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BirthRight
When you’re the top wolf on the continent with the backing of the Goddess, how does an enemy topple your kingdom? By challenging you to a fight? No. By changing the rules.
After three hundred years of fighting and service to the Goddess, Silas Knight is the Patron, Alpha to the Alphas on the North American continent. As the top wolf, he fears little and has seen most things. But when he discovers someone or something has been quietly disturbing the natural order of things, he’s surprised. Certain human women have the ability to birth fully functioning wolves, and that’s a major problem.
Jasmine Bennett has no idea her deceased husband was a wolf shifter or that her twin sons are shifters. Her life changes when she rushes to her son’s bedside after he’s wounded in Afghanistan
and returned stateside. Now her life’s in danger because of her ability to give birth to a breed of beings she never knew existed.
After three hundred years of fighting and service to the Goddess, Silas Knight is the Patron, Alpha to the Alphas on the North American continent. As the top wolf, he fears little and has seen most things. But when he discovers someone or something has been quietly disturbing the natural order of things, he’s surprised. Certain human women have the ability to birth fully functioning wolves, and that’s a major problem.
Jasmine Bennett has no idea her deceased husband was a wolf shifter or that her twin sons are shifters. Her life changes when she rushes to her son’s bedside after he’s wounded in Afghanistan
and returned stateside. Now her life’s in danger because of her ability to give birth to a breed of beings she never knew existed.
129 pages, ebook
First published April 30, 2013
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Sydney Addae
64 books307 followersI live in the southeast and enjoy reading and writing all things paranormal. Nothing is more relaxing than cracking open a new adventure in a new world.
I love paranormal tales and characters in general and shifter stories in particular. Throw in the romantic element, strong Alpha characters who bend beneath the power of love and I’m over the moon. Sighs…
I love paranormal tales and characters in general and shifter stories in particular. Throw in the romantic element, strong Alpha characters who bend beneath the power of love and I’m over the moon. Sighs…
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May 19, 2013
***Spoiler Alert***
OK, I am going to be not as positive as others. However if it were not for the cons, I would have given this book a 5 star review.
Pros:
1. Novel idea on the shifter / human dynamic.
2. Loved it that its interracial.
3. Absolutely loved the story line.
Potential spoiler alert below!
Cons:
1. Spelling mistakes. "She felt drug." Should really read she felt drugged". "He's" were "she's" should have been and vice versa. I have a sneaking suspicion that only the computers spell check was used, if at all.
2. Missing words. Yup, there were words missing in the sentences. The word "the" is there for a reason.
3. No apparent editing. In fact there were brackets "(too vague)" in the book on my Fire Kindle at 14%. These lead me to believe I was reading a pre, pre-edit copy.
4. What is it with the names of people, why do they have to be so similar? I got really confused as to who is who. And if nicknames are used for people make it evident who is who. I sometimes lost the plot when the people where having conversations as I could not identify who said what. Especially when the sister of the heroine and the twins were talking to each other as a group. I had to backtrack and read those sections again to get a proper understanding.
5. I could see that the heroine (mother) is really involved with her twins and I could see the love all three had for each other. I could see no attraction between the hero and heroine. And they only had sex once in the book. There was no sizzle, no warmth, nothing, no heart strings love. The sex was just that, sex. That part was not even written that well, and I detest nasty slang words for the female genitalia. It does not add anything to the book, just makes it cheap. Near the end the hero and heroine were kind of cuddling, but again there was no warmth as such.
6. I do not think this was a cliff-hanger, as some other reviewers stated. The book was just not finished. The second book is not a series, just the missing part of this book.
7. Then there were some plot structuring howlers: But the two which stuck out like sore thumbs were A. The mother (granny) is in her 60's but looks like early 30's, i.e. she looks like her daughters. If my mom were to look like me age wise, I would be asking a lot of questions, a whole lot of questions! B. The twins went out at night doing their wolf thing as kids. She did not try to find out what happened. Hello! If my kids were running around at night outside I would try to find out and I would lock them in the house and there would be a big "crisis" at home if the kids were out in the middle of the night. They were kids. She seems to make a bigger thing about their military careers and getting hurt whilst on duty. OK. There is a third one: C. the one son is so damaged from action in a war zone that he was given up by the human doctors and they said he was more or less dying or would be very damaged. Three to five days later he is hopping around the shifter hospital. Mommy wonders why but just brushes it over. There was no interest or investigation, at least not much. A couple of questions and that was it.
8. I know the mom is black. But I still do not know her. What was her occupation again? What does she "really" look like? Where did she live just before the kids were "injured". What has she been doing the last couple of years whilst the twins were in the military? Why did she not do her "finding self trip" then? I know the hero is white, just like the kids dad was. I know he is very big like the hero, but we were never told what the twins really look like. I expected them to be mixed race, but it was never stated. I have no idea as to what they like, dislike, their size, hair colour etc. To me they are all non-entities.
