I totally loved this series. The characters are snarky and i couldn’t put it down. Just mentioning the books to students had their interest peaked. Because we are in a rural area most students often purchase books on their own because of the very small funding it has. Totally awsome!

This was an amazing novel. Highly recommended for fans of the genre. Will be recommending the book for purchase.

I usually love werewolf books, but this book was a little bit harder to get into than I would have liked. I so wanted to love this book as well, but the characters often felt detached and the plot was kind of unrealistic. I will admit that I didn’t know this was a sequel until I was over halfway through the book, which definitely would attribute to why I have a less than stellar opinion of it. I spent the first half of the book confused about the constant allusions to “that Night” and kept hoping that these allusions would be explained later only to be disappointed that it never really were. Obviously most people that read the book wouldn’t have these problems, so I’m trying not to hold this against it, but even despite that this book doesn’t seem like something I would want to read again.

One reason I wouldn’t be likely to recommend this book is because it doesn’t have a clear audience. For a YA book some of the words in here were really advanced and even the descriptions were a little mature given the audience. It’s not that YA readers can’t read about DD breasts, neo-nazi’s, and gore, but sometimes it felt like descriptions of those things were being constantly repeated to make the book not seem so juvenile but instead it just contributed to it not really feeling like a YA book. Yet, with such young characters it’s also hard to believe this could be anything else. So altogether I have trouble imagining who the ideal audience would be for this book.

Another problem I had with the book was that the plot just never felt realistic enough. There were a lot of little moments of plot convenience where it didn’t feel like the characters were smarter or better than the fixed world they were in, but instead that the world would adapt itself to fit their needs so they can come off that way. I don’t just say that about the those on Mia’s side, but even for the villains. Breaking into such an impenetrable base was too easy, taking down all those soldiers was too easy, even the suits that supposedly changed shape with them just didn’t seem realistic in the world they were in. It just didn’t feel realistic enough for me to really care about what was happening.

It’s not that this book was all bad. I can imagine that it could work well for those who love darker, supernatural action books. However, I would be hard pressed to recommend this book to someone because of those bigger issues I found in it.

I think that older students will enjoy this shapeshifter novel with a strong female teen protagonist.

Thank you to NetGalley and to the publisher for allowing me to read this in exchange for an honest review.

The pacing of this book was very well done. There was rarely a dull moment! The characters were all very realistic.

This is book two of a series and I didn't read book one and was lost because there were a lot of things that were not explained. It could work as a stand alone but I found there were too many things that went unexplained so the story lost some of it's meaning. This is a story in which there is a new werewolf epidemic and people are being turned at a high rate. The government is trying to stop it and has found that some people are immune to a werewolf's bite. Mia has been bitten but for some reason that was not really explained, she is different from most who have been bitten and the government is trying to develop a vaccine for the werewolf taint using Mia's blood. Mia often mentions "The Night" which I'm assuming is the night she was turned but it is never clear and it is never clear exactly what happened, who was involved and what was the outcome. I found this to be a major shortfall in this book. I also didn't really like the dialog it was stilted and a little strange. The author tried too hard to appeal to YA readers. I can tell you that my 14 year old niece wouldn't have read more than 5-10% of this book before rolling her eyes and putting it down. This needs an actual YA to read it and give some pointers on language and usage. The premise of this book is good but the way the author went about it is awkward. There were so many unrealistic scenes in here, I only made it to 81% before I had had enough and quit reading ( I actually wanted to stop reading at 25% but soldiered on). I just didn't care what happened. A few unrealistic parts are teens trying to save the world, unsecured forgotten nuclear weapons, a professional tactical team destroyed with little or no effort, I could go on but won't. I did not enjoy this book at all and am surprised because I usually like werewolf stories. I'm not sure I know any audience that would like this, it really missed the mark in my opinion. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for giving me an ARC in exchange for a fair and honest review.