This book was descriptive and engaging. Then, I got to the 57% mark, and something felt strange to me about the main character's actions. However, the author turned it around again shortly after the 57% scare. And then TOTALLY DELIVERED the most awesome story! I GOT Pride's feelings, impulses, deep-seated and primal responses to her world; Kalen knows how to SHARE the experience of what Pride's life is like, and that counts tremendously to me. Can I give 7 stars? 2.5 - 3 StarsThis one is a strange one.I inexplicably and abruptly completely lost interest at 73% read, I put it down and haven't picked it up again since.And the strange part is that I thought I was enjoying it up until that point.Thus the confused rating.The first half of the book was good, definitely worth 3 stars.The second half, well I'm not sure if I would have given it more than 2 stars if that's what the whole book had been like.I think the problem was that I started out reading one type of book and halfway through found myself reading a completely different sort of book. Which I probably would have been more okay with if that's the type of book I had chosen/was expecting to read, if that makes any sense.Let me try to explain.The first half of the book matches the summary.It is about a super tough girl (and werewolf) called Pride who as been raised under appalling conditions. She is essentially a very, very badly treated slave stuck in an impossible situation. But she hasn't let any of this brake her, she is strong, determined, tough as nails and is always looking for a way out AND despite her horrible situation she still cares about her fellow captives and wants to help them as well.My thoughts at this stage: great! I like this girl and what an interesting sounding book, plenty of grit, extra gritty even - you're immediately cheering Pride on willing her to escape.Next quarter - she does escape (this isn't a spoiler as it is mentioned in the books blurb, so don't worry I'm doing my best not to spoil!) so escape, yay cue cheers, but she vows to return to help her fellow prisoners and exact her revenge. Part of me was all "no, just run girl! not worth getting caught again!" but I also really admired her determination to help the other people she cared about and, well, who doesn't like a good revenge story?And that's about when things started to run out of steam, about the same time the love interest made his appearance. Now I had high hopes for this love interest, who is also mentioned in the books blurb. I was under the impression that, while he would help Pride get in touch with her more human side and come to terms with her dark past, that Pride would still be the tough, independent, strong girl that we read about in the first half of the book.Not so much.The thing I really dislike about a lot of werewolf/shifter books is the whole renewal of "hey, sexism and assuming males must be better, smarter, stronger and above all in charge (except it's called 'dominant' or 'alpha') because you know that's just the way it is in 'nature', is okay theme.It just really, really annoys me.There has been more than one book that I would have enjoyed if it wasn't for the (infuriating) emergence of this attitude, that turns otherwise strong heroines into submissive, obliging, second class citizens. And the writers portray this as okay because that’s just the way things are for werewolves, shifters etc grrrrrrr! Drives me bananas every time.So I guess the second half of Pride's run is more about the 'romance' than it is about anything that was set up in the first half of the book and as I wasn't a big fan of this particular romance, I lost interest.I'm not sure what the last quater if the book is like, perhaps the action picks up again. I might even try to give the last bit of the book a go again someday and find out.But for now I'm marking it off as finished, as much as I liked the first half of this book the second half turned out to be a bit of a let down for me.
Do You like book Pride's Run (2011)?
wow, what a cliff-hanger! It would be impossible not to read the sequel to this.
—ilu
Not really a bad book but probably better for younger readers.
—Papp
Loved it!!! I'm heartbroken for Stone, but still loved it!
—akoudmani
