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Most readers may be familiar with books involving scenarios of the female MC breaking up with her boyfriend, getting a new one, meeting the new boyfriend's family and ocassionally having feuds with the ex. For some parts of the novel, this is the case concerning Katylin, Alex and Blake. But what makes this novel stand out greatly from its rivals, is that this book ACTUALLY implements world building in terms of its fantasy elements. Too many werewolf books I've seen before has its romance dominate the fantasy, ignoring everything about the werewolf other than having the disguise of a "cool hot guy". Point is, this novel has a good balance of fantasy and romance Werewolves and their culture (including their clans) are explained in simple and easy to understand details by either Katylin or shown via her interactions. I appreciate all of the efforts the author made to include the fantastical elements. This is the highest positive element of the book. My only criticism? Many paragraphs of the novel are too big in various chapters. The content is fine, but paragraphs need spacing. The pacing of the novel is quite fast. I don't mind going straight into the point, but I'm surprised at how first Katylin forgets Blake and moves on as soon as possible with Alex in the early chapters. I was expecting build up. In addition, many characters are...quite familiar in terms of their roles. In my opinion Katylin is the only one that stands out. The rest are kinda like this when I read it: - Bela: "the protagonist's best friend and major character" - Alex: "the friend/acquaintance turned boyfriend of the protagonist. - Blake: "the angry tryhard ex later antagonist" - Karen: "same as Blake, but is his girlfriend." Overall I would recommend for fans of the werewolf genre. While I may have criticism over the characters, the rest are good in their way. Also, If you're a fantasy romance author and you want to write about werewolves. This novel should serve as an example, because the author here establishes werewolves in their own way including terms, cultures, celebrations (there's even a chapter before the story that explains this, which is well appreciated).

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Thank you so much for the review. Also thank you for the criticism. On my doc, the paragraphs don't seem that long, due to it being on my laptop. I will definitely take that into account when editing/rewriting the story. To address some of the things you pointed out. The main reason it feels rushed is that I did rush it a bit. This is going to be the first of MANY edits and/or rewrites.

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Thank you for the review.