Review: Werewolf Descent by Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

Title: Were­wolf Descent (Ama­zon, Goodreads)
Author: Eliz­a­beth J. Kolodziej (Ama­zon, Goodreads, Web­site)
Series: The Last Witch Series
Pub­lisher: Third Broom on the Left Press
Genre: Para­nor­mal Romance
For­mat: Paper­back
Source: Review copy pro­vided by author

Syn­op­sis:

Last witch in the world, Faith Scott, and her Irish vam­pire boyfriend Trent have just come back from fight­ing for their lives to recover the Vam­piric Blood gem and Were­wolf Moon gem. Think­ing they could finally relax and work on the romance grow­ing between them, they now meet a mys­te­ri­ous psy­chic vam­pire named Vin­cent who has his heart set on being with Faith.

Soon bizarre killings of Zou Tai’s were­wolf pack begin, with rumors of an alchemist pos­sess­ing the famed philoso­phers stone being the assailant; which, causes Faith to turn to Vin­cent for help in fig­ur­ing out why the were­wolves are being murdered.

It isn’t long before all those around them test Trent and Faith’s love, along with their abil­i­ties, once again. It is all Trent can do to keep Faith safe by his side while both go up against a pissed off alchemist, decep­tive gods, and hav­ing to res­cue the were­wolf prince; yet, after a deal with the God of Were­wolves will Trent be able to save him­self too?

Review:

An inter­est­ing sequel to Vampyre Kisses, but dis­ap­point­ing over­all.  The first book took a new twist on the vampire/​girl rela­tion­ship we’ve all become so fond of, but this one seemed is more about how Faith must choose between one of two very dif­fer­ent vam­pires or a were­wolf, or any other ran­dom male char­ac­ter thrown into the mix.  Dif­fi­cult as it is to not fall in love with Trent, through­out this sec­ond book, I found myself dis­lik­ing Faith more and more and feel­ing that he might be bet­ter off with­out her.  Some­times you can’t help who you fall in love with, and the Trent/​Faith rela­tion­ship is one of those instances.  I’m not say­ing she should be a woe-​​is-​​me, I can’t do any­thing with­out my boyfriend by my side char­ac­ters that have over­whelmed the genre, but she goes from being a good girl­friend to tak­ing what she has with Trent for granted when faced with Zou Tai and Vin­cent through­out the sec­ond book.

The twist at the end, while noble and expected of Trent, was by far the most trou­bling part of this series.  I can’t say I would have liked it more if the author had changed it around so things hap­pen dif­fer­ently, but I do know that I don’t see a rea­son to read the next in the series when it arrives.  I know should the descrip­tion even hint at a pos­si­ble change in the way things are left at the end I will pick up the third to see what hap­pens, but that puts a lot of pres­sure on the short teaser.

The writ­ing cer­tainly improved from the first book to the sec­ond and I found the plot is much less jum­bled than the first, but there was a lot going on in a short amount of time and space.  At times, I felt there could have been some action taken out and some reflec­tion or added descrip­tions of the scenes added to help pace the story better.

Despite my sad­ness on the out­come of the main plot twist, I do not regret read­ing this book and did enjoy it to some extent, how­ever, I know this is not one that I will want to re-​​read.