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First let me start by saying this is a pretty ok series. However like a few other shifter series I have read, I am noticing that the authors are having trouble with having too many characters to keep up with. The characters start to blend together take on the same personality and speech. Some of the snarkiness from the original Taryn has been adopted by seemingly everyone. I also don't need to see and hear from everyone who was ever in the series. It's too much and too many people to remember if your not reading them back to back.
I also see discrepancies between the character's from book to book. When Roni was introduced to us in the last book she was kind of shy and awkward in a non aggressive and pissed at the world kind of way. Anti social does not equal a person who always seems to be on the offensive. There did seem like a great story behind her whole staying in wolf form for long periods. In this book the word strong is thrown around pertaining to her disposition but to me she just seemed stand-offish. In the last book her mother was nothing but sweet and good to her and this book her mother is horrible to her. I think that a woman can be strong with out being totally emotionally unavailable. I don't understand why continually "strong woman" means bitchy and rude and showing no love or emotions outwardly. I think I'm done with this crew.


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Dark Instincts The Phoenix Pack Book 4 edition by Suzanne Wright Paranormal Romance eBooks Reviews

Well, it looks like this is going to be a Three Star Series, with the potential for more.

As in the previous books, the writing was good, but there were some flaws.

First, the male lead is bisexual, so Roni feels jealous of his friend/male lover. I read paranormal steamy romance novels because I like to fantasize about the impossibly perfect male. I imagine what it would be like to live in that kind of world. For me to get really deep into the book, specifically as a romance novel, then I have to feel like the male lead is a heartthrob that appeals to me. There is a trend, recently, where romance authors will spontaneously insert a gay or bisexual male lead right in the middle of a series, not as a side character, but as the lead. But there are issues with that. This is a romance novel. There are so many genres where I have greatly enjoyed a gay male lead - Lord John Gray and the Private Matter comes to mind. I care deeply about those characters, love how they're written, applaud their successes and cry for their failures. But I don't want to be a voyeur into their romantic skills as the entire premise of the book. When an author writes a straight romance series, and then suddenly makes the next one bisexual, it's jarring to those who specifically were seeking out straight romance. No one needs to apologize for what they find sexy between consenting adults. If they want to try their hand at a variety of sexualities, I wish that authors would explore them in different series. It jerks me out of the story because I wouldn't be passionately attracted to a man who has sex with men. That's just not where my interest lies. If I remember correctly, wasn't it Marcus and Trick who made out in the lake in front of Taryn? Trick is referred to as Marcus' bed buddy in this book. That's just a big bucket of cold water right there. To be fair, Marcus is interested solely on Roni at the start of the novel, so there is no MSM sex in this book.

The plot had a bit of a hole in it where the pack is stumped trying to access the SNM.com website. Why not just get Quinn's password and login?

The author again jumps around from POV within the same page. It's not good writing, and she's eminently capable of more.

Greta is a missed opportunity. She could have done so much more with this character instead of making her look foolish constantly putting down the females and getting crass insults in return. In this book, all it took for Greta to actually like a female character was for that character to acknowledge Greta's bond with the males.

The author has serious issues with familial relationships. I cannot think of a single healthy parental relationship in any of the books. In the last one, Nick's mother, Kathy, seemed like a normal parent. However, in this one she ruthlessly put Roni down, taunted her, demeaned her, and otherwise ensured they had no relationship. She was Roni's only surviving parent, and she showed Roni zero affection. She valued strength, and that is what she installed in Roni. But she constantly taunted Roni as weak because of an effort to gang rape her as a child. After having made clear that she despised weakness, she kept treating Roni as weak. The later explanation was that Kathy was so hurt by the loss of her own mate that she wanted to make sure that Roni was independent enough that she would survive the loss of a mate, should it happen. However, the description of the true mate bond meant that there could be no walls between them. So, does that mean that Kathy did not truly bond with her own mate? Was she trying to ruin Roni's chances of completing a mate bond? As a mother, I was offended to the extreme at the explanation that Kathy, Roni's only surviving parent, rejected her, showed her no affection, told her she wasn't the daughter she wanted, that she wasn't good enough, because she wanted to toughen her up. That's not making someone resilient; it's abuse and neglect. People who survive such treatment are not resilient or independent at all. They usually chase love and get into abusive relationships. It would have made more sense for her to have a strong relationship with Roni, because it was ties to family that helped Kathy survive.

The author even seems to have a problem with sibling relationships, because Nick had a personality change. In his own book, he was so sensitive to his mate's needs, accepting, and wise in what she'd need. And yet, he, too, openly treated Roni as weak. He acted so obtuse when he pushed her into changing into her wolf form, threatening to tell Kathy about the video upload, knowing that Kathy would treat her as weak. That would only make sense if he wasn't a wolf himself and didn't understand the dynamic. He interfered with Roni's happiness over and over again. And that stunt where he got Marcus drunk and passed out to deliberately ruin her mating ceremony night was extremely unfriendly. It was the most special night of his sister's life, the sister he felt guilty over for years, and he ruins it on purpose? That was being "overprotective"??? No, that was cruel and unfriendly and certainly disrespectful and unloving to his sister. Nick was not the same person at all as in his own book.

