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Basic B*tch
I thought I'd found my happily ever after.
We were meant to be, everyone knew it. He called it fated mates, I called it soul mates. My family was wary of me becoming a werewolf, but I knew everything would be perfect after he delivered a life-changing bite.
The problem is there's a one in a million chance of a new werewolf being an alpha. And guess what? I just won the freaking lottery.
Now, my supposed mate can't stand the sight of me. I'm lost, shattered, and confused. With new instincts and a drive to protect, I'm trying my best to stay out from the bottom of a bottle. There's no such thing as a happy lone wolf and I'm struggling to find a place to fit in.
Enter the Army. Turns out they're recruiting werewolves for a new special unit at the nearby base. With my human family withdrawn and my ex's pack trying to hunt me down, there's no time like the present to get out of town.
In the blink of an eye, I'm in boot camp and pushing myself to the edge every day. Tired as I am, I can't stop thinking about the gorgeous secret omega drill sergeant who only has eyes for me. Even better, there's a handsome beta coaching me through the cold, lonely nights. If we get caught, we're all in deep trouble.
But that's what makes it fun.
We were meant to be, everyone knew it. He called it fated mates, I called it soul mates. My family was wary of me becoming a werewolf, but I knew everything would be perfect after he delivered a life-changing bite.
The problem is there's a one in a million chance of a new werewolf being an alpha. And guess what? I just won the freaking lottery.
Now, my supposed mate can't stand the sight of me. I'm lost, shattered, and confused. With new instincts and a drive to protect, I'm trying my best to stay out from the bottom of a bottle. There's no such thing as a happy lone wolf and I'm struggling to find a place to fit in.
Enter the Army. Turns out they're recruiting werewolves for a new special unit at the nearby base. With my human family withdrawn and my ex's pack trying to hunt me down, there's no time like the present to get out of town.
In the blink of an eye, I'm in boot camp and pushing myself to the edge every day. Tired as I am, I can't stop thinking about the gorgeous secret omega drill sergeant who only has eyes for me. Even better, there's a handsome beta coaching me through the cold, lonely nights. If we get caught, we're all in deep trouble.
But that's what makes it fun.
- GenresParanormalShapeshifters
193 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 1, 2021
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January 23, 2021
Interesting Start To A Series
I’d probably give this book 3.5 ⭐️ if I could.
Riley has a wonderful future mapped out for her. She’s going to be turned into a werewolf by her lover, become an omega for his pack, then get married and have pups after she finishes her nursing degree. Except the ranking test is wrong and when she turns into an alpha wolf her new pack turns on her.
After being hunted by the pack after they fail to kill her, being shunned by her human parents, and finding danger at every turn she tried to find a way out and ends up enlisting. In Basic, she has to learn how to be a soldier at the same time she learns to be a werewolf in a hostile environment.
This book is quite intense and people who have emotional difficulties that can be triggered by reading scenes of violent assault and attempted sexual assault should approach this book with care.
There’s a lot to enjoy about this book. Riley is a strong character dealing with an exceptionally difficult set of circumstances. She tries to do her best but keeps getting punished for her existence. She fights with heart and strength and keeps getting back up again and faces her opponents with dignity.
I really liked Shawn, the omega drill Sargent with a prosthetic limb, who battles for his recruits with all the strength and determination of an alpha, despite his pack ranking. I respect that he fights his attraction to his recruit and continues to do his best to train his recruits to keep safe when they are posted to their new units.
Hunter annoyed me, as he was a cocky mischief-maker, who kept dragging Riley into trouble. However, he did try to look out for Riley in his own way.
What I had a problem with was the hostile environment the shifters within the army were subject to. The way they were treated as second class citizens. It grated on me and infuriated me, as I’m sure it was supposed to. It just made me tense throughout reading the entire book and it meant I couldn’t relax into it enough to really enjoy reading it.
This book very much felt like an introduction to a series. Nothing really got resolved, it all felt like a set up for something to come in the future. It probably would annoy me less if the next book was already out.
I feel like I would have enjoyed this book a lot more if I was reading it at any other time than at this moment in history. There is so much tension and darkness in the world that I’m looking for relaxing reading matter, and this just wasn’t. It was well written and the characters were engaging. The world-building was well thought out and I’m sure the plot is going somewhere interesting. However, I just couldn’t relax enough to really enjoy it. When the next book comes out, I’ll probably re-read it and enjoy it a lot more.
I’d probably give this book 3.5 ⭐️ if I could.
Riley has a wonderful future mapped out for her. She’s going to be turned into a werewolf by her lover, become an omega for his pack, then get married and have pups after she finishes her nursing degree. Except the ranking test is wrong and when she turns into an alpha wolf her new pack turns on her.
After being hunted by the pack after they fail to kill her, being shunned by her human parents, and finding danger at every turn she tried to find a way out and ends up enlisting. In Basic, she has to learn how to be a soldier at the same time she learns to be a werewolf in a hostile environment.
This book is quite intense and people who have emotional difficulties that can be triggered by reading scenes of violent assault and attempted sexual assault should approach this book with care.
