Review: Almost 5stars!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 13, 2014
This is a great book. The characters are engaging and realistic. The sex scenes are well written and extremely sexy, but few and far between. The MC'S are flawed, but still loveable. Axle begins to piss me off with all of the damn secrecy. At the beginning It becomes hard to discern whether Axle really loves Ben, but thinks him to weak to know the truth; or if Axle is simply an arrogant jerk that needs to be in control over everything because of his dad and crappie childhood.Ben strikes me as an extremely cynical and insecure man. He is running from his past because he feels he can't handle the reminders of his relationship with Axle. I don't want to give any spoilers away, so I will not elaborate.The reason I gave the book 4 stars is because both the final confrontations between the Reynolds and Mangnus&Tommy; were extremely anticlimactic. All this suspense was built up for the meeting with the Reynolds to end with a simple conversation and door closed in Axle's face. The face off with Tommy and Magnus felt rushed and was not as intense as it could have been. It felt like the author put very little effort into that part and simply wrote something to end the conflict.My biggest pet peeve with the book was that the author constantly referred to Axle as either the alpha scion or the taller wolf and Ben as the omega or the smaller wolf. Now I had no problem with the use of the ranks, but it's the taller and smaller wolf thing that gets annoying. Not only are the phrases used constantly, but also at weird times. For example, there is a scene when Axle is in middle school and a confrontation ensues with Cross senior. Axle is referred as the taller wolf when Cross senior is the taller wolf at the time. The constant use of the taller wolf and smaller wolf thing, as well as the constant use of their ranks instead of their names becomes both annoying and redundant. These are the only reasons this book received a 4 stars rating instead of 5.Overall this is a great book and I highly recommend it. I am about to begin the 2cd book.