Also, many shifter books use a claiming mark as a kind of permanent wedding ring. There will be a single decorative bite on someone's neck that remains visible while all other injuries magically heal. In this series, they heal just like we do, scars and all, just faster. And the shifters consider "marking" each other with their teeth and claws as "branding". The reality is that they would each be covered in claw and bite scars. The males talk about biting their female from head to toe. That doesn't sound like fun, like a love bit, but rather painful. If I saw someone with bite and claw marks all over their body, I would think they were in a toxic relationship. Marcus' mother was described as pathetic because she would be covered in bruises and wounds, but that's kind of how she describes the females - proudly covered in "brands". The difference, I suppose, is that Marcus' mother preferred fists to bites, and was addicted to self mutilation and masochism. I'm curious as to why there was no mention of getting her psychological help. That didn't seem to be an option in the shifter world.

There is often mention about having a "role" within the pack. But the only role I am aware of is enforcer, IT, or Alpha pair. There do not seem to be any other jobs. So if someone is not on a security team, what do they do all day? How do they make money? The packs are often described as wealthy without having to do anything so bourgeois as actually work, except for Jaime, who works with rescue dogs. There was a brief mention of "investments" in Trey's book. It's kind of like the British aristocracy - they are allowed to passively make money but no more. How do they pass the time? Are they all on housecleaning staff? Because those lodges and underground bunkers would take all day to keep clean. The author did not flesh out the world as I would have liked. There have been no further updates on Jaime's progress with her traumatized wolf.

Seriously, if ex lovers were going to be so problematic, then maybe the shifters should become extremely conservative and not sleep with anyone before they are mated. Because...damn. Yet another vengeful ex wrecking havoc and trying to interfere with a true mate bond.

It is often remarked that the Alpha female has to be dominant or her position would be challenged. That is so important that Roni could understand why Quinn's mate tried to have her killed because she'd embarrassed her by holding her down and threatening her. And it was integral to Shaya's book. But that is not how her packs are written. The pack is protective of their dominant females, and especially their Alpha females. Shaya is not constantly fighting off challenges. Her character is more mothering. And if a dominant female did challenge an Alpha female, what would that mean to the pack? A mate bond is permanent, so it's not like she could usurp her plate with the Alpha male. They are not written as animals who have to enforce their every word with physical altercations. The males are protective of Roni, and when she is defeated by the male in the pool, she did not lose her respect or her place. Shaya did not lose face when she, being pregnant, did not fight at all in this book.

And my final issue is how the author dealt with Marcus and Roni coming from separate packs. Nick and Kathy torment Roni in her pack, so the obvious answer was for her to join Marcus' pack. The two packs visit often enough that she would see her family plenty. Instead, they decided to split their time. Actually dividing time like that, half the week at one location and half at another, would actually suck. They'd be living out of suitcases in perpetuity, having to keep 2 of everything at their residences, and it would be a big pain when they have kids. It was no solution at all, but rather showed an inability to make a basic decision.

Out of the entire book, the positives were that Roni was very well written, and that final fight scene in the basement was written with perfect tension. You were really on your seat to see what happened.

The author's talent is there. She can do so much better. She really needs an editor, or a better editor, and some fierce criticism in her advanced reader copy.
I read book 1 & 2 then quit reading the series. The sex scenes got to be too much for me. Half the book seemed to be about the unrealistic sex and always with the woman screaming her orgasm, meh. I like the stories about the characters, the connections, adventures, etc. Well one day I got bored and ran out of reading material so I started looking to re-read what I haven't re-read a million times. Que Phoenix Pack series. With the books being .99 I figured why not. Shaya and Nick's story, book 3 was kind of hard to get through, I found myself skipping a lot of pages expecially the sex scenes as, well, they're all the same. I got thru though and on to this book. Now I was excited to know it had Roni in it because I liked her from book 3. Nick's sister and mom seemed to be good people and I was happy to know more about them. Well they are both painted very differently in book 4 from book 3. I kept wondering how and when these changes happened. Again skipping and skipping pages. Some of the snark if fun, though I'm getting really tired of the Greta storyline, hating all the girls all the girls being mean to Greta, it's old. Book 3 was lacking book 4 worse. One parting line. Book 5 was great. I bought all the books so hey might as well read em right? I LOVED book 5 so while you may want to give up hope on the series I feel she redeemed herself with book 5 so give it another go and see what you think.
First let me start by saying this is a pretty ok series. However like a few other shifter series I have read, I am noticing that the authors are having trouble with having too many characters to keep up with. The characters start to blend together take on the same personality and speech. Some of the snarkiness from the original Taryn has been adopted by seemingly everyone. I also don't need to see and hear from everyone who was ever in the series. It's too much and too many people to remember if your not reading them back to back.
I also see discrepancies between the character's from book to book. When Roni was introduced to us in the last book she was kind of shy and awkward in a non aggressive and pissed at the world kind of way. Anti social does not equal a person who always seems to be on the offensive. There did seem like a great story behind her whole staying in wolf form for long periods. In this book the word strong is thrown around pertaining to her disposition but to me she just seemed stand-offish. In the last book her mother was nothing but sweet and good to her and this book her mother is horrible to her. I think that a woman can be strong with out being totally emotionally unavailable. I don't understand why continually "strong woman" means bitchy and rude and showing no love or emotions outwardly. I think I'm done with this crew.