Maja (The Nocturnal Library)'s Reviews > Alpha
Alpha (Shifters, #6)
by
by

Maja (The Nocturnal Library)'s review
bookshelves: urban-fantasy, werewhatevers, horrible-whiner, annoying-love-triangle, reviewed-in-2011
Jan 17, 2011
bookshelves: urban-fantasy, werewhatevers, horrible-whiner, annoying-love-triangle, reviewed-in-2011
** spoiler alert **
Ok, here's the deal: I wish I could get amnesia and forget all about the first five books. Then I could write a short-but-great review of this last one and really do it justice. But since I'm as mentally strong as ever, I have to write about the series as a whole.
The worst thing about Alpha is that you have to read five other books using half your brain ( and wishing you were brain dead in the process) before getting to it. Without having gone through all that, Alpha is actually quite good! But by the time you get to it, you simply don't have the brains left to enjoy.
Faythe (and really, what kind of a stupid name is that?) is an annoying, selfish, spoiled little brat who only starts to show some admirable qualities (but not nearly enough) at the end of the series.It honestly didn't matter that the bad guys kept calling her bitch. What did matter is that I didn't have a better name for her myself.
For Marc I simply have no words. I always knew she would end up with him, that much was sadly predictable, but it made me sick all along. I really liked the guy, except for the small fact of his goods (and by goods I mean balls) beeing kept in a very small gold box and used as a fireplace decoration by his future wife. He is only allowed to open and peek on very special occasions.
And come on!!! For six books I was tortured with the worst love triangle ever written ( and that's taking Twilight into account), then to have it resolved with less than two pages of stupid dialogue. There's nothing more I can say at this point except that I want a book with a super sexy, super strong vampire with no real competition. Now!
So to continue the tradition, I'm going to give this one a solid three star status. It would have been four, but I'm honestly too traumatized by Prey and Shift to do that.
The worst thing about Alpha is that you have to read five other books using half your brain ( and wishing you were brain dead in the process) before getting to it. Without having gone through all that, Alpha is actually quite good! But by the time you get to it, you simply don't have the brains left to enjoy.
Faythe (and really, what kind of a stupid name is that?) is an annoying, selfish, spoiled little brat who only starts to show some admirable qualities (but not nearly enough) at the end of the series.It honestly didn't matter that the bad guys kept calling her bitch. What did matter is that I didn't have a better name for her myself.
For Marc I simply have no words. I always knew she would end up with him, that much was sadly predictable, but it made me sick all along. I really liked the guy, except for the small fact of his goods (and by goods I mean balls) beeing kept in a very small gold box and used as a fireplace decoration by his future wife. He is only allowed to open and peek on very special occasions.
And come on!!! For six books I was tortured with the worst love triangle ever written ( and that's taking Twilight into account), then to have it resolved with less than two pages of stupid dialogue. There's nothing more I can say at this point except that I want a book with a super sexy, super strong vampire with no real competition. Now!
So to continue the tradition, I'm going to give this one a solid three star status. It would have been four, but I'm honestly too traumatized by Prey and Shift to do that.
Sign into Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ to see if any of your friends have read
Alpha.
Sign In »
Reading Progress
Comments Showing 1-3 of 3 (3 new)
date
newest »

message 1:
by
Vinaya
(new)
Jan 22, 2011 10:40AM

reply
|
flag

I'm surprised you could even understand half of it with all my spelling and syntactic disasters. :)What can I say? It's not for lack of trying.