Review: Not What I was Expecting
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 23, 2014
Sam didn’t want to come home this year. After hiding away at college studying to be a doctor she is so close to her goal of graduating and becoming a doctor so she can help people in third world countries. She never expected to bump into her mate at the airport nor did she expect the brutal attack from all sides of her family that it was time for her to mate. Seeking help from the man she bumped into at the airport they find a way to enter him in the race that will end with her being mated, but she doesn’t know to which man.Chase is finally coming home after a long tour in the latest war. Bumping into his mate was the absolute last thing he expected to do but it happened and now he’s being entered to win the right to keep her.I was surprised such a short story was such a great read. Chasing Sam had deep characters that went beyond being “nice” or “good” which I liked a lot. Both Sam and Chase were great characters to read from.The whole story behind why Sam needed to be married ASAP was messed up, and so was her family. Her mom is a conniving self-righteous jerk who is abusive and rude. Sam’s families abide by the old rules of men fighting to the death for the right to keep Sam under their thumb forever. It was really sick. They ended up drugging Sam just to get her to go which almost got her killed.Chase got beat up on the mom’s orders even though he was just trying to play fair. However, his family and pack name are considered lesser than so he got treated extremely poorly by almost everyone in the book.I wish there had been more. The ending was kind of a suck fest after all that pent up sexiness and the drama inside the house I never got to see what happened so that’s a huge part of why I’m only giving this book a 3 star rating despite the fact the book was enjoyable.