Review: Eternal Review
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 17, 2012
I was given this book by the publisher for an honest review, thank you.First this is a very short story only about 87 pages. It's told in first person through the eyes of Jem, the only female werewolf as far as anyone knows. I couldn't identify with Jem, maybe because the story was written in first person, but I couldn't get a good picture of what kind of person she was other than that she had to have things her own way. I didn't care for her as a character, she grated on my nerves. We don't even find out how she was turned into a werewolf other than being bitten, but other women that have been bitten have been killed. So what makes Jem special and why was she turned? We don't get any info and I think that should have been mentioned, especially since this is a prequel.A historical romance novel, Eternal centers on Jem and her alpha mate Sean. There are other wolves from her pack and some outsider wolves that show up with the desire to claim Jem, but they really aren't much a part of the story. Even the main outsider werewolf who is the one most insistence in his attention to Jem, is not mentioned that often.I found the blurb to be very misleading. If you're expecting a lot of excitement about the werewolves and outside werewolves, there really isn't that much there. That item is just a background bit to the main part of the story. The main storyline is Jem's annoyance that Sean didn't propose marriage to her the correct way and from there the planning of the marriage, the marriage ceremony itself and then the bonding. So the blurb misrepresented in a large way what the book is mostly about. Yes, there is a situation with the outsider werewolf before the wedding, but it's much smaller than the whole wedding preparation bit.Editing and formatting were great.In the end the blurb didn't truly convey what the main topic of the story was, which was the wedding preparation and wedding. That was for me the most annoying part about this story, the blurb deceptiveness which got me to read a book that I likely would not have read since the story centered mostly around a wedding. The next thing I disliked was the historical style of speech, while although consistent throughout the book, made it difficult for me to identify with any of the characters. So I didn't care for this story all that much, but give it 2 stars because the style of speech was consistent and the editing and formatting were well done.