Into the Deep

By: Aspen Winters

Narrated by: Krys Janae

Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins

Publisher's summary

The Ocean hides many secrets, and my family has uncovered one of them.

My name is Coralee Eldimire and I was dragged into the secrets my family has been keeping from me. The Eldimire Aquarium and Animal Sanctuary, was more than that. It was a testing site.

A testing site for shifters. The place I thought was made by hard work and passion was actually made by torture and the deaths of creatures I never knew existed.

I found this out the hard way that these shifters are more than they seem. They aren’t mindless or monsters...they were something more. The shark shifters that I had gotten to know only want one thing: freedom, and I was their way out. Though it seemed they wanted me for more than an escape route.

These shifters wanted to keep me, and I was starting to have a hard time saying no. With my family trying to keep the shifters or kill them, I have my work cut out for me...and I may learn to be a stronger person on the way.

©2020 Aspen Winters (P)2021 Aspen Winters

They can give me a baby shark anytime!

I am loving me some shark shifters! I adore our 4 sharped tooth boys and Ralph. I really really wanted Cora to disown her mother and set her brother free.
I hope in the next book they burn the entire organization to the ground.

great narration

This was a solo narrator and I think she did a great job. The narration worked well. It was an intresting story, different in a fun way for me. Enjoyedable listen.

really good book .

really good book. the narration was good and kept me interested the entire time. I will listen to this book again .

Shark Shifters…caged.

Good story, but with a cliffhanger. It took me a few minutes to warm up to the narrator for Cora (her accent & enunciation not really fitting a red haired white girl), but then the other range of voices were so well done that it didn’t matter. This is the first shifter book I know of where lab testing is a true issue and not just mentioned as a possible threat.

I loved it!

I really enjoyed this book! It was the first book I have listened to by this author. I was pleasantly surprised! It was a different take from the normal shifter books and I was happy for that! I enjoyed the narrator. I think she does a really good job with the characters! I can’t wait for the next book to come out!!

Sooooo good!

So good and it was quite addicting! I need to read the next book! Please.

Just getting started

Coralee Eldimire doesn't realize the significance of her last name. She doesn't know what her family is up to. As far as she knows they own an aquarium and rescue sea animals. She's helping out over the summer with routine paperwork but has plans to go to school in the fall. However, her family has secrets and plans involving Cora. Her family hunts. They capture ocean shifters and run tests on them. Now that Cora knows, she has to decide which side she's on.

I like the idea of aquatic shifters, sharks, seals, etc. I like the idea of a hidden island and protectors. And I like the idea of generational hunting families. However, it took too long to set up the action in this book. This felt like a prequel found in an anthology to grab your attention before the full book release. Because of the setup, there was little character development or relationship development possible for three of the guys. There were also a couple of plot issues. Cora's mother was so unlikable it made it impossible to see how Cora would be conflicted between her family and the shifters. She should have grabbed her brother and taken off. More problematic was the delayed escape. Why did it take the entire book and result in a cliffhanger? Cora worked late by herself each night. Why not simply leave? If she wasn't prepared to leave, what kept the shifters from walking out after the staff left each night? I was left frustrated with the lack of development. This book should have been condensed into the first three chapters and combined with the next book to create a full story. That would have allowed for the reader to get to know the guys, see the relationships begin to develop, find out Ralph's loyalties, discover the mystery of her friend's boyfriend, escape and continue on with the story. It would have been much more satisfying.

This was the first time I have listened to a book narrated by Krys Janae. She has a pleasant speaking voice but I needed her to lose herself to the story more. She read the character, never becoming the character. I like for the narrator to lose themselves in the book so much it seems the character has come to life and jumped off the pages of the book.