Alex Lowe, one-of-a-kind werewolf mage has a pack and territory but none of them are safe.
Even miles from the city their enemies come to attack, murdering werewolves with impunity. Alex has been told to win hearts and minds but what he really wants is to rip hearts out and cut heads off.
With a bounty on his head, deadly fire mages and a powerful fae assassin after him, Alex struggles to improve his spell-writing so he can protect his pack and his three mates.
Pulled into a heist to fulfil a favor to a witch and reverse the whole ain't-got-no-money problem, Alex soon uncovers a complicated world he never imagined.
A new kind of madness is rising in him too - the thrall and if it hits when he's around anyone other than his mates, he'll murder everyone. WARNING: HAREM HAREM HAREM
Also: explicit sexuality, deadly necromancers, fire mages, murder, dismemberment, magic spells, werewolves, blonde witches, sex magic, necromancy, bad movies, good cheesecake, fireballs, gamelit and litrpg elements and oh, did I mention it has a HAREM!
To sum this book up in one short sentence: "Alex achieves nothing, whines a lot, then fucks everything up."
After such a long wait, I genuinely expected more. This entire book pretty much felt like a pointless filler. From the get-go, we have Alex angst about the morality of killing people, even those who just attacked him. Every single last time he gets into a fight, it ends with him talking big, then getting his ass handed, fleeing, or just being passive while others save his bacon.
The same applies to the story, even ignoring that 90% of this book felt like pointless filler. At no point does he do anything remotely worthwhile. He's passive, reactionary, averse to taking any action, hell he even acknowledges this himself as if that makes it any better. If anything he's become LESS competent than he was in the first book both in terms of magic and fighting.
We're now also three books in, and pretty much no questions have been answered whatsoever. Why do people want him dead, who is the actual enemy, who are the shadowy figures we've been shown and what are their goals, etc?
Some mystery is okay, keeping some questions open is too, being three books in and not having even the most basic of things answered while throwing on more and more questions is just, not. Also, the ending was just a straight-up "in your face" insulting kind of cliffhanger. Given the last book took half a year, that's a very long time to pull such a thing.
This book was riddled with grammatical mistakes which was annoying, the middle section was boring and the end was rushed with a cliffhanger. Not the best book in this series, but I still enjoyed most of it. Will probably read the next one just to find out what happens.
This installment had me going back and forth with my frustration towards Alex, but I have to understand that he’s still learning about this new life and what comes with it. Definitely read this book and become captured by it.
I'm really loving this series - no joke, I blew though all five books in two days.I mean, plots galore. I don't know where anyone is going at this point in the series!