Review: Ok start to a new series
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 24, 2014
This was an OK good start to what seems like it may become an interesting series.  Unfortunately, being the first book, it had it's rough moments.Mackenzie Duncan is a student at Harvard who finds herself the victim of an unfortunate (and unheard of, to her) accident.  She is attacked while walking home from a football game and the events that follow leave her in a state of both panic and shock.  Turns out, she was attacked by a werewolf.  Being a student of mythology, she knows all about lycanthropes.  She also thought they were strictly fictional.  Mackenzie now needs to change her current lifestyle to favor her newly formed wolf-side.  Luckily, she finds a group of people perfectly suited to helping her make her way.One of my main problems with this book was a good portion read like a lesson in werewolf mythology.  Anyone who has read a good number of werewolf books gets the gist, as most books follow the same patterns - weres are either born or made/bitten.  This book followed the same train of thought, and was rather repetitive in that aspect.  I realize that this book is the precursor to ones that follow, being the series starter, but there was a decided lack of action and anything 'happening' because of the in-depth telling about werewolves.Another kind of off-putting aspect was the fact that Mackenzie was 19.  I don't read YA or NA, simply because there is a lack of connection between myself and a main character who is over a decade younger.  Not the author's fault by any means, it's just a personal choice.  It didn't impact the book in a negative manner, but I can't relate, and that always pulls me out of the story.  I also didn't like the direction that the author chose to go with the relationship between Mack and Geoff as soon as Liam was introduced.  It wasn't a smooth transition, it was a bumpy rejection that the author seemed to use in order to create the ever-present love triangle that runs rampant in this genre.  I loathe love triangles and the subsequent "Team XXX, all the way!!!", that follows books with a love triangle.All that aside, I found myself enjoying parts of the story despite the things I disliked about it.  I liked Mackenzie for the most part, she adapted easily for being so young.  I also liked her new 'family', especially Margret, and how supportive and strong they were.  I can't say I'm interested enough to follow the series, but I will definitely keep it in mind if I ever run out of things to read.**I received this eARC on behalf of the publisher/author via NetGalley in exchange for my honest opinion and review.