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Pack Born #1
The Alpha's Weave
Pack Book One After years of abuse in his old shifter pack, Dante found a new life with Alpha Victor. He would do anything for Victor. Anything but stay away from Jesse, the half-blood stray. But when Victor names Dante his heir, he has no choice but to accept the duties given to him even if it means relinquishing the possibility of love. He owes his life and sanity to Victor, and that’s a debt Dante can never fully repay.
But Dante should have known the good life couldn’t last. His former alpha, Caster, is not a male who lets anything of value slip through his grasp. When rumors fly of Caster’s return, Dante knows the man will stop at nothing to possess him and his talent once again. When Jesse is kidnapped and Victor falls victim to an untimely death, his worst fears are realized. His old alpha has finally returned to reclaim him. Dante must use his fears and nightmares to save Jesse and his pack, even if it means sacrificing himself.
But Dante should have known the good life couldn’t last. His former alpha, Caster, is not a male who lets anything of value slip through his grasp. When rumors fly of Caster’s return, Dante knows the man will stop at nothing to possess him and his talent once again. When Jesse is kidnapped and Victor falls victim to an untimely death, his worst fears are realized. His old alpha has finally returned to reclaim him. Dante must use his fears and nightmares to save Jesse and his pack, even if it means sacrificing himself.
270 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 25, 2016
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C.M. Torrens
7 books30 followersC.M. Torrens writes stories of characters and dark new worlds. People falling in love or finding it in dark and strange places and discovering hope in the bleak circumstances. Beyond that, she tries not to put herself into a genre box.
She lives in the Midwest with her furry canines, the fattest most spoiled corn snake ever to grace the planet and her wonderful family. She is often described as 'strange' but think that suits her just fine.
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Email: CM.Torrens@gmail.com
She lives in the Midwest with her furry canines, the fattest most spoiled corn snake ever to grace the planet and her wonderful family. She is often described as 'strange' but think that suits her just fine.
Contact Info
Blog: http://cmtorrens.wordpress.com/
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/CMTorrens
Email: CM.Torrens@gmail.com
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January 10, 2017
This book impressed me. It was my first C.M. Torrens book and a great introduction to a new shifter series. There are a few things about this book that stood out to me right off the bat. For one, the traditional pack bond is described as a weave and is much stronger than just a bond or relationship. Pack born shifters need the weave. This minor change completely changed the pack dynamic and made this book a lot more intense.
I wasn’t sure at the beginning if I really liked Dante. He’d spent years being suppressed by his old Alpha, Caster, and in some ways, I was questioning whether or not he really had much of a personality. I can’t think of any way to describe it other than that he just seemed ‘blah.’ Then Victor swooped in, playing superman, and rescued Dante while he was hunting Caster down.
There were a few parts of the book in which Torrens describes Dante’s nightmares and the things that Caster used to make him do. It was in this moment that I feel like I really got to know and understand Dante as a character. He wasn’t ‘blah’ or lacking personality, he was confused and afraid that his life with Victor wasn’t going to last. He was so used to the way Caster used to treat him that being rescued and loved and cared about, actually belonging to a pack, was putting him in uncharted and uncertain territory. It took me a while to get a grasp on him as a character, but once I did, everything else kind of cleared up and I understood where Torrens was coming from.
Victor was a good character, but I don’t think there was much originality to him. He was just that typical hero type character that’s completely perfect and for no particular reason (at least, no expressed reason) chooses our underdog MC as his heir. It was a little predictable in that right, but I didn’t think that he was so cookie cutter that he was unlikeable. He was still a good character and I did enjoy getting to know him throughout the book.
The main conflict here is, again, a little bit predictable because it’s built up from the very beginning, but the book was well written and I didn’t mind that predictability so much. Again, Torrens was able to bring some slightly different elements that make this book stand out from other shifter reads.
Overall, I really did like the book. It was well written and with some time, I did come to understand and like all of the characters (with the exception of Caster, of course). I’ll be keeping an eye out for the release of the second book in this series and I would definitely recommend this to other shifter fans.
Reviewed by Jordan at Alpha Book Club.
Disclaimer: This book was provided by the author in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions expressed herein are my own and not influenced by the author or the publisher in any way.
