Released: The Shapeshifter's Library #1

Written by Amber Polo

Narrated by Faith Connor

When Librarian Liberty Cutter’s library goes up in flames, the town relocates the library to an abandoned academy. Liberty feels eyes watching her from the derelict structure’s gothic windows, but never imagines the truth is stranger than fiction – until she meets a talking dog.

The dog tells her a pack of book-burning werewolves cursed the building. Plus, beneath the library an ancient race of dog-shifters work to protect the world’s knowledge. Funded by internet giant Zoogle, these dog-shifting scholars enjoy their Starbarks coffeehouse as they research their way to freedom. Until the public library’s zany librarians move in…and things begin to shift.

Werewolf restauranteur Sybilla itches to become pack alpha and stoops to adding wolfsbane to her husband’s tea and using werewolf genre readers to infiltrate Liberty’s library

Chronus, the Old English Sheepdog headmaster, must persuade Liberty to believe in him and his world because Liberty holds the key to the dog-shifters’ freedom – and his heart.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bryant Street Publishing
• Release date: Jun 15, 2021
• ISBN: 9781094416984

Amber Polo

Amber Polo is best known for her Shapeshifters’ Library series, a light urban fantasy filled with dog-shifting librarians and book burning werewolves. Released, Retrieved, Recovered, and Reprinted.Amber's love of books drew her into a career as a librarian- and later a writer. One day a plane flew past her office window and she turned her pen to her own Arizona airpark backyard and Heads in the Clouds was the result. Hearts in the Vortex, a Sedona paranormal romance, was also is set in amazing Arizona.Following her trail back to libraries, The Pharaoh & the Librarian imagines what would have happened if Cleopatra had faked her death and escaped on a pirate ship? While her sister sailed for Wales with the most valuable ancient books from her Library of Alexandria? And they both landed in an imagined new world filled with crypto-creatures and historical humans?In addition to her novels, she is proud of Relaxing the Writer: Guidebook to the Writer’s High which offers hundreds of tips to help writers and readers relax and her self-produced Relaxation One Breath at a Time, an audio that uses her voice to teach relaxation to calm your body and mind and/or help you fall asleep.

Reviews for Released

[Karen Chandler · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

A sharpshifter, library book. The characters were interesting and followed the story well.

[Elizabeth Ivey · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Such a fun story. Shapeshifters that turn into pet type canines against werewolves. One side good librarians the other side evil book burners. Such an imaginative world. I will definitely listen to the other stories in the series. Highly recommend this first book.

[Millsy · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Dog lovers embrace the book.
A someone who absolutely LOVES dogs and really enjoys most shifter books, this book was a joy to listen to. Yes we have the typical werewolves but what was completely new to me and a revelation was DOG SHIFTERS!! So many different breeds were mentioned oh and the story itself about librarian's was also a very new idea. All the characters are really likeable, even the baddie werewolves and the story kept me listening right to the end. The narrator does a fantastic job at giving all the different characters personality. I really recommend this audiobook. ??

[Jo E Gallagher · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Wonderful. I loved the characters and concepts they were fun and kept my interest.

[Anna Crookston · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

It is certainly an interesting concept. I don’t know if I was distracted or what, but I was so lost. A lot of things were left unexplained and the story just jumped around a lot. No harm done in trying but I was really confused by the plot

[Maya Stiles Parsons Spier · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

There was much to love about this book. Great, original story, unique and engaging characters, the involvement of librarian-speak, and using the Dewey Decimal System as language was delightful. Where I balked was the negative characterization of body types. The evil werewolf alpha was twisted, aged and ugly. The fat librarian was lazy, lacked character and was truculent and intractable. Slim and attractive were equated with all things virtuous. This is covert bigotry and it causes real harm to people with body types that diverge from what society prefers. I would hope that this otherwise excellent author will veer away from this bigotry in future works as they diminished my enjoyment noticeably and make me hesitant to read her works again.

[Kristin Crewe · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

I just felt like this story was missing alot of the fleshed out bits. The base story was an interesting idea but just needed more.