Review: I mean...I don't hate it....
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 25, 2014
*Written By Jill Bradley*Elise is a nineteen year old who has been surprised by an arranged marriage to a twenty-five year old Kane. Elise happens to also be a werewolf, but this doesn’t really have any kind of barring on the plot of the story, except that she leaves her own pack and has to join Kane’s pack. The story is more about the interactions between Elise and Kane’s pack. How she tries to integrate herself into the social structure. There’s an evil ex-girlfriend and even an evil brother that she has to deal with. Nefarious plots of environmental contamination and subterfuge. But mostly, it’s just high school girls picking on each other and a couple lying to one another. This is one of those books where you’re yelling the whole time, “JUST TALK TO EACH OTHER!” It has interesting, partially developed characters, and a decent plot.***********PLOT: 3 StarsA decent story, I think that the love story could have been more powerful. Especially with the arranged marriage, there could have been a lot more to this story, but it just fell short. The story about the backstabbing and environmental plots was actually pretty well thought out, and could have been handled a lot better. Instead it was just kind of thrown in the middle of this high school story, it almost didn’t belong.WRITING: 3 StarsThe style of writing was passable. Again, it’s nothing to write home about. It’s one of those stories where you know all the facts and the character doesn’t for a LONG time so you’re frustrated at the idiot bumbling through the story. It’s also one of those books that could have been fixed on the second page if the characters just sat down and talked. I don’t have a lot of patience for those kinds of stories.COVER:  1 StarsI mean…I don’t hate it…CHARACTERS: 2 StarsThis is the part that really got me pissed. I did NOT like Elise. She was a weird mixture of immature naiveté and creepy step ford wife. She would secretely meet up with an ex-boyfriend and have no idea why anyone in her husband’s family would be angry about it, and then turn around and sit placidly reading a book while the man worked in his office. She threw a big fit about wanting to be independent, so she got a job.  A job? Really, that’s all you need? But I’m sure she would speak to someone, we just didn’t really get along.