I wasn’t sure at the beginning if I really liked Dante. He’d spent years being suppressed by his old Alpha, Caster, and in some ways, I was questioning whether or not he really had much of a personality. I can’t think of any way to describe it other than that he just seemed ‘blah.’ Then Victor swooped in, playing superman, and rescued Dante while he was hunting Caster down.
There were a few parts of the book in which Torrens describes Dante’s nightmares and the things that Caster used to make him do. It was in this moment that I feel like I really got to know and understand Dante as a character. He wasn’t ‘blah’ or lacking personality, he was confused and afraid that his life with Victor wasn’t going to last. He was so used to the way Caster used to treat him that being rescued and loved and cared about, actually belonging to a pack, was putting him in uncharted and uncertain territory. It took me a while to get a grasp on him as a character, but once I did, everything else kind of cleared up and I understood where Torrens was coming from.
Victor was a good character, but I don’t think there was much originality to him. He was just that typical hero type character that’s completely perfect and for no particular reason (at least, no expressed reason) chooses our underdog MC as his heir. It was a little predictable in that right, but I didn’t think that he was so cookie cutter that he was unlikeable. He was still a good character and I did enjoy getting to know him throughout the book.
The main conflict here is, again, a little bit predictable because it’s built up from the very beginning, but the book was well written and I didn’t mind that predictability so much. Again, Torrens was able to bring some slightly different elements that make this book stand out from other shifter reads.
Overall, I really did like the book. It was well written and with some time, I did come to understand and like all of the characters (with the exception of Caster, of course). I’ll be keeping an eye out for the release of the second book in this series and I would definitely recommend this to other shifter fans.
Reviewed by Jordan at Alpha Book Club.
Disclaimer: This book was provided by the author in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions expressed herein are my own and not influenced by the author or the publisher in any way.
October 25, 2016
REVIEWED FOR PRISM BOOK ALLIANCE
4.25 Stars
What a great start to new series! The Alpha’s Weave introduces us to Dante and Jesse as the books main characters but there are a myriad of secondary characters that are very relevant to the story and the paranormal world that CM Torrens has begun to build.
The Weave is the very essence of the pack and is what holds together and comforts all its members. The Alpha holds the Weave allowing him to always know where his members are, if they are in trouble, to call them en masse if he needs them and to keep up the harmony of so many people living together. As in everything in life there are good and bad alphas – here we have the good that is Victor and the bad that is Caster and they both want the same thing – Dante. To Victor Dante is like a son and is the alpha heir to the pack. To Caster Dante is a pet, something to play with and hurt, something he feels Victor stole from him and he will stop at nothing to get him back.
Jesse is a stray and as such doesn’t have the safety and comfort of a pack – strays are seen as less than and are often killed on sight. Jesse has a good heart but has been dishonest in some of his actions – he has the protection and the love of Dante even though Dante has been forbidden to get involved with him. Jesse is probably the only thing that Dante will defy his alpha about – then Victor dies.
This is a fast paced story which is often violent and gruesome and the author has no problem with killing off characters. By the end of the book the pack dynamics have changed drastically but you are left with the feeling that this is only the beginning. Dante and Jesse may finally get their HEA and Dante may have fought his old alpha and won but you are left with the feeling that there is much more to come and not all of it will be easy. I look forward to seeing where the author will take their story in book 2.
4.25 Stars
What a great start to new series! The Alpha’s Weave introduces us to Dante and Jesse as the books main characters but there are a myriad of secondary characters that are very relevant to the story and the paranormal world that CM Torrens has begun to build.
The Weave is the very essence of the pack and is what holds together and comforts all its members. The Alpha holds the Weave allowing him to always know where his members are, if they are in trouble, to call them en masse if he needs them and to keep up the harmony of so many people living together. As in everything in life there are good and bad alphas – here we have the good that is Victor and the bad that is Caster and they both want the same thing – Dante. To Victor Dante is like a son and is the alpha heir to the pack. To Caster Dante is a pet, something to play with and hurt, something he feels Victor stole from him and he will stop at nothing to get him back.
