Review: Not a romance at all!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 12 30, 2013
Found this book on Book Bob. When I went to check out reviews, it only had 1-one star and 3-two stars. There were also over 60-3+ star reviews. All the 5 star reviews raved about wanting to read the next book in the series. Oh, and according to Book Bob and Amazon, this is a para-romance, something I like to read. Ok, so I take a shot.If this is a romance, then I've being using the wrong definition of romance all these years. The author, Sydney Addae, has written a story, the beginning of a series of books, about an alpha of alphas werewolf, Silas, and a human, Jasmine, who can breed with werewolves, which is strictly forbidden. Ok, so as a reader, I think this is going to be about their romance. Not so much. Silas is a real ass, and expects everyone, including Jasmine, who is clueless about the werewolves, to just fall in line and let him be the boss. Every argument against his orders is met with "my way or death." Now, doesn't that just scream romance? And Jasmine is just plain annoying! At first, I thought she would be a strong female heroine. She has raised her two twin sons, Tyrone and Tyrese, both werewolves half-breeds (authors words), by herself after she was raped by their father when she was 16. Even though Davian, the twins' father, married her, he treated her without respect and eventually faked his death so he could live with his "real" mate. The twins love their mom and she them. She is very protective. All good qualities. But it seems that once she gets around Silas and her mating pheromones kick in, then the only course of action is sex and lots of it. Now, understand, Silas and Jasmine have hardly met and throughout the whole story to this point, Silas is only thinking about what he can do to get rid of the problem of Jasmine and her boys, including how to kill them, if needed. When Silas decides to give Jasmine "what she needs," read SEX, it's without feeling or conversation. He tells her that they are going to have sex and she just agrees. What happened to the strong, protective woman? Guess sex hormones just make you dumb. And when Silas informs her that he HAS TO cum inside her so he can "breed her with his pups," she has no objections! Give me a break! After her rape and poor treatment by her husband, you'd think she'd have more respect for herself and more to say about being used for Silas's breeding of pups. But, no, not happening.So, that's basically all of the story in this book-read the next book to find out what happens. Here are my issues:-We have characters with no depth. Silas is such a stereotype alpha werewolf. There is not back story to let us know anything about him. And Jasmine goes from strong mom to whimpering sex satisfied and breed female dummy.-The only decent characters in the book are the twins, who we see trying to protect their mom while learning more about the werewolf world. Though they did not tell Jasmine about their secret life until they had no choice, they love her and are truly sorry that they deceived her for so many years. They also insist that their mom be told about everything that happens after that. They also work for Silas to help protect their pack.-Lots of talk about breeding women and that being ok, even if rape is the method of breeding.-Not even half a story here. Though it was listed as part of a series, it is not a stand-alone book. It's not even a whole book! As another reviewer noted, this book is just a way for the author and publisher to sell more books.-THERE IS NO ROMANCE IN ANY OF THIS STORY!!!Run, do not walk away from this book!