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Werecat: The Rearing Kindle Edition

by Andrew J. Peters (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

3.7 310 ratings

Book 1 of 4: Werecat

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A Readers' Choice finalist from award-winning fantasy author Andrew J. Peters (The City of Seven Gods).

"This first offering in a gay fantasy series should garner a large following." ~Kirkus Reviews

For Jacks Dowd, a college senior who feels ungrounded from school, family, and life in general, a hard-partying weekend in Montréal sounds like a pretty good escape. His Spring Break binge takes a detour when he meets Benoit, an admiring drifter with startling green eyes. A hook-up turns into a day, two days, and then a full week in Benoit's hostel, making love and scarfing down take-out food. But at the end of the week, Benoit demands that Jacks make an impossible choice: stay with him forever, or go back to college and never see him again.

Also in the Werecat series: The Glaring (Book Two), The Fugitive (Book Three), and The Sim Ru Prophecy (Book Four).

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"...steamy enough to satisfy romance-genre die-hards...Peters builds interest by seamlessly moving the narrative from past to present. Jacks' struggle with identity and independence make him a sympathetic, nuanced character...An innovative take on the shape-shifter genre; this first offering in a gay fantasy series should garner a large following." -Kirkus Reviews

"I LOVED this story. A new and intriguing twist on shifters...I thought both characters were well-developed, the story interesting, the suspense intriguing and I even liked the way the sex scene played out (not gonna tell you; you'll have to read it and see)." - Cathy Brockman, The Cat's Meow - Reviews That Purrrr

"What a great start to the series. Kept me hooked from the beginning to the ending." - Sean Norris, World of Diversity Reviews

"Peters does a great job giving us the foundation for the series and helping us to understand Jacks and the struggles he faces." - Jay, Joyfully Jay M/M Reviews & More

"[The author] has given us a reason to look at our own cats as well as the neighborhood cats with a little suspicion...Grab your cute, little kitty, get comfy and enjoy." -- Books 'N Cozy Spots Reviews

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Werecat: The Rearing is the first book in a series of e-novelletes, which follow the adventures of feline shifter Jacks Dowd.

Werecat started as a gay man's answer to the vampire and werewolf craze. There are a ton of books, movies and TV shows in that genre, but you rarely find gay characters at the front and center of the story. As I was writing the first book, the parallels between being gay and being a shifter fed my interest: having to hide, feeling like an outsider, and also the idea of inhabiting two worlds. I wanted to explore the Native American idea of "two-spirit," having both a male and a female spirit or soul. Gay people have the ability to cross genders, whether overtly through the way they express themselves, as well as how we interact socially and sexually. I think that's really unique and liberating.

Werecat also led me into studying native and ancient world mysticism. Big cats played a major role in spirituality across the globe, and that was very interesting to me. If any kind of shifter magic could be unleashed through unearthing archaic traditions, it would have to involve feline shifters in my view. Cats were worshipped in Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00D1YPCIC
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vagabondage Press LLC (May 27, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 27, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1044 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 64 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #22,249 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #196 in Gay Fiction
- #282 in Paranormal Witches & Wizards Romance
- #597 in Paranormal Werewolves & Shifters Romance

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Author Andrew J. Peters is the third most famous Andrew J. Peters on the Internet after the disgraced former mayor of Boston and the very honorable concert organist of the same name.

He's an award-winning author, an educator and an activist. His novel The City of Seven Gods won the Silver Falchion award for Best Horror/Fantasy and was a finalist for Sci Fi/Fantasy Book of the Year at the Foreword INDIES. His Werecat series was a Readers' Choice finalist. He has written two books for young adults (The Seventh Pleaide and Banished Sons of Poseidon), and he is the author of the adult novel Poseidon and Cleito. His latest title Irresistible is a gay rom-com based on the oldest extant romance novel in the world.

Andrew grew up in Buffalo, New York, studied psychology at Cornell University, and spent the early part of his career as a social worker and an advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth. He is a contributing writer at Queer Sci Fi, The New York Journal of Books, and Out in Print.

While writing, Andrew works as an administrator and an adjunct faculty at Adelphi University. He lives in New York City with his husband Genaro and their cat Chloë.

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Jo G

Exciting action packed story

Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2017

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Jackson " Jacks" Dowd is in his final college semester in NY when he and his roommates decide on a weekend adventure in Montreal Canada. At a bar, he meets Benoit and their attraction is mutual. Unknown to Jacks, Benoit is a panther shifter, and while engaging in sex, Benoit turns Jacks into a mountain lion. Returning to NY together, he leaves college and lives with Benoit in an abandoned furniture factory. He soon learns Benoit is jealous, controlling and kills innocent people for sport. Unable to accept this violence, he runs away and stays with med student Farzan, who works in his father's small convenience store.
Not to spoil the story, what follows is unexpected and shocking. I enjoyed reading this well written short novel by this talented author and look forward with great anticipation to the next installment in this series.

