Review: An interesting new take on werewolves
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 23, 2013
Imperfection is an unique werewolf story that focuses on a mother and her child and gives an interesting mythological perspective on the origin of the werewolves.The negatives:Lack of connection.The only reason that this book didn't get four or more stars from me is that I just never quite connected with the main character. Despite Meara's difficult circumstances, I just didn't feel her pain. I think this is because her emotions are just never really spelled out for us. When her parents want her to abort her child, she says that she would never do such a thing, but I didn't get a real sense of how she felt. I never really felt a sense of love for the baby. even though Seabolt obviously intended for us to believe that Meara loves her child. When the baby is kidnapped, I didn't feel any real sense of panic or urgency from Meara - it all just felt a little hollow to me. So, while the story was good, I just couldn't really connect to it.Too short.In some ways, this felt like a half of a book to me rather than the first installment in a series. The book ends kind of in the middle of the action and none of the storylines are resolved. I don't mind cliffhangers, but I prefer for a book to have some sense of closure and to feel like there is some resolution. This doesn't happen with this book.What I enjoyed:The plot.I loved the idea of the plot - Meara, a straitlaced girl who always obeys her parents' rules, gets drunk one night and ends up pregnant. What she doesn't know is that her pregnancy was no accident and that the werewolf who got her pregnant plans to steal her child the first chance he gets!The werewolves.I thought that Seabolt did a great job of creating the werewolves' world and giving us the mythology to go with it. I am still curious about what it means to be a Pure Blood wolf (including how Meara is one and why she is "imperfect") - hopefully that will be explained a bit further in the next book. But, I liked how the battle between the Pure Bloods and the regular werewolves has been set up and I enjoyed learning about how the Pure Bloods originally came about. The wolf characters are interesting and I'm definitely intrigued enough to want to learn more about them!No romance for Meara.I actually found it refreshing that the main character wasn't caught up in a romance in this book (there was a subplot with Meara's friend and her romance). There is a fling at the beginning of the book, but other than that, Meara is focused just on her own life and her child. I'm not sure if Seabolt has romance planned for Meara's future, but in this first book, I was fine without it.Imperfection is an interesting new take on werewolves. It's an enjoyable read, but you'll need to wait for book #2 in order to get the whole story! Overall, I give it 3/5 stars.