Reviewed by Kat

TITLE: Blood and Bone

SERIES: U.S. Marshals I.S.R. (Interspecies Response – Book 2)

AUTHOR: Patricia Logan

PUBLISHER: Westburg Publishing

LENGTH: 312 pages

RELEASE DATE: May 6, 2024

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Aristotle Brown is starting to like his new job with the U.S. Marshals Interspecies Response unit. If anyone would have told him vampires, shifters, werewolves, and space aliens existed a few months ago, he would have called them crazy. But meeting his new partner has proven to be the best part of the I.S.R. He’s settling into the new job and the new man nicely. When he moved out to Los Angeles from Lexington, Kentucky a few months ago, he thought he might try finding a guy, but he never expected to feel that way about his new partner.

Eoghan Sapphire thinks Ari is beautiful and brilliant, and that’s probably a good thing since they spend a lot of time together. Very quickly, he realizes that the feelings he’s having for the man, aren’t purely professional. He wishes things would slow down but when work gets in the way, he realizes they can’t stop moving…not even for a minute. On the way to Northern California to help the local tribal police locate a fugitive shifter Eoghan once put behind bars, he and Ari drop in on a friend before coming face to face with a couple of unexpected predators. And if their life wasn’t crazy enough, a few insulted cephalopods give chase.

Better still, a case involving a vampire with a very unusual oral fixation, has both of them grateful for the blood-sucker’s restraint. Just when both men think things might settle down and there’ll be an end to the madness, they’re tasked to meet a couple of the scariest shifters they’ve ever heard of. And just to put a cherry on top of the assignment, it turns out these guys aren’t exactly the forgiving kind. As Eoghan and Ari enter a world neither could have prepared for, they come face to face with something thought to live only…in legend.

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Vampires, merpeople, cephalopods, and long assumed extinct creatures…OH MY!!! Throw in some lace manties to spice things up and you got yourself a best seller!

Ari and Eoghan are settling in nicely as best friends, work partners and lovers. Now, if they could just get their tired bums a break from that Charger’s seats and hundreds and hundreds of miles on California Highways, they might start feeling a bit more rested and alert. But chasing after (or in some cases being chased by) paranormals and aliens is not for the weak. And there are a lot of unique creatures that Ari is still baffled about! Who knew that that twin at the truck stop was a ringed octopus shifter and that he just majorly insulted her and her family with that quip about their venom in Octopussy!

I think what I love most about this book is that Eoghan and Ari seem to be the proper conductor to get opposing groups of paranormals to learn to work together for the common good for all. I get that these different paranormal groups don’t agree on a lot of things. And  making them mesh for the common good of all that reside there, alien, shifter, undead (vamps) and humans alike, is a daunting task.  However, Eoghan has built up a good reputation of being fair and honest marshal over the last 6 years he has served with the U.S. Marshal’s I.S.R. agency/unit. And Ari just gives off a “you can trust me” vibe that usually calms beings! Unfortunately that didn’t work as well for him this time but he survived relatively unscathed.

It good to see that Patty hasn’t lost her touch with torturing her men you fall for. Not one, not two but three freaking times she put Ari in grave danger! Granted, the ringed octopus faux pas was his fault. Oh, and him invading on a private booked swim party was not cool. But at least he thought he was trying to help the little girl that time! But being closed to burned to death was a bit harsh. Thankfully these guys got paranormal help and healing when faced with danger of death this time! Eoghan hadn’t been that fortunate in the past.

I am really enjoying this new series. I had liked Ari from the start when he and Max worked on that case in Lexington and was thrilled that he decided to take up Max’s advice that California might be a better fit for him. I had expected that Ari would hang with Max and Leo but I guess you can’t really talk about what you do if you are recruited into a secret part of the government. Lol! This series has tested my boundaries on aliens and creature shifters. Looking forward to what new ones we encounter in the next book when they all keep looking for a way to bring down Tillis Bradshaw and his army of evil vampires! All the while trying to discover who is the agency mole???

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