Review: Great Strong Alpha Read!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 8, 2013
Another Great book by Kristen Ashley!I'd like to consider myself a top fan of Kristen. I've read every single book and been in love with her writing for years. When a new one comes out, I don't hesitate to buy it and read it straight away...even stopping my other books to get to the new one. Her reads, to me, are ones you savor...spend extra time...read slower than you read other books. You aren't reading her books to get to the end, you reading to experience them as they go along and then delay the ending as much as your brain will let you.Now with all that said, I think this might be my first 4 star rated book, as, without looking, I'm pretty sure all the others were always a strong 5.It's not that I strongly disliked anything too particular about this book...I just didn't feel as connected to Ham as I have my other heroes. I really liked Ham, but I just felt he was a little less.....KA Alpha than the others...especially in the CM Series.I think, what bugged me the most (to try to be specific about one thing) was his desire to never connect to Zara. When typically, KA Alpha's know what they want and don't stop or deny any feelings...or if they do, it's early on and these things don't get carried out for as long as Ham's issues did. For instance his stance on Feb. Why does Zara have to feel like she's 2nd choice...and even after Ham's explanation...I still felt like Zara might have been his 2nd choice...it just bugged me that we even went there in the first place and I couldn't shake it once it came to me. I've just never doubted a KA Hero before and didn't like my first (and hopefully last) experience with it.It also bugged me that he bought her house back. Yes, she loved it, but that didn't seem like a very (again) KA Alpha thing to do. Their typically like, "Its about me now babe, and every other experience and thing you did with a man before me is left behind including the house you lived in with him" kind of thing.So anyway, it was great. I hated the beginning (in that good kind of way), only because it made me cry and was so sad. Then, when everything went down for Zara, I loved how Ham was there and all in her business to get it fixed and fixed right. I also loved the type of heroine Zara was....very typical KA Heroine (in a very good way).So overall, OBVIOUSLY I would recommend this read to anyone who loves a strong Alpha and a great love story.If you are a huge KA fan like myself, you probably have read this without even reading reviews and might be reading this now, understanding the garble of words I wrote above.So again, no knock on my most wonderful Kristen at all....her writing style and capability to draw a detailed picture in your mind of everything going on before you and having it reel like a movie, is to me unprecedented (especially with the consideration that she has done this in over 30 +  books and continues trucking on).I guess if I had to choice a hero for the bottom of my hero's hero's list, it'd be Ham. Not that he's bad by any stretch...just when grouped with my other KA men, he'd be at the bottom to me.