Krystal Shannan

I couldn't have written a more cheesy love story if I tried.
It's as formulaic as it gets. It's matey mates. It's clichée. It's shallow. It's repetitive.
It's probably exactly what most people picking up this book wanted to read or at least expected.
So all my points are probably not really a bad thing for the intended target audience.
I myself enjoy a story of this sort every once in a while but this particular one was just too much.
It almost goes into caricature territory with how exaggerated all these tropes are.… (mere)

The premise held promise, and the main characters had chemistry, but the story development was choppy and wrought with issues pointing either to serious corruption in the wolf pack politics, a surreptitious villain behind the scenes, terribly inept pack governance, or something, but then that potential was just wiped away and the story abruptly concluded with a "well, I guess what happened was everybody's fault." Um, no, it definitely was the fault of Lee and Miles (they're new?? were they sent by someone with a vendetta against the VonBrandts? That could be interesting to explore!) and the Banfield witches. Like, seriously, they've never had to perform that spell for the sake of the VonBrandt Wolf Pack ever because it's so serious, and then two enforcers they probably don't know, show up with an unconscious town local and they just give her permanent brain damage without even checking in with the Pack Alpha on behalf of whom they're supposedly performing this spell? And when Paige wakes up before procedure is complete and is asking for Adam, brother of the pack alpha, that doesn't give anybody pause? Seriously, if they're going to give her anterograde amnesia, it's not like she'll remember things leading up to the process of losing her memory + memory making ability, so what's the harm in questioning her?… (mere)