Jesse is a stray and as such doesn’t have the safety and comfort of a pack – strays are seen as less than and are often killed on sight. Jesse has a good heart but has been dishonest in some of his actions – he has the protection and the love of Dante even though Dante has been forbidden to get involved with him. Jesse is probably the only thing that Dante will defy his alpha about – then Victor dies.
This is a fast paced story which is often violent and gruesome and the author has no problem with killing off characters. By the end of the book the pack dynamics have changed drastically but you are left with the feeling that this is only the beginning. Dante and Jesse may finally get their HEA and Dante may have fought his old alpha and won but you are left with the feeling that there is much more to come and not all of it will be easy. I look forward to seeing where the author will take their story in book 2.
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November 1, 20162 Hearts
Sometimes a book from a new to you author works and sometimes it doesn’t. With me this book falls in the latter.
I think part of my frustration belongs to me and not the book. I forgot that books under the DSP Publication are not romance and for me, shifters equal romance. That is not what I got. Though Dante and Jesse from the first pages elude to their forbidden love, it was not something that was at the front of the story and I kept wanting it to happen.
All that aside, there was a lot going on in this story and not just the four POV’s that we get. I normally don’t have a problem with world building but this made me do the Scooby Doo held tilt trying to figure out the pack laws and politics and the whole pack weave deal went way over my head. This shifter tale was odd and nothing like I have ever read before and where usually that excites me, with this it completely took me out of the story.
I’ll keep this review short: Dante used to belong to Caster who was a dick. He escapes Caster and joins Alpha Victor’s pack. Victor’s pack is very touchy feely with one another, taking showers together, bathing one another and they all snuggle in one extra-large even too big for Shaq pack bed. But none of this is romantic or sexual or even capable of giving me feelings. I don’t know what the point was to show all of that and do it all in human form. I love the cuddling etc with shifters when in animal form and find it super swoony and adorable but this was just all kinda weird.
Anyway.
Dante meets Jesse who is a “stray” or half-breed and Victor who seems to be this strong but empathetic Alpha won’t take them in or let one of his dudes be with one. Mmm… Okay? So Dante tries to stay away from Jesse and Jesse is trying to get some help for his sick sister all while helping another stray who happens to be the daughter of Dante’s pack… phew. Yeah. Jesse is also getting help from the wrong wolves and one who happens to be Dante’s real brother August who is a dick like Caster.
Wow.
Like I said, a lot was going on and that was all in the like first 35% of the book.
Things for me never got clearer and never got interesting. I never connected to a single character in the story and found the writing to be pretty pedestrian. The dialogue was stilted, reading with little to no emotion and bored the holy heck out of me and the end was quite literally, anti-climactic.
So yeah. This one, didn’t work for me at all.
Sometimes a book from a new to you author works and sometimes it doesn’t. With me this book falls in the latter.
I think part of my frustration belongs to me and not the book. I forgot that books under the DSP Publication are not romance and for me, shifters equal romance. That is not what I got. Though Dante and Jesse from the first pages elude to their forbidden love, it was not something that was at the front of the story and I kept wanting it to happen.
All that aside, there was a lot going on in this story and not just the four POV’s that we get. I normally don’t have a problem with world building but this made me do the Scooby Doo held tilt trying to figure out the pack laws and politics and the whole pack weave deal went way over my head. This shifter tale was odd and nothing like I have ever read before and where usually that excites me, with this it completely took me out of the story.
I’ll keep this review short: Dante used to belong to Caster who was a dick. He escapes Caster and joins Alpha Victor’s pack. Victor’s pack is very touchy feely with one another, taking showers together, bathing one another and they all snuggle in one extra-large even too big for Shaq pack bed. But none of this is romantic or sexual or even capable of giving me feelings. I don’t know what the point was to show all of that and do it all in human form. I love the cuddling etc with shifters when in animal form and find it super swoony and adorable but this was just all kinda weird.
Anyway.
Dante meets Jesse who is a “stray” or half-breed and Victor who seems to be this strong but empathetic Alpha won’t take them in or let one of his dudes be with one. Mmm… Okay? So Dante tries to stay away from Jesse and Jesse is trying to get some help for his sick sister all while helping another stray who happens to be the daughter of Dante’s pack… phew. Yeah. Jesse is also getting help from the wrong wolves and one who happens to be Dante’s real brother August who is a dick like Caster.
