Review: Solid 3 stars... Needs better transitions and Dialogue for important scenes
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 21, 2014
First off I did like the story. R.E. Butler has a good story line.Every time the story is flowing with dialogue and the author just decides that she is going to tell us what is happening instead of actually painting the picture. I feel that she needs to separate the scenes.For example, *spoiler alert* after Acksel brings Brynn home after her attack he tells her that she is going to stay with him for a week and then in the next paragraph he is talking to a character named Sam about the update on security. Scenes like this need to be separated by some type of double space. This author never really tells us what his relationships with the other characters are or how Acksel interacts with the environment or the town as a whole. I think that Acksel's character is only 75% developed. We know of his back story of being a runt of a boy before he matures into a wolf where he becomes muscular a brooding while harboring a crush on Brynn. But I guess he is still growing. Compared to Brynn's character and Mia's character and the other women in the story the male characters are lacking slightly in there character development.Another problem I have is that even though this book is the second in this series, I just wish she didn't write this story with the notion that new readers read the previous books. I am new reader of her books and I feel like this novel just tipped over the side of a stand alone, but just barely.  I am just frustrated because if R.E. Butler adds some dialogue where she just glosses over some of the side story this book would be fantastic.Over all this is good book and a good story with interesting main characters and potentially great secondary characters. The reason that I am being so critical is because Ms. R.E. Butler is a good author with potential to become one of my absolute favorites but these little things are just frustrating in the midst of such talent.Thanks for Writing R.E. Butler and I hope you see this post.