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StoneHenge

This is NOT a romance

Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2018

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I didn't hate this book, but it was definitely not even close to what I was expecting. This story was dark and painful and ultimately disappointing.

It seemed well written with only a few typos and grammar mistakes and went all the way to 99% so no extras making it look like a longer short story.

However, this was not a romance, or just an excuse for steamy sex, but much closer to what I would consider gaslighting. There is never any love between the characters, only power and control on one side and needy obsession on the other. Very dark.

The story itself wasn't bad, but it did not meet my expectations. I had stumbled upon book 4 and wanted to read it, but decided to start here first to get in touch with the characters. Sadly after reading this I don't know if I'll ever get to book 4.

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Laurel

I enjoyed this short story

Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2018

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I enjoyed this short story. It was very descriptive with some grit and radiated with despair. The dynamics of the main characters relationship reminds me a bit of Lestat and Louis from Interview with a Vampire where the maker “loves” the progeny but comes across as ruthless, cruel and domineering from the progeny’s point of view.

This isn’t exactly a romantic novel although Jacks and Benoit are lovers and there’s potential for romance between Jacks and Farzan, Jacks only friend. Jacks is inexplicably drawn to Benoit while simultaneously feeling like he’s in captivity and dependent on Benoit. Jacks often throws aside all rational thought and gut instincts warning him that Benoit is dangerous. Benoit finds his mate in Jacks and manipulates him into receiving the “gift” which feels more like a curse to Jacks. Throughout the short story, Jacks fights his nature as an animal and attempts to hold on to his humanity while warring with his conflicting feelings towards Benoit. The story is told in alternating present day time and flashbacks on how Benoit and Jacks met and Jacks was changed.

The short story had me scratching my head at times with burning questions, the main one being how does a were panther make a were mountain lion??? But rest assured, all your questions are answered and I liked the novel’s approach to the paranormal aspect. Warning though— there’s a brief mating scene where both Benoit and Jacks are werecats. Nothing too descriptive and very brief.

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Sean Brennan

Fantastic Adventure Story!

Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2014

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I'm always on the lookout for fun fantasy books, but I don't know if this one would have caught my eye were it not for a close friend's recommendation. I decided to take a chance, and I'm so glad I did! This book is as alluring as it is rewarding, and the more you read, the better and better it gets. The author made me feel as if I were in this unique conundrum myself, and I loved that!!! It literally takes you back and forth from the beginning to the "end", in a steamy affair unlike any other that sinks its teeth into you and doesn't let go. Do yourself a big favor and grab this one now!

Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2019

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This story is a mess. The timelines hop around. It could use another round of editing. Two werecats in an abusive relationship. It’s just lacking substance.

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Jessi's Reads

Bad Writing, Cringe Story, Forced Mating. No. Just no.

Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2018

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This book made me cringe so hard.
I bought this because I was intrigued. But, I kept stalling on reading it, because I was terrified there would be barbed penis sex. I was assured that wouldn't happen by people who have never read it. My fault for believing them. There was barbed penis sex. No. Just no. And the sex scenes were clinical, dry, and not sexy at all, even when there were no barbed penises.

The author seems to be a complete amateur. The writing is stilted, with redundant sentences, boring the reader with inane details that really don't need to be expressed, like going through each and every body part that is changed during a shift, instead of just saying "he shifted into cat form." Top this off with the flash forward/back problem, and I nearly threw my monitor out the window. Seriously. First chapter is New York, Present Day, second chapter is Montreal, Three Months Earlier. And it keeps going back and forth with each chapter being a different time and a different place, until I was thoroughly confused, extremely annoyed, and wondering where the *story* was.

And then I got to the FORCED MATING. No. Not sexy. Not a romance. Not a happy thing. Benoit was controlling, emotionally abusive, got off on power play by making Jacks scared and helpless, and then he tricks Jacks into a forced mating and into becoming a werecat while Jacks was freaking out, trying to get away, and wanted to leave, fighting to escape the crazy man.

I made it to 42% in. I DNF. I tried. I usually keep reading, no matter how bad the book is, because I have a completionist problem, but this was just too bad to keep going. But... really? Forced mating as romance? REALLY?

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Don't get this book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 13, 2020

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It starts with what amounts to bestiality when to werecats change in to animals for sex. I went no further and have reported it.

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