An Omega raised as a normal human girl... Tiana Something never felt right with me. I have to take these mysterious pills my mother gave me. Until one night, my life turns upside down when my parents reveal the truth about me. That I was an omega. When I feel my heat coming on, I start to panic. ...and maybe throwing away the mystery pills wasn't such a good idea after all. Grant I'm on a mission to find the lost virgin omega. To return her to Howl's Edge immediately. When I lay eyes on her, I want to claim her. And my pack wants her too. But she's not ours. Tiana's feisty, and I can't keep my eyes off her, especially when she goes into heat during the cruise ship wedding. She's stranded with me. And my pack of alphas. Either we mate with her, or she'll die. Stolen by The Pack is a fast-paced reverse harem romance duet with protective male alpha partners, a #whychoose story. Sit tight, grab a coconut drink and enjoy the ride! Guaranteed HEA with all the steam you're looking for. Each book can be read as a standalone , sharing the same world. ♥ Heat Scorching (knotting, possessive growly alphas & omega heat) ♥ Instalove ♥ Pregnancy & Birth? Yes ♥ High school? No, for grownups only ♥ POV? Dual
Its just bad writing. It was very flat and unemotional.
And the terms the author used during spicy times just gave me the absolute ick. One of her men literally said “im going to penetrate you now”. Immediate no thank you but i finished the book much to my regret. I kept hoping it would get better but it just went downhill.
I was excited for this series where i found it on TikTok but now im just disappointed.
It is so bad I want to give you a zero but that’s not possible. So I give you a one.
Really there was so much dub con. She repeatedly said she doesn’t know these men and doesn’t want to sleep with them but her body wants to so they sleep together. Everytime she is upset about something where she should be upset and mad they just sleep with her and everything is good again. Grant is an total asshole to her and his pack and doesn’t even really apologize. I can’t tell you how much this book irritated me and made me mad. The men are all stupid and criminals. She is scared she will get pregnant and they tell her oh no problem almost never happens in the first heat and then who would have known she ends up pregnant. They never listen to her and her opinions.
Gosh I really didn’t like this book.
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I didn’t…love this. I don’t think I even really liked it. The heroine was a bit TSTL, the heroes were dumb too and needed to grovel a whole hell of a lot more and quite frankly the steam read like a textbook. It was devoid of real passion and chemistry. I don’t know…this could have been a lot better but didn’t quite get there.
I’ll add the whole thing with the “villain” was real off putting.
I'm convinced the author shares half a braincell with the most rancid Ao3 tags to exist, the other half with a chihuahua that humps any leg within eyeshot. Every sentence is more painful than the last. The dialogue is about as natural as if the characters were reading off a script held 2 inches from their squinting eyes. The world-building is as nonexistent as god himself. And the sex scenes. Look, I don't find dog dick arousing, so maybe I'm a little bias but they have all the romantic and sexual tension as drawing the blinds for your guests so they don't see your dogs humping each other. Like my writing from when I was 15, horny and suppressed by religion, this should stay locked away in an old, dead laptop that's recycled into something useful: a paperweight. If you want to read something not even the CIA would use as a torture method for fear it would make a prisoner mad upon just seeing its cover, this is your book.
Quite possibly one of the dumbest things I’ve ever read. The writing is atrocious, the dialogue stilted, and the characters are so vapid that I can’t go on any further. Not even the sex is titillating!!
I was looking for a why choose fantasy book. This one is a bit more paranormal than fantasy, but mostly I wanted it to be why choose with mates, which this is. I wish I had found it more engaging. It has an interesting concept, but the plot just isn’t there.
Her parents expecting their adult daughter to continue taking mystery pills forever without telling her why seems unrealistic. There doesn’t seem to be a real reason why they don’t explain things. Then she disappears on her friend and family, but we’re to think there was never a police inquiry or anything about the disappearance? And the big dramas between her and the pack that almost cause them to break up each time are resolved in less than an hour.
The second half of the book has almost no plot, just her sleeping with the various pack members. The ending, with her parents, seems so sudden and superficial, like her pack’s severe money troubles magically vanishing.
Overall, I like the idea and the characters, but the plot stringing them together was just not enough for me.
This book is ... not good. Pretty much the only thing that I can say about it is that it's a quick read at only about 160 pages. But even then I struggled to make it through this one. I only didn't DNF it because I didn't have another book lined up from my TBR. It's almost like AI was asked to write an Omegaverse smut book with minimal shifting and then collaborated on the plot with a 14 year old aspiring writer who writes shifter books when her parents think she's sleeping. The story is stilted, almost clinical in it's spicy scenes, and written in a childish manner. I had seen another book in this series advertised on BookTok and then the series description said that it was better to read the series in order to get the whole picture. Needless to say, I won't be reading the other books to make it to the one that I saw advertised. I would say skip this book and series. Can't all be winners I guess.