Wow.
Like I said, a lot was going on and that was all in the like first 35% of the book.
Things for me never got clearer and never got interesting. I never connected to a single character in the story and found the writing to be pretty pedestrian. The dialogue was stilted, reading with little to no emotion and bored the holy heck out of me and the end was quite literally, anti-climactic.
So yeah. This one, didn’t work for me at all.
October 26, 2016
All in all, this was a simple, easy-going shifter read. Even though there were a lot of similarities between this work and other shifter works, how it deviated from the norm was it didn’t have the usual strong romantic or sexual components shifter books have, though the genre as a whole is changing. The parts that really worked for me centered around exploring the world with Dante’s character.
Dante was relatable and fairly mellow. I didn’t find him particularly compelling, but he was complex and he did have a ton of agency. He’s the one with the dark past, he’s the outsider, but he was also ultimately the solution to his pack’s salvation and the betterment of the entire shifter community. I’m not sure the blurb represents Dante’s internal struggle as I saw it, but I suppose it’s close enough and I did enjoy his viewpoint.
There were other viewpoints in the novel, but I couldn’t latch onto them as much as I did with Dante’s. We even got to dip into Castor’s head, the main antagonist. Victor, the alpha of Dante’s pack, was interesting, but he seemed to be more of a plot device than anything, which was disappointing because I liked him and wanted to know what he saw in Dante that I wasn’t seeing. His faith in Dante seemed—to me—horrendously misplaced and dangerous for his pack. But it was also a fascinating piece of information about our protagonist’s worth from a character who wasn’t Dante. Otherwise, Dante has pretty low self-esteem for a shifter, who as a race seem to be fairly happy with who they are as people.
One of the aspects that attracted both Castor and Victor to Dante was his talent. Apparently, a small portion of alpha males have talents that can benefit the pack, and they vary wildly. They weren’t explained in super detail, and sometimes they seemed more like another plot device than anything; however, Dante’s talent could explain why both Victor and Castor took such great risks to keep him around, and Victor’s not one for being reckless. Even though the process of Dante’s talent was murky at best, it was clear that what he was capable of was very important to the pack and their society. Dante, however, doesn’t see his talent as a good thing, which explains why he doesn’t use it as much as he could.
In many ways, the worldbuilding was more interesting than your standard shifter fiction. There was a bit more canine culture—body language, motivations, etc. I found the idea of a pack bed rather intriguing, and I would have liked that explored more. One part that had me laughing was how in Dante’s pack, the females (they aren’t referred to as women) and pups ate first. My folks breed show dogs, and their alpha female always eats before her pups, so does the alpha male, and the alpha female will guard her food even if she has no interest in actually eating it. These little tidbits of worldbuilding in the story—where they differed and where they were the same as canine culture—were fascinating to me.
I could be over generalizing, but I was curious as to why every shifter worked as a mechanic in a shop. How did that affect the town they lived in? Why didn’t we see many interactions of Dante with humans? If they work in society as mechanics, wouldn’t that interaction be a big part of their lives?
This was a fun read, perfect for any shifter fiction fan. I would have liked the point of view to have stayed with Dante, and, through Dante, we had been allowed to explore the world more, but keeping readers begging for more is an author’s bread and butter, so I’m going to say it was a job well done!
Reviewed by Ben for The Novel Approach Reviews
Dante was relatable and fairly mellow. I didn’t find him particularly compelling, but he was complex and he did have a ton of agency. He’s the one with the dark past, he’s the outsider, but he was also ultimately the solution to his pack’s salvation and the betterment of the entire shifter community. I’m not sure the blurb represents Dante’s internal struggle as I saw it, but I suppose it’s close enough and I did enjoy his viewpoint.
There were other viewpoints in the novel, but I couldn’t latch onto them as much as I did with Dante’s. We even got to dip into Castor’s head, the main antagonist. Victor, the alpha of Dante’s pack, was interesting, but he seemed to be more of a plot device than anything, which was disappointing because I liked him and wanted to know what he saw in Dante that I wasn’t seeing. His faith in Dante seemed—to me—horrendously misplaced and dangerous for his pack. But it was also a fascinating piece of information about our protagonist’s worth from a character who wasn’t Dante. Otherwise, Dante has pretty low self-esteem for a shifter, who as a race seem to be fairly happy with who they are as people.
