Nicole Field

I received a copy through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Can I start with how beautiful the cover is?

Honestly, I feel like this book had a lot of good ideas, but many of them weren't executed too well.

I loved the main character being a human who is adopted by both werewolves and vampires, and I absolutely loved the vampire godmother who keeps food around just for her! Still, other than Al and Luca, I didn't really get a family-feeling from the werewolf pack at all, and I was really sad that there weren't any female werewolves important to the story, or at least Dahlia's age.

I loved that there was a polyamorous character, but I didn't really feel the chemistry with one of the love interests, and I feel like we didn't spend much time with the other one. I absolutely did /not/ love the kind of commitments Dahlia made without asking or even telling any of her family about it, but I suppose that's what the title referred to?

I feel like the book could have used more editing - there were some contradictions that made no sense and I can only guess that they were typos (e.g. Al's name instead of William's, or a "not" missing from the sentence and making Dahlia contradict herself in the same paragraph). I would have loved to spend more time with certain characters, and it felt a little rushed when Dahlia started suspecting the murderer out of nowhere and got kidnapped immediately after.

This isn't a very coherent review, mostly because I just have lots of barely-related thoughts about it. Changing Loyalties is a first in a series and that is clear enough, because there are a lot of open questions left for the sequel(s). It had its faults, but ultimately I liked the ideas and I have hopes for this series.… (altro)