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A review by mamasgottaread
Havoc Killed Her Alpha by Marie Mackay
2.0
Not my kind of omegaverse
I feel like I walked into this middle of a series, or the middle of interconnected stand-alones. It really seems like there should have been either better explanations of this world, or a book previous to this one with better explanations of this omegaverse. Some things were the same as other omegaverse- the scent matching, the heats, the desire to bond, but this one had some differences that needed to be flushed out better.
As far as I can understand, the “alpha aura” is like a blast of their alpha power or alpha bark. I don’t understand why some alphas start to loose it and others don’t. And it’s not ever something that was explained.
Similar to other omegaverses, omegas are almost second class citizens. The gold pack/ gold eye thing doesn’t really make sense to me. Especially since it seems like at some points it’s a bad thing, but then at others it’s a good thing? I’m not a fan of this type of omegaverse. I guess it’s the feminist in me wanting to just throat punch everyone who treats the omega badly.
I wasn’t a fan of the multiple types of bonds. They’re from one extreme to another. You’re either completed subjugated to the alphas or you’re literal royalty? The basic bond wasn’t even really ever considered for Havok. And then the rogue situation…I’m lost.
I despise miscommunication trope to the utmost, and I’d say 75% of this book is FILLED with it. I get that Havok had trauma and the Alphas didn’t know/want to trust her, it just seems like a whole lot of drama could have been worked out with an actual conversation and not just assumptions. The time spent on ping-ponging the miscommunication could have been given to better world building. The whole Eli thing was especially annoying. I wanted to throttle Havok and that’s not at all a normal reaction to an FMC.
The multiple POV and italicized flash backs didn’t really bother me, there’s lots of other authors who use the same style of writing. Again, not to beat a dead horse, I just think those flash backed could have been flushed out better to explain what the heck this whole omegaverse is about. The jumps in time were a little annoying, especially with the spicy scenes. Why give us some good spice to only then fade to black and jump to some random time later? Especially annoying with the heat scene only because of how long we had to wait to finally get it.
Overall it was an okay book. Am I jumping to get to the novella with the same characters, no. And I’m not really interested in any other books in this omegaverse either, unfortunately.
I feel like I walked into this middle of a series, or the middle of interconnected stand-alones. It really seems like there should have been either better explanations of this world, or a book previous to this one with better explanations of this omegaverse. Some things were the same as other omegaverse- the scent matching, the heats, the desire to bond, but this one had some differences that needed to be flushed out better.
As far as I can understand, the “alpha aura” is like a blast of their alpha power or alpha bark. I don’t understand why some alphas start to loose it and others don’t. And it’s not ever something that was explained.
Similar to other omegaverses, omegas are almost second class citizens. The gold pack/ gold eye thing doesn’t really make sense to me. Especially since it seems like at some points it’s a bad thing, but then at others it’s a good thing? I’m not a fan of this type of omegaverse. I guess it’s the feminist in me wanting to just throat punch everyone who treats the omega badly.
I wasn’t a fan of the multiple types of bonds. They’re from one extreme to another. You’re either completed subjugated to the alphas or you’re literal royalty? The basic bond wasn’t even really ever considered for Havok. And then the rogue situation…I’m lost.
I despise miscommunication trope to the utmost, and I’d say 75% of this book is FILLED with it. I get that Havok had trauma and the Alphas didn’t know/want to trust her, it just seems like a whole lot of drama could have been worked out with an actual conversation and not just assumptions. The time spent on ping-ponging the miscommunication could have been given to better world building. The whole Eli thing was especially annoying. I wanted to throttle Havok and that’s not at all a normal reaction to an FMC.
The multiple POV and italicized flash backs didn’t really bother me, there’s lots of other authors who use the same style of writing. Again, not to beat a dead horse, I just think those flash backed could have been flushed out better to explain what the heck this whole omegaverse is about. The jumps in time were a little annoying, especially with the spicy scenes. Why give us some good spice to only then fade to black and jump to some random time later? Especially annoying with the heat scene only because of how long we had to wait to finally get it.
Overall it was an okay book. Am I jumping to get to the novella with the same characters, no. And I’m not really interested in any other books in this omegaverse either, unfortunately.