Blood Rites (Grey Wolves #2) by Quinn Loftis

3.0 stars

This installment takes up right where the first book left us: Jacque and Fane are going to be doing the blood rites in Texas and they are getting ready.  Jacque’s father (an alpha in the Denver pack) has recently become aware of her existence and has ordered his beta to keep an eye on her.  Logan (the beta) has decided he has a liking for Jacque as well now (yes, we have heard that song before).  I felt like it was somewhat believable in the first book.  There aren’t a lot of females and Jacque was living in his territory, but I am not buying Logan’s insta-obsession with Jacque in this.  He needs a mate.  The darkness is consuming him.  We get it.  So he sets plans into motion to get what he wants: a mate.  And this is Jacque (again). 

Jen and Sally weren’t quite as annoying to me in this one, but I still did not find their jokes and sarcasm even remotely amusing or endearing and it is clear that the author intends it to be.  I think this might just be me because I read quite a few reviews where the readers felt like they were quite funny and endearing.  If I said that with this book and said it with the first book, then you might ask yourself, “Why does she keep reading them then?”  That is a good question.  The answer is that the story line was great in the first one, and while this second book felt like it was the same song, different beat, I still enjoyed it.  What I enjoyed most though was watching Decebel and Jen’s interaction (I know, I am a big ball of contradictions since I just said that Jen is annoying to me).  I'm not sure if I want to read on in the series...

My favorite lines in this book:   

“…shining light where there has been only darkness…”  --Fane to Jacque (vows for the blood rites)

AND

“He dared me to give him a reason to kill someone if the time came that he called me Virginia and it no longer pertained to me.”  --Jen to Sally (telling Sally what Decebel leaned over to whisper in his ear)

Prince of Wolves by Quinn Loftis (#1 in The Grey Wolves Series)

3 Stars

I have mixed feelings about this book.  I have never read anything by this author.  I actually got another book lent to me in the middle of reading this book and I thought, “well I can just finish this book up after I get the other one read.”  But in fact I couldn’t get into the loaned book (which shall remain unnamed for its own protection).  So I have to admit that I thoroughly enjoyed the storyline and kept thinking about it when I wasn’t reading it.  However, it really really needs to be edited.  The author would really benefit from some good beta readers.  There are many books in this series so I am willing to gamble that the editing gets better the further the author moves into the publishing world.  Also this first book is free so am I really able to complain about typos on a free book?  I don’t know.

My other problem was the character development.  Many of the characters seemed two dimensional and some of them were downright annoying!  I am pretty sure the author was trying to show how close the three girls were but I wouldn’t care if I never heard about them again.  They would say the stupidest things.  And Jacque would also say stupid things and through temper tantrums that were quite annoying.  Perhaps the author intends to show how mature she is able to become over the course of the series, but right now I do not like those girls. 

I’m not gonna give a summary because the official summary pretty much says it all.  I thought that the love story between Fane and Jacque (how do you pronounce that by the way?  Some places it was spelled Jac so is the author saying that Jacque would be pronounced like Jackie and that Jac is pronounced like Jack?).

I am going to read the next book and hope for better editing and less annoying stupid talk from the three girls. This series has the potential to be amazing for me.