One minute she's snarling and crying because it's forbidden on pain of death and then literally on the next page she's like, Okay, we'll chillax at the public library where you can translate and I'll do research on background information and also explain anything that you don't understand about my secret world with its secret societies.
You'd think that she'd start to question her own world, and society, and the role of Keepers and Guardians as she slowly explores her forbidden feelings for Shay and aids him when he asks for her help in learning this forbidden knowledge. She doesn't question hierarchy or the shaky stories that the Keepers tell her, and at one point around page 200 Shay even asks her why she's never questioned them, and all she says is that it's forbidden. Possibly she is brain-damaged or it's because she's a werewolf (same thing in this book). Now if only Calla had been one-tenth as awesome as Xena, this book wouldn't have been such a failure.Ĭalla also doesn't question things because…I'm not really sure why she doesn't question them. And given her status as daughter of alpha wolves and a soon-to-be-alpha herself, that essentially makes her a princess. He's literally lying on the forest floor bleeding on page 2 or 3. Yes, folks, that was and is still the most memorable and interesting (and laughable) scene Nightshade: the hot love interest is mauled by a bear before the book even begins. Calla's in wolf-form fighting a freaking bear that already mauled beautiful illegally-trespassing-hiker Shay. I've got to hand it to the author, though, you know how they say to start off a book with action? There is ACTION in that first chapter. I finished it and I still don't know what's going on, except that there's some kind of conspiracy, Calla is lamer than a flock of wingless one-footed ducks, and Shay is every 13-year-old girl's wish-fulfillment fantasy boyfriend, right down to liking Buffy the Vampire Slayer (specifically: Season 8). It took me months to finish the book because every 3 pages something annoying or beyond implausible would happen and I'd stop.
My main motivation for finishing this godawful waste of paper and ink was trying to figure out what the hell was happening. The way it tries to do this is by throwing you into this magical werewolf/warlock society where apparently stuff happens because of other stuff and it's very omgwtfbbq important because people say so.
Nightshade tries very hard to be immersive, erotic (yes, this book is the closest thing I've read so far to YA erotica, though there is no actual getting beyond second base), edgy and hip and cool.
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