated with her for killing off Ethan, but killing off Ethan has led to Jace’s alpha instincts. He’s not following orders from Marc and he’s up in Faythe’s face telling her she hasto decide, him or Marc. People are starting to notice the change in Jace, but they think it’s a direct result of losing his best-friend, Ethan. Faythe keeps bs’ing and saying it’s not the right time to tell Marc, with Kaci being held and the Pride War looming. Really Faythe, is there ever a good time to say you cheated? Suck it up. Of course she’s also dealing with all the death’s around her and her place in the pride. Now she has this big issue with the boys to decide on, because whomever she doesn’t choose cannot stay in the Pride.

While I loved Shift, I had some issues. The Pride War has been really dragging out, I just want it to happen already! The book also ended with things between Faythe, Marc & Jace just hanging. There’s no hint to whom Faythe will choose, it was just left there. Faythe bugged me in this book, she just kept making too many excuses not to tell Marc! One of these two issues HAS to conclude at some point right? Well it does, October 1st comes the last book in the series. Grr. That’s why I wished Faythe had at least picked between Marc & Jace, cause I feel like book 6 won’t be able to close the series unless she picks right at the start of the book.

In anycase, if you love face-paced shifter goodness packed with a love triangle….grab Shift. But don’t yell at me when you get hooked.