9. Also when heroine is around male shifters (but not her kids) she gets very broody, or lets say sexually aroused and getting the male shifters very, very hot and bothered, even the mated ones. So why did she not have more kids from her partner/man (shifter and twins dad) when he was around her? Because according to the story the shifters cannot keep their hands off someone like her. The explanation was they hardly had any sex, but that is illogical if her kind have this sexual power over the male shifters. And then there is the reproductive part about her mother...
10. If the heroines mother was raped or the product of a rape(as the granny may be a child of that really old "breeder" woman or one of the offspring the breeder woman had)(some confusion there)that means she is quite light coloured due to all the white shifter DNA input. It was not clearly stated but I get the impression that all shifters are white? There is a lot more explanation needed to build a proper picture of the heroine. I am just throwing this in there as I have nieces who are white looking and had 3 generations of white DNA input. So questioning this part.
So I am in a dilemma. I really liked the story line. It was original and great. But the many mistakes and not properly thought out sub plots made me grind my teeth. More so as I really enjoyed the story line because of its novelty and unique ideas.
I just hope the author reads this and takes it as a positive critique and fixes some of the issues. I was going to ask for my money back from Amazon because of these editing mistakes. I have not yet made my mind up if I am going to do that.
Then there is the sub-title of the book. La Patron --> Now, I am not a linguist and I may be wrong. But It bugged me enough to Google it. La is female. Patron means boss. So the title is the "she boss". La Patrona is the she boss in Italian and similar in French and Spanish. I believe the author meant the Spanish, so should have been "El Patron" (loosely translated man boss). Is the author playing with the words and means the heroine is the actual boss?
It's a good story to read, but it still needs some serious work. I hope this will be done and I would look forward to re-reading it once its fully edited and fixed up. The story line is just fantastic and deserves many reads by readers who like this genre.
OK, I am going to be not as positive as others. However if it were not for the cons, I would have given this book a 5 star review.
Pros:
1. Novel idea on the shifter / human dynamic.
2. Loved it that its interracial.
3. Absolutely loved the story line.
Potential spoiler alert below!
Cons:
1. Spelling mistakes. "She felt drug." Should really read she felt drugged". "He's" were "she's" should have been and vice versa. I have a sneaking suspicion that only the computers spell check was used, if at all.
2. Missing words. Yup, there were words missing in the sentences. The word "the" is there for a reason.
3. No apparent editing. In fact there were brackets "(too vague)" in the book on my Fire Kindle at 14%. These lead me to believe I was reading a pre, pre-edit copy.
4. What is it with the names of people, why do they have to be so similar? I got really confused as to who is who. And if nicknames are used for people make it evident who is who. I sometimes lost the plot when the people where having conversations as I could not identify who said what. Especially when the sister of the heroine and the twins were talking to each other as a group. I had to backtrack and read those sections again to get a proper understanding.
5. I could see that the heroine (mother) is really involved with her twins and I could see the love all three had for each other. I could see no attraction between the hero and heroine. And they only had sex once in the book. There was no sizzle, no warmth, nothing, no heart strings love. The sex was just that, sex. That part was not even written that well, and I detest nasty slang words for the female genitalia. It does not add anything to the book, just makes it cheap. Near the end the hero and heroine were kind of cuddling, but again there was no warmth as such.
6. I do not think this was a cliff-hanger, as some other reviewers stated. The book was just not finished. The second book is not a series, just the missing part of this book.
7. Then there were some plot structuring howlers: But the two which stuck out like sore thumbs were A. The mother (granny) is in her 60's but looks like early 30's, i.e. she looks like her daughters. If my mom were to look like me age wise, I would be asking a lot of questions, a whole lot of questions! B. The twins went out at night doing their wolf thing as kids. She did not try to find out what happened. Hello! If my kids were running around at night outside I would try to find out and I would lock them in the house and there would be a big "crisis" at home if the kids were out in the middle of the night. They were kids. She seems to make a bigger thing about their military careers and getting hurt whilst on duty. OK. There is a third one: C. the one son is so damaged from action in a war zone that he was given up by the human doctors and they said he was more or less dying or would be very damaged. Three to five days later he is hopping around the shifter hospital. Mommy wonders why but just brushes it over. There was no interest or investigation, at least not much. A couple of questions and that was it.
8. I know the mom is black. But I still do not know her. What was her occupation again? What does she "really" look like? Where did she live just before the kids were "injured". What has she been doing the last couple of years whilst the twins were in the military? Why did she not do her "finding self trip" then? I know the hero is white, just like the kids dad was. I know he is very big like the hero, but we were never told what the twins really look like. I expected them to be mixed race, but it was never stated. I have no idea as to what they like, dislike, their size, hair colour etc. To me they are all non-entities.
