Review: Couldn't finish. Immature characters; typos and switching viewpoints distract
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 27, 2013
I picked this up for free as it sounds just like a book I'd enjoy.  Jay is a werewolf and lives in Brisbane, FL with a large pack of werewoves.  His father, the mayor, is the Alpha and Jay is also an alpha.  Kira has just moved into town. We learn early in the book that she is a witch and there is some type of war going on with witches.Kira is supposedly at the university to attend vet school while Jay is a graduate student and his friends have graduated and are working at jobs (construction firm, ad agency) or in graduate school (lawyer).  However, it seems as if all they do is party every night. There are a lot of references to facebook and texting and Jay and his friends go to parties with undergrads.  It just felt creepy to me that 24 year old guys who were working would still go to undergrad parties.I didn't really care for the characters either.  Jay acts out to get his dad's attention.  That's fine if you are 12 or 14 years old.... not so much if you are 24 years old with adult responsibilities. All of the people are beautiful, gorgeous, wealthy people.  Jay is an alpha, Annabelle is a rare Omega, the twins are geniuses, etc.  It just ended up feeling too fake.  The one thing that I DID appreciate was the fact that there didn't seem to be "instant love" going on between Kira and Jay and no love triangle was being setup.The typos were very distracting.  There were numerous words that were incorrect.  For example, "taught" instead of "taut" (this error was made more than once!), "private manor" instead of "private manner", "refers" instead of "defers", etc.  There were sentences with awkward word usage... such as "It doesn't seem right that a human be working with my uncle".  Also, the book changed viewpoints every chapter between Kira and Jay. While each chapter was clearly named with the person whose viewpoint we were getting, many of the chapters were VERY short.  It ended up having the effect of pulling me out of the story as the viewpoint constantly changed.Overall, I ended up giving up part way into the book as I just didn't care for it.  Note that I am in my 40s but do read a lot of yound adult fiction (just finished Maze Runner which I loved).