Review: Seeking Pack Redemption
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 10, 2012
I'm going to start off by saying that I think if I'd read the previous two books, I would have liked Seeking Pack Redemption more. Even though the author provided a prologue as a way to provide background information as to what happened in the previous two books, I was still a little lost.I didn't feel an emotional connection to any of the characters. There was a lot of plot focused around Jaxon and what happened to him, his mate Bailey and the pack. Because I haven't read the previous books, I had no emotional investment in the outcome of his story. As for the other characters, I felt that they weren't fully developed enough for me to be emotional invested. We're introduced to Thea, who's pregnant and living with her boyfriend David. David goes from super sweet to violent in the blink of an eye. It turns out that there's more to David that Thea did not know. Thea is kidnapped and is thrust into a world where there's werewolves and vampires. Her life is in jeopardy and she is eventually rescued by Trent, David's brother, and his friends.In this pack work, polyamory is the norm. It's not unusual for a woman to be mated to up to four men. This didn't bother me. What bothered me was that Trend saw Thea as his mate. His brother's "widow" who is carrying his brother's child. It kind of icked me out and things got even more icky as Thea, Trent and Darren (friend who also saw Thea as his mate) had hot, ongoing monkey sex. I just couldn't get past the fact that Thea is pregnant - visibly pregnant from the descriptions in the story. And she is getting it on like it's nobody's business. I didn't feel any emotional connection between the three. To me, their mating was all about sex and protecting Thea and the baby but I didn't believe that it went any deeper than that.I'm definitely going to go back and read the previous two books because I do feel like I'm missing a big part of the puzzle in this series that prevented me from liking it more.