Book Review: Hunter and Hunted by M.D. Grimm

Title: Hunter and Hunted
Series: The Shifters, Book 4
Author: M.D. Grimm
Genre: Paranormal Romance, M/M Romance
Sensuality Rating: Erotic
Source: review copy from publisher
Published: December 2012 by Dreamspinner Press

Orphan Hunter Landon craves a family who will love him unconditionally. When he’s adopted by the Knights, an organization dedicated to destroying shifters, Hunter is grateful, but their ideology never sits right. Finally, on a rite of passage during which he’s supposed to kill his first shifter, Hunter discovers the truth: he meets Glenn Lightfoot, a deer shifter, and asks a lot of questions.

Glenn hates the Knights and worries about the safety of his herd with one in their midst. After all, the Knights have hurt his family before. On the other hand, this is his chance to convert an enemy, and some instinct tells him Hunter won’t betray him.

Soon Hunter sees the Knights for the monsters they are. When his time is up, he leaves the herd to protect Glenn. But Glenn is determined not to lose the man he has come to love and respect to the Knights' cruel campaign.

Reviewed By: J9

In a Nutshell: Uncomplicated MM shifter romance with better world building than romance but still a decent read.

The Set Up: Hunter was orphaned at three and adopted by the Knights, an organization with a mission to destroy shifters. Hunter feels loyalty to the Knights so when his rite of passage time comes to kill a shifter, he goes hunting. But Hunter can’t shoot the deer, who he knows is a shifter, and when the deer shifts human, Hunter is attracted to the shifter Glenn. Hunter knows the Knights will hunt him down and this puts Glenn and his deer herd in grave danger.

Why I Read this Book: I read book three of this series and liked it enough to try the rest of the books.

What I Liked: I like the world building in this series. The more I read the more I see it as an internal struggle between two factions of part-fae people with psychic skills, the evil Knights and the good Agency. The shifters are caught in the middle as the Knights try to kill them and the Agency rescues them. I like this world, especially since the shifters aren’t just predators but have prey species like Glenn’s deer herd. This is unique in shifter stories and I like this part of the book and the series.

What I Also Liked: Hunter and Glenn have a fairly uncomplicated romance. Hunter has had doubts about the Knights but didn’t know anyone outside the Knights to ask questions of so when he meets Glenn he’s leery but also curious. Hunter’s attraction to Glenn and Glenn’s to him is straightforward sex then obligatory emotions but this simplicity was good enough to hold my attention. I have to also say that interracial MM romance is extremely rare and I liked this element to the romance.

What I Didn’t Like: As I mentioned, this isn’t a romance that’ll wow any reader so don’t expect to sigh but it’s decent.

IMO: This continues a good series but with just an adequate romance.

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