9. Also when heroine is around male shifters (but not her kids) she gets very broody, or lets say sexually aroused and getting the male shifters very, very hot and bothered, even the mated ones. So why did she not have more kids from her partner/man (shifter and twins dad) when he was around her? Because according to the story the shifters cannot keep their hands off someone like her. The explanation was they hardly had any sex, but that is illogical if her kind have this sexual power over the male shifters. And then there is the reproductive part about her mother...
10. If the heroines mother was raped or the product of a rape(as the granny may be a child of that really old "breeder" woman or one of the offspring the breeder woman had)(some confusion there)that means she is quite light coloured due to all the white shifter DNA input. It was not clearly stated but I get the impression that all shifters are white? There is a lot more explanation needed to build a proper picture of the heroine. I am just throwing this in there as I have nieces who are white looking and had 3 generations of white DNA input. So questioning this part.
So I am in a dilemma. I really liked the story line. It was original and great. But the many mistakes and not properly thought out sub plots made me grind my teeth. More so as I really enjoyed the story line because of its novelty and unique ideas.
I just hope the author reads this and takes it as a positive critique and fixes some of the issues. I was going to ask for my money back from Amazon because of these editing mistakes. I have not yet made my mind up if I am going to do that.
Then there is the sub-title of the book. La Patron --> Now, I am not a linguist and I may be wrong. But It bugged me enough to Google it. La is female. Patron means boss. So the title is the "she boss". La Patrona is the she boss in Italian and similar in French and Spanish. I believe the author meant the Spanish, so should have been "El Patron" (loosely translated man boss). Is the author playing with the words and means the heroine is the actual boss?
It's a good story to read, but it still needs some serious work. I hope this will be done and I would look forward to re-reading it once its fully edited and fixed up. The story line is just fantastic and deserves many reads by readers who like this genre.
November 26, 2018
3.5 ⭐⭐⭐✨
Silas Knight and Jasmine Bennett
A quick read 😊
Silas is the the Alpha of all the wolves backed by a Goddess, he met Jasmine in a hospital where his godson and Jasmine's son is confined....
It is action-packed and mostly centered in Silas and the twins(Tyrone and Tyrese) discovering about the breeders..
It has an interesting plot that got me intrigued to start reading the series
“Your life is yours to live. If you treat others with the same kindness I showed you, then the debt is repaid tenfold.” - Jasmine
Silas Knight and Jasmine Bennett
A quick read 😊
Silas is the the Alpha of all the wolves backed by a Goddess, he met Jasmine in a hospital where his godson and Jasmine's son is confined....
It is action-packed and mostly centered in Silas and the twins(Tyrone and Tyrese) discovering about the breeders..
It has an interesting plot that got me intrigued to start reading the series
“Your life is yours to live. If you treat others with the same kindness I showed you, then the debt is repaid tenfold.” - Jasmine
June 28, 2013
Maybe I am missing something here but I just didn't get it. The characters just did not all make sense and there was so much going on. The only real interaction between the hero and heroine came around the 40% mark. I just felt there was so much fluff at the beginning of the story that was just unnecessary. There were alot of things I just couldn't wrap my head around. Like the fact that the heroine (jasmine) treated her 2 grown sons like kids. AND they listened while she was being sexed up (HARD) by the hero (Silas). Can you say gross 0_o!! Don't get me wrong, the book was not bad it was not that great either.
September 21, 2015
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February 17, 2014
I typically can not leave a series unfinished but this book looks to be the exception as I have no desire to suffer the awkward relationships involved, its an interesting idea but no chemistry and weird inappropriate scenes ruin book
December 12, 2015
I have had this book forever and decided to finally read it.
The best thing about this book is the world-building and the basic plot set up. The author has some very interesting ideas and built a PNR system that feels a little different from many out there. She has also created an interesting and viable conflict between shifters and humans. There is also a sense of the conflict being serious with deep roots and something potentially threatening to the main characters. It is a very good conflict to hang a series on and has the potential to be nicely complex.
However, the thing that really sucks me in is character development and I am not really feeling that in this book. The book relies almost too heavily on plot. And as interesting as that is, it isn't enough and makes the book feel very incomplete to me -- like it is just skimming the surface and not allowing the reader to sink deep. There is also some character handwavium that works to serve plot more than character. For instance, Jasmine's isolation that has conveniently kept her specialness completely hidden is never very satisfactorily explored. She has no girlfriends? What kind of job does she have? Why did she never even suspect something about her sons?