One of the aspects that attracted both Castor and Victor to Dante was his talent. Apparently, a small portion of alpha males have talents that can benefit the pack, and they vary wildly. They weren’t explained in super detail, and sometimes they seemed more like another plot device than anything; however, Dante’s talent could explain why both Victor and Castor took such great risks to keep him around, and Victor’s not one for being reckless. Even though the process of Dante’s talent was murky at best, it was clear that what he was capable of was very important to the pack and their society. Dante, however, doesn’t see his talent as a good thing, which explains why he doesn’t use it as much as he could.
In many ways, the worldbuilding was more interesting than your standard shifter fiction. There was a bit more canine culture—body language, motivations, etc. I found the idea of a pack bed rather intriguing, and I would have liked that explored more. One part that had me laughing was how in Dante’s pack, the females (they aren’t referred to as women) and pups ate first. My folks breed show dogs, and their alpha female always eats before her pups, so does the alpha male, and the alpha female will guard her food even if she has no interest in actually eating it. These little tidbits of worldbuilding in the story—where they differed and where they were the same as canine culture—were fascinating to me.
I could be over generalizing, but I was curious as to why every shifter worked as a mechanic in a shop. How did that affect the town they lived in? Why didn’t we see many interactions of Dante with humans? If they work in society as mechanics, wouldn’t that interaction be a big part of their lives?
This was a fun read, perfect for any shifter fiction fan. I would have liked the point of view to have stayed with Dante, and, through Dante, we had been allowed to explore the world more, but keeping readers begging for more is an author’s bread and butter, so I’m going to say it was a job well done!
Reviewed by Ben for The Novel Approach Reviews
January 21, 2023
The alpha's weave is a fascinating term for what normally is described as the pack bond, although I got the impression that the weave is more powerful and more connected to each individual member, and to the whole, than just a bond. A pack born shifter will go insane and die without the connection provided by their alpha's weave. That bit of difference within the standard shifter lore set the scene for all of the intense world building C.M. Torrens does in 'The Alpha’s Weave'.
"Dante forced himself to do as Victor asked and slowly allowed his sense to open up. Victor’s warmth and encouragement coaxed him out more, and finally he could sense the entire weave. Like a warm, fine strand that ran from Victor to each member of the pack. Soft and gentle, nothing hard in the sense."
I struggled somewhat in the beginning trying to get a good read on Dante. He spent many years of his life in Caster's pack being used and abused as Caster's pet. Caster forced him to use his special alpha talent to kill for him until Victor showed up one day, hunting Caster, rescuing Dante, and bringing him into his pack. A very different place than what Dante was used to, a pack that is warm, loving, caring, and a family, that even includes all of them sleeping together in the giant pack bed. It takes years for Dante to acclimate and now, at thirty-five years old, Victor has named him his heir.
Please find my full review at Rainbow Book Reviews
"Dante forced himself to do as Victor asked and slowly allowed his sense to open up. Victor’s warmth and encouragement coaxed him out more, and finally he could sense the entire weave. Like a warm, fine strand that ran from Victor to each member of the pack. Soft and gentle, nothing hard in the sense."
I struggled somewhat in the beginning trying to get a good read on Dante. He spent many years of his life in Caster's pack being used and abused as Caster's pet. Caster forced him to use his special alpha talent to kill for him until Victor showed up one day, hunting Caster, rescuing Dante, and bringing him into his pack. A very different place than what Dante was used to, a pack that is warm, loving, caring, and a family, that even includes all of them sleeping together in the giant pack bed. It takes years for Dante to acclimate and now, at thirty-five years old, Victor has named him his heir.
Please find my full review at Rainbow Book Reviews
October 29, 2016
Great shifter story and a great start to a series. A wealth of terrific characters. Lots of fodder for future stories.
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November 22, 2016this is a series worth reading.
March 31, 2017
The alpha weave is story of alpha wolf Dante. How he become alpha of pack despite his biggest fear. I really enjoy reading it. Torrens Dante’s mate struggle who to choose is also great twist. But I wanted more romance in it overall it was good reading.
