Reprinted: The Shapeshifters’ Library: Book Four by Amber Polo

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Reprinted: The Shapeshifters’ Library: Book Four by Amber Polo
Publisher: Blue Merle Publishing
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Length: Full Length (281 Pages)
Rating: 4.5 Stars
Review by: Cyclamen

For centuries a magical race of shapeshifting dogs have protected the world’s libraries from evil book-burning werewolves. But when Chihuahua-shifter Pacifico Lopez, techno-genius inventor of Zoogle, the world’s most powerful search engine, discovers a werewolf plot that threatens to destroy the world of books, dog-shifters face their biggest challenge yet. Werewolf Landy Romero, an editor at wolf-owned World Wide Publishing, and secret book lover, is horrified to learn that Pacifico thinks her own company is sabotaging books.

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In this most exciting Shapeshifters’ Library adventure yet, Pacifico and Landy are thrust into the heart of a tropical storm as they battle lies and uncover injustice and betrayal. And the truth, when exposed, will change everything they believe about themselves and their world, forever.

Chihuahua shifter Pacifico Lopez has discovered a plot by the book hating werewolves to destroy the world of books and he is determined to stop it. He heads to the headquarters of wolf-owned World Wide Publishing determined to confront Dominika, the werewolf head of WWP. Instead he finds one of her daughters, Atlandia Romero, in charge. Landy is nothing like her mother and Paco can’t help but stare at this lovely woman. When he lets her know of his suspicions, she denies them, but soon, with a bit of research on both their parts, they discover the truth.

I liked both Paco and Landy. They are well-developed characters who ring true. I loved it when Paco, the richest man in the world, had to go undercover as a dishwasher in the wolf run resort. And while he falls in love with Landy, he also is pretty clueless about how to approach her. Landy is not at all like either her mother or her sister and in fact has spent her whole life in their shadows, never good enough, always the small white wolf, a wolf who loves to read. When she is given the job of running WWP she is thrilled, determined to find the best authors, not the worst. She has trouble standing up to her sister Sybilla, but when the stakes are high, she discovers her inner strengths.

The plot is exciting and fast-paced. The description of the hurricane is particularly vivid and intense. And as the betrayals and injustices are revealed, so are some very surprising loyalties. This is the fourth novel in the Shapeshifters’ Library, and it is just as exciting as the first three. It can also be read as a stand-alone, although I personally wouldn’t have wanted to miss out on the first three.

Fantasy lovers are sure to be captivated by the dynamics between the dog shifters and the wolf shifters, and the history of their beginnings is spellbinding.

Recovered by Amber Polo

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Recovered by Amber Polo
The Shapeshifters’ Library: Book Three
Publisher: Blue Merle Publishing
Genre: Contemporary, Paranormal, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Length: Short Story (141 Pages)
Rating: 4.5 Stars
Reviewed by Cyclamen

Bliss D. Light was just an ordinary children’s librarian until one day she discovered she could grow a tail. Now her life is filled with more magic than any of the fairy tales she tells the children who gather at her feet at the Shipsfeather library. Like many of the other residents of Shipsfeather, Ohio, Bliss is a dogshifter, and her newly discovered ability to change from human form into that of a sleek white greyhound has left her yearning to know more about her true heritage. The answer to all her questions, she is certain, lies with the dogshifters’ long lost Library of the Ancients and, undeterred by the fact that thousands before her have searched, she sets out to find it.
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Accompanied by her best friend Harry, a disgraced werewolf/dogshifter mongrel, and hotly pursued by the evil werewolf team of Sybilla and Blaze, Bliss’s quest takes her across the sacred sites and ancient mounds of the American Southwest. Though kidnapped by dogcatchers, sold into racetrack slavery and forced to fight wolf dogs to survive, Harry and Bliss never lose sight of their goal-or each other. Because the only thing more important than finding the ancient lost treasure might just be preserving what they already have found: an unlikely love that could be the first step toward bringing two ancient enemy races together.

As a librarian myself, I really enjoyed this novel about librarians who are also dog shifters. Recovered is a wonderful cozy fantasy novel about Bliss, a new age children’s librarian who can shift to become a talking white Greyhound, and Harry, formerly a banker as well as a reformed werewolf who is also half Old English Sheepdog. They are searching for the most valuable library on the planet. They must outwit Harry’s ex-wife, Sybilla, and her new cohort, Blaze, both of whom are vicious werewolves bent on destroying all books, all libraries, and especially all dogs and dog shifters.

While Recovered is the third in The Shapeshifters’ Library series, it reads just fine as a stand-alone. Each book in the series focuses on a different problem and has a different set of main characters. The books are linked and there are continuing characters, but Bliss, for instance, was a minor character in the first novel and a slightly more important character in the second, but Recovered is her shining moment and shine she does. Bliss is a very well-developed, wonderful heroine, demonstrating both strengths and weaknesses, standing up to the villains even when she is terrified, and in the end demonstrating all the qualities that most of us hope for in a heroine. I also liked Harry, who has lived all his life with werewolves who are vicious, power-hungry individuals, and who ridicule him because he is a half-breed who cannot be like them no matter how hard he tries. He learns, with help from Bliss, that he is a kind soul and in their travels he also learns that not all werewolves are like his parents and his wife. This novel is a coming-of-age story for Harry as well as for Bliss.

Lovers of fantasy, especially book lovers and dog lovers, are sure to be charmed by this unusual, action-packed novel. I can recommend it highly and I can also recommend the rest of the series. I was lucky enough to be able to read all three in order, and while that is certainly not necessary since each book is complete in and of itself, it was, for me at least, the way to go. Amber Polo is a gifted writer and it is a real pleasure to read such a fun and exciting fantasy novel.