I feel like this book was better than the first. The build up to the climax was better and the climax itself was better executed.

There were moments when I started to get frustrated but that was more with Sophie's father being a dick so openly, even going so far as to threaten his own daughter with a public bedding ceremony against her will.

I've seen a lot of terrible parents in books these last few months, ranging from just plan neglectful to be exploiting their children to downright trying to kill them. But a father willing to have his daughter be assaulted? Yeah, that takes the cake for me.

I was happy to see that Sophie's mother was actually good, though. That was a breath of fresh air. More often than not, they are either complacent, unaware, or submissive. While Sophie's mother was unaware of what she was going through, she didn't stand idly by when she discovered the truth. She took action in the best way. And the most heartbreaking.

But let's step away from the ending and I want to turn to something else I noticed with most shifter books: the "unshifter-like female." In most shifter books I've read, the male is always super extraordinary in some way and the female is not. True to form, Sophie is clumsy, not a great hunter, and not the best shifter in general. Where are the females who are just as special and strong as the males? Or stronger even? And like most shifter books, Remy is big, strong, and has a Gift with unique properties that puts him close to being overpowered, considering how he used it in the climax. They try to nerf the guys by putting a limit of some kind of the males but I've also seen males that ignore those limits. Remy does have his limits in terms of the burnout but even he stated he hadn't had one since he was a teenager before the events at the beginning of the book.

I'm not saying these traits are bad but having a shifter female be clumsy and awkward when the whole point of shifters is that they are not those things, it kind of ruins the feel for me. Shifter books are still my favorite simply because you can be as wild as you want with the characters and the world and just claim it's their animal that makes them so. It also gives the males an excuse to be super possessive toward their females and vise versa. But I would love to see a book or series where the female is not as clumsy and awkward as a human and can hold her own in a fight. I've seen very few of these and would love suggestions.

But before that, I'm going to continue on to the next book: What a Wolf Demands. It will be about Dom and I am excited to find out more about him. More of his past was hinted at in this book and shed a bit of light on his and Remy's relationship. I'm hoping this one will answer any lingering questions I have. But there's only one way to find out.