Psycho Shifters (Cruel Shifterverse Book 1)

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As the first-ever female alpha, she has to train with three other alphas and be part of a crew facing up to the fae queen who is interested in annexing shifter lands. If she does not die at war or at the hands of the fae monsters, she might just succumb to the hateful but gorgeous three alphas she has to live with. the only time she is strong is when she turns off her emotions and goes "numb" which I initially thought was a good metaphor for dissociation but now I'm thinking it may have just been an excuse to make her a badass for like two chapters and a damsel in distress for the rest of the book. She's a pretty cool female MC,but the way the word 'scrawny' kept being used in the first quarter of the book drove me crazy. I like 'the numb' very much and I'm curious to see more about her development.

She's incredibly tiny - she has "such a small waist" and the guys alternate between being concerned for her welfare and lusting over her malnourished frame. The MM romance I wasn't expecting to find in a reverse harem. But here it is, serving up the spice while we're waiting for ths actual RH to begin. The two of them are literally the Yin to each other’s Yang. Ascher is the newest member of the alpha trio, and he does not like Sadie. At all. All he does is bring her down and insult her, but at the same time, he is clearly obsessed with her and does not know how to deal with it. Jax, Ascher, and Cobra are going to be devastated when they discover my truth...just wait until they see my shifted form.He was like a statue of the sun god, like a painting of an angel from the rumored god realm, like an annoying bastard who thought he was hot shit." ascher and cobra portray your classic women are objects to be used and a man that got hurt by a girl 500000 years ago so he hates all women tropes, respectively. when the execution is this poor and basic it adds nothing to the plot other than a couple brainless, sexist men in a story that is 3/4th's men and marketed to women. not sure how that one makes sense. I mean, come ON. This was unacceptable. And it just kept going. Honestly, Ascher's POV made me want to vomit. The misogyny was staggering. Overall, don't read this book. The only reason I finished was because of ✨️ insomnia ✨️ and I really regret it. Jax is the leader, the biggest, but also the calmest of the three. He is still a jerk with Sadie, but he actually gives her a chance to prove herself every once in a while and does not openly despise her... At least not as openly as the others.

Well, if you have made it this far in this review you’re probably wondering why I kept going. If you sift through all the not so good parts in the book (and trust me there’s a lot to sift through) the premise was actually interesting. There was some potential that I HOPED would get better, but alas I was wrong. The chance to make Sadie a bad ass MC, but unfortunately the execution was quite poor.

Publication Order of Cruel Shifterverse Books

Jasmine spent her childhood and teenage years battling an addiction to romance fiction and ultimately gave up and decided to embrace it. She penned “Psycho Shifters,” her debut novel in 2022 and has since then penned several other works in the series. There is an incredibly transphobic plot twist towards the end that was simply unacceptable and quite frankly, unnecessary. I don't know why the author felt the need to make things play out the way they did, when this could have easily been done without the transphobia. This doesn't happen until the very end, so you dedicate all of this time to this incredibly offensive book just to be hit with an even more offensive plot twist. The shifter realm was a cold, barren place. It felt even colder and more miserable when you were two null servants under a beta’s thumb.