This one was fun and creepy. The creepy part being that the people took their natural talent of being a shifter and corrupted it. The Shifterai take their talent to shift into animals as sacred, only shifting to other people when they are kids, after a certain age it is looked down upon. However these bad people they have banished use their talent to shift into other people, influential ones, so that they can steal their lives and the wealth and power they have. The talk of how they manipulate their features creeped me out, just the thought is so wrong.

I thought that Kenyen did a great job with the situation he was thrown into. It was good that he was able to speak to Traver a little bit first. I was very glad that Kenyen came clean with Solyn early on as I wouldn't have been ok with him lying to her the whole time. I really liked how each of them was able to share their culture and how the little things meant a lot to them.

I think the best part of the book was the big confrontation at the end. Kenyen did a great job of pretending to be the bad guy in front of his new family. When things really went to hell it was great to see Solyn stand up for him.

All in all this was a great addition to the world that this author has created with her Sons of Destiny series and this Shifting Plains one.