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AKA: Two books that are not my usual type at all. Also, unintentionally, two wolf-themed books.
We Are Wolves by Katrina Nannestad. I feel like this book bait-and-switched me, but in the end I enjoyed it anyway. From the summary "But sometimes, to survive, you have to do bad things. Dangerous things. Wild things. Sometimes to survive, you must become a wolf." I was kind of expecting a werewolf story or something involving actual wolves.
Set in World War Two, this book told the story of a German town living in East Prussia, and what happened to them as the Germans were losing the war and the Russians came marching in. The story was pretty bleak (you're all permitted to say "DUH!" here). The kids nearly starved to death multiple times, they slept outdoors in the cold German/Russian winters, they were hunted and shot at, and at one point kept as slaves/unpaid help. Lots of kids were.
I feel like I gained a new perspective on that time, and for that I'm thankful. I won't say this was an enjoyable story, but it certainly was hard to put down.
The Pack by Kristin Coley. This book. This book. I don't even know what to say about it. I laughed out loud at how stupid it was *multiple* times. The author did this ANNOYING thing where main character girl would do just some normal task, and the author wrote the other characters looking at the MC in awe and amazement at how wonderful she is. There was so much unbelievable and offensive things in it (in a world of werewolves, almost all of the werewolves able to shift were men. Women were nothing or "breeder females" -- able to have shifter babies if they have sex with a werewolf).
This was a shifter romance book. Plot was basically the same as Twilight: Girl moves into a small town, supernatural hunk of a man falls in love with her and must have her. (Thankfully there was no love triangle though.)
All that being said... somehow I sort of enjoyed it. I cannot explain it. I literally laughed at how stupid some parts of it were. There were so many things in it that made no sense... and yet I happily finished it. I won't read the rest of the books in the series, but somehow I enjoyed this one. Perhaps I fell down and hit my head without remembering it.
