But I was immediately surprised and sucked in by Lola Rock’s passion for spinning a great tale. Initially, this “felt” like the usual “poor pretty skinny all-American beauty being chased by brute, possessive men“ trope. I'm left with the feeling that Wyvern pack should have ended up with someone better.
In short, the story had its amazing moments and some unenjoyable ones, but the narration is what kept me coming back. For me this last chapter perfectly captures the incongruous behaviour of the heroine throughout the two books. The end of the book was a whiplash moment, you arrive at a sort of epilogue moment only for there to be a very obvious spinoff bait insert after which there's another 180° turn and we sail into the sunset. But maybe that's because I'm new the this genre. These kind of things kept me from being completely immersed in the story. For example, at some point a piece of tech is conveniently present at a crisis moment only for it to fail at the moment supreme and be replaced by a very convenient yet unexplained biological supernatural feature. There's also quite some deux ex machina and unnecessarily convoluted twists. I found that the story had some major plot holes, and the world building is a bit shaky.
Every chapter I was kind of hoping to have the male perspective and found myself increasingly disappointed when it was another Lila chapter. She's a bit of a nasal, arrogant whiny character.
The way she was narrated also didn't endear me to Lila. I found I loved seeing the heroine through their eyes but didn't care much for the female point of view. Narration was very good, especially by the male narrator, he captured the different personalities of the characters amazingly.
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