Owl Be Bear For You by D.J. Jennings

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Hot summer fun where you’ll change…in more ways than one. 

Librarian Mara Scioto lives a nice, neat, orderly existence—except when she’s being attacked by uncontrolled male shifters who need to mate. 

Pesky little detail, right? 

Raised by a grandmother who hates all shifters, she has one wish: to make it past the age of twenty-five without experiencing The Morph that tells you you’re one of them. 

And then the letter from Camp Shifter arrives with her name on it… 

Orthopedic surgeon in training Jack Karsten is waiting to see if he’ll follow in his shifter brother’s footsteps. Being a shifter won’t be so bad, if that’s his destiny, but when he meets Mara, he realizes that fate and love don’t always align. 

But love always wins. 

It can be a bear of an ordeal sorting it all out, but if anyone can help, it’s the staff at Camp Shifter. While they’ll train Jack and Mara on the ways of shifter life, there’s one thing they can’t teach them: 

How to get out of their own way and let love leave them changed. 

Forever. 

Owl Be Bear For You

A new type of shifter romance!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🤎💜❤️
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌍🌏🌎
Character development: 😠☺️😋🥰
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Mara – she is a librarian who wants her life to be as ordered as her library. She hates July and August, peak shapeshifter season. It was always the new ones that hit on her when in their first morph. Untrained shifters were a public safety hazard and her town did drills just for that purpose. The shifters changed for the first time before their twenty fifth birthday. Mara grew up with a grandmother who hated all shifters and Mara learned from her. She had also been clawed by a bear shifter a few years back.

The Hero: Jack – he is an orthopedic surgeon who has a brother that is a shifter. He wondered if he would be as well since he was approaching his 25th birthday. He was working in the ER and wasn’t new to managing untrained shifters and their victims. Once a new shifter was found, they were shipped off to camp shifter to learn how to manage their shifts.

The Story: While Jack was at work, Mara came in unconscious to be treated after a lion shifter morphed in the library. Mara wasn’t hurt, she just fainted. However, Jack felt very protective of her. Especially after hearing about her previous attack by her ex boyfriend, and the fact that she had to have surgery on her hip.

This series has shifters portrayed quite differently than in other shifter books I have read. Anyone could be a shifter, even if their parents weren’t and it always happened between the ages of 18 and 25. If you didn’t shift or get an invitation to camp shifter by your 25th birthday, then you are safe from the morph or the curse as some people think.

The story was pretty good in this book. Mara and Jack were attracted to each other from their first meeting and neither knew they were shifters at that point. Though when they both became shifters they ended up at camp shifter together and had to learn everything there was to know about their new selves.

This book was told in dual points of view by a dual narration. It and was narrated by Jeffery Kafer and Heather Costa. Jeffrey has a deep gravelly voice which I like though it reminded me a bit of a movie announcer or something. Heather has a feminine voice which is a bit hoarse but pleasant.

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