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A review by katyanaish
Tail 'Em by Sam Hall
3.0
This was ... ooookay. It was too heavy on the non-con sexual abuse to me, frankly, which I didn't expect from the blurb. I also didn't expect this to be some kind of omegaverse thing.
The characters also made some spectacularly dumb choices at various points -
But I tentatively am interested in the overall story. Like, what exactly is she? Why is the mate bond so weird with her? Why do the alpha elders seem to be happy to use her, but yet are so fucking against her?
But that said, there's a big weight of skepticism this book left me with, that the series is going to have to dig itself out of. Like, why is she such a fucking doormat? That's the biggest one. Why does she just do what the alphas say, like she owes them anything when they've made it abundantly clear that she's an outsider? Why does ANYONE, quite frankly, respect them and do what they say? We're told that they have fated mates, but that the alphas don't always allow them to be with their mate ... which ... wtf? Why would ANY shifter agree to follow someone who would dictate that? How can this be a norm thing (which it really comes across as, given how casually Jai says it to her). I don't understand her relationship to the pack. I don't understand her Nan and all the contradictory bullshit her Nan spouted, and I really don't understand how/why it seems like her Nan seems to have promised her or her babies to the pack, as if she's a prized cow/possession. I don't understand any of it, honestly. I'm giving it leeway because big story questions frequently play out across multiple books, but I don't like how much, in this book, I was like WTF?? And just had to extend some faith and move forward.
There's also a dark suspicion that on some level the pack was aware of or working with these scientists ... because they seem to have very casually sent her in there to be taken. And that makes me even more confused.
The characters also made some spectacularly dumb choices at various points -
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when she knows, has seen in a shifter's mind, precisely how these assholes trap people and capture them ... why does she meander into such a fucking obvious trap?But I tentatively am interested in the overall story. Like, what exactly is she? Why is the mate bond so weird with her? Why do the alpha elders seem to be happy to use her, but yet are so fucking against her?
But that said, there's a big weight of skepticism this book left me with, that the series is going to have to dig itself out of. Like, why is she such a fucking doormat? That's the biggest one. Why does she just do what the alphas say, like she owes them anything when they've made it abundantly clear that she's an outsider? Why does ANYONE, quite frankly, respect them and do what they say? We're told that they have fated mates, but that the alphas don't always allow them to be with their mate ... which ... wtf? Why would ANY shifter agree to follow someone who would dictate that? How can this be a norm thing (which it really comes across as, given how casually Jai says it to her). I don't understand her relationship to the pack. I don't understand her Nan and all the contradictory bullshit her Nan spouted, and I really don't understand how/why it seems like her Nan seems to have promised her or her babies to the pack, as if she's a prized cow/possession. I don't understand any of it, honestly. I'm giving it leeway because big story questions frequently play out across multiple books, but I don't like how much, in this book, I was like WTF?? And just had to extend some faith and move forward.
There's also a dark suspicion that on some level the pack was aware of or working with these scientists ... because they seem to have very casually sent her in there to be taken. And that makes me even more confused.