Basic B*tch: A Reverse Harem Rejected Mates Romance by Katelyn BeckettMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Interesting Start To A Series
I’d probably give this book 3.5 ⭐️ if I could.
Riley has a wonderful future mapped out for her. She’s going to be turned into a werewolf by her lover, become an omega for his pack, then get married and have pups after she finishes her nursing degree. Except the ranking test is wrong and when she turns into an alpha wolf her new pack turns on her.
After being hunted by the pack after they fail to kill her, being shunned by her human parents, and finding danger at every turn she tried to find a way out and ends up enlisting. In Basic, she has to learn how to be a soldier at the same time she learns to be a werewolf in a hostile environment.
This book is quite intense and people who have emotional difficulties that can be triggered by reading scenes of violent assault and attempted sexual assault should approach this book with care.
There’s a lot to enjoy about this book. Riley is a strong character dealing with an exceptionally difficult set of circumstances. She tries to do her best but keeps getting punished for her existence. She fights with heart and strength and keeps getting back up again and faces her opponents with dignity.
I really liked Shawn, the omega drill Sargent with a prosthetic limb, who battles for his recruits with all the strength and determination of an alpha, despite his pack ranking. I respect that he fights his attraction to his recruit and continues to do his best to train his recruits to keep safe when they are posted to their new units.
Hunter annoyed me, as he was a cocky mischief-maker, who kept dragging Riley into trouble. However, he did try to look out for Riley in his own way.
What I had a problem with was the hostile environment the shifters within the army were subject to. The way they were treated as second class citizens. It grated on me and infuriated me, as I’m sure it was supposed to. It just made me tense throughout reading the entire book and it meant I couldn’t relax into it enough to really enjoy reading it.
This book very much felt like an introduction to a series. Nothing really got resolved, it all felt like a set up for something to come in the future. It probably would annoy me less if the next book was already out.
I feel like I would have enjoyed this book a lot more if I was reading it at any other time than at this moment in history. There is so much tension and darkness in the world that I’m looking for relaxing reading matter, and this just wasn’t. It was well written and the characters were engaging. The world-building was well thought out and I’m sure the plot is going somewhere interesting. However, I just couldn’t relax enough to really enjoy it. When the next book comes out, I’ll probably re-read it and enjoy it a lot more.
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