There were some areas where I felt the writing was rough. Some odd transitions and awkward phrasing and some noticeable, but not egregious, typos and editing issues. I mean, the main character, Jasmine is visiting her son in a military hospital along with her sister. Her son is in serious condition as he actually coded on the field. One minute they are talking about her worry about him and the next she decided to finish an earlier conversation about her sex life and how she hasn't had sex in years and she totally wants to get it on with someone.
I do want to continue on to read the next book. I am looking forward to seeing how Silas meets the threat and how he deals with the shifter community. And hopefully the character development will catch up to the plotting.
The best thing about this book is the world-building and the basic plot set up. The author has some very interesting ideas and built a PNR system that feels a little different from many out there. She has also created an interesting and viable conflict between shifters and humans. There is also a sense of the conflict being serious with deep roots and something potentially threatening to the main characters. It is a very good conflict to hang a series on and has the potential to be nicely complex.
However, the thing that really sucks me in is character development and I am not really feeling that in this book. The book relies almost too heavily on plot. And as interesting as that is, it isn't enough and makes the book feel very incomplete to me -- like it is just skimming the surface and not allowing the reader to sink deep. There is also some character handwavium that works to serve plot more than character. For instance, Jasmine's isolation that has conveniently kept her specialness completely hidden is never very satisfactorily explored. She has no girlfriends? What kind of job does she have? Why did she never even suspect something about her sons?
There were some areas where I felt the writing was rough. Some odd transitions and awkward phrasing and some noticeable, but not egregious, typos and editing issues. I mean, the main character, Jasmine is visiting her son in a military hospital along with her sister. Her son is in serious condition as he actually coded on the field. One minute they are talking about her worry about him and the next she decided to finish an earlier conversation about her sex life and how she hasn't had sex in years and she totally wants to get it on with someone.
I do want to continue on to read the next book. I am looking forward to seeing how Silas meets the threat and how he deals with the shifter community. And hopefully the character development will catch up to the plotting.
September 10, 2019
The Alpha of Alphas-Silas
5 Plus stars for this re read bwwm wolfie paranormal romance novel. Silas a brute and asshole knows how to protect his own. He also knows how to get his woman Jasmine. Jasmine a single mom of twins, is no joke either. She doesn’t fall under Silas command, she makes him work for it. Loved this from beginning to end. Be aware this ends in a cliffhanger but lucky for me I don’t have to wait the next installment. So Addae gets a pass on my wrath.😂
5 Plus stars for this re read bwwm wolfie paranormal romance novel. Silas a brute and asshole knows how to protect his own. He also knows how to get his woman Jasmine. Jasmine a single mom of twins, is no joke either. She doesn’t fall under Silas command, she makes him work for it. Loved this from beginning to end. Be aware this ends in a cliffhanger but lucky for me I don’t have to wait the next installment. So Addae gets a pass on my wrath.😂
August 22, 2014
Favorite Line "Smug bastard,”
“Taste the truth and embrace it, reject the lies and you will ride the wave of change.”
“Pride is a terrible thing. Mated pairs were never meant to be disturbed.”
“Goddess save me from fanatics,”
Oh yes I love me some La Patron! I want him!! Sikas is La Patron and he's sexy as hell! He learns that there are hybrids being bred. Human woman are being kidnapped and turned in to breeders. Did I mention these humans where a little crazy? Just nuts.
The twins are hybrids and because of their human mother they are more Wolf than human. Jasmine maybe be human but he will protect her sons with the fierceness of any wolf. She's a woman you don't want to cross. I love her!
When she finds out that her so s are wolves and she's a special human who can give birth to wolves. It's a action packed book filled with oh so sexy wolves, bad ass bitches, crazy fanatics, and a no nonsense mom! I loved every word!!
FIVE HYBRID FAIRIES
“Taste the truth and embrace it, reject the lies and you will ride the wave of change.”
“Pride is a terrible thing. Mated pairs were never meant to be disturbed.”
“Goddess save me from fanatics,”
Oh yes I love me some La Patron! I want him!! Sikas is La Patron and he's sexy as hell! He learns that there are hybrids being bred. Human woman are being kidnapped and turned in to breeders. Did I mention these humans where a little crazy? Just nuts.
The twins are hybrids and because of their human mother they are more Wolf than human. Jasmine maybe be human but he will protect her sons with the fierceness of any wolf. She's a woman you don't want to cross. I love her!
When she finds out that her so s are wolves and she's a special human who can give birth to wolves. It's a action packed book filled with oh so sexy wolves, bad ass bitches, crazy fanatics, and a no nonsense mom! I loved every word!!
