I was a delta - a genetic freak who switched designations more than any other delta thanks to my insufferable indecision. I became an alpha for my sister, but now she doesn't need me anymore and I'm spiraling. I have no idea who or what I'm supposed to be.
All I know is that I'm good at solving murders.
I'm a top-notch behavior analyst and the best in my field, but I don't have a partner anymore and they want me to train this rookie to replace her - a quiet, unobtrusive legacy alpha with only a single red eye.
Soren Hart is one of the strongest alphas I've ever come across, and yet, he has no issue following my orders. My shitty attitude doesn't bother him and neither does my cold shoulder. I've never met an alpha like him before and it's seriously messing with my head.
The last thing I can afford to do is fall all over myself for another alpha.
Again.
My designation is too fragile - too unpredictable. If I let myself actually like my rookie, there's a good chance my act will come crumbling down and all my hard work gone, just like that.
I just had to get him through his training and solve this case before he tears apart my carefully curated world, because no matter how much I might want to rely on his reassuring presence, I have a legacy to uphold and a pack to lead.
I don't get the appeal. Frankie is not my favorite. I would go out of my way to avoid her irl. Toxic, but not in the mean girl way. In the I'm gonna string everyone along until I can figure wtf I want and be pissed they want my attention but also pissed if they don't. Never gonna be happy, exhausting. The story was kinda boring honestly. It wasn't really romance. Like a Nancy drew with one weird sex scene.
I honestly don't know why I even gave this book a try. I'm still made about the first two books being promised as a duet only to find out after I finished the second book that the author chose to make it a trilogy and not tell anyone. It was inconsiderate.
This book was so boring and repetitive. I finally DNF-ed it at 55% because it was the same drivel repeated multiple times every chapter. Frankie was somewhat interesting in Lucy's books but annoying and boring in this book. She was also incredibly childish for someone who was "forced to grow up at an early age." Over half way into the book and we know basically nothing at all about any of the characters other than that Frankie doesn't want to appear weak and is actually a switch designation. We also know Leo is a psychopath but he's obsessed with Frankie, so it's ok (not!). And we know Soren is undercover and also doesn't fit his normal designation. That's it. That's all you know because all the author does is repeat over and over. Don't waste your time.
I'm all for supporting neurodivergent authors as a neurospicy reader myself, but she really needed someone to tell her to cut over half of this book out and probably just make it a duet.
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What a plot twist!! Love this story and so glad to see it continuing from lucy and how we get the know Frankie. I love how will she written and leo.. he's awesome, this mmcs really know how to bring it Soren is totally a 10