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Thursday 1 May 2014

REVIEW: Trial By Fire - Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Thursday 1 May 2014
PAGES: 304
PUBLISHER: Quercus
FORMAT: Paperback
BUY IT: Waterstones
RATING: 4 Stars

SUMMARY
At seventeen, Bryn is has the usual schoolgirl worries: a new boyfriend, a new school and a new home. But she has one major concern that her friends don't have: she is an alpha - a human girl in charge of her own werewolf pack. When Bryn and her closest friends, Dev and Lake, broke from the werewolf Callum's pack, it had all felt right. Together with Chase, Bryn's new love, they had rescued some newly made female werewolves from a despicable master and established their own pack, with Bryn as leader. Yet Bryn has always resented the rules of Pack life - the constant bowing to authority, the submission to the alpha. And she is determined to live differently, to run this pack openly and justly. Then one night, a badly beaten werewolf shows up on her territory. He needs help, sanctuary, care. But taking him in could violate inter-pack rules, and no one knows better than Bryn the costs of challenging those rules. Obedience is law in Pack life, but Bryn is going to break the rules, again.

REVIEW
I loved everything about this book! The story was amazing and intricately plotted, the characters were all unique, well defined and genuinely served to further the action and the descriptions of the places were wonderful. 

Lily and her identical other self were captivating, they reminded me of Elena and Katherine in the Vampire Diaries, but the plot adds to their depth of character and makes them even more interesting. 
The magic that powers the other world is brilliant, the idea of magic v science was really clever and I loved that it was set in modern times, yet seemed almost medieval. 

The tension builds throughout the novel to bring it to a dramatic ending that had me screeching at the book that it couldn't possibly end there because I wanted the next instalment straight away!

I can't wait to get this in to my shop, I know so many people who will love it as much as I do!

- Gem.

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