FIVE HYBRID FAIRIES
June 3, 2014
Talk about a WTF moments, this book is filled with it, one of the main ones that grossed me out was when the hero tells the heroine sons that he has to have sex with their mother and very roughly because she is in heat, the sons are all for it and was even trying to find ways to get the heroine to go along with it, which didn't take much, and the hero proceeds to do just that very roughly, very loudly while the sons are in the next room.
I mean this author involved the sons all in her sex life.
No romance, no love here all there is, is a story in order to write about sex.
this was a book of sex just for the sake of having sex.
I don't know what the author was thinking and how everyone who reads this, well almost everyone, thinks this was fine.
I mean this author involved the sons all in her sex life.
No romance, no love here all there is, is a story in order to write about sex.
this was a book of sex just for the sake of having sex.
I don't know what the author was thinking and how everyone who reads this, well almost everyone, thinks this was fine.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 7, 2013
I really enjoyed this book ,This is the beginning of a very interesting series.
August 6, 2014
BirthRight by Sydney Addae is a different look at the werewolf series. Silas, the head alpha in North America. Hears news that has him concerned. He hears of a wolf not a member of any pack. He also has a twin. They are in the military. Tyrone is Army and Tyree's is Marines. Tyrone suffered grave injuries that would have killed a human. His twin Tyree's was in a firefight in Afghanistan and he blacked out when Tone was hit. One of the hospital staff was a wolf and they whisked him away to get proper care. Rese was sent statewide with an early goodbye from the Marines. Rones accident cause his early retirement. Silas is dismayed at the crossbreeds, but he sees their big and strong. They would make good alphas after they finished his schooling. The twins mother is involved. Shes a human who can breed wolves. She sends off pheremones that attract male wolves. They tell her about the wolf. Her husband disappeared after he trained the twins telling them to avoid packs and never tell their mother. He was disowned by his family for getting a human pregnant. Silas is shocked this should never have happened. The pheremones get to Silas and the twins mom and he make love. She becomes pregnant. Follow Silas and the twins as they discover more.
May 3, 2021
I have had this book on my TBR for so long it is ridiculous. I bought it cause it sounded interesting then promptly started reading everything but it. Well, I have finally started and was very pleasantly surprised to find that I had not been wrong about the book. I am loving all the characters, maybe because they seem like people I either know or have known. They are all very well realized and come across as very true to life in their reactions and interactions. The backdrop is pretty much modern-day and so not so much building needed as just making sure to give a real look at the places we go and talk about.
Silas Knight is the Patron, Alpha to the Alphas of North America. As the top wolf, he fears very little and has seen a great many things in his 300 years. But when he discovers that someone or something is disturbing the natural order, and he is surprised. There is a human woman who has given birth to fully functioning wolves, and that is a problem.
Jasmine Bennett had no idea her dead husband was a wolf shifter or that her twin sons are also. Her life is changed when her son is injured in Afghanistan and she rushes to be by his side. Her life becomes endangered because she has done something which shifters consider to be outside what the Goddess has ordained and feel it an abomination. But maybe things are not really what they seem to be.
I listened to the book on audible as well as read along and enjoyed it for the most part. I cannot really much good about the narrator because she did not make it an enjoyable experience for me when I did both together. I would recommend either reading this first book for yourself or listening but do not do both if you can avoid it. The narrator, Denise Mincey-Mills, decided to make a lot of changes to the book as she read. She changed dialogue, descriptions, feelings, thoughts as she was, "reading" the story with the wording nothing like what was written. It just made it very distracting for following.
But as I said I enjoyed the story and am looking forward to continuing it because I want to know how things turn out since I find myself liking the majority of the characters.
Silas Knight is the Patron, Alpha to the Alphas of North America. As the top wolf, he fears very little and has seen a great many things in his 300 years. But when he discovers that someone or something is disturbing the natural order, and he is surprised. There is a human woman who has given birth to fully functioning wolves, and that is a problem.
Jasmine Bennett had no idea her dead husband was a wolf shifter or that her twin sons are also. Her life is changed when her son is injured in Afghanistan and she rushes to be by his side. Her life becomes endangered because she has done something which shifters consider to be outside what the Goddess has ordained and feel it an abomination. But maybe things are not really what they seem to be.
I listened to the book on audible as well as read along and enjoyed it for the most part. I cannot really much good about the narrator because she did not make it an enjoyable experience for me when I did both together. I would recommend either reading this first book for yourself or listening but do not do both if you can avoid it. The narrator, Denise Mincey-Mills, decided to make a lot of changes to the book as she read. She changed dialogue, descriptions, feelings, thoughts as she was, "reading" the story with the wording nothing like what was written. It just made it very distracting for following.
But as I said I enjoyed the story and am looking forward to continuing it because I want to know how things turn out since I find myself liking the majority of the characters.