Happy reading
Happy reading
November 13, 2016
Independent reviewer for Divine Magazine, I was gifted my copy of this book.
Dante knows Caster will come for him at some point, he just did not expect to lose his father, and go against his father's wishes in the process.
I'm not really sure how I feel about this book. I finished it, and that's a good thing. There was just something....missing, I think is the word I'm looking for but I can't figure out what.
So here's what I DID like about it.
Its different. While other books have some sort of connection between an Alpha and their pack, this one has a two way effect. The Weave can be used to communicate, to call for help, but also for the Alpha, Dante, to soothe and help his pack and reassure them.
It's told from all the major players, and some minor ones, point of view in the third person. You all know how happy I am to get inside of the bad guy's mind!
It's fairly clean. Yeah, yeah, I know I usually prefer my male/male books, shifter ones especially, to be more on the hotter side, but it felt right for this book that it was very much a case of you filling in the blanks.
I'm just at a total loss as to what was missing, and it stresses me so! I'm not writing this author (for it is the first I've read Torrens) nor am I writing this series off, just yet. I'd like to read the second book. I'm curious as to what will happen to Dante and Jesse and the rest of the pack and the strays that they are taking in. Whatever I find missing here, might be there. Who knows, I just hope I get the chance.
Because I can't pinpoint what I'm missing....
3 stars
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Dante knows Caster will come for him at some point, he just did not expect to lose his father, and go against his father's wishes in the process.
I'm not really sure how I feel about this book. I finished it, and that's a good thing. There was just something....missing, I think is the word I'm looking for but I can't figure out what.
So here's what I DID like about it.
Its different. While other books have some sort of connection between an Alpha and their pack, this one has a two way effect. The Weave can be used to communicate, to call for help, but also for the Alpha, Dante, to soothe and help his pack and reassure them.
It's told from all the major players, and some minor ones, point of view in the third person. You all know how happy I am to get inside of the bad guy's mind!
It's fairly clean. Yeah, yeah, I know I usually prefer my male/male books, shifter ones especially, to be more on the hotter side, but it felt right for this book that it was very much a case of you filling in the blanks.
I'm just at a total loss as to what was missing, and it stresses me so! I'm not writing this author (for it is the first I've read Torrens) nor am I writing this series off, just yet. I'd like to read the second book. I'm curious as to what will happen to Dante and Jesse and the rest of the pack and the strays that they are taking in. Whatever I find missing here, might be there. Who knows, I just hope I get the chance.
Because I can't pinpoint what I'm missing....
3 stars
**same worded review will appear on Goodreads, BookLikes, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, Kobo and Barnes and Noble**
October 26, 2016
I'm not usually a huge shifter fiction fan, but I do end up reading a lot of it because of my unhealthy obsession with MPreg. In many ways this story was better than your usual Paranormal Romance--there was better worldbuilding and a more consistent plotline. There wasn't as much sex or romance in this story as you'd usually get in shifter fiction, which I had no problems with. However, I would have liked the point of view to have been more centered around Dante's character. I didn't need those other viewpoints and I felt a bit bogged down by them.
August 6, 2017
3.5 stars
December 16, 2018
This was too dark for my tastes. I didn't need any of the details of the torture that Caster's pack carried out. I made it 75% through the book, but decided I couldn't finish it.
October 19, 2016
What do you do when your abusive ex alpha returns and tries to reclaim you and your new pack? You fight to the death of need be.
I have read a lot of shifter books but this one ranks up there with some of my favorites. Be fore warned ahead of time, there is a lot of abuse in this book. There is gore. There are some references to rape but no details on it and a lot of senseless death. Regardless of those things this is a book I would describe as a book about taking back control from the person that abused them previously and doing what is necessary to protect those that are there family, at the cost of oneself if necessary.
This book is full of action. At each turn there is trouble around the corner and at times I felt like this pack was never going to find any sort of peace what so ever.
