Too many people are trying to cash in on the paranormal romance storylines. While readership has created a sucking vacuum for more, more, more to read, I'd like to think we'd get more good quality books with well-thought-out plots and characters that give respect to the paranormal-fantasy end of the spectrum.

Yasmine Galenorn's Witchling could be a good book if the writer had taken more time to consider the rules for her characters. Delilah, the werecat sister, changes from human to cat form under stress. She makes that change during an argument and after sex, so why didn't she do that when she saw a dead body? There are too many other inconsistencies as well.

The author threw a lot of potentially fascinating concepts in her world-building at us without enough space and serious consideration of cause-and-effect to make them work out.

Further, we've got too many characters and interactions to deal with. Just take the royalty, for example. There's the Earthbound Faerie Queen, the Otherworld Faerie Queen AND the Elfin Queen in addition to the Otherworld Faerie Queen's challenger. These are just "aside" characters -- and there are far too many of them. Then, you have the three sisters and the people who are interacting with them, including three potential boyfriends. The author does a decent job juggling them all, but a new writer cannot pull off a Chekov-length cast list without some problems.

Then you've thrown in demons, dragons, kitsume -- all with rules and characteristics of their own that really aren't fully developed. They're gorgeous paper tigers that float through the manuscript, but in some cases, come out nonsensical.

Our heroine, Camille, is also too hormonal for my taste. Sorry -- but the girl's in danger and the first thing she thinks when she sees the kitsume Morio is how hot he is? Apparently, she has no instinct for self-protection -- or very little. Didn't the OW agency that hired her to come to Earth give her some -- or any -- training?

Changeling might be a better book with a better developed world. The first chapter is included at the back of the book. I think the author's voice for middle sister Delilah, the werecat, is much better than Camille's. I'll check out Changeling and if it seems promising, will buy the second book.