Review: A short book is not always a negative
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 17, 2014
Have you ever read a story where you know you could easily edit out a hundred or more pages and make a better story.  This book is about Tessa's adjustment to being a werewolf and the curse her friend Meredith had placed on her by the coven Tessa was supposed to take over.  After the vampire attacks caused by the father of her mate's ex-girlfriend, things are just starting to settle down if you forget the tribunal that cannot be stopped.  Donnelly, one of the seven oldest, most powerful weres, has fallen for Meredith and Tessa thinks they are true mates too.  One morning Meredith wakes up sick and weres are never sick.  Donnelly has awoken her wolf and it is fighting the curse.  The doctor says she only has a day or two and that is not enough time for Donnelly or the head of the Pack to get back.  She grabs a friend who has Brujas in his family as well and they try to find the coven.  It is a creepy place and the cousins can only give her the books her grandmother wanted handed down to her including her family's Book of Shadows.She gets the gang together and tries to save Meredith.  She meets her great aunt and learns that magic is about intent.  She needs to stay to the light and make her intent strong through her faith.  Meredith risks going back with Dastien to the coven to try to work something out with the dark magic leader, but figures out how what to do without trading herself.  Meredith has to overcome her fears holding her back from accepting her new life in order to be able to help Meredith.  It is not a long book, but the story is complete without being rushed.  I like the characters in this series and I watch them grow and that is how I measure success in relationships and series.  This is a series I plan to follow.