Dante became the pack alpha a whole lot sooner then he ever thought that he would. But regardless of his past abuse and the things that old alpha that abused him, Caster, did to him or made him do Dante turned into the opposite of the person Caster was. Dante loves his family and his pack. He had a wonder example of what a good alpha would be in Victor. Dante in my opinion would do whatever necessary to try and protect the ones that he loves. He loves nothing more then his pack and he takes his role as the pack alpha seriously.
When his pack hurts, so does he. When they need soothing he does what he needs to through their weave and when it is time to step up and make the impossible decisions he does.
No matter how hard he tries to protect everyone in the pack from Carter he cannot . He takes this as a personal failure as thenoack leader. Regardless Dante and the remaining pack do what they have to do after losing such important members of their pack and try to rebuild again after the death and destruction that Carter left behind. They are no where near whole with the gapping holes left in them but if Dante can he will do whatever is necessary to make them all as whole as he can. And he has Jesse at his side to help,
This story was such an up hill battle for this whole pack. It broke my heart for all the pack members at the lose they had to endure. I felt their grief as I was reading and I felt their hate for what Carter did to them. I found myself wishing that someone, anyone would come to their help but that did not happen. Instead they had to help themselves which they did but not without a great lose.
I cannot wait to read the next book in the series because even though Carter is long gone, August and Jesse's sister are still on the lose and I think they will be a problem for Dante and his pack. This was a great read with no lax in the story line. C.M. Torrents did an amazing job on what I would call a dark read. I look forward to the next book in this series because I am sure it will be just as good if not better.
Was given this galley copy for free for an open and honest review
I have read a lot of shifter books but this one ranks up there with some of my favorites. Be fore warned ahead of time, there is a lot of abuse in this book. There is gore. There are some references to rape but no details on it and a lot of senseless death. Regardless of those things this is a book I would describe as a book about taking back control from the person that abused them previously and doing what is necessary to protect those that are there family, at the cost of oneself if necessary.
This book is full of action. At each turn there is trouble around the corner and at times I felt like this pack was never going to find any sort of peace what so ever.
Dante became the pack alpha a whole lot sooner then he ever thought that he would. But regardless of his past abuse and the things that old alpha that abused him, Caster, did to him or made him do Dante turned into the opposite of the person Caster was. Dante loves his family and his pack. He had a wonder example of what a good alpha would be in Victor. Dante in my opinion would do whatever necessary to try and protect the ones that he loves. He loves nothing more then his pack and he takes his role as the pack alpha seriously.
When his pack hurts, so does he. When they need soothing he does what he needs to through their weave and when it is time to step up and make the impossible decisions he does.
No matter how hard he tries to protect everyone in the pack from Carter he cannot . He takes this as a personal failure as thenoack leader. Regardless Dante and the remaining pack do what they have to do after losing such important members of their pack and try to rebuild again after the death and destruction that Carter left behind. They are no where near whole with the gapping holes left in them but if Dante can he will do whatever is necessary to make them all as whole as he can. And he has Jesse at his side to help,
This story was such an up hill battle for this whole pack. It broke my heart for all the pack members at the lose they had to endure. I felt their grief as I was reading and I felt their hate for what Carter did to them. I found myself wishing that someone, anyone would come to their help but that did not happen. Instead they had to help themselves which they did but not without a great lose.
I cannot wait to read the next book in the series because even though Carter is long gone, August and Jesse's sister are still on the lose and I think they will be a problem for Dante and his pack. This was a great read with no lax in the story line. C.M. Torrents did an amazing job on what I would call a dark read. I look forward to the next book in this series because I am sure it will be just as good if not better.
Was given this galley copy for free for an open and honest review
November 3, 2016
I thought this was a solid start to the series. The world building was deep and while many aspects of pack life didn't get into the detail I would have liked, I loved the setup and pack dynamic. The story didn't shy away from the brutality of pack fights and was a nice step away from some of the more recent shifter series I have read that tend to focus solely on the romance. I really can't wait to see how the rest of this series develops.
Did Not Finish
November 11, 2016DNF at 37%. The Eight Deadly Words strike again: I don't care what happens to these people. No empathy for Dante, Caster may as well be twirling his mustache, and the rest of the GIANT cast of characters holds no interest for me whatsoever. Moving on.
April 22, 2017
1st book of a series and it's a lot better than the blurb. Great characters and story.
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