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Strength of the Pack
by Kendall McKenna
Strength of the Pack is a bit of a different shifter novel than those I've read previously. I am really enjoying all the different takes and mythologies present in the books I've read. In this series, Kendall McKenna writes it so that wolf shifters are common knowledge and there are protocols on serving with them and commanding them in the military. I liked that. A world where shifters don't have to hide.
Lucas Young is a Lieutenant in the USMC. He's commanding a platoon which has a couple werewolves, at least to start. He's not sure what to expect since he's never been the CO of one before, but brushing up on his training should go a long way. That is until Sergeant Noah Hammond, the only True Alpha in the Marine Corps, is assigned to him. Then, he is a bit out of his depth.
Noah is huge, in human form or wolf, and he definitely has a presence. And, though he tests Lieutenant Young's authority a few times at the beginning, he willingly submits to his CO and he handles the unit's werewolves with ease.
By far, most of the sex in this book is limited to making out and hand jobs. Pretty damn hot hand jobs, I will grant you. Being deployed in the sandbox for months without proper showers does not lend to the down and (figuratively) dirty. So, I was good with that. The story itself was good. There did seem to be more military jargon in the book, and much of it I didn't recognize even though I've read a lot of military themed novels, so I had to look stuff up on occasion.
While I enjoyed Strength of the Pack quite a lot, I also found Lucas kind of a frustrating guy. Not all of it was his fault, of course. Noah could have helped quite a bit by actually telling Lucas a few things that were applicable to their relationship with each other along with or instead of telling him the old legends of True Alpha's and their Dominants. Lucas is a 'what you see is what you get' kind of guy and he hasn't been around enough werewolves to know how things are supposed to be between himself and Noah. So, for pretty much the entire book Noah held part of himself back.
None the less, I thought this was a pretty good start to this series and I look forward to reading the rest.
Lucas Young is a Lieutenant in the USMC. He's commanding a platoon which has a couple werewolves, at least to start. He's not sure what to expect since he's never been the CO of one before, but brushing up on his training should go a long way. That is until Sergeant Noah Hammond, the only True Alpha in the Marine Corps, is assigned to him. Then, he is a bit out of his depth.
Noah is huge, in human form or wolf, and he definitely has a presence. And, though he tests Lieutenant Young's authority a few times at the beginning, he willingly submits to his CO and he handles the unit's werewolves with ease.
By far, most of the sex in this book is limited to making out and hand jobs. Pretty damn hot hand jobs, I will grant you. Being deployed in the sandbox for months without proper showers does not lend to the down and (figuratively) dirty. So, I was good with that. The story itself was good. There did seem to be more military jargon in the book, and much of it I didn't recognize even though I've read a lot of military themed novels, so I had to look stuff up on occasion.
While I enjoyed Strength of the Pack quite a lot, I also found Lucas kind of a frustrating guy. Not all of it was his fault, of course. Noah could have helped quite a bit by actually telling Lucas a few things that were applicable to their relationship with each other along with or instead of telling him the old legends of True Alpha's and their Dominants. Lucas is a 'what you see is what you get' kind of guy and he hasn't been around enough werewolves to know how things are supposed to be between himself and Noah. So, for pretty much the entire book Noah held part of himself back.
None the less, I thought this was a pretty good start to this series and I look forward to reading the rest.