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“I’m always paying attention to you. It’s hard to ignore your heart when it lives outside your body.”

Audio review edit:

I have previously read this book when the ebook was released and I enjoyed it a lot. It did not captivate me quite like a lot of Kiki's other books have, though, but I found that Kirt's narration really brought these characters to life for me and it made the story even more enjoyable. I don't think I've ever disliked a performance by this narrator, that's for sure.

I think I’ve said so before, but Kiki’s writing and characters just really does it for me. This one was a bit of a slow starter as the first 30% ish felt a little repetitive in terms of inner dialogue and not much happening between the MCs, but it picked up after that.

Cash’s issues with fated mates was touched on several times but not quite thoroughly explored, and his change from not wanting a mate to being all in with Ore was a tiny bit abrupt. I also wish we had more scenes with both or one of the MCs shifted, but what was there was very cute.

Overall a pretty uncomplicated shifter romance with two very sweet characters. Ore was a tiny adorable thing, and I’m so down for the body and