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A review by bookcadaver
The Alpha's Son by Penny Jessup
I was given an eARC by Tiny Ghost Press in exchange for an honest review.
I won’t be giving a star rating for The Alpha’s Son because I’m struggling with how I would rate it. I tend to get stressed when it comes to writing reviews for advanced copy of books when I didn’t like the book, because I know it’s just my personal opinion, but I hate the idea of my review putting readers off, so please don’t read this review and come away thinking it’s a bad book.
The Alpha’s Son is a queer, young-adult novel that focuses around werewolves. I’m a huge sucker for werewolf romance stories, especially angsty werewolf stories, but this was definitely not a novel for me.
The writing and dialogue was a little too young for me & I was finding it hard to enjoy the characters/plot due to this, especially at the start of the book. The writing felt jarring at times, and I was really struggling to get into the feel of it.
I think this is a book that will be perfect for people who want an easy, cute and over the top teen story, which personally, from how it was written, I was not very fond of. It’s a very simple story to follow, it’s got comedy, angst, and the main thing I was happy with, was that it was queer.
Although I’ve settled on the fact I did not enjoy this, I may come back and reread it in the future, just to give it another go and see if my opinion changes. Not every book is meant to be, and I’m sad that this book was one of them.
TWITTER | INSTA
I won’t be giving a star rating for The Alpha’s Son because I’m struggling with how I would rate it. I tend to get stressed when it comes to writing reviews for advanced copy of books when I didn’t like the book, because I know it’s just my personal opinion, but I hate the idea of my review putting readers off, so please don’t read this review and come away thinking it’s a bad book.
The Alpha’s Son is a queer, young-adult novel that focuses around werewolves. I’m a huge sucker for werewolf romance stories, especially angsty werewolf stories, but this was definitely not a novel for me.
The writing and dialogue was a little too young for me & I was finding it hard to enjoy the characters/plot due to this, especially at the start of the book. The writing felt jarring at times, and I was really struggling to get into the feel of it.
I think this is a book that will be perfect for people who want an easy, cute and over the top teen story, which personally, from how it was written, I was not very fond of. It’s a very simple story to follow, it’s got comedy, angst, and the main thing I was happy with, was that it was queer.
Although I’ve settled on the fact I did not enjoy this, I may come back and reread it in the future, just to give it another go and see if my opinion changes. Not every book is meant to be, and I’m sad that this book was one of them.
TWITTER | INSTA