This book needs an extensive trigger warning list. Basically, only read this if dub con and men who treat women like things and not people is what you like reading. If that tickles your fancy, you'll enjoy this. It's basically just one giant degradation where she's gaslit into thinking it's loving. Every conversation ends in sex to shut her up, they use her biology against her constantly, and she repeatedly doesn't consent. There's zero character development so it's like watching a true crime documentary. I couldn't stomach it after she got pregnant and had to put the book down. There was no hope it would get better. I was excited to pick this up because omegaverse and pregnancy are two of my favorite things. It gave me the massive ick.
So flippin' hot. I'm very into this series. I should have read this one to start, as it explained a lot more about the universe Layla Sparks has set up. We get an introduction to the world with Tiana, who I adored. Not to mention the sexy pack that worship her. I always like to have a quick, dirty read sitting on my TBR at all times and this is one fit the bill!
I rate this giving one star based on the fact there was a plot, however badly written, and half a star purely for just vibes because it was so laughably bad that I couldn’t stop reading.
This is probably one of the worst books I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading. The writing was horrendously basic and conversations between characters felt so forced and unnatural, some of it read more like it would have been said over text rather than speaking, there was supposed laughter at one point which was written within quotations as a literal “Haha, yeah” rather than stating the character had laughed.
All of the characters were supposed to be 24+ but realistically their behaviours / communication skills reminded me of a 14 year old seeing somebody they were attracted to for the first time. - “It might make me stop thinking of terrible James” “What are you talking about? Just say it clearly, I’m grown” “Oh, Wesley, you’re kinky” - Seriously?
The words “wolf c**k” are unfortunately said, more than once, and quite frankly I was close to dnf’ing on page 13 after reading about a character, in his shifted form, talking about his aroused genitalia. I’m all about shifter romances but I do have my limits as well as a plan to bleach my eyeballs at my earliest convenience.
Tiana, the FMC, has lived for 24 years believing she is a human and finds out that her parents lied to her for her entire life in the most poorly executed confession I’ve ever seen and she just accepts that she’s a wolf with basically no push back whatsoever as if it’s the most perfectly normal thing and of course she wouldn’t be a human after that being all she knew for 24 years. She then decides to follow this up by going on the most random cruise the following day with her best friend and essentially running away from home to “process” the news.
The MMCs work in the police force and they find out she’s going on this cruise which just happens to have NO security the DAY BEFORE it’s supposed to set sail so they call up to offer their services and are told by the caller to email credentials/experience and it’s followed up by “After they saw our years of experience being cops, we’d get approved in no time.” I mean I have to respect the confidence honestly but it was just so funny to me that it wasn’t even considered there would be others in the running.
The FMCs parents were adamant they were gonna pack up and move away to keep her hidden again so she wasn’t taken for being an omega, to which her response was to run away to go on this random cruise. Day 2 or something of this cruise she goes into heat and calls her mother to ask what’s wrong with her and rather than reiterating the fact of needing to run as they had been so adamant over previously, both her parents just immediately resigned and told her to have s*x with the alphas on board. Lol.
Grant, who is one of the MMCs and leader of his pack, makes a deal with another pack to find Tiana and take her to them to become the Omega in this other pack. They take her to this other pack (albeit reluctantly on all parts despite them all knowing each other for like 3 days at this point) the new pack is just as bad with their communication skills (shocker) “she’s an omega, I could smell her omega scent.” “Yes, she sure is an omega”
It can’t have been more than 20 minutes after she’s been left with this pack that they’ve taken her to some literal red room (again, lol) and Grants pack genuinely bursts into the room and he shouts “what’s going on?” As if it wouldn’t be obvious what was going to happen when he handed her over to this new pack but then suddenly he’s duelling at dawn to win her back??? Guess 20 minutes without getting some really changes a man.
Tiana is 24 but still at college and I’m not sure how long college is supposed to be lasting for her as she thought to herself “I thought I’d graduate from college and find a man in my forties one day.” ??? Forties ???
She sleeps with Tony, another of the MMCs in Grants pack, then he runs to join the fight for her virtue against pack 2. When he’s gone she decides she wants to be with them but is also not wanting to because it’s all too much too soon so she runs away (again) they find her a literal hour later where she immediately forgives Grant for the kidnapping/handing her to the other pack despite her telling him she’d never forgive him about 5 pages prior. She’s then with them for a week before the alphas have an argument and one of them yells at her so she goes to her room to cry and decides that she’s going to leave them (again) but when one of them comes to check up on her they end up sleeping together after 0.7 seconds of him entering the room and then they all live happily ever after.
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If you're going to write a short book, then you need to keep it simple. The author included so many points of contention in this book that it felt like little was resolved by the end of the book. It felt like things were crammed into the book. Plus, this was the first book in this series!
As an introduction, I need more. There was very little worldbuilding or explanation as to some of the why's in this world. Some points needed clarification or expounded upon, but the author left them alone after introducing them or didn't explain them well (if at all).
Multiple times there were points of interest that directly contradicted each other. This mixture of little information and blatantly confused writing made this a difficult read.
