He’s powerful, he’s virtually unstoppable, and he just wants to be left alone.In a world filling up with the supernatural, a lone werewolf drifts into a farming community looking for work and promptly kicks a hornet’s nest. Actually, he would prefer it was a hornet. What he kicks is much worse.
Early Shift: Don’t Challenge the Werewolf Book 1 (The Realm of False Gods 3)
By stevehiggs
One of the best authors out there!
Another bang on great story! I love that this author has not trapped himself in any one specific storyline. He literally has hundreds of stories stuck in his head and shares them with the world! This one is no exception: a werewolf, a bunch of tossers, throw in innocent people getting bullied by the tossers, and you’ve got a story that will keep you reading long after you should have gone to sleep! Fantastic read as always!
A woman Zach meets is being bullied by a family trying to steal her business and home. He arrives and takes up the side of the woman and tries to help. The family is magical and using it for selfish reasons. They want to own the town and have everyone cow-tow to them. Gitta hires Zach against their wishes. He goes with them and fights with them. He wins the first round but more confrontations happen. The family calls on a demon to give them more power to beat Zach. They kill him but he doesn’t die. Rebecca arrives and interferes causing the death of the other supernatural being. Tears for this one. Really couldn’t put it down. Received ARC copy of this book and this is my honest opinion.
Zachary’s story is not to be missed!
Early Shift: Don’t Challenge the Werewolf Book 1 is the third book in The Realm of False Gods series. This is the story of werewolf, Zachary Barnabus, after he becomes friends with Otto Schneider.
In this book, Zachary wants to be left in peace as he tries to live his life, but it seems that trouble always finds him. The Supernatural Investigation Alliance (SIA) is also after him and others of his kind. Zachary’s character is developing well and he has a terrific snarkiness to him that is used to great effect in this book.
The author has given us an action-packed story with great characters, demons, danger, violence, and a werewolf who cares about people. I am loving this series and cannot wait for the next book.
I read and reviewed this book with no obligation.
Two months after bidding Otto Schneider farewell in Bremen, Zachary departs Poland after shifting to defend an elderly couple from thugs intent on seizing their land. He heads for northern Germany after an online forum reports a werewolf sighting in Bad Dorstal, gladly accepting a ride from a quiet but friendly trucker.
The potato-farming community isn’t too far from the motorway, so he walks to the town’s only diner, owned by single parent Gitta and her mother, Meg. As he settles at the counter for breakfast and tells Gitta he’s looking for work, a man named Hans offers him work “depending on your morals.” Zach understands the unspoken terms and politely declines, then forcibly ejects Hans when he reacts boorishly. Gitta’s not happy that his chivalry drives away most of her morning customers, but as she watches Zach consume two huge plates of food, then carry two beer kegs per hand and tote heavy provisions like cotton balls, she believes her decision might prove beneficial.
Hans returns that evening with his four brothers, determined to kill Zach for his impudence. Out in the forest, as he shifts to scare them away, they reveal that they also possess magic, a power granted to them by the demon Rebecca. Although Zach injures them so severely he expects to never see them again, they appear at the diner the next morning in fine fettle, not a single hair out of place, and the shifter realizes he’ll have to do what he hates most: kill the bloodthirsty brothers.
What follows are a series of clashes between good and evil, the brothers aided by Rebecca and Zachary surprised by a unexpected ally. Just as the conflict reaches its zenith, Daniel, the demon introduced in Untethered Magic, appears to rein in Rebecca, who’s gathered acolytes in violation of immortal law. She’s not willing to concede without a fight, though, and the two immortals wreak havoc while the humans scramble in terror and awe.
Meanwhile, the new SIA director wants to engage supernaturals to help fight the upcoming war, but two renegade agents are determined to seize Zachary as a prize to advance their careers and humiliate the boss, who they view as a weakling. Neither expects what they find on the deserted army base just outside Bad Dorstal.
And Zachary wonders why peace and happiness seem out of reach for the werewolf with a conscience.