August 18, 2020
The premise is interesting and you can see some good storytelling happening, however the writing and editing have been done poorly, some sentences don't make grammatical sense or any sense at all, some words are misspelled or have the wrong meaning. If you like hot sex and fast paced stories and don't mind the poor writing style this book is for you. At its core the book has promise, it just needs a bit more work and attention to detail.
July 14, 2019
Is this an IR read? I was under the impression that it was but never heard a black woman being described with “creamy skin”.
November 3, 2013
Wow this book was baaaaaaad. Characters were like cardboard cutouts - no depth and no emotion. The one sex scene between the hero and heroine was just awful, and the fact her kids were listening and quite cool with this guy just coming on in and shagging their mum while they were downstairs? Just a tad eeew and a bit creepy. I felt absolutely no heat between them at all, it was one of the worst (probably THE worst written relationship between two people I have ever read). One of my pet hates in romance books is the well overused trope of the heroine getting all wet and needy in her "core" (lol) every time she so much as looks at the hero. It's lazy and boring, Try creating heat some other way like through dialogue and interaction, it would be a hell of a lot more believable. Couldn't care less about what was going on, skim read to the end. At least this was a really short book otherwise I would've given up at chapter 3 or thereabouts. Also way too many editing mistakes - it's just sloppy and unnecessary - proofread!! Can safely say I will not be reading any more in this series, if I could've given it 0 stars I would have.
December 31, 2015
This book had an interesting premise and a potentially ineresting world. Sadly enough time wasn't spent developing the "romance". Just shoving two characters together and giving them a sex scene does not a romance make. We needed to see the hero and heroine falling in love, as it was all they did was fall in lust because "pheromones". The characters were one dimensional. Added to that the heroine had a touch of the TSTL (too stupid to live) and the hero was an Alpha-Jerk.
For a book that claims to be a romance it is a bit worrying when I'm more interested in the secondary plot (although it could be argued that the romance was the secondary plot) than the romance. Inspite of that there were a few too many convenient things going on in this book.
Luckily I picked this up free on Amazon uk, so no money wasted. It's a shame this could have been a great book if there was a coherent plot, less conveniences and 3 dimensional characters.
For a book that claims to be a romance it is a bit worrying when I'm more interested in the secondary plot (although it could be argued that the romance was the secondary plot) than the romance. Inspite of that there were a few too many convenient things going on in this book.
Luckily I picked this up free on Amazon uk, so no money wasted. It's a shame this could have been a great book if there was a coherent plot, less conveniences and 3 dimensional characters.
May 5, 2014
I liked the idea of this story...that is all I liked. Poor plot, weak characters, horrible editing, surreal, even for a paranormal story, and ridiculously stupid...Pass on this one. It is not worth the effort to try and decipher what the author is trying to relate. Can you say wham-bam-thank you-mam?! Women are nothing but sex objects and there is not even enough testosterone in the supposed alpha males to imagine any of these packs survival.
September 14, 2014
I really like this read but I was confuse about la Parton title is he CEO , President, one of many elders, congress man of north American wolf nation.? it seem like alphas didn't make move in less he say so. I though each alpha have their own guideline within their own pack.
October 7, 2013
I liked the start to this new shifter series. Looking forward to book 2.
February 6, 2014
This book was so appallingly written I couldn't get past the first chapter before deleting it.
Started/abandoned: February 4/14
Started/abandoned: February 4/14
February 20, 2016
I loved this story even if it's only book one in the series,I love how it's a new take on werewolves,and once I picked it up i couldn't stop reading it.
October 23, 2018
1.75 Stars. Audible book stammered through by Denis Mincey-Mills. The story is read in a humdrum monotone and when there is an infection in tone, it is inconsistent with the occurrences. The author manages to construct a host of unlikeable characters, especially the heroine who is snarky, rude and filled with scornful anger. Jasmine Bennett is a 36-year-old Black human woman who has given birth to fully functioning twin male wolf-shifters. During her early teens, Jasmine unwittingly became pregnant by a gay wolf-shifter who left her for his male mate. The boys father taught them how to shift and keep their true natures from Jasmine and others, he also warned them to keep their mother safe because she could attract other wolf shifters. Eventually, Tyrone and Tyreese joined the military, Tyrone is nearly killed and both twins pass out. Tyrone's attending physicians realizes that the twins are shifters and refers Tyrone to a clinic run by Silas Patron. Silas is over 300 years old and is the Alpha of the North American Continent. Once Silas meets Tyrone, he awed that his mother is human and at the same time, Silas' wolf is attracted to Jasmine. Jasmine's sister is with her and is overbearing and pushy and the two women make tons of unity barbs and irksome remarks that the author may have intended as cute banter...it was over the top rude and trite and not at all humorous.
