If I want to be honest with myself, there was just nothing to it. I mean, I loved the remix of the werewolves she spun, things like each person that is a werewolf has their soul but they also share the body with their own, unique wolf. I especially loved that the females must be pure before the mating ritual, so that she will be pure for her mate. Since dealing with this day-in-age where it seems like all the youth is having sex at such a young age, making the main characters have to wait to 'do the deed' is refreshing. Other than that I was disappointed. We learn from the book description that a trip to town will change lives forever, and we all know what that means--someone is going to die. So when a character or two goes into town, we--the readers--already have the tissues at hand; except for this death wasn't all that tragic. We hardly got to know Jasmine as a character, so her death, while sudden and violent, wasn't hard to get over. I mean, thinking over all the books I have ever read and the deaths that occur in them, I still get choked up when I think about some of them. This book had not a whole lot going for it--there was hardly any action, it moved at a snail's pace and there was a LOT of hot make-out parts; that's what the main boy/girl characters ever seem to do. If I wanted that I would have bought a hard-core romantic book, one with Fabio on the cover. This is how publishers get you: they set a book for free, so you get it (and let's be honest with ourselves, a millionaire wouldn't pass up a free book; especially one that isn't a public domain one) and then you invest your time and of course emotions into the book, the author leaves the book as a MAJOR cliff hanger specifically so that we would want the rest of the series, and the final nail in the coffin is that the publishers have the rest of the books set at retail price. And what do we do? We but them! We pay full price for something that isn't really worth the money to begin with.
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