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Over fifty years before, Vincentius Goldstein agreed to join the Shifter Council with the express intention of bringing their technology into the future. After all, he’d had fun hacking into it and knew it wasn’t secure. He’s done that, and now finds the almost daily meetings and constant infighting trying his patience. Vincentius prefers the seclusion of his computer room. When he discovers someone hacking into his system, his excitement is stirred for the first time in decades. After figuring out where the hacker is located, Vincentius sends a council investigator after him. To his shock, when the investigator returns with the hacker, a small guinea fowl shifter named Cho, Vincentius recognizes the man as his mate. Even with the mate-pull, Cho fears him. After all, Vincentius had ordered Cho kidnapped and taken away from the safety of his flock mates. Can Vincentius figure out how to win the favor of his captive, or will he lose the best thing to happen to him in over three hundred years?

Book Review

A great start to a new series, ‘Hacking the Consequences’ clearly builds on some of the existing paranormal worlds created by Charlie Richards – mainly the ‘Wolves of Stone Ridge’ with one of the main characters, Cho, coming straight from there. While this fact is obvious in the way some of the secondary characters are mentioned, there is enough background information for someone like me who has not read the complete series. I did not feel lost, and I liked the focus on the shifter council and the shenanigans that are likely to happen at that level. It promises much intrigue – what with hackers, councilmen going rogue, and hidden alliances that will need to be uncovered.

Vincentius is a lion shifter who has recently joined the council, so he has a few things still to learn on the political front while teaching the shifters some stuff – like computer skills – to bring them up to date with 21st-century technology. Despite the public face of his job he is still a bit of a computer geek who would rather deal with machines than people. He makes a few exceptions for his friends, but the one who really motivates him to focus on something other than cyber security is Cho, his mate.

Cho is a guinea fowl shifter who was raised in captivity and experimented on until the shifters in Stone Ridge freed him and his flock mates. He is shy, curious, and still trying to adapt to human conventions like wearing clothes. Cho has discovered a talent for computers and hacking, so is a natural fit for Vincentius. In fact, hacking into the council’s systems, purely for information-gathering purposes of course, is what makes Vincentius take notice. Next thing Cho knows he wakes up in a strange room with total strangers asking him all sorts of questions.

If you like paranormal romances with a variety of supernatural creatures and a significant helping of mystery, if you want to watch two men bond from the moment they meet, and if you’re looking for an entertaining read that leaves quite a few loose ends to be resolved in future stories, then you will probably like this novella.

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook
Length	Novella, 110 pages/31910 words
Heat Level
Publication Date	04-May-2018
Price	$4.99 ebook
Buy Link	http://www.extasybooks.com/hacking-the-consequences/