2.75 stars Listen. I. KNOW. THE WRITING . WAS. FLAWED. I still could not tell you what the magic system is or really who/why the bad persons are the bad people (although that may be intentional) but I devoured it in one sitting nonetheless. Don't yuck my yum.
Ramblings of a madwoman who is quite forgetful and will inevitably need a refresher of the whole plot at one point or another Spoiler So savannah is a "human" who is a waitress in Belmont, Wisconsin. One night she gets attacked and almost kidnapped by werewolves for unknown reasons. She is thrust into a world of magic because she killed one of her attackers. The alpha wolf of Chicago, Jaxson Laurent, cringe... seriously why is every male werewolf a Jaxson with an X. i cant. where are the matthews or johns. not everyone needs a unique name.i dont know. i digress)is in town to catch her as well because he apparently was told by a seer that she is the key to the survival or destruction of his pack. anyway he tries to tell her what to do by using his alpha mojo and it works a little but she can get out of it easier than anybody else( i wonder why... could they be true mates????? {said with all the sarcasm i can muster}) so whenever he tells her to do something she ends up disobeying, ignoring or completely doing the exact opposite of what he has ordered. At the beginning of the book, Jax states that she should stay in town for her safety after the werewolf attack but with the advice of her dead parents with a note they wrote prior to their death saying that she should seek her aunt (that she never knew existed) if things started to go down she ends up doing that. she travels 5 ish hours from the home she has always known and the safety of her godmother since she has lived with since her parents supposed methlab explosion killed them when she was 16 to a magically hidden island in the Chicago area. there she finds out that she is magical too and her family that she is seeking out, the LaSalle's, are a family of sorcerer's that use blood magic and are rumored to dabble in the Dark arts ( how blood magic is not already considered dark art in general is beyond me) The Lasalle's have been in a feud with the werewolves on the island since the 1800s. To top it off and make the wound of the feud that much fresher the Lasalle's are accused of killing Jaxson's older sister with witchywoo stuff and wolfsbane within the past year. So of course there is forbidden sexual tension between Jax and Sav throughout the whole book because both family's think the other is hella dangerous. moving on...Sav gets to town and Jax being a rich alpha werewolf with a bunch of connections finds her immediately and takes her into town and tells her to stay in the motel room he has acquired for here in town since she disobeyed him and left Wisconsin. She ignores his request/ demand and goes to find her family anyway. There she meets her Aunt Laurel or Laura?? Uncle Pete (which welcomed her with open arms into their house but we dont know if we can fully trust them), and her cousin conner or carson or something like that( we currently trust him although he is kind chaotic and also always has a suspicious amount of wolfsbane available to him which is illegal and quite deadly to wolves) they do witchy woo things to bring her sorcerer powers out quickly which she feels simultaneously as sunshine and painful ice water ??? apparently everyone has a signature with their magic and the more powerful the stronger your signature scent is?? again IDK. skipping ahead because i simply do not care enough... basically the big bad wolf in the book is actually a sorcerer that is summoning blood demons (i either am forgetting why or the reasons for the the demons has yet to be explained yet) with blood magic and stealing/murdering humans around the midwest to feed the demons and letting the blame fall on the incompetencies of jaxson's pack. In actuality the evil sorcerer that we dont know the real identity of yet has fancy blood that is like wolf speed so he is using exiled wolves with drug problems (most of them having no affiliation to the Chicago Pack at all) to do his bidding as well as Billy, third in command enforcer? of the pack. Billy signed up to betray his pack to get revenge and kill all the lasalles family because jax's sister was his true mate and he went cuckoo banana nuts when she died (and like mention previously it is assumed that the lasalles were the one that killed her). Billy believes that Sav is the key to being able to kill all of the family and for some reason the sorcerer is specifically after Sav so wants to kill two birds with one stone by teaming up with him. Also another fun fact is apparently the sorcerer and Sav's blood taste very similar(can I get an EW) if you are to believe the high drugged up werewolf that captured sav and sam (another werewolf that is a part of the pack and is pretty nice to sav unlike the rest of the pack) towards the end of the book. They were caught in a trap that was set up because Jax asked Sav to Scrye the whereabouts of the evil drugged up wolves and the sorcerer/ billy ( which was acting as a mole at the time) knew they would see their base and try to go after it. Somehow Sav is able to break out of her chains after being caught and bleed almost dry, save sam and a witch that the exiled druggy pack accidentally kidnapped because they mistook her for Sav since she is a redhead with a tattoo on her L arm. Once out of the warehouse she instructed sam and the witch to run and tell Jax/the pack about Billy's betrayal and ti let the drugged up wolves / billy track after her. she ended up killing billy with her bare hands by herself (i am gonna guess that she is half wolf and it comes out at rando times with intense feelings because the author was really cagey about info on her mother and that would check out if mom was a part of the wolf pack so she felt like they couldn't live happily in Chicago with a half lasalle sorcerer /half werewolf baby so they moved to Wisconsin AND the fact that sav is slightly irritated by wolfsbane and does facial expressions that are kinda wolfy at times like bearing her teeth or "crazy eyes" that are apparently very convincing) . After all those events go down she looks a billys dead body and sees claw marks and her eyes glow gold like a wolf but convinces herself it was just her raw emotions and she was imaging things. Jax finds her in a field and because of their intense emotions during the end fighting scene they lose themselves and forget that their family's hate each other and start making out. sam fids them smooching hardcore and calls out Jax.They both fall out of the trance and Sav sees shame and regret in his features for kissing her so now she is convinced that she hates him and that he is a still a monster (really annoying to me honestly like he has been really nice to her this whole time but she still finds a way to villainies him because of his species ...like give dude a break girly pop). Anyway that is basically the end. Sam drives her home and on the way back she warns Savannah that she absolutely can not under any circumstance have a relationship with jax. the end. onto the next one!
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