Author: JD Tyler
Title: Primal Law (An Alpha Pack Novel #1)
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Publisher: Signet Eclipse (Imprint of Penguin)
ISBN: 9780451234346
The Romance Author's Verdict: 3.5/5 Stars
Founded by a team of former Navy SEALS, the Alpha Pack is a top-secret team of wolf shifters with Psy powers tasked with eliminating the most dangerous predators in the world. But the gift of their abilities comes at a price…
After a massacre decimates half his team and leaves him crippled, Jaxon Law must relearn how to fight—and must defeat the anger and guilt threatening to overwhelm him. But when he rescues a beautiful woman who reawakens his primal instincts, Jax is unprepared for the dangers that lie ahead.
On the run from her employer, brilliant lab assistant Kira Locke escapes with disturbing evidence that leads the Alpha Pack team on a hunt for someone targeting human civilians with Psy abilities. And as Jax and Kira circle both the killer and each other, Jax will have to decide if the deep connection he feels with Kira is worth breaking the ultimate shifter rule—because bonding with Kira means putting his abilities at risk, and they might be the only tool he has to keep his mate alive…
Another run-of-the-mill werewolf/paranormal creatures romance I'm afraid. It wasn't bad, I'll give you that, in fact it seemed pretty darn good after the last disaster of a paranormal romance I didn't even finish reading. At least I did read this one to the end, though it was a bit of a drag.
The writing itself is quite good and easy to get into, it was the characters and storyline that lacked any real substance to hold it apart from the million other paranormal romances out on the market.
I felt like Kira accepted the whole "werewolves are real" thing a bit too easily, and oh yeah, now you have to go live in a secret government compound because you know the truth. She was kind of just like "okay then!" What about her life, family, friends before that? There was no thought process of her coming to terms with the fact she had to leave everything behind.
Also, she made a really big deal of the fact that she didn't want the mate-bond between her and Jaxon to dictate whether or not they stayed together, so she put off the decision, even knowing that Jaxon could die if they didn't mate (pretty typical of this sort of romance). Except in the end, he was pretty much on his death bed and it happened anyway. I felt kind of cheated, that in the end she did it to save him, but she supposed she loved him as well. It was like this big build up of resistance, only to cave. I think perhaps the author needed to either not make such a big deal of it, or find a way that meant Kira clearly made the choice to commit on her own without the threat of Jaxon dying hovering over her.
Throughout the book, we were introduced to different characters who will most likely get their own stories at some point. Also, it seemed that the government the Alpha Pack works for is actually betraying them (also, seen it done many times before in these types of books, so that was nothing new either) and this theme will no doubt carry on to link the books together.
Overall, it was an okay read and I will be getting the next one whenever it comes out, because I think the author has real potential to take this from good to really great. I'll be interested to see if Tyler can improve and wow me.
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