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P.A.W.S.: A Young Adult Shifter Fantasy (The P.A.W.S. Saga Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Debbie Manber Kupfer (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
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If shifter school wasn’t hard enough, Miri now has a diabolical werewolf out for her blood. Can she survive?

When Miri receives a silver cat charm from her omama, Celia, on the night before Celia dies she has no idea that the charm holds a secret, a powerful magic that saved her omama’s life from Nazis and wolves and is about to make Miri’s life a whole lot more interesting.

Join Miri on a mysterious and supernatural journey with her new friends, members of an underground St. Louis society known as the Partnership for Animagi, Werewolves, and Shapeshifters, better known as P.A.W.S.

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  1. Book 1 of 12
    The P.A.W.S. Saga
  2. Print length
    291 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publication date
    1 September 2015
  5. Reading age
    13 - 18 years
  6. Grade level
    6 - 12
  7. File size
    589 KB
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About the Author

Debbie grew up in the UK in the East London suburb of Barking. She has lived in Israel, New York and North Carolina and somehow ended up in St. Louis, where she works as a writer and a constructor of word puzzles and logic problems. She lives with her husband, two children and a very opinionated feline. She believes that with enough tea and dark chocolate you can achieve anything!

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0129GG6YQ
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 589 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 291 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 77 ratings

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Debbie grew up in the UK in the East London suburb of Barking. She has lived in Israel, New York and North Carolina and somehow ended up in St. Louis, where she works as a writer, editor, and freelance puzzle constructor of word puzzles and logic problems. She lives with her family including two very opinionated felines. She believes that with enough tea and dark chocolate you can achieve anything!

The P.A.W.S. Series

Book 1 - P.A.W.S.

Book 2 - Argentum

Book 3 - Umbrae

Book 4 - Londinium

Book 5 - Cotula

Book 6 - Jhara

Book 7 - Manus Wu

Book 8 - Akash

Book 9 - Rhyfedd

Book 10 - Madarak

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4.1 out of 5 stars
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Anon Anon
5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous Fantasy
Reviewed in India on 14 July 2014
This Young Adult novel is enchanting and mesmerizing. It’s similar in feel to a “Harry Potter” novel, which I consider to be a huge compliment. Although written for a YA audience, it crosses over well for adults. I cared about the characters and the outcome of each plot and sub-plot throughout. I don’t always find this to be true in a YA novel.

One of my favorite quotes, “Oh, no, there were no vampires in the wilds of Transylvania. There was something far more dangerous.” This quote set the tone making me want to discover what was ‘far more dangerous’. Give this author a try I hope you’ll be as impressed as I was.
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L J Sagian
5.0 out of 5 stars Satisfying Superhero Shifter Story
Reviewed in the United States on 11 February 2024
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What a tightly paced and plotted tale! The overall theme is one's gifts and talents, the work it takes to develop them, and the choices one must make about how to use them. The horror of having one's choices taken away is shown as well. There is a classic good vs evil battle happening behind the scenes that becomes center stage and resolves beautifully at the end. You could say justice was truly just.

At the beginning, Writer Debbie skillfully shifts the character's voices in harmony with their age at the time of the scene which put me right there in that moment. No, despite the initial childlike language in those scenes, this book is not aimed at middle school readers, as one reviewer thought. Just as in the real world, there is horror here, and it may be a trigger for some. I would not recommend it to younger people unless the message of fighting back--and of becoming your best self anyway--is one that would help them.

That final message, the very real ability to overcome malicious influences, is an uplifting one. There are unexpected heroes; I could not help but honor them in my heart, even if they are fictional people.

The horrors are mentioned in passing rather than detailed, which I much appreciate. In the vampire genre, vampires are often depicted as being made stronger from human blood over other types of blood. In this book, the evil one gains strength from consuming human flesh while in wolf form, but then loses all his humanity. This is mentioned a handful of times as people reflect on how the evil one has impacted them personally and consider the choices now facing them. The other horror, more subtle, is how the evil one compels people to act against their personal values.

For a spot of horror, it's really effective--chilling, but not overwhelming. I love that the impact of choosing darkness over light is so very clear. I love that evil is vanquished. I totally avoid the horror genre, but this? This I can really appreciate, perhaps because I am not in a place where I can fight an all too similar evil in the real world.

P.A.W.S. is all about celebrating who you are, developing into your best self, helping others, and protecting others. There's a Superhero flavor: a Supervillain and ordinary people with a side of Superhero inside them.

That ending--evil vanquished--I think I'll just go read it again...

Happy reading!
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Joey
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a wonderful book that starts with tragedy and carries on the ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 June 2017
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This is a wonderful book that starts with tragedy and carries on the story of a new generation. Miri receives a cat charm the night before her Omama dies, the morning of her tenth birthday. Sent to live with her uncle and aunt, neither of whom want her or any child, she's faced with life alone with no friends or family. And sent off to boarding school. There she is tormented and teased by the other students until one day the cat charm allows her to transform, which opens up a whole new world to her. Rescued and re-homed at P.A.W.S, Miri has a new start with people just like her who also have similar abilities. The story is delightful, packed with twists and turns that allow you to travel through Miri's adventures and come out the other side wanting more. I loved it. A nice quick read and one I will be sharing with my niece! Highly recommended.
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Rosemary Hughes
5.0 out of 5 stars The power of feelings!
Reviewed in Australia on 29 January 2020
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Review submitted after to listening to the audiobook of this title.

