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Bad Alpha

Kathryn Moon

4.04 AVERAGE


As soon as I started my journey into omegaverse, I had several people suggest, very strongly lol, that I read Bad Alpha.
They were not wrong. You should definitely read this book.
It’s a pack centered around an alpha named Eve. She’s a badass contract killer who has her feelings on lock.
She is a character type that I’ve seen before, but almost always as a man. I love that this book just centers around how bad ass she is. She’s spent so long being determined to be the strongest alpha in the room, and she is.
She definitely had no plans of joining a pack until her latest job goes a little awry.
I love the whole pack. Like LOVE them! I love that she ties them all together.
I really have enjoyed all of the sweetverse books because they showcase how different pack dynamics can be. The dynamics in Lola’s pack are totally different than the dynamics in Baby’s pack which are different than Eve’s pack.

It’s hard to say which is my favorite because I loved them all for different reasons and I’d definitely recommend them!

What I've been looking for

Omg I loved this!!! I love how Eve develope and the entire plot is so damn good and the chemestry. It'nt not insta love but still a HEA. It's fantastic.

solid

This isn’t my favorite book out of the sweet verse series but it was definitely worth the read. While this isn’t exactly my favorite style of pack dynamics it was a refreshing take. It made me excited to read the next entry in the series

eevie_reads's review

4.0

Eve is SO HOT!!

moodmel's review

5.0

Unique characters, action-packed

Another foray into this interesting universe. This trip includes- interesting characters, constantly evolving plans, intriguing action sequences and carefully developing relationships.

Bad Alpha is everything we love about Kathryn Moon’s Sweetverse series but with a little added extra. It isn’t all sweetness and rainbows this time, the way the pack comes together is somewhat unconventional as is the way a few of the bonds are formed.

Eve is an untameable alpha who manages to saddle herself with a conman omega and that is where all her troubles begin. Or so she think. On Eve’s little mission to find her omega a pack she manages to find that and so much more.

I loved Eve from the brief moment she appeared in Lola’s books. She is so different to Baby, Lola and Lyric, and it isn’t just because of her designation. She’s downright bad ass, confidant and goes against everything that is supposed to come with being an alpha.

If you’ve read the other books in the series then you may be expecting another wholesome, finding where you fit in kind of story, but you’d be wrong. Bad Alpha is action packed from start to finish and even if it was a little different it certainly fits Eve and her pack perfectly.

One thing that is similar to the previous Sweetverse books is the growth of the characters and their relationships. The way they grow and change because of and for one another is wonderful and something that Moon always manages to write perfectly. Oh and the spice, there’s no way the knotty, locking fun was lacking!

I cannot recommend this series enough and when I try words can’t even do it justice. Truly, Moon’s Sweetverse Series is perfect and I am ecstatic for what’s to come.
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Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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3.75 ✨ this was good I just wish we could have gotten a little more.

True Rating: 3.5 Stars

I was absolutely captivated by the idea of a feral, rogue, alpha female assassin. When Kathryn Moon announced this new title for the Sweetverse, I was all a-twitter, because all those things are huge button-pushers for me. And, true to form, those aspects of our FMC, Eve, were definitely some of the best parts of “Bad Alpha” for me. The other brightest spots were taken up by her initial mark: the wily con-man omega, Adam, who is sweet as sugar one second and slippery as olive oil the next. The pair of them are the two strongest characters in the book with the strongest moments and they’re what kept me reading and invested in what I was reading.

Look, Kathryn Moon is one of my favorite romance authors. I have yet to read a bad book from her. So, just because I gave this book 3.5 stars (a lower-than-usual rating for me when it comes to her books) doesn’t mean this book is bad. It just means I didn’t have as much fun reading it as I did her other books, or even other Sweetverse books. The issue, for me, was with the other three alpha males in the book: Rory, Jamie, and Garrett. I didn’t connect with Jamie at all, Garrett felt like he was just there as a juxtaposition to Eve and that left his character lacking in further dimension… but I enjoyed Rory a good deal. I wish we’d only gotten more of Rory. Heck, I think that if this book had been split into two parts like “Lola and the Millionaires” was, I might have liked all three alpha males better, because so much time in this book had to be given over to the (deservedly so) complicated, emotional, sensitive, and time-consuming plot line that the relationships didn’t feel like they could grow more organically, we didn’t get to know everyone very well, and there could’ve been more spice. (Yes, I said it. I got to the meat and potatoes: I would’ve liked more spice and more detailed spice and I said what I said). So, this book is 506 pages, but I feel like it should’ve been a longer story and split into two shorter books.

But what we do get of Eve, I absolutely adore. She truly is like a feral cat, an abandoned puppy, a child raised by wolves… but then kind-of crossed with training in the Red Room with Natasha Romanoff, if that makes sense? She knows how to play at being human, but to actually sustain that mask of humanity on a consistent basis? Yeah, no. But watching her observe, listen, feel, learn, and then try to do the same? That’s absolutely some of the best stuff. And Adam’s wiles, determination, grit, and drive make him so much more than a needy omega trope. And I love how he and Eve compliment each other that way.

I really think if I’d gotten to know the other three alpha males better I’d be rating this right up there with Moon’s other Sweetverse books, but I just couldn’t. But it was a fun time.