Review: Just your average girl-meets-boy, boy-helps-girl-discover-she’s-a-werewolf, girl-and-boy-mate story.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 15, 2014
Wolf Signs was decent enough. The writing wasn’t spectacular, though nor was it horrendous by any measure. The storyline was easy to follow, simple and uncomplicated in a straightforward, honest way. It’s in the characters where I take up issue.TJ was my favorite things about this entire book. In the scene where Robyn first encounters him and his brother Keil, it was from his point of view, so I automatically latched onto him. It helped that he was fun and carefree, and Keil was being an absolute weirdo, sniffing the door Robyn had just slammed on them for like 5 minutes straight. I was kinda expecting more from him than to be shit on for the whole rest of the trip.And can we please address this whole predicament about Robyn stopping a bloody death-brawl showdown with her pheromones?! Someone alert the police, there’s another speshul snowflake among a pack of like 10 guys and only one of them is not opposed to jumping her like a rack of meat.Good God, there was nothing even remarkable about Robyn. The only thing that interested me about her was that she was deaf, and that was only because on my of main projects right now deals with a character who is mute and communicates through ASL. I wanted to see how well author Arend would handle the obstacle, but it’s hardly even a problem because Robyn can read lips, write witty things and, oh yeah, communicate telepathically with the one person she’s around for most of the story. And can speak anyway. With a pleasing, powerful voice, at that. Ugh.I liked the story. Kinda. It was short and sweet and a little engaging in some parts, at least in learning about the wolves and watching the attraction grow between Keil and Robyn, but there’s so much more negative to say about it (and most of the crap surfaces at the end, whereas the first half or so was actually enjoyable). Unfortunately, I’m just not interested in the unlikeable nature of these characters (and my favorite ones getting shit on left and right) to continue with the rest of the series.Oh and the instalove; I understand they’re mates, but holy crap, they spent like FIVE DAYS together…