I'm sorry to say that I did not finish this book. Although a fantasy book, it did not manage to feel realistic. The characters felt childish and the plot a little too unrealistic to accept.

Apologies I was unable to review this because it was archived before I could download it.

Here's the thing: I don't actually have a problem with instalove as a concept in books. The problem I have comes after these main characters fall utterly in love. Most of the time, we get an incredibly trite explanation for the instalove that falls short of the rest of the writing.

Miles and PC are bound together, have been since as long as each of them can remember, even though they don't physically meet until the beginning of this book. Miles has dreams of a wolf, and once he comes face to face with an unknown lycan in the streets of New York, he's completely smitten.

PC, however, is far harder to convince. He wants to be a hunter, and being bound to a weak human isn't part of the plan as far as he's concerned, despite the happy feelings that suffuse him whenever the two of them are together.

The instalove between them was cute. So was PC's desperation to see if it could be broken by the elders. What I didn't love was how much of an asshole he was in the aftermath of the realisation that it couldn't.

It felt as though most of the book was spent getting past the fact that PC was such an asshole, when it could have been avoided by... oh, I don't know, PC not being quite so bad in the first place.

Honestly, I didn't love this one as much as I loved the third one in the set (they are all stand alone and can be read out of order) but I did love the reference to Charlie being the 'dumb human kid' who is sent after Silivasi in the next novel.