Born the only female in an all male race, Jessica McClain isn’t just different—she’s feared.After living under the radar for the last twenty-six years, Jessica is thrust unexpectedly into her first change, a full ten years late. She wakes up and finds she’s in the middle of a storm. Now that she’s become the only female full-blooded werewolf in town, the supernatural world is already clamoring to take a bite out of her and her new Pack must rise up and protect her. But not everyone is on board. The werewolf Rights of Laws is missing text and the superstitious werewolves think that Jessica means an end to their race. It doesn’t help when Jessica begins to realize she’s more. She can change partway and hold her form, and speak directly to her wolf. But the biggest complication by far is that her alpha father can’t control her like he can the rest of his wolves.
When a mercenary who’s been hired by the vampires shows up to extract information about the newly turned werewolf only days after her change, they find themselves smack in the middle of a war and there’s no choice but to run together. When it’s up to Jessica to negotiate her release against her father’s direct orders, she chooses to take an offer for help instead. In exchange, Jessica must now swear an oath she may end up repaying with her life.
My knowledge of werewolves comes only from Twilight’s Jacob and The Wolves of Mercy West trilogy. So this was like popping a cherry in werewolves genre and I feel it was the perfect book to do it with. The action here starts right from the first page – you are thrown into a world of supernatural. Jessica McCain is a female lead with spunk, power and she never steps down. She is not just the only female offspring in the werewolves genetic pool, now she’s also the only female werewolf in the world. Talk about pressure, right? Her change at twenty-six isn’t welcomed by all the pack members and it soon becomes clear that there are certain someones who’ll try to kill her or at least try to capture her. But it’s easier said and done.
Not the whole pack is against her, standing by her side are her brother Tyler, a werefox Nicholas, and English lad Danny and an Irish stud James. Add a pack leader of a father, a witchy assistant and a love interest with a nice pack of muscles and strength and you’re good to go. The whole ensemble of characters is wonderful, their connections to each other loyal and outstanding. They’ll gladly take a bullet if it’ll mean saving one of them. They’re all fighters and I think it’s fair to say that they’re all very good looking, hmmm.
I really liked the pace of this book – action right from the start and then a chapter or all to settle it down, to explain the world-building, the species, to get to know the characters better. And then we start off right where we left, fighting for survival, trying to escape, all combined with Jessica’s amazing personality and good dialogue. I was always interested in the book, trying to figure out what will happen and then everything got complicated and the storyline took some twists… and in the end we have no idea what’ll happen. That’s why I need the second book as soon as possible.
It’s funny how this is actually a story of a young female in a world of Alpha-males. It’s great to see her connected so much to her twin brother, to see how much she trusts her best friend Nicholas and the flirty-yet-friendly relationship with Danny is also really lovely. James is a character on a whole new level and even if he’s not Jessica’s mate he oozes sex appeal and makes you drool all over the book. And then there’s Roarke, the mercenary hired to supposedly get rid of Jessica, when he claims he’s only gathering the information about her. Muscles, caveman attitude, a lot of chemistry… and you’re looking at your new literary boyfriend.
I enjoyed this book. It wasn’t exactly one of the best I ever read and I didn’t get a feeling it’s a very special gem inside of a werewolves genre, but it was still good for taking my mind off work and get lost for a few hours between all those men. However, before reading this, I would strongly suggest to first read the prequel to the story, it’s called Blooded and it explains a whole lot of things.
