Becoming Alpha (Alpha Girl Book 1)

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Sometimes the action was too slow or felt choppy, and I definitely could have used way less swearing. She's never even had a boyfriend because what girl wants to know, in vivid detail, the inner workings of a teenage boy's mind? We had actually moved a lot when I was little, but we had settled in New York after I argued with her. The main storyline of this book is to introduce us to Tessa, to show us her new life just as she enters it, and to her new way of living.

She often wears long sleeves and gloves to avoid unwanted contact but she’s often depicted running about in flip-flops. For me there is nothing worse than unrelatable characters, or characters I can’t at least empathise with.After escaping a disastrous party, she gets her first kiss from Dastien, and then Dastien's wolf decides to claim her with a bite. I know he's supposed to be the main eye-candy in the novel (and I always loved eye-candies) but at the beginning he was just so frustrating! Alibe’s and her visions pinpoint an enemy in their midst, Tessa realizes that boy drama and her new-found canine tendencies might just be the least of her problems. Her technical prowess is beyond any reasonable doubt while her aptitude of creating a novel that is exhaustively intoxicating is something to be admired.

I’ve often said, in the past (my twenties particularly), I’ve made some really terrible romantic choices and have been attracted to/pursued/flirted with the wrong sort of people – whether in actual relationships or flirtationships. On the other hand Dastien is presented as someone who is not only strong but also powerful, a very good example of an Alpha male. And the whole storyline of how Tessa became a werewolf is just so different to how it was in, like, Teen Wolf for example, which was also really refreshing. It's perfect for fans of Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games, Claudia Gray's Defy the Stars, and Maura Milan's Ignite the Stars!

Sure, we later found out it was at her parents request to give her "space", but all it did was add unnecessary drama to a very good action story. This book is an introduction to 17-year-old Tessa and the exploration of her powers and how she fits into the larger world. I think there was too much of the story invested into developing Tessa, as a heroine when she would have been fine finding inner-discovery as the action progressed. Girl with super powers who is the one, who doesn't know shes the one, falling instantly in love with a boy she needs to stay away from blah blah.