Review of Shifted Perspective by J. Bridger

What does one do with the world's lamest ability?
Being able to sense earthquakes. Sharp hearing and an even sharper sense of smell. Once a month transforming into... a Cocker Spaniel.  With green eyes. And fluffy ears.
Team Jacob eat your heart out. If this was going to happen to him, why not at least be a Doberman, or a Rottweiler? Like being a teenager wasn't enough fun already.
Caleb Byrne is a bright high school senior who has enough to deal with between college choices, taking care of his single dad, and dealing with his headstrong girlfriend Joanna. He was managing to get by until the day he woke up a Cocker Spaniel. Even if it  is more embarrassing than painful, the so-called ability is something that he's anxious to be rid of.
He didn't realize his transformations would drag him into a hidden society of canine and lupine shape shifters as well as a host of ironclad rules he hates. He keeps angering the werewolves in charge of the shifter world. Worse, Caleb's floundering to keep his secret from Joanna. And dealing with his cousin, who likes to go to dog shows...as a contestant. And her "bestie," Penny, that she blatantly tries to match-make him with.
Now Penny has dragged him into investigating something out there that is leaving a blood-soaked trail across the Midwest.

I found Shifted Perspective immediately engaging and was drawn into the story right away. Caleb is an easy character to sympathize with. Even if he does eat dog food. (OK, that was only ONCE.)
I found it a good blend of humor and drama, with a satisfying tangle of friendships and suspicions. As well as interesting plot twists. Who else is crazy enough to go hunting a psychopathic werewolf with a super-soaker full of silver nitrate?
How do you think you would fit in inside of a world filled with shapeshifting wolves and mastiffs and alphas and betas when all you were was a part-time Cocker Spaniel who only wanted to be human again?