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Moon Called by Patricia Briggs
2.0
I did not enjoy this book. Only reason it isn’t a DNF is because I listened to it while at work& didn’t want to waste the audible credit.
My Main Issues:
1)Shes stupid. She talks about how naive to the world she is but then seems to magically know everything when she needs to. While still doing the wrong thing time and time again. She’s also blind to the relationship situations. Tho, the audience just kind of has that thrown on them too without much showing- just telling...
2) The odd love triangle just doesn’t work. One of them was a grown man she was in love with as a teenager (luckily she left for a few years and came back- so nothing came out of that but they had planned to run away together) and the local alpha who showed 0 interest in the MC until over halfway through the book. It wasn’t even hinted at and then BAM! “He claimed you as his mate and has a photo of you in his bedroom” when in the beginning of the book, it had acted like she hardly ever deals with the werewolf pack and only knows them in passing. The love triangle was forced, didn’t work and really didn’t add anything to the series.
3) Figuring out who was behind everything was super weird. They basically talked themselves in a circle but began and ended with different points& somehow out of all that, they figured out who it was. &When everything was figured out, the motivations for it was stupid and just as contrite and round about as the process for figuring out who it is. Nothing ever hints at the involvement of any of the bad guys- they just randomly decide who it is without any kind of telling information or actions being taken. And then resolving the conflict (getting them untied/cuffed, combatting the drugs, etc;) was way too easy. They went on and on about how strong the chains were and how hard it would be to get them out- but nope, a magic knife makes it to where it took .25 seconds to release everything they spent 20+ minutes talking about how hard it would be to release them from.
4) A whole lot of nothing happened. 70-80% of the book could have been left out and the story wouldn’t have changed at all. Like the meeting with the vampires? Nothing ever comes of that& could have been avoided. The information could have easily been given to them by the fae informant who was an accountant for the vampires but the author attempted to (again) draw it out in a round about way. The scene with the cop pulling up to her and Sam after the vampire meeting- 0 point to it. Doesn’t progress the story at all or add anything, just filler material.
5) So much talk about how big, bad and scary the werewolves are but honestly? They were just boring. It went on and on about how hard they were to kill but then end up killing multiple without issues. It talked about werewolves being allergic to silver but then one of them was being injected with it and he was fine? The hierarchy of having packs with Alphas but still having basically royalty made absolutely no sense.
My Main Issues:
1)Shes stupid. She talks about how naive to the world she is but then seems to magically know everything when she needs to. While still doing the wrong thing time and time again. She’s also blind to the relationship situations. Tho, the audience just kind of has that thrown on them too without much showing- just telling...
2) The odd love triangle just doesn’t work. One of them was a grown man she was in love with as a teenager (luckily she left for a few years and came back- so nothing came out of that but they had planned to run away together) and the local alpha who showed 0 interest in the MC until over halfway through the book. It wasn’t even hinted at and then BAM! “He claimed you as his mate and has a photo of you in his bedroom” when in the beginning of the book, it had acted like she hardly ever deals with the werewolf pack and only knows them in passing. The love triangle was forced, didn’t work and really didn’t add anything to the series.
3) Figuring out who was behind everything was super weird. They basically talked themselves in a circle but began and ended with different points& somehow out of all that, they figured out who it was. &When everything was figured out, the motivations for it was stupid and just as contrite and round about as the process for figuring out who it is. Nothing ever hints at the involvement of any of the bad guys- they just randomly decide who it is without any kind of telling information or actions being taken. And then resolving the conflict (getting them untied/cuffed, combatting the drugs, etc;) was way too easy. They went on and on about how strong the chains were and how hard it would be to get them out- but nope, a magic knife makes it to where it took .25 seconds to release everything they spent 20+ minutes talking about how hard it would be to release them from.
4) A whole lot of nothing happened. 70-80% of the book could have been left out and the story wouldn’t have changed at all. Like the meeting with the vampires? Nothing ever comes of that& could have been avoided. The information could have easily been given to them by the fae informant who was an accountant for the vampires but the author attempted to (again) draw it out in a round about way. The scene with the cop pulling up to her and Sam after the vampire meeting- 0 point to it. Doesn’t progress the story at all or add anything, just filler material.
5) So much talk about how big, bad and scary the werewolves are but honestly? They were just boring. It went on and on about how hard they were to kill but then end up killing multiple without issues. It talked about werewolves being allergic to silver but then one of them was being injected with it and he was fine? The hierarchy of having packs with Alphas but still having basically royalty made absolutely no sense.