This story just drags along repeating the same phrases and concepts. This is pack, we’re pack, I can feel the pack, and I, Oz, am slow and stupid. I think the whiny voice used for Joe was appropriate when he was ten, but by the time he’s 17 it’s just grating. There is a sense of loss and doom that prevails; we’re even warned far ahead of time that this is no HEA. I can’t see why anyone would read more in this series.