Review: Too Lightweight and Too Unbelievable
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 25, 2013
The story is just unbelievable.  I am all for suspending belief and logic for fiction, especially werewolf fiction.  I am against suspending reality and this book requires that.**********************SPOILERS AHEAD***********************Groups of men are being chased.  Somehow they are being tracked but they take care of that.  Then, they learn that they can be tracked through anonymous prepaid phones.  Eh!  They are warned that the Senate has eyes and ears everywhere.  Yet, they find a haven that Griffin has bought and stocked with a wealth of food, supplies, etc.  Someone this all-seeing Senate is unaware of that. Oh!  And Griffin has a plane and a pilot's license.  But the all-knowing Senate seems too clueless.If the Senate can track anonymous prepaid phones, why can't they find these guys using satellite imaging?If the Senate does not know that Griffin bought this land, how did they find him so easily at the marina?  This last bit made the story just ridiculous!The relationship between Ollie and Griffin in okay.  The relationship between Griffin and the other is not really well written.  We don't get to see instances of distrust, we are merely told about them.  And, Stefan is just a ridiculous character.And once they reach their haven, they don't seem to do anything to focus on security, despite the warnings and their own experiences that the Senate is everywhere.  Further, given all the lies they have been told, you would think they would start writing things down to compare/contrast what they were told versus what they experienced.They introduce another omega or 2 and a couple more men.  So, I imagine this will be a series.I read the first book in this series.  I enjoyed it enough to try this one out.  It was okay.  This one is too lightweight.  And the ridiculousness just turned me off.  I doubt I buy other book in this series.  There is just not enough interesting about this world or the characters in it to follow it or to waste the money.I just wish the author had not made a big deal out of the Senate being all-knowing and all-seeing.  It would make the escapes make sense.  It would have made the existence of the haven make sense.  As it is, the author wants us to believe that the Senate is both all-knowing and stupid.Disappointing because it is overly simplistic.  The author seems to treat her readers as if they are simple minded.  She makes no attempts to make the book make SENSE.