This story contains acts of violence, sexual assault, derogatory language, mutilation, self-harm, and abuse.
Nineteen-year-old Angelica Winter is a human girl. She has little knowledge of life outside her mother's torment and she don't believe she ever will. For ten years, she's been verbally and physically mistreated. The horrible treatment makes her feel like she's not human, like she's nothing, but when she makes a mistake, a choice had to be made—have her only purity be defiled or risk an escape?
Twenty-Two year old Axel Moretti is a werewolf Alpha. He's searched for his mate for four years, slowly losing hope that he doesn't have one due to his past cruelty. Then, he unexpectedly finds her. However, when he meets her something seems very wrong. She’s an overly startled human, and what's worse, she refuses to show her eyes.
When the reason to her strange ways comes to light, will Axel be able to keep his cruel ways under control in order to heal his scarred, reluctant mate? Or will he unravel and lose the love of his life forever?
I really enjoyed this, the abuse in it is very dark so if your not comfortable I wouldn't read as was the worst abused female I have read. But she came into her own and I enjoyed the journey.
Plot: Angelica is a human, living with a horribly abusive mother when she is finally able to escape. She ends up with a wolf shifter pack and soon learns that wolf shifters exist and the alpha is her mate. But will he want her and can she ever heal from her trauma?
Commentary: The abuse Angelica suffers at the hands of her mother is pretty horrific (. So if you are sensitive to parent-child abuse, this might be one to skip. This is a pretty standard Wattpad shifter story (I don't know if that's where the story is from originally, but that's how it reads). The pacing is a little iffy, but more than that, the characterization is off. We have the cartoonish villain - if she was a man, she'd be twirling her mustache and tying Penelope to the train tracks. The leaders of the pack and their mates remind me of a particularly immature group of college students who suddenly find themselves without parental supervision. It's all insults and shrieking and shopping and gatherings. There must be important pack politics going on, but you wouldn't know it. This poor girl has been isolated and abused for years, can't see, can't talk, and is scared of almost everyone, and her new female friend is dragging her to the mall to buy lingerie! For a pack who is dealing with a known enemy (the hunter, who turns out to be , there's just not a lot of preparation. Honestly, I think the plot was just a vehicle for the new adult relationships and the balance was simply off for me. Also - Diane! Evil stepmother is evil once and nobody ever deals with her except for big bad alpha telling the dad to control his wife? Dropped thread there.
Grammar/formatting: Needed a serious pass with an editor/proofreader Continuity error - Blaine's sister gets excited at the beginning of the book because she sees him with Angelica and thinks she's his mate but then later on we see him with his mate and obviously his sister had to have known about that.
I really wanted to like the book. I was prepared for it to be really dark based on the content warning. Was it dark? Yes it was. The problem that I had and what honestly made it so I just could not finish this book is that SHE WOULD BE DEAD. I’m not just saying that to say that, yes I understand that it is a story, and therefore fictional.
In the same way that I cannot read sex scenes where they go from having anal straight to vaginal sex. I cringe. Literally cringe because that is a yeast infection waiting to happen, just so unsanitary. I cannot continue to read this book because she would be dead. With the descriptors of how often she gets to bathe, the conditions that she’s forced to live in (a cage surrounded by her own filth; urine, feces, period blood), there is just no way realistically that she could have had so many limb (finger & foot) amputations without catching an infection (sepsis) and dying. There’s just no way. Even if her mom is/was a ‘Navy Seal’, there’s no way.
I wanted to continue reading but I just can’t.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Such a great story it's a roller coaster of emotions but very heartwarming. The beginning is a bit dark but that's what makes you appreciate the ending so much. I really love this book only negative this I can say is that I wish it was a bit longer.
There are a lot of issues with the tile things take as it’s makes for a difficult read.
No spoilers but several characters are introduced only to be dropped with zero warning I would definitely like to read something from this author that has been edited.
This book has a lot of triggering dark flashbacks so definitely read with caution but it is a great story! Big fan of how obsessed the hero was with his broken human! Read if you like trope werewolf books
I mean it’s an okay read but does feel like a book from Wattpad that just gets rushed through. Author could’ve done a lot more with the character Calix, think that should’ve ended differently. And so many issues were left unresolved… I have so many questions and not many answers.
I really liked the premise of this story, abused girl rescued by an alpha. Liked having the different points of view, and getting Dax's here and there. However, I feel there could have been more character development and story line.
I don’t ever cut reading books short. However, I did with this one. My curiosity for answers to Angelica’s past can’t outweigh how redundant the first chapters were. Angelica is always crying… always! Axel is patient, but basically there is a lot of cuddling and appeasing.