I'm honestly not invested enough to even write out a full review, so I'm just pasting the notes I took as I read this one:
"He had worked hard to earn his place within the pack, to prove himself worthy of his father's legacy. He had even sacrificed the love of his life to accomplish it."
He doesn't deserve her. He chose his pack over her from the very beginning, even choosing to agree to marry a stranger from her pack (that he didn't know was her) in the name of duty, giving her up completely. No one involved in her being the chosen bride knew they'd end up together, so if it hadn't just happened to be her, he never would have chosen her at all.
When he goes to meet his bride to be, he's both "excited and terrified." THIS is a man in love with someone he tragically can't be with? I hate him already.
He keeps saying over and over "the love I once had for her." This is only a year after he had planned to be with her for the rest of his life, and now his love for her is a thing of the past? He would have gone on to marry anyone else if it hadn't happened to be her the marriage was arranged with, and he wouldn't have made any other choice because he was still just set on doing his duty.
Random name in the wrong spot. Random switching between first person and third person multiple times on the same pages.
He lets his ex, who he knows wants him back, touch him suggestively while they talk and does nothing about it.....
He also stands by while she constantly puts the FMC down, just saying a few things once to get her to stop and then leaving it, saying she'll realize sooner or later that she needs to suddenly respect the FMC, but of course that doesn't happen.
‼️ SPOILER
Oldest trick in the book: the girl who has been outspoken and rude about her since day one brings her a drink with something odd smelling in it and apologizes, and she just drinks it and opens up to her telling her what she hasn't told other kinder pack members? Of course that drink was laced and the apology fake. Smh. She drugged her and tried to murder the FMC, but when she's killed by the FMC instead, the pack is angry with the FMC for losing her? Ok....
Even at the end the FMC is harping on about how the MMC caused her pain and she shouldn't trust him, and usually I'd applaud taking that long and making him sweat...but sis didn't make him sweat at all. She took him back on day one and just internally fretted like she didn't just give in the moment she saw him again. I don't want to hear her complain over and over when she's BEEN back together with him the entire time.
He's so adamant that he's choosing her now, but not choosing her would conflict with his duty and tear apart their packs' tentative peace, so we'll never know if he'd actually have ever chosen her.
I hate them both. The baby is only mentioned when she's needed for the storyline. She breastfeeds her once in chapter 1 and then never again the entire story. She's alone often in the book, but only twice does she mention who is watching the baby, even though the two people she knows are at the other events she's at during other times in the story. There's one scene where she's nervous to leave the baby alone for the first time, but every time after that she's alone and we have no idea where the baby is because she's not needed for the story right then. A howl made by the MMC in her chapter but not made by the MMC in his chapter when his events overlap hers. She talks about playing with her older brother as children, but then we find out her brother raised her when her parents died and she was a baby. We never find out how much older the brother is. We never find out how old the baby is, even though she's hinted to be about 3 months at the beginning, but later acts much older, abl to interact with adults and reach for people, and even stand at one point. In the beginning, the MMC had been gone for 1 year, but later says they hadn't been together in "years." Other inconsistencies I don't care to mention.
A cartoon villain mean girl villain.
Unnecessary OW drama is the only source of angst for this entire story. Everything else, including their relationship issues after his betrayal and leaving her pregnant and alone, are basically solved the first time they meet.
We have no idea how much time passes in the story. It seemed like less than a week that she was living with the other pack, but had to have been more than that.