Review: A wonderful blend of the werewolf mythos twined with her own spin on Norse mythology
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 20, 2014
Meara Falk, the privileged daughter of a wealthy family has one year left before she graduates from college. Her parents are paying for everything provided she follows a few simple rules. Her quiet, predictable life is about to change when her friends convince her she needs to cut loose at least once before she graduates. That one decision will change her life in ways she never thought possible.Cut off from all financial support and disowned after telling her parents she was pregnant, Meara now works as a waitress to pay the bills while she still tries to finish school and graduate. Nine months later she is struggling to survive as a single parent with the help of her friends. Taking her son for a ride in his stroller, she is attacked and injured when someone tries to snatch her son. After she heals, Meara starts noticing her hearing is getting better, as is her sense of smell.Unknown to Meara, she is descended from a "pure" line of werewolves. Pure Pack are warriors cursed by Freyja to live as wolves, and blessed by Odur with the ability to shift between human and wolf form, and near immortality. Now her son is wanted by his father, the Alpha of Pure Pack, and he'll stoop to anything to gain possession of Julian. When her son is kidnapped, Meara and her friend, Rachel, both learn werewolves are more than a fable to scare yourself with on a dark night.There are so many werewolf and shapeshifter stories that authors need to find a new spin to make their book stand out. Seabolt has done that. By twining Norse mythology with werewolf mythos, Seabolt has put an original spin on the genre. She gives us an answer as to the origin and their purpose, a unique approach as far as anything I've read goes.Seabolt did a good job of weaving Norse mythology into her story. And she gave us an imperfect werewolf who didn't change on the first full moon after being injured. What a fun twist! I really enjoyed this story, the abrupt halt at the end of the book, not so much. The ending leaves this part of the story feeling unfinished somehow. Now I'm on pins and needles waiting for the next one to come out so I can see what happens next. My hope is for sometime this year.I was gifted this book in exchange for an honest review.