SHIFT WORK 1: LATE SHIFT by Hannah Beckham

Publisher: Changeling Press
Date published: March 2009
ISBN: 978-1-60521-176-3
Paranormal Romance/Menage
E-book
Reviewed by Tammy




CLICK TO PURCHASE!The hunter becomes the hunted in Hannah Beckham’s latest paranormal romance novella, LATE SHIFT.

Trinity’s parents died when she was sixteen. They were demon hunters and they taught her to be the same. Her ability to change skin color like a chameleon is both a gift and curse to Trinity. It helps in her fight with the demons, but lately she has been unable to control the shifts. Trinity’s genius best friend Merlin is the only family Trinity has left, but since she has lost control of her shifts, she has wanted nothing more than to get hot and sweaty with Merl. And now that she has given in to temptation, the demons have begun to hunt her. Trinity needs help and she needs answers. She may have just gotten more than she bargained for.

Hannah Beckham’s newest release from Changeling Press, LATE SHIFT, is a paranormal romance that will set your demon blood aflame. Trinity is a shrink’s fantasy. She has relationship, behavior and identity issues that are bound to keep her in therapy for years. Suddenly, her body seems to have a mind all its own and Trinity finally decides to let her hormones take control and gives in to her baser instincts with her best friend and roommate Merl. When he sends her to another for help with all the demon attacks she is suddenly in the middle of, her fickle hormones betray her once again. Now she feels certain her life depends on keeping both men in her life and in her bed. This poor girl can’t stop spinning from the revelations she is about to learn. But can she keep the men?

The story starts a bit slow, then slowly but surely picks up speed as the heat factor starts to rise. The secondary characters begin to flesh out the story. Then it ends. It just up and ends, just as if one chapter has finished and the next one just isn’t there. This reader can not understand why Beckham decided to abruptly end the story where she did. The story was just beginning to get interesting. This may be a marketing ploy to get readers to buy future Shift Work books by this author, but for this reader, that attempt just falls short. And that is a real shame as this author’s writing style really isn’t half bad. As it is written, Hannah Beckham’s LATE SHIFT is too little and too late.