Warning: Spoilers Ahead!!! This is a recap blog which means I read the story and tell you everything that happens so you don't have to read it yourself. Do NOT continue to read unless you want to have the story completely and utterly spoiled.
From the Back of the Book: Alan is a shark shifter, a man with the ability to change into shark form. During his time living on land, he met and fell for Shanice, an African American beauty who was equally drawn to Alan. At first learning Alan was a shifter was daunting for Shanice, but that's nothing compared to what's in store for her. How will she handle not only turning into a shark shifter herself, but being hunted by both Alan's crazy shifter ex and the government badass Manfree?So this book is the 2014 sequel to Love Across Waters which I recapped back in July. You could all just go read that to refresh your memories but I know at least half of you are too lazy to click over so I'm going to give you a brief review. In the first one we met Shanice and her 28B's and learned that her large chocolate chip nipples were a bane to her focus. We also met Alan who was a shark who had been granted the ability to be human for a few months in order to learn why humans pollute the ocean. Alan was actually the third shark to be granted this privilege. One had been captured and one had died (except, no, she did NOT, Greenford). Shanice was pissed that Alan didn't seem to pay attention to her like every other male on the face of the earth and then she totally took off her top during their very first kiss. They have awkward sex a few times and Alan accidentally "seeds" her which doesn't mean she's pregnant - it means she will eventually turn into a shark. The entire time they are hunted by an inept clod named Manfree who wants to learn how to become a shark himself. Apparently he's employed by a government agency that's paying him to find out the secrets of the shifters. Many commas were abused and my head fucking exploded from the number of times Greenford forgot what her own story was.
I will say this second book was better written than the first. I know that's going to disappoint the hell out of some of you.
Can we discuss this cover for just a second? Why does his body look so deformed? It literally looks like the top was photoshopped onto the bottom. And what the hell is he wearing?
Sigh.
We begin with Shanice telling us that
she and Alan have been together nearly every minute of every day
since we saw them last. On this particular day she wants to ride
Alan again and, no, that's not a euphemism. I think. He shifts into a
shark and pulls her around the ocean for awhile. This has to be so
humiliating for him. I always feel bad for him when this happens but
he keeps agreeing to it so I guess it's his business.
After awhile, Shanice realizes Alan is upset and we get this.
"I am thinking about my mission. I have to find the second shifter and see what has happened to him, I would rather not kill him, but if I have to then I will."
Shanice is confused because she thought Alan had been ordered to kill the shifter. So Alan clears it up. Sort of. Not really.
"That would only be the case if there was nobody else involved, since these humans have captured him it changes things, I do not want to put you in danger without giving you more abilities, and for that we have to grow closer."
I have no idea what the fuck he just said or what his mission actually is at this point. I just know Greenford HATES to end a sentence.
Alan wants to move closer to the
facility where they think the second shifter is being held. Shanice agrees and they leave the college that Alan doesn't actually attend. They run out of gas
on the way and Shanice is forced to explain why gas is necessary to a
car and how money works to Alan. He doesn't understand either
concept and I wonder how the hell he's been living if he doesn't know
how money works. He wants to just take the gas but Shanice explains
stealing to him. He says there are caves underwater where the shark
people keep all the “green paper” so it won't foul
up the water. He says they can go get some of that if it's so
important.
They have to walk to the ocean because the car is on empty and
along the way Alan tells her that he's worried Manfree is using the
second shifter as bait to catch them. Shanice is becoming a shifter
but it is taking a long time because she's female. Don't ask me why it takes longer for a female to shift than a male.
Greenford doesn't understand it so she's not very good at explaining
it. Alan thinks they should separate so Shanice doesn't get hurt
because of him. Shanice figures she'll actually stop existing if they separate so she decides to ride or die.
Sorry. Wrong kind of book.
When they get to the ocean, Alan shifts
and then uses their mind-communication to tell Shanice that he will
share his oxygen with her. She's supposed to get on his back, put
her hands on his gills and concentrate. If I were her, I would have
SO MANY questions about how this breathing thing was going to work
but Shanice just follows directions like the good little sheep she is.
She has a couple of panics as they go.
The first happens when she realizes how deep they are. She starts to
hyperventilate which is a neat trick considering she's not really
breathing at all – Alan is oxygenating her blood through a process
Greenford doesn't bother to explain. Alan tells her to cut it out
because she's putting too much strain on his gills. The second panic
comes when they begin to swim through a tunnel to get to the cave.
