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Indlæser... Deadly Crushaf Ashley Stoyanoff
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Deadly Trilogy, Book 1 Dog Mountain is just like any other small town - peaceful and uneventful. Well, that is if peaceful means wolves howling all night, and uneventful means it's overrun by pesky werewolves, then yes, Dog Mountain is just your average small town. Jade Shaw has spent the last two years avoiding the pack. But when Aidan Collins moves to town, avoiding the dogs doesn't seem possible. The pack wants him just as much as she does. Determined to keep him out of the pack's grasp, Jade does everything she can to gain his attention. Little does she know, Aidan is in deeper with the pack than she could have imagined, and competing for his attention is a deadly game, one she may not want to win. No library descriptions found. |
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Jade is a great protagonist, a strong-willed girl who isn't afraid to speak her mind when she feels the need to. And no one is off limits, human or werewolf. Living on Dog Mountain her whole life means she has always been aware of the werewolf pack, or as she thinks of them in less than flattering terms 'the dogs.' She never really cared for them until the day they ripped her best friend Dominic away from her, turning him into a werewolf right in front of her. After being bitten he followed orders and walked into the woods without even looking back at Jade once, so in her mind he abandoned her, alone at night in the park. But it wasn't the place that he abandoned her, it was how easily he walked away from his best friend. Two years later and she still hasn't forgiven him. Instead she vehemently hates everything, and everyone, wolf-related.
Aidan is driving through town, away from his alpha father, when he happens to stop for food and a rest in Dog Mountain. Following protocol he goes to announce his presence to the resident alpha to acknowledge him and let him know that he is just passing through. Instead he sees red when he finds Ray, the local alpha beating his female Alpha to death. In public with lots of his pack looking on and doing nothing to intervene. Aidan's instincts take over; he challenges Ray for dominance and ends up killing him. No big loss as Ray was a mean alcoholic that heavily damaged his pack - now Aidan's pack if he wants it, which he decides he does. The first thing he does is allow the badly beaten female alpha's request to leave the pack and clear out of town, creating a power vacuum. Suddenly the alpha games are on, and any female interested in becoming female alpha to Aidan's male alpha could fight the others - last one standing would be the winner.
The problem is Aidan has fallen for Jade, even though he hardly knows her. She emits alpha pheromones even as a human. Without knowing Jade's loathing for werewolves Aidan makes a crucial mistake in not telling her what he is. As their mutual attraction is noticed by all, Jade suddenly becomes a fair target in the alpha games, regardless of the fact that she is human.
Throughout all of this Jade and Aidan become closer and closer, until the day comes when Jade finds out he's been lying to her all along. It doesn't matter to Jade if it is a lie of omission or not. A lie is a lie. The two are locked in a power struggle that could spell doom for the entire pack if they don't get a handle on their feelings for each other, and fast! For not only is the male alpha unbalanced during this time, but there is yet to be a female alpha named, and aside from all that is the problem of werecougars moving in on their territory. Throw in some terrifying & heartbreaking internal treachery of the worst kind and you have the ingredients for a cataclysmic disaster.
A entertaining read, this story pulls you in and keeps you moving through the slow parts just as well as through the high adrenaline parts. The pacing of the story is smooth, never slowing down too much or getting to bogged down in unnecessary details, nor does it overreach and get ahead of itself. Like a raging river it carries you along with the characters, giving enough detail so that you feel as if you are there as events unfold, sharing the bumps and bruises right along with the characters as they get them. Ms. Stoyanoff leaves you right on the cusp of the waterfall the river has brought everyone to, already halfway over the edge and halfway still on the side with a slim prayer for rescue. However instead of praying for rescue you'll find yourself praying for the second book in this new series so that you find out how things will be resolved. ( )