Thursday, November 08, 2018

Review: Defying Pack Law by Eve Langlais


Book Description

Pack Law states she must have more than one mate.
Like Hell.

Rather than be forced into a mating with more than one man, Dana flees the pack. Flees everything she knows, everyone she loves. She lives on the run and can't seem to find happiness.

All that changes the day her first love, Nathan, finds her and brings her back home. He's not letting her go, not again. As alpha, he now makes the rules and he's decided to hell with the laws, he wants Dana.

Except Dana's changed since she left. Maybe the pack ways aren't so bad after all and when she decides to accept fate... she finds love times three.


My Review

I love this authors books so when I saw that this one was free on Amazon, I scooped it up. 

Dana grew up in a pack where women are not treated right and are usually shared by more than one male in the pack. She saw her mother treated badly and never waned to live this lifestyle. But she grew to love Nathan and even got engaged to him. He turns out to be just as bad as the other males and tells her that after they're mated she will be shared by other males. She isn't having any of that and feels completely betrayed by Nathan so she leaves. She knows that she has to keep moving or else her pack might find her. She is on the run for years and then one day Nathan finds her and drags her back to the pack. 

It's at this point that I stopped enjoying this book. She's held against her will but somehow she's not so against having several male partners after reconsidering how her life has been these last few years. Dana is very annoying and Nathan is just a jerk. I didn't like him at all. I realize that they aren't human, they were wolf shifters and if humans were doing this I would have called it abusive. But I had to keep telling myself that they are wolf shifters in a pack and the same rules don't apply to them. But it was hard to like Nathan and Dana. I didn't like the whole dynamic between them or how hot headed he seemed to be. Now when the other males are brought into the picture, I really liked them. They brought the parts that were missing. The gentleness, the tenderness, the romance and love. 

It's not until the last half of this book that we find out what really happened and why Nathan changed his mind about sharing her back before she left. It started to make more sense and I could see that Nathan was put in a hard spot because it wasn't really his choice. And then there's a huge twist at the end of the book that I did like. It was wild to like the beginning of the book, get mad at Nathan and hate him and then almost feel bad for him towards the end. So while I didn't love this story, I did like parts of it and think it's worth the read. 

I give this book 3 out of 5 stars. 

26 comments:

  1. At least parts of it sucked you in a bit

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  2. Sometimes I think some of the best books are the ones that make you feel different emotions. Might not be ones you rate high, just ones you might think about again.

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  3. Interesting review, it's sounds fairly good for a 3.

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    1. It was. 3 isn't bad it's just good not great.

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  4. I had to check out her website to be sure but I have enjoyed her F.U.R. coalition series so cute, so funny and so hot. Thanks for your fantastic review Mary

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    1. Thank you. I do usually enjoy her books too.

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  5. that's an author I heard a lot about but I haven't tried any of her books

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  6. Interesting. I am glad you stuck with it for the bits which you didn't like and that it came good. Any book which makes me think is a winner.

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    1. I agree. It turned out to be pretty good.

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  7. I don't think this would be one for me. I understand that the characters aren't exactly humen, but I would still find that behaviour and custom disturbing

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  8. I am pretty sure that I would have had some problems with this one as well.

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  9. Drags her back... to the pack? Say it ain't so. Don't you just hatw it when a book (or movie) all of a sudden stops being enjoyable?

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  10. Yep! I had that same wild ride of having my feelings and opinion go all over the place. Never did completely recover from my first reactions though.

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    1. I usually really enjoy her books but this one gave me a hard time.

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  11. Sounds like this book had some ups and downs for you. Glad you liked the twist at the end. :)
    ~Jess

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  12. The middle bit sounds like they were both a chore. Glad it turned out pretty well in the end at least :)

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    1. I was really surprised that I ended up liking this one.

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