The Fundy waves are rushing in, and Lexi’s time is running out… Very human Lexi Coolen has always been self-reliant and resilient; two traits that helped her survive her adolescence and ultimately escape her mother’s Wolf Pack. For years she’s been avoiding any trace of the supernatural world, looking for a nice, normal place to call home. A charming university town, Wolfville, Nova … town, Wolfville, Nova Scotia might just be the spot.
But when her roommate’s date turns out to be a member of the local Pack, Lexi finds out she’s inadvertently broken Pack law and the price could be her life. She’s got to prove she’s not a threat to the womanizing, annoyingly handsome, Beta leader, Kerr MacDonald.
To make matters worse, Lexi discovers the local Alpha thinks she’s something called a Queller, an unimaginable paranormal treasure. And Kerr is being cagey, in more ways than one. Unable to run, incapable of fighting back, Lexi’s got to figure out a way to keep herself alive against a rising tide of magic, monsters and mayhem.
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I was given the opportunity to read the book for free for an honest Review, and all though there was some great parts in the book, I’ve gotta say that I’m a bit disappointed. When the author emailed me and asked me to read for an honest review I went on goodreads to look up this book and when I read the description it sounded like an amazing book. I guess I built an expectation in my head and that’s probably why I’m disappointed in the outcome.
The story isn’t all that bad. It certainly has the elements I like in a book; romance, werewolves, drama and strong personalities, but it wasn’t all that exciting that I’d built it up to be. I felt that it was a bit slow paced and a lot of rambling (e.g. When the head character is holding a class seems like an unnecessary scene because it does not seem to be of any importance to the story and all we get from it is Lexis ramblings on who’s wolf and who’s not). What makes up for it is the beginning and the end of the book. I feel that those are the strongest parts of the story because we aren’t just following lexis daily life, something new and unknown is happening and that builds more to the story than to read what breakfast she eats in the morning or what class she is holding. If the book could hold up that mystery and drama like in the beginning and end, then we would have a five star book.
The writing in the book show that the author has talent. By picking up a pen and write a few scribbles on a paper she has built an entire world for us readers and that takes talent. I wish however that she would have taken more time to this book to make it more unique (a bit too similar to Patricia Briggs book Cry Wolf) and work a bit more on the characters development and their relationship. I find Lexie’s behavior a bit unrealistic based on what she has gone through. I get that the author tries to make her independent and edgy, but the fact that she lashes out and tries to make Kerr angry seems like the opposite way for someone who’s been abused to act. In some scenes it almost seems like she brags about being abused just to get sympathy. Even the relationship seems a bit unrealistic in the fact that it goes from “I don’t trust you and your kind” to “I’m attracted to you and trust you” in a click. I had to go back a few pages just to make sure I hadn’t missed a page or something because that just didn’t make sense to me. And then it kept happening further on in the story.
What bothered me the most was the fact that for a werewolf book there hardly was any werewolf moments in it. Sure, there were claws and fangs and the “inner wolf” was all there, but the wolf part (except for one scene when Kerr turns into a wolf) is missing completely. Once is not enough and I feel that the author could have spent more time on that and make a better and more exciting story.