What I didn't like and why I won't be reading any more books in the series: - How much time and level of detail is spent describing her tea fetish, the scene in the restaurant where she goes to eat, her amazing dancing skills on the dancefloor on more than one occasion. The solving of the mystery of the killer, who it ended up being and what the repercussions will be. The vampire culture (the cemetery burial scene was great).
The shape-shifting, 'nuff said, it was awesome and well-implemented.
The narration, it was excellent and I found Khristine Hvam's pronounciation of the Cherokee language authentic-sounding and a pleasure to listen to. Having a main character with a rich Native American background and how this is gradually introduced into the story. What I enjoyed about this book: - The in-depth back-stories about Jane's beast and her tribe, the level of detail and description invested in helping us understand her shape-shifting abilities and the effort made in maintaining the laws of physics by explaining where all the mass comes from and goes to when she shape-shifts into larger or smaller bodies. Not bad but not interesting enough to keep me goin All in all, I consider this a good, solid debut novel in the Jane Yellowrock series, and I look forward to reading more. For those who are tired of the violent and/or explicit sex that's so prevalent in urban fantasy, you'll find this book a nice change. The dialogue is kind of stilted in places, and a significant portion of the book is written from the POV of her cat-spirit, which takes a bit of getting used to. There are a few weak points concerning the writing another reviewer mentioned that the writer points out her own jokes fairly often, and this really IS kind of annoying. It's very nice to read a story in which the heroine isn't complaining endlessly about her life, or gnashing her teeth over how to make some preternatural being fall in love with her. This book makes an exceptionally nice change from others in this genre, mainly because the protagonist is a strong, independent woman who actually likes herself, and is comfortable with her lot in life.
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