It’s late. I stayed up all night to finish it because I knew If I set it down, I’d never pick it up again.
Book one was not a bad book. I didn’t leave that book with a bad taste in my mouth. Obviously, or I wouldn’t have preordered this one.
This was a train wreck.
First, the smexy times talk was atrocious. We’re talking full on sentences and conversations, using the big words and correct grammar and everything! It was absolutely jarring. Mid thrust in the best smexy times of our lives we’re having formal dialogue. What? I’m not picking up what you’re putting down here.
And the characters became either cartoonish or cardboard. Our FMC has zero physical skills. Nooooone. She’s not physically fit or active either. But her portrayal in this book was…. Wacky. She full on runs from the university to her house. For miles, without stopping. Ok. So, now she’s physically capable all of a sudden? Then she literally stands in a parking lot watching her two BFF’s get in a detailed and involved fight with two guys. She didn’t lift a finger. Didn’t scream. Didn’t run. She just watched two alphas beat them down to the point she actually thinks they might be dead. And. Does. Nothing.
So Mrs. Whitlock gets captured and is fully restrained, and THEN our FMC wants to get her licks in??? And gets praised for being such a bad a** for it??? Lols
She can’t be a delicate flower AND GI Jane. You pick a route and stick with it.
On to the next issue.
These alphas are super beta. All of them. They let her leave in pre-heat. They knowingly helped her put herself in harms way.
Lucas let the Drummonds all but destroy his relationship with his pack because he couldn’t establish boundaries or put his omega first.
They walked away from her during her heat. Mid heat. The cops came to ask them to answer some questions downtown and they shrugged and we’re down for it. Sure thing man, I’ll just pull out. They leave her alone in the apartment. MID HEAT. and they weren’t even arrested it was voluntary questions!
So she follows them to the police station, again in raging heat mode!, after being told to stay in her nest with the door locked. She promised she would.
Zero consequences. She again placed herself in immediate peril and disregarded instructions, orders and promises. No big deal though apparently.
And where did this pack name come from??? Pack Solace? There is no significant meaning for this word in either book one or two. I word searched it. It’s literally only used when she names the pack at the very end. Solace is to give comfort in times of distress. So she picked this word out of a hat in thirty seconds while standing in line at the registration office.
And they expand to a pack of 25 with very superficial ties. It’s the first OV I’ve ever read where the pack isn’t emotionally connected and tightly tied.
The 3 year old in the epilogue is speaking like an adult, not a child. That’s long been a huge pet peeve of mine.
Mrs. Drummond, you know, the basically comatose woman? Springs from the couch immediately and becomes the mayor! Along with her suddenly perky husband! What. No.
So. Many. Plot. Moppets.
I get it, they wanted to put a tidy bow on everything. But you can’t just do trash like this.
This book was very disjointed. It came off very juvenile.
There’s a lot more wrong but I’m real tired.
Note to future me: don’t reread this. You’ll be mad that you ignored this.