Shift Out Of Luck (the second in this series) was a quick read, I couldn’t believe how quickly we reached 30%. Not as good as the first one I have to say. Things started getting good around the 40 – 50% mark though.
Like how the werewolf folklore/“rules” (seen in almost all werewolf-related books) were different here. Had that going for it even if I wasn’t feeling a spark between the characters - or for this storyline - at the off.
Coincidentally, I read this straight after Alpha Night (though I bought/had it before I even got Nalini Singh’s book), as it was, I wasn’t “feeling” either character and after much deliberation, I realised it was because I was comparing Selenka and Tala - even though they’re both completely different characters and books. The thing is though, despite being Alpha of her pack, Tala still sort of faded (I guess you could call it) into the background when there were non-intimate scenes between her and Marrok. The author used every opportunity to show/remind us that Marrok was Alpha but Tala got barely the one (halfway through the book when challenging another pack member). I would have liked to “see” more of Tala’s alpha-ness instead of just being told about it.
Too fast paced. Would have benefitted from a slower, get-to-know-each-other kind of pace (especially the relationship) despite the mating.
“All the signs had been there—his wolf’s approval of her, his need to claim, to protect, to care for a woman who pushed him away at every turn.”
Never saw any of what was quoted above, we were just told about it briefly.
Everything I’ve mentioned could be “blamed” on the fact that this is a Novella (and thus shorter in length/everything needs to be crammed into a hundred or so pages) but the Demigod Complex was also a novella and yet managed to get the pacing and character development just right.
Shift Out Of Luck could have been a good read (I did quite enjoy bits of the book) but it just missed the mark for me, sad really because there was so much potential there.
Shift Out of Luck: Brimstone Inc., Book 2
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