Review: Unleashed by Nancy Holder

I was kind of annoyed with the heroine. She sit admireing a painting of a heart-shaped rock, a few weeks later she get paper clippings of a heart-shaped rock and when she finally makes the connection, she forgets in the morning when she hears the story of a heart-shaped rock. I mean, come one! How dumb can she be? And the whole thing with Justin at the end... He is sensitive and sweet. Then they get the house absolutly FILLED with angry pack members and he becomes an insensitive jerk. Can't she make the connection? but nooooo she has to blame him and get her feelings hurt because SHE. IS. JUST. THAT. DUMB.

I'm surprised by how her relationship with Cornelia ended. I can't believe neither realized what a golden opportunity this was! Cornelia is pack-less, ok, that stings, but now she can marry the rival pack leader she's in love with sithout problem! And Kat has a home and people to look after her so it's not like she's burdened by responsibility towards her. Cornelia gets her happy ending while Kat gets protection yet she BLAMES Kat for being ATTACKED after she just went through the traumatic event of shifting after spending WEEKS worried that she might become a MONSTER!!! What an ungrateful bitch!

I thought the whole plot of the "Wolf Within" conference wasn't very developped and was disapointed about that. the story consisted mainly of her freaking out over her research for the school project, of her freaking out over boys and of her freaking out of maybe-being a werewolf. She is intitled to freaking out but not quite so much. I hope she might grow a spine by becoming a werewolf (though not to the point of doing something reckless and being DUMB about it). I want her to find out who bit her.

I have my theories about who did it.

1) Jesse: nobody really takes him seriously so they would never think that HE could shift at will. He wants to marry Lucy so he bit Kat to make Justin marry her.

2) Justin: He is irresistibly attracted to her. Maybe that became a sort of obsession and he became hell bent on making her his.

3) Jack, the "Inner-Wolf" wakco: He has "presence", as Kat described. Maybe he is a werewolf. A loner alpha who created a pack out of gullible humans and decided to take the new girl with no family left to be is mate.

4)Trick: He is really the Hellhound and made sure she could never leave him by "make her his" after she left the party.

5)Mr. Lee Fenner, Pack Leader: His demetia is really a symptom of silver poisoning which is transforming him into a Hellhound.

6) Derek: obviously has a crush on her but he is the Hellhound which would explain why he knows so much about it and why his grandmother conveniently died.

I know I found a lot of things wrong with this book but considering the fact that I have read it twice now, this tells me this series as potential. I hope the second book is better because if not I will probably stop there with the Wolf Springs Chronicles