Stray by Rachel Vincent

Stray (Shifters, #1)Stray
By: Rachel Vincent
My rating: ★★★☆☆

Oh My Good Jesus, what the hell did I just read?

The only reason this book even gets a three star is because of the ending. The only reason I even finished the book was because I was steaming with anger and fury.


Let’s get down it to, shall we.


Faythe, I hate you, I deeply truly hate you. There are many of words to descried you, and most of which are to vulgar to put into a G rated review. To point, you're selfish, straight up selfish.

You’re an idiot, not stupid, an idiot. The connection for common sense doesn't exist in your brain, it got lost, probably when you where blaming everyone else for your problems; problems that you don't have.

You sprout independence, but act like a spoiled princess pink teenager, who didn’t get to use her daddies credit card for a new pair of gucci boots.

I wanted you to get killed, for your lack of compassion, and empathy.

You friend gets kidnapped; a human girl turns up dead, mulled. Your teenage cousin goes missing, and your still trying to prove your independence by trying to leave the safety of your very protect home, while there’s obviously someone out there collection tabbies. Woman! There is a target on your head, tragedy in your family, a threat agents your race, and you want to F*en leave! .............. Who the hells thinks like that!....

If that was me, I would be there for my family, I would want to help in anyway I could possably can. Leaving would be the last thing on my mind.

.... Okay Breathe....

The ending, did saved this mess that is a book, a little bit. (Faythe’s repeat, (I want out) fits still pops up. F*cken one track mind.) Not because of Faythe, she's still usualness in my eyes, the guys saved it. This book should have been about her brothers and Mac, not her.

What really saved it was disembowelment of the stay-jungle cat. I won't say his name, he needs no more power.


If the first half of the book was like the last, written in third person, and the filler was chopped out, this would have been an easy 4 to 5 star.

But no, -_-

So much filler; Faythe is the tangent queen. I don't need to have something explained to me in 10 different ways just to get a point across. No one is that thick headed.

Back to the ending, (To me an ending is the last 20% of the book.)

I like how Faythe broke out of some of her self-pity and first world problems, to grow up enough not to get her and her cousin killed. She did show, in small amounts, that she is a leader, strong and bright, all qualities that would have been great at the beginning of this horror.

The ending becomes fast pace, and the shallow stupid that was the first half starts to mellow out.

I won't give away the ending, but it was good enough to scrape this book into a three star spot.

I don't recommend this book to anyone that is easily anger by self-imposed independent woman, who throw princess fits every three seconds.

Am I going to read the rest of the series?

My first through is Hell to the No!

But I will reconsider and give it the benefit of the doubt, Rachel Vincent is one of my favorites, and I loved for Soul Screamer series, so I can't toss this one just yet. But I am going to give myself some breathing room, read some good books that fills me with happiness, before jumping back into this inferno of hate fire.

Though I don't recommend this book, don't be deterred, read it yourself, you may have a different take to it, and might actually enjoy it.

-Emily-Ann



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