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Pride's Run (2011)

by Cat Kalen(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0987855905 (ISBN13: 9780987855909)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Cat Kalen

series

A Wolf's Pride

review 1: Started out really good and went downhill from there. I really like the premise, but it doesn't deliver. Most of the story is spent on the budding relationship between Pride and Logan. There's a lot of telling and not much showing about how great of a tracker/hunter Pride us. She spends a lot of time complaining about her appearance. There are some laughable and weird scenes between them when they are both in wolf form. What turned me off the most was that I read the reviews about books 2 and 3 and find that there's a love triangle and she spends a lot of time wavering between guys. Bleah. 1.5 stars - I wouldn't read it again and won't be finishing the series, but it was interesting enough that I finished it.
review 2: So I read the blurb of this book and the w... moreords popping into my head were 'thrill', 'trauma', 'escape' and 'hunt.' All of which are pretty promising for a book to have...Four star material? And then of course the word 'romance' cropped up...made me think that maybe,this book had what it takes to get up into the Hollywood star of fame region; Completely legendary. So, obviously, I started reading it, and realized that looks really can be deceiving...First page in, hope is still shinning in my eyes, first and second paragraph, the hope and anticipation is growing, and I'm starting to imagine this book up on the same shelves as Jen and Suzanne. And then I read the third paragraph. I kid you not, almost cried. (I realize how this makes me sound, you probably all have images in your heads of a nerdy girl, hair in bunchies, with no friends or social life...oh well, YOU GUYS CAN BE MY SOCIAL LIFE :)) Where was I...oh yea, my hopes and dreams were just crushed. She wants to be 'a normal 17-year-old girl.' Where have I heard that before...Twilight, The Reaping, Sweet Evil, Hex Hall, Mythos Academy, need I go on? I'm sorry, but that cliche just pisses me the hell off.The heroine however, is kinda bad ass. She's making people scared with her 'death glare'... something I'm really jealous of seeing as whenever I glare, I'm told I look 'cute,' not really what I was going for. She's all about 'playing the game' and basically owning the shit out of everyone around her. 10 points for Pride :)She's also proud.(shocker.)But she fights for what she wants and doesn't see an amazingly attractive guy and instantly fall into his arms, she makes him earn that privilege. And thank God she's not 'gifted' in some way as I'm getting tired of people being able to control wind or read minds or even magically block her boyfriend from reading her mind...it's just weird. (excluding the fact that she can turn into a big scary animal at will...) She's relatively normal as far as shape shifters go and actually relies on intellect rather than her 'gift.' Chapter 2, enter annoying cliche number two. She wants to go where the 'wolves run free.' I'm really not a fan of far away promised lands. They irk me, just look at how it turned out for Moses. (Not great BTW.) Then there's the foreshadowing, could she mention how impossible escape is any more times...trust me, it's be a tough challenge.STONE, now he's interesting! He's not the 'leading man' but wow. He's actually got some depth, hidden motives and a 'broken' mind to go with it all! He's also a suspected psychopath/killer/future boyfriend/rapist...Maybe there's a reason why he didn't fit the role of the 'leading man'So earlier I said this book might have it all, I'm ten percent through...there are wolves, illegal immigrants, drugs, forced breeding, slaves, assassination, unanswered questions and the always present hope of escape. So yea, it has it all.Extra 5%, there's now a hostage situation and a chance for that escape... I stand corrected, now it has it all.ENTER STEROID INDUCED BODY GUARDS, well, I didn't see it coming at least. ;)LOGAN, now he is beautiful, beautiful and hot and fit and...beautiful. Why she thinks he's an 'obstacle' is beyond me, distraction I could understand, never an obstacle...unless she's planning on rugby tackling said obstacle to the ground and just lying on top of him for a while...yep, definitely a distraction. The most annoying thing in this book.. she thinks that she's a runt, even though she's been told otherwise by many many people, many many times...so stubborn :(So it all sounds good and dandy...and it is, it was a fun (albeit short read) but it was just so amazingly predictable that i ended up high fiving myself for my oracle status by the end of the book. The twists were in the roller coaster, there were just five warning signs in neon lights making sure we knew about them.I'd recommend it for a light read but if you want emotion and suspense and hidden suprises...don't bother. less

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