A Pack of Blood and Lies by Olivia WildensteinMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Werewolves in Boulder
Ness is nearly 18 and her mother died a few months ago. She’s been working several jobs to try and make ends meet as she continues to live in her old apartment with only her neighbour Evelyn to look out for her. She returns to her apartment and finds her uncle, aunt and cousin waiting for her, to take her back to the pack she was rejected from at age 11, after the death of her father. She was the only female wolf born to the pack in generations and was treated like an outcast.
The old alpha was pretty horrible, but now he is dead. There is to be a new alpha sworn in and there is no one contesting the old alpha’s son. Ness decides that she will contest the position in order to prove a point, that female wolves are a force to be reckoned with.
I feel like I should be raving about this book and I can’t work out why I’m not. It’s well constructed, the characters are interesting and believable and the world building is good. Somehow though, my heart isn’t engaged enough to rave about it. I don’t know why, I suppose sometimes you just don’t click with a character and that’s what I look for in a book. I want to really believe in the main character and really root for them to be happy and do well, the way I would a friend. However, I didn’t really click with Ness for some reason. I think it’s because she was so young and acted like it at times. I think if the book was about the same character in 5 years time I would find her much more interesting to me personally.
However, despite not clicking with main character, I did enjoy the book. It was well written and the world building was interesting. I think the next book will be worth reading too.
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