Review: Didn’t connect to the main characters
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 23, 2013
Warning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS.Rating: 6/10PROS:- I thought it was a nice twist to read about a character who’s weak in his wolf form but not correspondingly puny as a human.- The world the characters live in--as well as their collective backstory--is engaging. (see cons below also)- I loved the blending of the worlds of different magical creatures: there are wolves, mages, vampires, and various other kinds of shifters.CONS:- The backstory is interesting, but it’s a bit dense at times. There are so many details pertaining to it (told in flashbacks and brief rehashes interspersed throughout) that the story gets bogged down by them.- This installment follows two couples: one that apparently got together in the previous story, and one that’s just developing a romance in this one. I was much more interested in the established couple than the guys just getting started.- I believed that Cade and Rocky were in lust, but not love. I didn’t see enough interaction between them, enough conversation, enough feelings, to convince me. For example, we’re told that they spend time together every day working, but we’re not shown anything that happens during that time to illustrate an emotional connection. Part of the problem is that there’s not enough time devoted to their relationship (as opposed to Gray and Simon’s). Cade’s jump from “I don’t trust him” to “I want to get to know him much better” is abrupt.Overall comments: I started reading this without realizing that there’s an earlier book in the series. So I went into it blind. I appreciated the references to what happened before this book started, but I think if I had read the first book, I would have found the amount of rehashing to be irritating. Setting that aside, I thought the story was okay. It certainly isn’t terrible, but I found neither the action plot nor the romance particularly satisfying.