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Countdown to Alpha's Downfall: Werewolf Romance
"The next full-moon night is coming, and I really don't want to be a rogue. I need someone to help me, by having sex with me!" The Alpha murmured desperately.***Heller was an Alpha, and he already had a mate that he loved, Mira, but now he was desperately in need of a new one. Mira was in the hospital, in a coma for a year, but that was not the main reason for Heller to find a new mate.The main reason was more complicated-he was supposed to have sex with his new and fated mate during the next full moon and quieten and placate his wolf, to make him less disturbing and destructive, and most importantly, stop himself from turning to a rogue.On that rainy Monday morning, Heller met his fated mate, Leah."It was ridiculous that the Moon Goddess would choose someone like her to be my mate! She didn't even know she got werewolf blood running in her veins! She just thought she was a damn human!"But for Leah, wasn't this whole thing more ridiculous? Could she end up being Heller's Luna? Or just his sex tool?
264 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 1, 2022
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August 10, 2022
Where do I even begin with this one? There are too many issues to list them all, so I’ll just touch on some of the big ones.
1) Despite being sold as a standalone (Book 1 of 1), this book ends in a cliffhanger with absolutely no closure and no second book published.
2) It reads like poorly written fan fiction. The writing is very amateur and awkward.
3) Misused and/or incorrect word usage litters the pages. For example, saying that “fangs” erupted from fingertips vs. “claws” when describing shifting into wolf form. Using the word “symbolic” when the correct word should have been “symbiotic” was another example. “Slugged” in place of “slumped”, etc. I could go on and on.
4) Although the issues listed above make this pretty blatant, I think it bears repeating - this book needs editing/proofing in a big way. I understand that not all aspiring authors have the team of a publishing house at their disposal but have a few friends read it over before you publish it. (In fairness, some of the mistakes I’ve been seeing in books released from major publishing houses have been cringeworthy over the last couple of years also. Are there no competent editors left in the world??? Okay, I’ll get off that soapbox.)
5) On top of all that, the ebook costs $3.99. Normally, I’m happy to pay for a book. I’d gladly pay two or three times that amount for a good book. That being said, I expect some errors in a freebie or even a 99 cent bargain book. However, as the price goes up, I expect the quality of the writing, editing, etc., to improve as well. This book costs as much as a well-edited book from a best-selling author and reads like a high school creative writing class assignment.
Now that I’ve gotten all that off my chest, I will say that the storyline had the potential to be good. It was poorly executed, but I was interested in how things would play out. For that reason alone, I gave it two stars. With some serious help, the story might be salvageable but it is a long way from being polished and ready to sell.
1) Despite being sold as a standalone (Book 1 of 1), this book ends in a cliffhanger with absolutely no closure and no second book published.
2) It reads like poorly written fan fiction. The writing is very amateur and awkward.
3) Misused and/or incorrect word usage litters the pages. For example, saying that “fangs” erupted from fingertips vs. “claws” when describing shifting into wolf form. Using the word “symbolic” when the correct word should have been “symbiotic” was another example. “Slugged” in place of “slumped”, etc. I could go on and on.
4) Although the issues listed above make this pretty blatant, I think it bears repeating - this book needs editing/proofing in a big way. I understand that not all aspiring authors have the team of a publishing house at their disposal but have a few friends read it over before you publish it. (In fairness, some of the mistakes I’ve been seeing in books released from major publishing houses have been cringeworthy over the last couple of years also. Are there no competent editors left in the world??? Okay, I’ll get off that soapbox.)
5) On top of all that, the ebook costs $3.99. Normally, I’m happy to pay for a book. I’d gladly pay two or three times that amount for a good book. That being said, I expect some errors in a freebie or even a 99 cent bargain book. However, as the price goes up, I expect the quality of the writing, editing, etc., to improve as well. This book costs as much as a well-edited book from a best-selling author and reads like a high school creative writing class assignment.
Now that I’ve gotten all that off my chest, I will say that the storyline had the potential to be good. It was poorly executed, but I was interested in how things would play out. For that reason alone, I gave it two stars. With some serious help, the story might be salvageable but it is a long way from being polished and ready to sell.
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