JASMINE MAS
Reading Psycho Shifters is like watching a train wreck in real life, you know you should look away, but your eyes are glued to the chaos.
Overall, the book was… fine. I didn’t hate it, but I also didn’t love it. What I did hate with my whole soul is how the author repeats the same things over and over and over again until it starts to feel like your audiobook is stuck in a haunted loop.
Sadie will not rest until you understand that:
– Cobra smells like winter (frost, ice, snowbank, cold burn)
– Jax smells like warm chestnuts, because apparently he’s a seasonal candle.
– Ascher smells like pine trees, aka he’s a walking car air freshener.
And that’s just the scent thing. Then we get the greatest hits playlist:
– Cobra = snake imagery and creepy stare energy, again and again.
– Jax = huge, towering alpha energy, again and again.
– Ascher = horns and tattoos and “princess” comments, again and again.
At a certain point I wasn’t even reading anymore, I was just mentally checking boxes like a Sadie-ism bingo card:
✅ “Alpha scent”
✅ “He towered over me”
✅ “His eyes were intense”
✅ “Princess”
✅ “Cold. Frost. Snake. Emerald. (Cobra DLC pack)”
It got so repetitive that hearing the same phrases pop up made me want to start narrating the book myself: “And then Sadie noticed a smell. It was a smell. A very alpha smell. Anyway…”
That said, the story is entertaining. It’s messy, it’s dramatic, It’s a little off the rails. It’s the literary equivalent of rubbernecking on the highway.
So yeah, the book was ok. I just wish it trusted me as a reader a little more, instead of reminding me 47 times that one man is basically a snowstorm, one is basically chestnuts, and one is basically Home Depot’s Christmas aisle.
Would I read the next one? Honestly… probably. The train wreck effect is real.
Every book hits differently for every reader.
Thanks for reading my review.
– Corey