There’s a lot to enjoy about this book. Riley is a strong character dealing with an exceptionally difficult set of circumstances. She tries to do her best but keeps getting punished for her existence. She fights with heart and strength and keeps getting back up again and faces her opponents with dignity.
I really liked Shawn, the omega drill Sargent with a prosthetic limb, who battles for his recruits with all the strength and determination of an alpha, despite his pack ranking. I respect that he fights his attraction to his recruit and continues to do his best to train his recruits to keep safe when they are posted to their new units.
Hunter annoyed me, as he was a cocky mischief-maker, who kept dragging Riley into trouble. However, he did try to look out for Riley in his own way.
What I had a problem with was the hostile environment the shifters within the army were subject to. The way they were treated as second class citizens. It grated on me and infuriated me, as I’m sure it was supposed to. It just made me tense throughout reading the entire book and it meant I couldn’t relax into it enough to really enjoy reading it.
This book very much felt like an introduction to a series. Nothing really got resolved, it all felt like a set up for something to come in the future. It probably would annoy me less if the next book was already out.
I feel like I would have enjoyed this book a lot more if I was reading it at any other time than at this moment in history. There is so much tension and darkness in the world that I’m looking for relaxing reading matter, and this just wasn’t. It was well written and the characters were engaging. The world-building was well thought out and I’m sure the plot is going somewhere interesting. However, I just couldn’t relax enough to really enjoy it. When the next book comes out, I’ll probably re-read it and enjoy it a lot more.
January 10, 2021
Katelyn is aware there is an issue!!!!!! 1/10/21
I spoke to Katelyn and she is aware there is an issue with the file. She’s working hard to get it fixed with Amazon. I’m sure you can agree what you’ve read was great, so maybe, so as not to negatively affect her, hold off on reviewing with low marks until the file is fixed and you can read the rest of the story?
I spoke to Katelyn and she is aware there is an issue with the file. She’s working hard to get it fixed with Amazon. I’m sure you can agree what you’ve read was great, so maybe, so as not to negatively affect her, hold off on reviewing with low marks until the file is fixed and you can read the rest of the story?
January 11, 2021
*** Read in Kindle Unlimited ***
After dealing with the fiasco that was done on release day the book was finally fixed so any reviews that you read before January 10 are not valid. This book pulled me in and boy oh boy Riley is such a great character. There is just so much she has to face in the short time after she is turned and she is trying to make the best of it. I can not wait to read more of this series and see what happens with Hunter and Sergeant Warner
After dealing with the fiasco that was done on release day the book was finally fixed so any reviews that you read before January 10 are not valid. This book pulled me in and boy oh boy Riley is such a great character. There is just so much she has to face in the short time after she is turned and she is trying to make the best of it. I can not wait to read more of this series and see what happens with Hunter and Sergeant Warner
January 13, 2021
Enjoyable
Quite enjoyed this- clearly I got a fixed copy from some of the other reviews but yeah I enjoyed this :-) awesome characters, interesting plot. Will be good to see what happens
Quite enjoyed this- clearly I got a fixed copy from some of the other reviews but yeah I enjoyed this :-) awesome characters, interesting plot. Will be good to see what happens
February 2, 2021
A great read
I enjoyed this book thoroughly, it was a bit of a different take on shifters. I'm interested to see where the second book takes Riley and her guys.
I enjoyed this book thoroughly, it was a bit of a different take on shifters. I'm interested to see where the second book takes Riley and her guys.
June 10, 2021
Loved it
Loved it. Definitely some dark aspects, which was a turn on for me . I can never get enough of this authors work
Loved it. Definitely some dark aspects, which was a turn on for me . I can never get enough of this authors work
January 14, 2021
I wanted to love this book so bad! I got it on release day and read the first 87 pages that weekend, and then got the rest when the kindle version was fixed (the author was great about it). But in the end it was just okay.
What worked:
The premise - a woman gets turned into a wolf shifter for love, but it goes horribly wrong when her mate rejects her alpha status. With nowhere else to go, she joins the Army in an all-shifter unit.
The Setting - What better place for a newly minted alpha b*tch to cut her teeth than a basic training unit full of shifters?
Hunter - The goofy beta who has a big heart, not a lot of brains, and lots of shifter knowledge.
What didn’t work:
-Riley never grew up. I was disappointed in the lack of character development we saw in the main character. For an Alpha, she seemed to really only be a bystander in her own life. By the end of the book, I was hoping to see her really stand up for herself and her team, and she didn’t.
-Attempted rape as a plot point. Maybe I have just read too many books lately that use rape and attempted rape as a plot device, but I’m kind of sick of it. In my opinion, rape for the character development of women is kind of grasping. But then to have it happen numerous times to the same supposedly alpha character, and she never even tells her supposed mates about it?
-The relationship between Riley and the guys. I just wasn’t feeling it. I feel like I was being told, not shown, that something was developing between them. But to be honest, even at the end, it seemed they were still kind of stuck at friend zone. Plus, the book was no-burn, no sex for Riley, and I was not expecting that.
Maybe my expectations were too high? Maybe I just went in with some baggage? I enjoyed the book, it was fine, but I didn’t love it. I will probably still read the next one though. If nothing else, just to see if Riley finally gets laid.