It's claustrophobic and she begins a massive-scale freakout. He
tells her to cool it again because her frantic thoughts are
interfering with his ability to navigate in the pitch black of the
tunnel.
They eventually get into a cave and
it's above water I guess? Alan shifts back into a naked man and
tells Shanice to get into one of the little pools with him because
it's warmed by “the earth's internal heat”. Above water.
Okay. I'm not sure this is how science actually works. Shanice
gets in with him and he rubs her back which causes her to doze off.
Back on land, Lara (the not-so-dead female shifter from the first book who turned out to be Alan's ex-mate) is tracking Alan's scent. She
tracks him to the ocean but says that she can't follow him there. I think she's lost her ability to shift because she stayed among the humans too long but who knows. Greenford sucks at actually telling a coherent story. She knows he's eventually going to go to the second shifter , though,
so she decides to just wait for him there. She's been using mind
control to get a taxi driver to take her wherever she wants to go.
He eventually needs gas and she lets him go to a gas station where
she uses mind control on another person to get “green papers”
to pay for it.
Lara and the driver go inside to get
some coolant for the taxi. Inside there's a seafood section with
some guy serving up fresh fish. They have fancy gas stations in this
town. Lara asks the butcher for seal and he laughs at her. She
tells him she wants all the salmon he has and then she wants him to
chop off his left hand. So he gives her all the fish and then uses
his cleaver to chop off his hand.
Back in the cave, Shanice and Alan
begin to have sex. She can't even look at him because she's
“embarrassed at the way he looked at her when he was aroused”.
What the fuck does that even mean? She bites him during and he
takes this to mean that she's coming closer to being a shark. If
that's all it takes, there's a lot of women out there in the world
close to being a shark. Just saying.
At least she doesn't go on and on and ON about the mind orgasm in this book.
After they spawn, Alan catches the
scent of Lara and reminds us that she claimed him for a mate before
she became human. So that's going to be an issue. He apologizes to
Shanice for dragging her into this. She tells him it's no big
deal. She'll help him kick Lara's ass. For some reason, they decide
now is a good time to nap and they go to sleep.
While asleep, Shanice dreams that she
is a shark and when she wakes up, she begins to shift. Alan helps
her get into the water so she can breathe and then asks her to resist
her instincts and refrain from attacking him in his human form. He
fills her wetsuit with money and then zips it up. He heads for shore as a naked human while she swims around as a shark for a little while and then he
calls to her with his mind to come to shore.
Shanice shifts back into a human and is
immediately overwhelmed with Lara's scent. She knows that Lara has
been there and that she's headed for the facility. Shanice thinks
they should hang back a bit and let Lara get there first. She's
hoping Lara will deal with Manfree so they don't have to. She and
Alan check into a motel to wait.
We hop into Manfree's head. He's
getting nowhere with the second shifter and he's astonished to find
that his access to all the cool lab things has been revoked. He's
told that he's being scrubbed but he manages to convince them to give
him more time because he knows Lara and Alan are on their way to the
facility to find the second shifter.
Lara arrives and uses her mind control
to get into the room where the shifter is and we finally get a name.
Jacob. Lara has a proposition for him. If he'll help her kill
Shanice so she can reclaim Alan, she'll let Jacob live. Jacob
agrees. He rather likes being human and eating all the tasty things
and having all the sex. Can't really blame him there.
Lara goes out to question Manfree about
Alan. He can't really tell her anything so she orders him to let
Jacob go. Once Jacob is free, they track Alan and Shanice to the
hotel where they are having raucous sex in the jacuzzi. Alan agrees
to talk to the two of them. Greenford never mentions Alan and
Shanice getting dressed but I'm going to assume they did.
Lara tells them that Manfree is
tracking them and they all need to work together to get free. Then
she mind-talks to Alan, begging him to leave Shanice and mate with
her again so they can rule the seas together. Alan pretends to agree
with this. We learn that Lara can't control another female shifter
so I guess Shanice has that going for her.
Meanwhile, Alan and Shanice are
planning to trick Lara and kill her. Then Alan plans to kill poor
Jacob who just wants to eat Big Macs and have lots of human sex. He
reminds us that it's his mission since Jacob broke the rules but I
thought he backtracked on that earlier and said it was different because humans had capture him. I'm so confused.
Alan and Shanice have another really
clunky conversation about how the shark people want to enslave the
human people because of pollution. It's very awkward and
inappropriately timed but I guess Greenford needed to squeeze it in
somewhere. I don't know why, though, because they said nearly the same thing in the first book.