Moreover, the writing was unemotional. Oh, there were feelings scattered in the mix, but there was no depth- no emotion was held to any importance or impacted the plot. The MC read like a basketball goal, where the basketball was feelings/events, and they were either forced through her or rebounded off of her. Plus, multiple POVs were used in this book, but I have to ask why? Again, they had no importance in the plot. If the author was trying to show the feelings of those characters, I have to ask what feelings?
From what I can gather, this book was primarily written for the smut. I knew what I was getting myself into, but I couldn't even enjoy that. The sex scenes were mediocre and awkward. The word choices and phrases used to relate "emotion" were abysmal and lacked relatability. Aside from one of the scenes literally being impossible, my main thought while reading them was "gross."
This book reads like a first draft; this needed help resolving things, editing out the unimportant stuff, refining the plot, and expanding the depth of character. Lastly, I think the author might need a sex ed class.
The longer I think about this book, the more annoyed I get with it. The FMC was supposedly 24 but acted as if she was about 15, the MMCs were unlikeable and had little in the way of personality. Every time she raises any kind of objection, they just sleep with her to stop her thinking about it, knowing the whole time they were about to sell her to another pack. But also, this pack left one of their members behind to come search for her, and they don't even seem to particularly like each other. At one point the leader even thinks to himself "I wonder how he ever joined this pack" about one of his packmates. One thing I really don't understand is WHY this pack went looking for her. They did say how long they had been looking for her, and it was something like 15 years they have been in the "human" realm searching, because they were promised land and money if they found her. But surely those 15 years would have been better spent with the pack just working to make their own fortune? And why the obsession with THIS omega? At one point she comes across a whole load of omegas being sold at auction. So why did they invest 15 years in finding HER? Maybe some of this is answered later in the book, but I can't bring myself to read any more to find out.
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This was a fast paced intro to a new series by a new-to-me author. It took us on a journey with Tiana, an Omega, who didn't realize what she was or what the rules were for her designation. She rebels against her parents' strict ways and finds herself in trouble. Thankfully, Grant, an Alpha was nearby and able to help her. Sadly, he was looking for her for another pack and wasn't willing to deviate from his plan. His pack helped her through her heat but still planned to give her away - without her permission! This made me want to shake him as their chemistry was hot and true. Things don't go well for Tiana at the new pack and a rescue is made. Thank goodness! I enjoyed diving into this fast burn romance and look forward to the next book.
This was just not a book for me. I as a rule don't give a one star to a book, but this was it.
Words I never want to read again ever: Clitoris and Dark tight hole. Seriously this gave me the ick so hard.
Overall the premise of this book isn't the problem it's the way it is executed. The story line is on warp speed to finish in under 300 pages and because of that I think the author messed up timelines and mashed chapters together. The most confusing part that this happens is after they save her from the other pack it says only a week has gone by and all of a sudden she is having morning sickness and has a positive pregnancy test. That timeline would make her a week and a half pregnant. Unless omegas have some weird hormonal thing I'm gonna say that is not possible. This also is weird when Grant says things like "She usually eats all my popcorn and not tonight" Sir she's lived there a week?
Speaking of Grant. He was going to give her up to this pack for money and prestige because he had no money and was homeless. That got fixed in under 5 hours. This whole plot reason was fixed in less than a chapter. He got a new house and a new business in the same day.
Honestly this story was hodge podged together and she hoped the smut would be enough. That however was incredibly cringey at times and as I stated at the opening of this rant, gave me extreme ick at times. They said things like I am going to penetrate you now....and clitoris over and over again. There is also some serious dub con and not in a borderline sexy way. In a hey we made you super angry and used you but since you are in heat you don't have a choice. This becomes an overall theme too She gets upset about normal things and they either have sex or just never bring it up again. She wants to see her family? Oh idk your gonna have to talk to Grant about that. not sure she wants a baby because she is young and has her whole life ahead of her, too bad Alphas are only here to make babies so get happy about it. Oh you don't want to move to a remote island and be bred by a pack? well better get used to it because it's either with us or this overlord pack we promised you too decades ago. just. so. bad.
This is the the first book in the Howl’s Edge Island: Omega for the Pack series. Tropes include omegaverse, why choose, knotting and pregnancy. Please see content warnings for adult content, in particular, frequent spicy scenes.
Rating: 3/5 Stars 5/5 spicy flames
The Lovely: I loved the characters x particularly the FMC and the pack.The FMC was discovering not only that she wasn’t human but also that she was a highly coveted omega. The pack discovers (finds) her as part of a job but nothing goes according to plan. For the most part I liked the relationships between the characters, especially how the pack treated the FMC.
The Mundane: While I liked this was short (under 200 pages) and that’s a big reason why I read it, I did feel like conflicts and challenges were resolved too easily and quickly. For example, after struggling financially for years, the pack was suddenly flush with funds. The easily resolution made it feel like there’s wasn’t much in the way of stakes to the story.
The Dreadful: Despite the characters being well written, the actual writing style was basic and simplistic. This honestly felt like I was reading something written by someone in their early teens. Pretty short sentences, minimal descriptions, clipped dialogue, etc. It was noticeable enough to be distracting as the reader and turn me off from the series.