Review: Holy parentheticals
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 26, 2012
As a dedicated fan of Kristen Ashley's work, I feel almost disloyal in giving this book a 3-star rating - not that a 3-star rating is bad, it just means that I found this book to be just "okay" but not great.My biggest problem with this book is with Sonia, The Unbelievably Clueless.  I mean, really, if your "mate's" people kept referring to you as "human" wouldn't that make you curious enough to open your mouth and ask exactly WHAT it is that you're boinking so enthusiastically every day?  Yet, she never does.Even if she wasn't the curious type, perhaps things like a wolf charm, a castle named "Canis", wolf-shaped confetti, a bar called "Claws", children referred to as "pups" - and other things of that ilk might provide her with at least an inkling of what exactly she was dealing with.For pete's sake, Sonia - connect the freaking dots already!Aside from that, the overabundance of parenthetical phrases was making me more than a little crazy.  I don't recall anything quite like it in her previous books and I did not like it.  At all.As always, though, KA is an imaginative story teller and, even though some of the incidentals of this story fell rather flat, it's still worth a read.  But it's one of the rare KA books that I won't re-read over and over again.