Review: Definitely NOT a Stand Alone!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 8, 2012
I want to first say that I am a HUGE, HUGE fan of these writers, I always keep a look out for their latest and greatest.  I just could not get into this book, I was soo confused in the beginning I thought to stop reading and re-read the previous books just so I knew who was who, and what was going on.  Maybe it was because I read so many books and Cipher came out a year ago, I may have forgotten the background stories of many of the characters.  I totally didn't know who Julio and Sera were.  But I am thinking that it was because they weren't reocurring characters that were included alot in the previous books, or weren't written in depth, like Alec, Andrew, Jackson, Kat, Nicole and others were. I truly felt I knew who those characters were but not Julio and Sera, so that their Dom/sub situation and angst wasn't really clicking for me.  Was it just Sera or were all female coyotes normally subs?  I still don't know. But of course, WE all know Male Alpha wolves are Doms.This book seemed a little disjointed and vague.  As an example, you have Sera asking Julio to take her away so she can get away from her problems, by doing something carefree like a unplanned road trip, Julio agrees because he too feels the need for a vacation.  But too soon the trip becomes a "goodwill" trip for Julio and the Council, as if the trip was planned as such.  It just threw me a little.  Don't get me wrong, I wasn't turned off from the series by this book, and look forward to future books, but I didn't have the "feel good" at the end of this book that I did with the others.I agree with the other reviewer, DO NOT attempt this book without reading all of the previous books before, too many referrences to previous situations in all the past books without back description.