Publisher: Siren
Date
published: March 2013
ISBN: 978-1-62242-623-2
MM,
Paranormal, Shape-shifter
E-book
Reviewed by Helen
Obtained via
publisher
The Elders’
plan is to end cross-species arguments by enforcing cross-species matings.
Dorant Murray’s plan is to get the hell out of Dodge before the Elders force
him to do anything he doesn’t want to do. Wyatt Baxley is much too aroused to
care about anyone except himself and his mate. Mating a stranger turns out to
be the easy bit. Everything after that just gets more complicated.
Ms. Flynn
has set this series of books (Midnight Matings)
up such that partners are compelled by lust into instant matings, leaving them
to work out all the details of their lives as the story plays out. Dorant
Murray is a skunk shape-shifter and Wyatt Baxley is an elephant suddenly in
musth. The mating is fast and furious and the story hardly slows down at all
from there on.
“Trunk and
Skunk” is told in first person, by Dor. His back story is long and involved,
but we get it in bite-sized pieces as the book unfolds and he and Wyatt have to
survive not only Wyatt in musth, but also all the usual things that happen when
people form a relationship in an instant. There are some wonderfully humorous
moments between a skunk and an elephant, and two very different men getting
used to each other. The world building is also handled most professionally,
being woven seamlessly into the characters and the events as they take place.
Some of Ms.
Flynn’s grammatical errors, even though they’re minor, annoy me, but after the
vast number of books she’s written I can understand no publisher would ever
wish to alter her style in any way. Besides, her story telling is so good she
drags the reader along with her at a fast pace anyway.
This is an objective review and not
an endorsement of this book.
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