May 19, 2017
When I signed up for this tour (for a GP) I checked the series on Goodreads and I saw that, as many times before, readers’ reactions are quite different. Counting the fact that the book #1 is free, I didn’t resist the curiosity to read it. I cannot say I regret it. After reading the first book, although I had the possibility to ask the organizer for the next, I didn’t waste time with emails and I bought book #2. Thus, if you are new on Mythical Books, and don’t know that if we don’t like a story (or at least something about it which is important enough in our opinion) we choose to don’t write about it (you know, the tastes are not to be disputed), it is clear now that this is not a “polite” / promotional review.
Now, let’s talk about the La Patron: “BirthRight” and “BirthControl”. Since 2012 I read a lot of fantasy / paranormal (inclusive romance) books and most of the times I found in them a lack of originality in what regard the plots, characters, paranormal attributes etc. But in these two volumes I found some new or different things, even if sometimes is just about author’s approach of one or another aspect. This is the first plus. Another is the construction of the story: the main plot has its roots in the first book and grows in the second; I hope this will continue in the next ones. There are several interconnected conflicts (some obvious, some not so much), some are incipient, other are old and other seem to be already solved (I expect for them to be re-opened). There are some aspects which could have benefit from a better attention, but still I found enough explications for them and the possibility to get a better explanation in the next instalment(s) exist. Having in view that the first two volumes were published in 2013, the explicit scenes are present, but they are few and so, the paranormal content is not just a vehicle for some repetitive explicit episodes.
The characters are credible (for a paranormal story J), have a track record that allow them to transfer credibility to the story and to evolve with it. They have prejudices, pride, ambitions, but also knew to accept (or not) a change. The “bad guys” are various too; with different aims, different reasons or just being involuntary puppets they could cause real problems. The paranormal features and also the human ones play an important role and directly influence the characters's decisions and reactions.
The rhythm is good and becomes better in the second volume. After reading them, I could say that, maybe, it should have been better if these two parts were merged in a single one... but between readers who – from what I have seen – prefer fewer pages, publishers that impose a certain number of pages and what authors want to say, the perfect solution is quite hard to find.
Having in view that you can get the first book for free, you have nothing to lose, but reading it you may have a nice surprise. Enjoy!
https://mythicalbooks.blogspot.ro/201...
Now, let’s talk about the La Patron: “BirthRight” and “BirthControl”. Since 2012 I read a lot of fantasy / paranormal (inclusive romance) books and most of the times I found in them a lack of originality in what regard the plots, characters, paranormal attributes etc. But in these two volumes I found some new or different things, even if sometimes is just about author’s approach of one or another aspect. This is the first plus. Another is the construction of the story: the main plot has its roots in the first book and grows in the second; I hope this will continue in the next ones. There are several interconnected conflicts (some obvious, some not so much), some are incipient, other are old and other seem to be already solved (I expect for them to be re-opened). There are some aspects which could have benefit from a better attention, but still I found enough explications for them and the possibility to get a better explanation in the next instalment(s) exist. Having in view that the first two volumes were published in 2013, the explicit scenes are present, but they are few and so, the paranormal content is not just a vehicle for some repetitive explicit episodes.
The characters are credible (for a paranormal story J), have a track record that allow them to transfer credibility to the story and to evolve with it. They have prejudices, pride, ambitions, but also knew to accept (or not) a change. The “bad guys” are various too; with different aims, different reasons or just being involuntary puppets they could cause real problems. The paranormal features and also the human ones play an important role and directly influence the characters's decisions and reactions.
The rhythm is good and becomes better in the second volume. After reading them, I could say that, maybe, it should have been better if these two parts were merged in a single one... but between readers who – from what I have seen – prefer fewer pages, publishers that impose a certain number of pages and what authors want to say, the perfect solution is quite hard to find.
Having in view that you can get the first book for free, you have nothing to lose, but reading it you may have a nice surprise. Enjoy!
https://mythicalbooks.blogspot.ro/201...
March 26, 2019
The Beginning of a Saga
This is probably the third time that I have re-read this book. It's one of the first Interracial Shifter books that I read. In spite of the many grammatical errors, I find this book very interesting each time that I read it.
Silas, La Patron, is the all powerful, head wolf of the entire wolf nation in the United States. Tyrone and Tyrese are the twin sons of a human, Jasmine, and a wolf shifter. Jasmine never knew her sons were wolves or that there was a society of wolves in the world. They were unknown by the Wolf nation until brought to the attention of Silas. They are considered half breeds and abominations by some in the Wolf nation. Now, Jasmine is breeding with the pups of Silas as a result of him answering her mating calls to keep other wolves from raping her.
