2/5 stars
Synopsis
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The story started off with the main character describing how she became a werewolf. The book then explained how she was the alpha, and how she needed to take revenge on the person who ended up nearly killing her in order to keep her alpha position. She was able to change into her wolf form really fast, which had never been seen before. Her wolf was a separate being inside her head, and so she let it take control to dish out her revenge.
After she got revenge on her ex, she was notified of an impending visit by the council.
Lucy went to the Common realm, and got a call early in the morning. She was told that her third in command was dead. So she needed to go back to the Other realm.
One of the pack members was murdered. Lucy needed to try and figure out what happened if she wanted to keep her alpha position and her life. She started investigating, and found out how nasty of a person the murdered guy was.
Another pack member was attacked soon after that. Lucy had to go to an illegal tournament in order to find out more about the killer, and ended up freeing a unicorn in the process. The unicorn (which is carnivorous) decided to stay at the manor.
The pack member who was attacked but survived didn’t remember who his attacker was, because he was unconscious, but his wolf was conscious so Lucy had a witch scry his memory to see who attacked him. They figured it out and there was a fight at the end.
Review
The worldbuilding in the book needed work. The “realms” didn’t make sense. The main character was a werewolf but if she went through the portal into the Common realm, she lost her wolf. The wolf came back once she went back to the Other realm. Apparently the Other realm had cars and police cars too. So why go to the trouble of creating the different realms? What was the difference between them? It was an interesting idea, but it didn’t really make sense to me.
There seemed to be a lot of made werewolves. Werewolves who were previously human. Even though the book said multiple times that made werewolves were really rare because it was deadly most of the time. It just seemed inconsistent. The book was telling me one thing, but showing me another.
The beginning of the book was mostly summarizing. This was difficult to get through, and it would have been better if the author expanded it out more and turned it into active scenes.
The main character, Lucy, was not a likeable character. She was full of herself. Multiple times she thought or said that she was athletic and pretty, and smart too, and she wasn’t going to dumb herself down to make others feel better. The main character seemed to be stuck in a high school teenage mentality, even though she was apparently twenty-five. I feel like the author should have matched her mental age to her physical age. Either change the physical age, or change the mental age to be more mature.
The book switched between present and past tense, which was annoying. It would even do it every other sentence. I nearly stopped reading the book because of that. The author just needed to pick one and stick with it.
I felt like the attempts at humor and the intended funny scenes in the book were crass. Humor does not need to involve jokes about sex or things like that.
Honestly, after reading the beginning of the book, I didn’t expect much. The beginning did not impress me. The book didn’t start getting good until the middle. There was a twist that I didn’t see coming at the end, which was nice. The end fight felt too easy though. The main character wounded one of her opponents, then the enemies ran off into the woods, and the main character sent two of her pack mates after them. The pack mates returned a little bit later with the dead bodies. It seemed too easy. And then to dispose of the bodies without alerting other people about what had happened to them, the main character gave the bodies to the unicorn, who promptly ate them. That scene felt too convenient. Yes, the carnivorous unicorn was introduced earlier in the book, so it was kind of set up, but the unicorn didn’t really do anything throughout the book.
All in all, the book was okay. Not the greatest, but not the worst either. I think this book was the start to a sequel series. Maybe the first series was better, with hopefully more worldbuilding.
Fireheart Books 