Early Review: ALPHA {Shifters, #6} by Rachel Vincent

 

 

 

 

 

“YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE FAYTHE...
The unscrupulous new Council chair has charged Jace, Marc, and me with trespassing, kidnapping, murder, and treason. Yeah, we've been busy. But now it's time to take justice into our own hands. We must avenge my brother's death and carve out the rot at the heart of the Council.
It's not going to be easy, and loss seems unavoidable, but I have promised to protect my Pride, no matter what. With a target on my back and Marc at my side, I'm heading for a final showdown that can--that will--change everything forever. A showdown I'm not sure I'm ready for.
But life never waits until you're ready.”

 

 

From Goodreads.

• Publisher: Mira

• Release Date: October 1st, 2010

• My Copy: eARC provided to me by the publisher

• Pages: 400

• Genre: Urban Fantasy

• Series: Shifters Series {Last book}

• Author's Website

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Alpha (Shifters Book 6)

*Contains spoilers if you haven’t read the previous books in the series.

I literally jumped up and down when I got the chance of getting this book early and I was more than thrilled when I got in my email box. I stopped everything I was doing and just started reading it right then and there. Less than a day later I am here writing this review of the closing book of one of my favorite series ever and it could not be more bittersweet.

“Being Alpha was a burden and an enormous responsibility, not a license to push people around.
    And That was what Calvin Malone had never really understood.”

Alpha starts not long after the events in Shifter and Faythe’s Pride is getting ready to go to the Pride Council meeting, where they will vote on the new Head honcho. But before Greg, Faythe, Jace, Marc and some enforcers can go, they are preparing for a visit from Ethan’s human and pregnant girlfriend, Angela. The whole family is nervous and hoping to make a good impression so Angela will let them be part of the baby’s life. It was a great beginning to the novel and really emotional.

“'I can't help that. I love him, but I can live without him. I can't live without you, ****. Please don't ask me to.'”

A lot happens during the Pride Council meeting and more than once we get to see Faythe’s life get thrown around for a loop. But, It also awesome to see how much Faythe has grown and evolved from Stray, not to mention that it is always fun to witness her kicking some serious butt.

I really don’t want to give away any spoilers, but I’ll give some tips of things to come:

*highlight the text in the box bellow to read it. {NOT too spoilery, I promise!}

 

• We get to see the Thunderbirds again
• We get to see Elias Keller again (he is so awesome!)
• I cried like a baby more than once =/
• Faythe does make a choice between Jace and Marc
• And the blood shed is far from over

 

I hope I didn’t give too much away, but I have to say that this book was all shades of amazing. I could not put it down for a second and every line of it kept me on the edge of my seat and hanging on to every word Rachel put on paper. If I have one bad thing to say about this novel is that I wanted more, I wanted to see further in Faythe’s future at the end, but that in no way stole away from my reading pleasure and just like real life, the end made it clear that even though the series / the storytelling is over, Faythe and the Pride’s life goes on…

Alpha is a wonderful end to an extraordinary series that will be missed immensely in the Urban Fantasy world. Rachel Vincent brought something new to the table with the shifters series and she stole a piece of my heart with every single one of these books. If you have yet to give this series a chance, don’t waste another second and pick up the first 5 books on it to get ready for the release of Alpha, you will not regret it!

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