Hungry Like a Wolf By Christine Warren

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This was not my favorite book of Christine Warren's. She's either a hit or a miss for me, Big Bad Wolf, One Bite with a Stranger, and Walk on the Wild Side were all great, the rest were either okay or just a pain to read. Hungry Like a Wolf was leaning more towards the painful side. So much so that I only got to page 200 and I gave up in total frustration. So yes, I have not finished the book, but it's already very clear how it's going to end.

What really annoyed me was the total lack of depth behind the two main characters and the very basic plot. Honor becomes a female alpha when she doesn't want to be an alpha, while Logan is fighting his need to challenge his own alpha becomes he wants to be one. That is the entire plot in a nutshell. Throw in some one-dimensional secondary characters who want to challenge/gang rape Honor to be alpha and you've got yourself 200 pages of the same argument over and over again.

Normally I don't look at what page I'm on, unless it's in fear that I might run out of pages too fast, but this one I kept waiting for it to be over. I really couldn't understand why Honor and Logan couldn't see the answer right in front of their faces, that Logan could take over as alpha, which he wants, and Honor could be beta and/or Luna, which seems to be what she wants. Instead Honor is damned and determined to martyr herself at being alpha, which is something she, again, she hates. She fights Logan in almost every chapter, telling him to leave her alone, even when she recognizes him as her mate. And that is just plain stupid. She'd fight to be a martyr but she wouldn't fight for her mate or the chance at love? And that is why I couldn't finish the book.

Normally I enjoy Christine Warren's books but this was a total flop for me.