Nerd Thoughts

I find it just a tad harder to find werewolf books where the MC struggles with being newly turned for more than one book so I do really like this series as a whole. Sadly though, a few details in Merlin’s Heir kept me from fully enjoying it. The biggest issue was the lack of Hank’s pov in this book. I’ve had books like this before where the main character from the previous book gets sidelined in the sequel. That’s not necessarily the problem but it becomes a problem to me when the description of the sequel talks about the MC dealing with issues and we barely see any of the struggle. The description of Merlin’s Heir led me to believe that a major part of this book was going to be about Hank struggling with his curse but we don’t even get an explanation for how he’s dealing with full moons. Honestly, I felt cheated, which actually connects to my more important issue, Hank never got a one-on-one conversation with the Guru or Wise woman. When I learned this book took place in India and then when I also saw the chapter about a Guru I was excited to see a scene where the Guru realized he was a werewolf and teaches him how to control his wolf. So, when we get zero scenes of Hank interacting with the Guru or wise woman I was super disappointed. The only consolation is that he does learn about meditation eventually from someone else, but even that sucked because we got zero scenes from his POV on if the meditation helped. But despite my problems with this book, it wasn’t truly bad and I’m still interested in the rest of the series, so I’ll give it a 6.5 out of 10.