Review: Okay but Confusing
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 19, 2011
I read the reviews and when they vary so greatly between good and bad I'm always curious so I took a gamble on spending a buck.  I don't regret buying the book necessarily, but it was definitely confusing during many points.My main complaint is one that dogged the book from the beginning (pardon the pun).  If you have a dictionary at the start of your book because you included a fistful of words you made up and you have to define them - well, there's something wrong with that.Another complaint was that the author changed consciousness between characters constantly and without warning.  On the same page it would jump from one to another and I would have to stop and ask myself, "okay, who is speaking here?"The timing issue of the young wolf pup Axl who grows up to be future king of the Wolfen pack is a serious flaw.  I could buy - maybe - that in this universe a werewolf grows to human adulthood in 2 years.  However, what I cannot swallow is that he is not a blithering idiot.  I try to picture a toddler as an adult.  They would be growing at approximately one year per month.  How could you possibly teach a child in two years to read, write, and speak let alone teaching them all this other stuff about their werewolf heritage.  It just doesn't work.  But I ignored it because I was curious and I wanted to give the book a chance.This book is full of strange wolf sex and rituals, porn, lack of monogamy even amongst married couples but only on the male's part (come on!),drugs, convenient help from "deities" and death.  It's an okay read if you have time to kill and a buck, the length is well over what you might expect for such a cheap book, but I couldn't help but think while I was plowing through it that the author was trying too hard to live up to some crazy ideal of the world she'd created.  It was far too complicated as a start of a series, there were too many main and secondary characters and too much that didn't make sense for it to be a true winner.I had high hopes and they were dashed expertly.