A necklace passed from mother to daughter, on the child's 10th birthday, seemed harmless enough.
However, it was an amalet that assisted the wearer with different attributes associated with cats.
Off course, there's a very bad villain that wants the power of the necklace, so he could take over the world...
Read how one small young girl, could taunt such a wicked person.
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Daryl J Ball
4.0 out of 5 stars It was really an enjoyable story overall and it's easy now to see why I kept hearing about it
Reviewed in Canada on 16 March 2018
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I'd heard about this book countless times and finally got to read it. It surpassed any expectations I had or story I was expecting. There is a lot this book has to establish as the first book in a series and does so in a really interesting fashion. As the story progresses and the opportunity arises, there will be a short chapter giving a snapshot of the background to a character.

By the end of the book the main characters have far more complexity than I expected when it began as more and more was revealed. If there was one minor complaint I had with the book though it was how little substance there was to minor characters. Some of them I am sure though will have more depth to them given in future instalments.

The one thing I was really surprised though in this book was the level of darkness there was at times for the characters to face. There were moments where I really did fear for some of them so that came across quite well.

It was really an enjoyable story overall and it's easy now to see why I kept hearing about it.
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Jeremy Rodden, Author
4.0 out of 5 stars An enjoyable read but inconsistent age-appropriate content warning.
Reviewed in the United States on 31 July 2017
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Why I Think Boys May Enjoy This

This is a really enjoyable take on the shapeshifter/animagi/werewolf concept. The collective mythos around shifters of all kinds is always fun to read about. Kupfer does a really fantastic job of capturing the animal essence of each character in their human form to match their various animals (eg, the young Joey from Australia, an animagi kangaroo, is energetic and bouncy). Some of the naming conventions are a little cheesy (the Katz family are cats, the Ryder siblings are horses, the werewolf big bad is Alistaire Wolfe) but it doesn’t take away from the story’s enjoyment at all. Our main characters (Miri, Josh, Danny) are very unique and fleshed out and even our secondary characters (Lilith, Mandy, Miri’s Uncle David) have their own stories and histories and are very three-dimensional. It is clear Kupfer knows a lot about the history of all of her characters and that none of them feel like throw-away placeholders in the story.

The mythos and story itself is very fun. The amalgamation of the various types of shifters into one cohesive world and mythology is unique and the Hogwartz-esqe nature of the schooling and training of the P.A.W.S. kids is a fun way to introduce this world. Also, in a refreshing way, we’ve got a completely unsympathetic bad guy in Alistair. Many stories (books, shows, movies) these days try to give you the tortured soul sympathetic villain and I love that Alistair is much more of the distilled bottle of evil villain. It’s not as common these days to have a big bad really be a nasty piece of work (and it is well-established that Alistair is just that, in some ways… it’s driven home TOO hard [see content area below]).

The amount of history in this book, going back to WWII Europe to modern days, further adds to the magical realism of the story. The author clearly is writing about material that is well-researched, but at the same time she adds her own little flairs and history into the mix to make it her own. I am quite intrigued to read more of the story and answer some of the unpulled threads that were touched upon but not central to this first book. I really enjoyed the story, the writing, and the world.

Content/Appropriateness

This is the tricky part with this book. 98% of this book would be more than appropriate for a middle schooler in the 12+ range. About 2/3 of the way through the book, however, Kupfer threw in a chapter that I really wish wasn’t in the book. Surprisingly, none of the other reviews I’ve read seem to mention this. In Chapter 30, our big bad (Alistair) seduces Cynthia (Miri’s aunt). While she doesn’t go into full erotica-level detail, phrases like “he took his time pleasuring her” really felt out of place with the tone of the rest of the book and the age of the intended audience. I am not entirely sure why she felt the need to A) include this chapter at all and B) fail to fade to black on the scene before it got to that level.

I can only assume she meant it as foreshadowing for what Cynthia helps Alistair steal (spoilers as to what it was) and further show how “bad” Alistair is. However, as mentioned above, Alistair had already been well-established as a really nasty big bad so this scene so late in the book was wholly unnecessary. Without this chapter, I’d be able to say there is no sexual content. With this chapter, I bump up my recommendation that this book only be read by high school (15+) or older.

Outside of that, there is some violence and one passing mention of rape (Alistair forced a woman in his control to watch him rape another, but it only mentioned in passing, not described). This, too, felt out of place and unnecessary for the same reason as the scene with Cynthia. We knew Alistair was a terrible creature, it wasn’t necessary to include this to further demonstrate how bad Alistair was. The on-screen violence is marginally descriptive but I’d still consider it in the PG13 range (werewolves bite and scratch, as we all know). There are no concerns with language or vulgarity at all.

While I hate to remove a mallet for a book I’d otherwise give 5 mallets to, Chapter 30 really was offputting and incongruous with the rest of the story and still kinda sits poorly in my stomach compared to the rest of the book so leaves me with 4/5.

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