How will the nation feel about Silas' first children being half breeds? Will they accept them? How will Jasmine feel about becoming a part of Silas' household in West Virginia? Will Tyrone and Tyrese be accepted by the Wolf nation? Are there other human women who can breed wolves? Is it a conspiracy? Are Silas' children the wave of the future?
This is probably the third time that I have re-read this book. It's one of the first Interracial Shifter books that I read. In spite of the many grammatical errors, I find this book very interesting each time that I read it.
Silas, La Patron, is the all powerful, head wolf of the entire wolf nation in the United States. Tyrone and Tyrese are the twin sons of a human, Jasmine, and a wolf shifter. Jasmine never knew her sons were wolves or that there was a society of wolves in the world. They were unknown by the Wolf nation until brought to the attention of Silas. They are considered half breeds and abominations by some in the Wolf nation. Now, Jasmine is breeding with the pups of Silas as a result of him answering her mating calls to keep other wolves from raping her.
How will the nation feel about Silas' first children being half breeds? Will they accept them? How will Jasmine feel about becoming a part of Silas' household in West Virginia? Will Tyrone and Tyrese be accepted by the Wolf nation? Are there other human women who can breed wolves? Is it a conspiracy? Are Silas' children the wave of the future?
October 23, 2017
I read this book a couple years back and recently revisited this story; I truly enjoyed this book. My favorite kinds of book are the ones that draw you in, and may you feel like you are walking or sitting nest to each character. Sydney Addae achieved that with this book and most of the other books in this series.
BirthRight spins a tale of a world within a world and what happens when those worlds collide. A powerful but flawed male lead who sees life through a primal lens more than human, and a strong female lead, a mother whose world will be turned upside down by new discoveries.
I've read and reread the entire La Patron series and would recommended it to my fellow book lovers.
Well done!
BirthRight spins a tale of a world within a world and what happens when those worlds collide. A powerful but flawed male lead who sees life through a primal lens more than human, and a strong female lead, a mother whose world will be turned upside down by new discoveries.
I've read and reread the entire La Patron series and would recommended it to my fellow book lovers.
Well done!
January 12, 2018
This is my first look at Sydney Addae's work and I'm hooked
What a wonderful story, I couldn't put the book down it had suspense, love interest, a nurturing mother figure who was not a young girl or in her early twenties like most characters, she was a mature women who is strong and has brought up two upstanding men! Love it.... the erotic scenes were brilliant and the humour throughout the story is not forced and seems very natural.
I will enjoy reading more of Ms Addae's work she has warned herself a new fan!!
I highly recommend reading this as you won't be able to put it down and will be excited to read more....
What a wonderful story, I couldn't put the book down it had suspense, love interest, a nurturing mother figure who was not a young girl or in her early twenties like most characters, she was a mature women who is strong and has brought up two upstanding men! Love it.... the erotic scenes were brilliant and the humour throughout the story is not forced and seems very natural.
I will enjoy reading more of Ms Addae's work she has warned herself a new fan!!
I highly recommend reading this as you won't be able to put it down and will be excited to read more....
October 27, 2018
The book overall was a good. This is my first time reading a shifter novel. It was interesting learning the history and roles of La Patron and the Alphas. I would have liked to learn more about Jasmine and her husband in this book then what was presented. More of how she looked and more of her and her husband in her words. Crazy how birthing hybrids can cause the wolves to go crazy and want to attack and how Silas was unaware of this. But I would have liked more and hate I had to jump right into Birth Control to understand more.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 21, 2018
You better do something to it!
This book is full of little pieces of mystery all trying to come together to form a big picture. I like how it was executed in this book because it makes readers think about how it could end. Some books will leave the mystery out there flapping and you end up confused. Not so much with this one. The next books in the series are bound to do more slow unraveling and keep you on your toes. Character personalities could be better.
This book is full of little pieces of mystery all trying to come together to form a big picture. I like how it was executed in this book because it makes readers think about how it could end. Some books will leave the mystery out there flapping and you end up confused. Not so much with this one. The next books in the series are bound to do more slow unraveling and keep you on your toes. Character personalities could be better.
August 31, 2018
When I started this book I was thinking that I would really like it but as I got further into the book there was something off about it, not sure if it was the story or writing style or what but maybe alittle more editing would have helped in this book. Its not a bad book nor is it a great book just medioker.
November 22, 2018
Definitely A Page Turner
Plots, that keep you in suspense and transfixed in the story. Characters that are distinct, independent, strong and wide ranging. A seductive storyline that holds your attention, keeps you turning the page in eager anticipation. Looking forward to continuing the series.
Plots, that keep you in suspense and transfixed in the story. Characters that are distinct, independent, strong and wide ranging. A seductive storyline that holds your attention, keeps you turning the page in eager anticipation. Looking forward to continuing the series.
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