Review: yeah, baby!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 12, 2013
Ms. Perdita has scored again with the second book in the Westside Wolf Pack. I loved Axel and Ben from the first book and have been eagerly anticipating the second book since Ben's mom suggested they start their own pack. In this book, we see that foreshadowing come to fruition. Like the first book, the story is told in the present with flashbacks to the past from two different perspectives. This approach gives the reader the complete story of what happened in the past that led to the present events and how it affected, both internally and externally, the characters having the experience. This book picks up with Axel being given the opportunity to lead his own pack, as he was destined to do, by taking over a pack with only two members, Quinton and Gage, who  are mates who seem to hate each but want to defend their territory from a brutal rivalry pack together. Unfortunately for them, neither is an alpha and that's where Axel comes in. Ms. Perdita handles the differing times and characters well in that they all don't sound the same and their actions and reactions are appropriate for the character. I found the title of this book, Burn, meshes well with the title of the first book, Crash. Crash & Burn. Ingenious!! Like in the first book, the title of this book also signifies the event that leads to the biggest distance between the mates. I have finally concluded that I will never be happy/satisfied with how Ms. Perdita writes her love/sex scenes, but my personal quirk about her writing style in this one aspect does not detract from the quality of what she delivers. After all, you don't have to like everything a book for it to be a well-written, well-developed story with a great plot and great characters that leaves you a good place at the end. Overall, I think this a good start to building a pack and a series that I plan to continue reading. Highly recommend.