Review: overdone
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 15, 2012
There was something missing in this book.  The funny parts should have been funnier, the drama should have had more agnst, etc.  The premise of the book is nothing new for this genre: super alpha character meets bratty sub character.  So the book was already at 4 stars because it was nothing particularly exceptional.  It gets reduced to 3 because it started to fall apart towards the end, the villians were overly villanious, comically so, and the two main characters were just too much.  Broden's alpha status was constantly thrown in the reader's face- alpha this, alpha that, constantly snarling and growling and snapping.  We are shown his status by the way characters react to him, but he comes off like a ridiculous jock instead of the confidently dominant leader of a business and group of shifters.  Carey again is constantly held as some sort of special forces assassain trainee, but comes across as immature, and towards the end felt like an annoying female character.  The father and friends of the two mcs were the best characters in this book.In summary, this book should have picked a path and run with it. If it was supposed to be campy fun then make Broden more amusing and stop bashing the reader over the head with all the alpha stuff.  If it was supposed to be suspenseful then the villian needs to play a stronger role and be completely reworked, and Carey needs to be darker. Broden would still need to be toned down a lot.In a saturated genre of shifter novels (gay mm shifter novels in particular) there are many books much better than this.  However, those who like a hint of typical shifter novels (alpha/sub, instalove, etc) but don't really want to delve deeper (dom sex, aggression, dark conflicts, intense violence etc) then this might be a good book for you.  There is violence in this book but it is almost cartoonish in its execution- somehow graphic while completely detatched.I usually don't write long reviews but it's hard to put a finger on why this book doesn't work. Those who like amber kell will likely enjoy this as well however.