What worked:
The premise - a woman gets turned into a wolf shifter for love, but it goes horribly wrong when her mate rejects her alpha status. With nowhere else to go, she joins the Army in an all-shifter unit.
The Setting - What better place for a newly minted alpha b*tch to cut her teeth than a basic training unit full of shifters?
Hunter - The goofy beta who has a big heart, not a lot of brains, and lots of shifter knowledge.
What didn’t work:
-Riley never grew up. I was disappointed in the lack of character development we saw in the main character. For an Alpha, she seemed to really only be a bystander in her own life. By the end of the book, I was hoping to see her really stand up for herself and her team, and she didn’t.
-Attempted rape as a plot point. Maybe I have just read too many books lately that use rape and attempted rape as a plot device, but I’m kind of sick of it. In my opinion, rape for the character development of women is kind of grasping. But then to have it happen numerous times to the same supposedly alpha character, and she never even tells her supposed mates about it?
-The relationship between Riley and the guys. I just wasn’t feeling it. I feel like I was being told, not shown, that something was developing between them. But to be honest, even at the end, it seemed they were still kind of stuck at friend zone. Plus, the book was no-burn, no sex for Riley, and I was not expecting that.
Maybe my expectations were too high? Maybe I just went in with some baggage? I enjoyed the book, it was fine, but I didn’t love it. I will probably still read the next one though. If nothing else, just to see if Riley finally gets laid.
March 12, 2021
DNF @60%. I really wanted to like the book, but the FMC was annoying me. On the one hand, she is alpha and has these Wild protective instincts that she doesn't understand. On the other hand, she is human, betrayed by her mate and thrust into military life that fuck with her instincts. This should be a great story, but rather make the best of both sides, she actually combines the worst. She doesn't understand her wolf, but also refuses the opportunity offered by the military to learn more. So yeah, she loses my sympathy... I see where this story could go to, but I just cant make it there.
May 30, 2021
This is the first book I read by Beckett, but it won’t be the last. Riley is excited to be getting mates by her boyfriend, but when she is turned they are horrified she is an alpha and try to kill her. When she doesn’t die, she ends up running as they come back for her, and the only safe place to hide is the military, or is it? I really liked Riley, Shawn, and Hunter. Shawn is not your typical omega, and Hunter is a fun loving, trouble causing beta. I really like their dynamics, and can’t wait to see more of their story :)
January 9, 2021
Great start
It was a great start but randomly ended with no ending just in the middle of a sentence. I was enjoying the characters and the book and would read more just confused by that needing mid sentence.
It was a great start but randomly ended with no ending just in the middle of a sentence. I was enjoying the characters and the book and would read more just confused by that needing mid sentence.
January 9, 2021
Good story but ended mid sentence
Has a lot of potential. Not sure what happened but the chapter was a few paragraphs in and stopped mid sentence.
Has a lot of potential. Not sure what happened but the chapter was a few paragraphs in and stopped mid sentence.
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January 9, 2021Rushed. Confusing. Incomplete. Literally ends in the middle of a word. I almost DNF'd but pushed through until the last sentence which wasn't even finished. So many unanswered questions...
January 9, 2021
Where's the rest?
This is a really good story so far but it looks like the story cut off as it ended in the middle of a sentence.
This is a really good story so far but it looks like the story cut off as it ended in the middle of a sentence.
January 9, 2021
Good story
I really like the story line so far, but it cut off in the middle of a sentence a few chapters in so not sure what's going on.
I really like the story line so far, but it cut off in the middle of a sentence a few chapters in so not sure what's going on.
January 11, 2021
Confused
The book ends in the middle of a sentence....
If you ignore the bad spelling ie she went to the Shoppe or stupid stuff whereby words slightly wrong, it's really enjoyable.. Just don't know why it's not a full book????
The book ends in the middle of a sentence....
If you ignore the bad spelling ie she went to the Shoppe or stupid stuff whereby words slightly wrong, it's really enjoyable.. Just don't know why it's not a full book????
January 10, 2021
Where’s the rest?
Ended right in the middle like there was another chapter or something... editing screwed us boooo not satisfied. The Author should had prevented this
Ended right in the middle like there was another chapter or something... editing screwed us boooo not satisfied. The Author should had prevented this
February 28, 2021
Unsure
I’m not quite sure how I get about this book. It confused me in some places made me smile
In others. I do like this author.
I’m not quite sure how I get about this book. It confused me in some places made me smile
In others. I do like this author.
October 29, 2021
Loved this story
This story by Katelyn Beckett was brilliant! Thoroughly enjoyed it. I can’t wait for book 2! I'm majorly crushing on Hunter
This story by Katelyn Beckett was brilliant! Thoroughly enjoyed it. I can’t wait for book 2! I'm majorly crushing on Hunter
October 5, 2022
wolf
Pretty good job on the military aspect. The team building was spot on. I laughed when the choice was services or ensure a clean dorm.
Pretty good job on the military aspect. The team building was spot on. I laughed when the choice was services or ensure a clean dorm.
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