Review: Needs a lot of work
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 4, 2012
Reading this book was a truly painful experience. From all the good reviews I thought it would be much better than it turned out. So like other reviewers who have been lured in by so many 5* reviews, did we read the same book?This book desperately needs an editor. If there was one, fire them and get a new one. There were commas where there shouldn't be and a lack of them where they should have been. I can't count how many times I had to reread sentences because it didn't sound right, hence the 2*. There were also a few instances where an apostrophe should have been added to make a word possessive and it wasn't.The most offending part of this book though was the grammar. It's women, not woman when plural. Brake, not break. I could go on, there were also many instances where words were missing and times when there were too many words. The word "of" was used far too many times. My favorite one though, was "shouldn't of." It wasn't in a dialogue, otherwise it would have been forgivable.The only reason I gave this book 2* is because if a person can get past the bad punctuation and grammar there is the possibility that they will enjoy the story. I didn't, but someone else might. I didn't like Adam, the alpha for this pack of wolves. He was inconsistent, overbearing, and just grrr. If I had been Anna I would have slapped him and left the pack. The sex scenes felt pushed to me, like the author was forcing erotic elements into the story. This was especially true when Anna practices some self-love, which added nothing to the story. When I finally got to the part where Anna gets together with her main squeeze I just skimmed through it. Page after page after page of it. Of course, by that point I was only finishing the story for the big reveal of who the killer was, which was another let down. On the one hand it was no surprise, I had surmised who it was. But the added wrinkle just made me groan and roll my eyes (I don't want to spoil it for those that haven't read it). To me it showed a lack of creativity on the part of the author and almost a ploy to open the way for a sequel. Of course it is clear that this book is part 1 of a series, but usually the main character is left with room to grow or find someone to love. That isn't the case in this story.Unfortunately I won't be continuing this series, and unfortunately I am going to be a little gun shy when it comes to reading any future books by this author.