They get to the ocean and Alan pretends
to mind-control Shanice into leaving. She pretends to be
mind-controlled and she takes off down the beach toward town. Alan
tells Jacob he can go free because he's too pitiful to fight since he
wants to be human. Jacob happily beats it the hell out of there.
Alan and Lara shift and head for the caves. Along the way, she tells him her grand plan.
"Once we reach the cave I want to mate with you in human form first, I need to see how much of your energy it takes to get pregnant in that form. After I bear my first human child, I'll see if it can shift, then dispose of it if it's not able to and we can try again. But perhaps you'd like to mate as a shark first?"
I have no idea what the first part of that means but I can't believe the comma slaughter we have going on here. Learn what a fucking period is, Greenford.
Meanwhile, Shanice is shifting herself.
Alan has Lara distracted with the great white shark mating ritual so
Shanice is able to sneak up on Lara and attack. Alan helps her and
soon they have Lara so wounded that she can't fight back anymore.
They tell her that they'll take her to shore and let her shift to
human if she promises to stay away from them forever. If not,
they'll kill her right there. Lara agrees.
Wait a minute.
Wait a fucking minute.
Greenford told us that Lara can't shift anymore. That's why she couldn't follow them into the caves earlier. So why the hell can she shift now?
KEEP TRACK OF YOUR STORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When Lara reaches shore, Jacob is there.
NO HE'S FUCKING NOT, GREENFORD. HE RAN OFF PAGES AGO. IT'S NOT THAT HARD TO REMEMBER WHERE YOUR PEOPLE ARE!!!
Lara asks him for some of his healing power and
Jacob starts to help her. Manfree shows up, though, and they are
both tranqed and captured. It's not as effective as Manfree had
hoped, though, and they come too before they get back to the
facility. While they're being taken out of the trunk, they surprise
their captors and take Manfree prisoner. They demand to be taken to
his leader like they're 1980's aliens or something.
The leader tells them that they're free
to go. The project has been scrubbed and they won't be bothering the
shifters any more. This isn't good enough for Lara. She's a
motherfucking princess and she wants to start her own clan to take
over the earth and she plans to use the facility for her
headquarters. She takes over by force, using a willing Manfree as
her slave. Lara tells him that if he's a very, very good boy,
someday she'll make him a shifer too.
Time passes as Shanice and Alan spend
most of their time swimming as sharks and having cave sex as humans.
The author sucks at describing both. Meanwhile, Lara is programming
Jacob to lead Alan away from Shanice so that she can attack. The big
day happens when Shanice and Alan are feeding off a dead whale.
Jacob appears and leads Alan away.
I guess Alan is back to saying his mission is to kill Jacob.
Sigh.
Lara has lied to Jacob and told him that if Alan holds his shark form still under water for ten minutes, the shark will die. Then Alan can take him back to the beach and Jacob will shift to human and be human forever. I have NO IDEA why Jacob believes this because CLEARLY if he dies as a shark, he's just DEAD but he buys into it and asks Alan to help him accomplish it. Alan agrees to do this despite telling us just a few paragraphs ago that he was definitely obligated to kill Jacob.
Alan does his part and kill shark Jacob and then takes him to the shore but Jacob doesn't shift into a human. He's simply dead.
YOU THINK!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Lara attacks Shanice and leads her to
the surface where her mind-controlled guards are waiting to shoot
Shanice with poison darts. Shanice begins to die but Alan appears
and uses his energy to heal her. Lara challenges her to a battle to
the death but Shanice just laughs and says no thanks. Lara is
stunned. Sharks never turn down a challenge to fight. Shanice
reminds her that she's actually a human and humans have no trouble
walking away. Then she does just that. She and Alan walk away.
Time passes. Shanice and Alan are solving the problem of Lara by not going anywhere near California. This works until Shanice decides she wants to visit her parents and they have to go back. Once there, they come
across Lara again. She's converted Manfree into a shark and she's
pregnant. Alan knows this is step one of her plan to build a clan
and enslave the humans. He decides he has to go to his own clan and
warn them. Shanice agrees to go with him and the book ends.
Greenford gives us this......
The end....but there's more:
There's nothing after that colon, by the way. It just hangs there. I don't know if she intended another shark shifting book or not. I haven't seen one. I'm kind of hoping it just dies here like poor Jacob. I actually liked Jacob. He was kind of sweet. The next time I eat a Big Mac, I'll think of him. 💖
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