Kerin is a werwolf and has been running for his life. When he found a home at last at a inn, a harper shows up.

The world building is whole for a short book. The emotion between each character made me feel for all of them. The harper is just a tipcale bad guy. A backstory might help but, werewolf kill my family and I want revage on all werewolves is over done. Glad deLint don't go with that.

For a person like me who doesn't normally read peranormal romance this is great book and I'm sure to pick up more of deLint books. ( )

a good werewolf vs. evil magic harper, all ends well, a good view of werewolf but insufficeint motivation for harper.

Pleasant, but not special. ( )

Solidly three stars. It was an interesting and quick read, well written and atmospheric, but overall I'm moderately underwhelmed. ( )

The characters in this weren't sufficiently developed by the time the nasty mind control bard causes them problems, The first encounter between the shapechanger and the Inn folk is all tell, she was this, he was that, get them in a relationship and get on with the plot. I didn't care enough for them that the nastiness described was just reading about icky stuff, not concern and involvement. This is a story which could certainly use more indirection too - we know from the first that the werewolf is just a nice misunderstood shapechanger and the bard is a baddy with mind control. ( )