Wednesday, June 3, 2026

What I'm Reading: Owl Shifters



Recently I read two owl-shifter books by Seana Kelly. They're short, entertaining mysteries (with romantic elements) involving a variety of shifters. They remind me a little of the Sierra Shifters stories I've been working on. But the reason I picked them up had very little to do with that. I liked the covers, too, but again that's not usually something that motivates me to pick up a book. No, I bought these books because of a YA novel that I'd read and loved back when my kids were teenagers. Owl in Love is a wonderful little book that's only available in print and--sadly--no longer has the gorgeous cover (pictured below) that it originally had.

It's a funny thing. I don't really feel any great desire to write YA even though some of the books that I remember most vividly and have stuck with me the longest are YA. 

OWL IN LOVE

Patricia Kindl


Birds of prey have run in fourteen-year-old Owl Tycho's family for hundreds of years. Every generation or so produces a shape-shifter, an apparently normal human being who can change into an owl at will.



Night Owl Books (A Story in the World of the Sea Wicche Book 1)

Seana Kelly


https://www.amazon.com/Night-Books-Story-World-Wicche-ebook/dp/B0DQR7Q76W/

Orla is an owl shifter, so her bookstore Night Owl Books is only open from 8pm to 6am. She gets very few customers—other than a couple of insomniacs—and that's the way she likes it. Customers tend to interrupt her reading. All of that changes one night when a terrified woman runs into the bookstore, followed by two bear shifters, a werewolf, and a psychic wicche. Poor Orla's night is about to be far less quiet.


Night Owl Bridge (A Story in the World of the Sea Wicche Book 2)

Seana Kelly

https://www.amazon.com/Night-Bridge-Story-World-Wicche-ebook/dp/B0GQJ3JLX9/

Owl shifter Orla’s quiet life of reading is once again disturbed. This time, Nick—bear-shifter, cop, and possible boyfriend—asks her to help him investigate an odd disappearance at a local bridge. Orla can’t see anything amiss, but she definitely feels something off. The bones she spies under the bridge lead her to believe they’re dealing with a bigger problem than Nick suspects. Orla must once again put down her book and help save her little corner of the world.


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