Claws & Effect

Written by Amanda Arista

Narrated by Kelsey Osborne

Violet Jordan Rule #2 of being a superhero:
Find reliable sidekicks.

Dear Diary,

Once I took down Haverty, the Primo of the city,

I thought life was going to get better. After four assassination attempts, I'm thinking not so much. Haverty's pack needs a new leader, and I've just about run out of reasons why I'm not right for the job.

Besides, having loyal followers would definitely help me fight off whoever's out for my blood. Especially sincemy boyfriend is always busy playing White Hat to every wanderer except me. I'm glad he thinks I'm tough enough to handle my own business, but a little extra backup would be nice.

So now I just need to figure out how to mentor new shifters, run a pack, keep my "real" job, and have some sort of personal life. All in a day's work for this horror movie writer-turned-shapeshifting panther.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bryant Street Publishing
• Release date: Apr 12, 2022
• ISBN: 9781094440750

Amanda Arista

Amanda Arista was born in Illinois, grew up in Corpus Christi, and lives in Dallas, but her heart lies in London. When not writing, she often dreams of co-opening an evil bakery and selling despicable desserts. She spends her weekends writing at coffee shops, practicing for the day that caffeine intake becomes an Olympic sport, and plotting character demises.

Reviews for Claws & Effect

[Karen Chandler · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I enjoyed this storyline as a great distraction the night before my surgery. I couldn't sleep, and it was a nice distraction

[belindalee1988 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Great book great storyline great characters great author. So entertaining.

[sharon dean · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I love the humour of these books well worth the read

[Bill Hair · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

3.25 Stars for me

I will keep this short. The h is much improved in this story but it just seemed to drag on. If it had been a couple of hours shorter, I think that this would have been a 4 star listen for me. I do like the author and will look at her other stories.

[Mindy Ngo · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

I cannot stand the narrator. She sounds like she was trying to smile the entire time while reading. Terrible performance. Almost feels like I’m listening to SNL and waiting for the bad audience laughter following every other sentence.

[stacy · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I have to be honest this was a DNF I might come back to finish it because I like the little family she is forming for herself, but I didn’t finish it because I’m just not feeling her relationship with Chaz. She acts like it’s the best thing ever, but as a reader what I have so far is a man who constantly doubts their comparability and seems to keep her at arms length. Then we are brought in a second possible love interest and find out some not so great things about Chaz on top of what we already know and the love interest is someone she is actually comparable with and yet it’s like the author wants to convince us to be team Chaz and she’s like he’s the best man for me, but is he really?? It lost me once she ran away was found on the porch and had the lovey dicey convo about how great Chaz was. I’m just not feeling it so I’m out.