The Craving
Author: T.K. Sheils
Reviewer: Rita Porter
Publisher: LTD Books (2002)
ISBN: 1553161122, B0000A2U8B (e-book)
Rating: * * * * Quills
 
With the disappearance of Harry Somers, Sabrina e-mails Jackson, asking him to meet with her. Coming face-to-face with a shape changer himself, Jackson is somewhat shocked when Sabrina asks for his help. Jackson soon regrets accepting almost immediately. He is afraid that one of these times when he answers her cry for help, he's going to find that he has fallen so deeply in love with her, he won't be able to walk away.
 
Jackson realizes that finding out what happened to Harry, who was editing Sabrina's book on shift changers, isn't going to be easy. Having gotten a name and an address for a professor, who had written papers on the subject of shift changers, Jackson and Sabrina travel to Canada. They find getting to the Professor Valben's house difficult, with unknown challenges they have to overcome and no one willing to give directions. Once there, they learn more than would have been believable, had they not had their experiences on the way there.
 
Though covering a topic hardly thought to be real, T.K. Sheils draws his readers deeper into the superstitious realm of shift changers and the possibilities that are held there. Sheils's characters interact well with each other. The mystery, tension and violence within the pages of The Craving merge well. Quick paced right from the start, Sheils doesn't allow you to think of the passing of the pages.

 

 

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