TRAINING THEIR MATE (Pack Wars, #1) by Vella Day

Training Their Mate by Vella Day
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

NetGalley free read

Liz, Trax, Dante

Liz Wharton has gone under cover at the offices Harvey Couch in order to kill him. She read her mothers' diary after her suicide only to find out that Couch had raped her mother twenty years ago and recently started repeatedly raping her again. But the GHB, Liz has given him doesn't seem to be working. Undercover as his new assistant she'd placed it in his coffee. But when he didn't pass out, she leaves the office at the end of the day like nothing's happened. On her way to her car, Liz is attached by two 'dog,' which she witnesses turn into men.

She's saved by Trax Field, who has been tracking Couch an other like him that the call Colter's. Trax and his brother Dante are good werewolves and recognize Liz as their mate. They decide to take her to their house and keep her their until Couch can be caught. The problem is that Trax is fighting his mating instinct as Dante is embracing it and has sex with Liz almost the moment she walks into their home.

Of course there's a lot of sex, Harvey threatens Liz. Liz is ticked off when she realizes her two men are werewolves and they didn't tell her. yadda, yadda yadda.

I didn't hate it, but there were so many contradictions and dumb things in this book. At first, Liz thinks they are dogs that have attached her. But then she speculates about the movies and how there are werewolves, werecats, etc. Then she goes right back to calling them dogs. Before she even has sex with Dante, he talks to her about the fact that both he and Trax want to have sex with her then he brings it up again and says something to the effect of, "Wait until you have both of us together" and she just seems to go with it. I'm thinking WHAT?! Not that its not a nice thought, but come on. She has to be shocked that it would seem so normal to them and even that two brothers would want to share a woman. There's a point when she's changing and needs a hand hooking her bra and she puts her arms through the straps and holds it close to her and asks Trax to hook it up. But then the author writes that Liz lifts her shirt to ask him to button her jeans. Then she tells her friend Chelsea about the werewolves who've attacked her and Chelsea just goes with it. Never questions it. And it's a big fact that humans don't know about them. Also, when Couch shoots at her when she's been handcuffed in the car by Trax, she speculates that he may have blanks in his gun, because they didn't penetrate the window. I'm thinking how stupid that is. My first thought it why isn't she pissed at Trax for leaving her handcuffed and vulnerable in a car bulletproofed windows or not? Then, why would the guy have blanks in his gun, since he didn't know she was going to be there? It was just dumb. Then she stupidly asks Trax about it. It was just a terrible thing for the author to write. Liz isn't supposed to be a bubble head, that I know of. Then there is never an explanation as to why Couch was fixated on Liz's mother and felt the need to rape her once let alone twenty years later.

The only good thing about the book was her connection to Dante. He was fun and I liked his interactions with Liz.

If NetGalley provided the next book in the series, I'm not sure I would read it. I definitely wouldn't buy it.

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