Review: For Fans of Bitten & Being Human
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 15, 2014
This piece is beautifully written, all the characters come to life, and it is fascinating exploring a female alpha, since the large majority of alphas in werewolf fiction are male. I thought the triangle between Seth, Rylie, and Abel was wonderfully handled with just the right amount of tension. And there's a nice sense of adventure with the hunters. But then that is also one of the problems of this piece.  It is very much just typical werewolf fiction fare--it has a romantic triangle with two guys after the same girl, there's the usual drama between members of the pack, and there are hunters threatening the group per usual, and Rylie is really the typical teen heroine wavering on which guy to choose. Makes me wonder if I'm getting rather jaded expecting more out of the ordinary. I would recommend this to people who are fans of Being Human, but not of the excessive blood in the TV series. Like Josh, Rylie can change at will, or with strong emotion and because of it has people turning to her as Alpha, and same with Being Human there's the having to balance drama and day-to-day life along with being something other than human and trying to find a place in life. This is also akin to Bitten, following a female werewolf with two guys interested in her, and her pack, and people hunting them (and personally, I found Rylie a lot easier to sympathize with over Elena who seemed whiny when I attempted that series).