Apologies guys!
Sorry guys. Excuse my blunders for similar posts appearing twice, my internet was playing up something wicked. After I'd typed the first one up and clicked on the post icon the message disappeared but didn't show up, so I thought it had just been swallowed. So I carried on reading more messages on the board and wrote the second post, which did appear after I posted it. I then carried on reading more messages, it wasn't till I was checking my email later on that I was made aware of the first message appearing in these message boards. So I apologize for that!
I also apologize for not adding in warnings that I was giving away what was happening in books, my only excuse for that is once I started talking and the anger started, it didn't stop. I'll try to remember to put spoiler warnings in next time if I post something!
A final thing of note after seeing more comments on these message boards. Has anybody noticed Hamilton has had a change of heart or forgotten some rules she wrote in about her shifters? In the earlier books I seem to remember she treats "getting furry" as a disease like AIDS and that it's not good for anybody to know your a shifter.
I remember it being a big deal that if anybody found out Richard was a werewolf that he'd loose his job teaching kids and that Louis would have a similar problem if it was found out he was a wererat. My confusion comes later on in one of the recent books where she mentions one of here wereleopards, I believe it's Cherry is a nurse? (Correct me if I'm wrong on this guys). A practicing nurse as well, I gather in a hospital somewhere. If so, why is she allowed to be a nurse in the public eye and Richard/Louis can't be allowed to teach? When did it become okay in her books for the shifters to be in the human eye in the work force?
My other question is where did the AIDS/STI/disease based theory for becoming a shifter disappear from Anitaverse? This was an idea of Hamilton’s that was actually interesting back in the day when her books showed the promise of being interesting and failed. I just don't remember when this idea vanished.