Stray

1/2 way through
This is just too contemporary romance for me with the love triangle. The woman is a bit immature and the situations she doesn't argue correctly, and argues stupidly, is just too much. The over all story is very good but the way she reacts is... childish. I like her biting the guy but the rest. Her arguing with her father about leaving at that point? Not taking up for Jace when Mark attacks. Getting drunk and having sex (that is just total teenage). I'm disappointed in the main character, she starts smart and turns stupid. 1/2 book to go back to smart but I think it is too late.

Finished
Never got to like Faythe, she is callous and vain, and irritating as hell. After saving herself from captivity by kicking ass and killing one of her captors, she starts crying because of how bad her face looks, worrying how she looks to the others. She constantly puts herself in TSTL situations.

The story was pretty good and the world pretty well developed. This kept me to the story but with Faythe as the main protagonist, I just never like the overall effect. The ending conflict was drawn out and took away from the overall story also, it was just once too much that Faythe was attacked for me and couldn't hold her own. She was constantly being snuck up on and whining that she needed to pay attention to herself. Once or twice, OK but three or more times and I just think she is unaware of her surroundings and needs to plan for it. Instead she thinks she should notice, hmm. So the last scene Miguel get a hold of Faythe and has her by the neck, we hear over and over during the long drawn out talk that he tighten he grip cutting off airflow. One problem of this was it was repeated over and over, I would say more than 6 times as a threat, the scene was just too drawn out. The next, if he is squeezing so hard, he is cutting off blood flow and she would lose consciousness and become dizzy. The whole idea of her running to the rescue and getting caught again was just too much in the first place.

Just didn't click for me mainly because I disliked the heroine throughout for too many reasons. The only thing I did like was that she was protective of Abby. I thought maybe I could start liking her, but no then there was calm negotiation after killing a man, then freaking out over the state of her face even thought it would heal completely. And then the TSTL moment at the end and being once again in the clutches of Miguel. it just never happened for me.

I can't with this book.

Okay, so her name is "Faythe" which, I guess, isn't her fault. She's a werecat, and a female, which is extremely rare, so her dad is very protective of her, which she resents. She's yanked out of grad school by her dad who is panicking because one of the other eight female werecats on the continent has been murdered.

And, you can see why societies might be pretty concerned about their females if they were in that short of supply (although if you want species survival, they'd better be tremendously fertile) except that you can also create all the male werecats you want by biting a human.

Except, in this book, bitten werecats are outcasts, and no one wants to have one in their clan. Um. What? How have you guys survived until now? I mean, maybe every lady werecat is having hundreds of babies, but otherwise, I'm really confused about how your species is even still around.

And if bitten werecats are feral, and the clans are not supposed to bite people, then the only people doing the biting are going to the ferals, and I'm pretty sure the ferals are going to outnumber you fast enough that the ferals are going to create their own societies, and you guys are going to become a weird minority that no one cares about pretty quickly.

Back to "Faythe" (I can't). She's really the worst, and I have no patience for her. At one point, she actually says (and this is a paraphrase, because the stupid book is DRMed and I can't c&p, and can't be bothered to transcribe the whole thing) "Stop treating me like a child!" and then slams her way into her bedroom.

There's also a part early on where "Faythe" makes fun of one of her roommates for their harping on about 'feminism' and 'the patriarchy' which makes more sense when you realize that "Faythe" thinks independence means using your dad's money to major in whatever you want, and being an adult means lying to your boyfriend about your family in a different way than your dad wants you to.

So, uh, I'm not finishing this book.

I didn't finish it. It just got too weird for me. I like Rachel Vincent's Soul Screamers series WAY better.