Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Have you ever read a book you wanted to like... but it let you down? The book starts off with great promise - a alpha female who moves to her fated mates pack and is rejected.  Good so far. Stop reading now if you don't want spoilers or my opinion. . . . . A couple of grammar errors, nothing to get unhappy about. So why the poor rating?  There is a real lack of depth. Let's take her vampire flatmate Aleks, he apparently fell for her at first sight, took her in and kept her safe for a year, but somehow she is all a bit clueless?  He is a character worthy of more - more depth, more everything.  Yet, he is just a caricature of a vampire flatmate. Next, her mate 'finds' her, after a whole year) and instead of demanding a complete explanation,  we end up with school-age, teen-drama angst. She's 24, he's 27, and both alpha, yet they cannot communicate sufficiently to talk about the past?  Then after ploughing through all of that to find out why he 'rejected' her, to supposedly keep her safe... from being outed as alpha - the reasoning doesn't make a lick of sense. Surely the best way to protect his mate was to mate her - not reject her for the female who threatens to tell the pack she's alpha? If she is a rare, unheard of alpha, why would he assume he would face challenges? What challenges from whom- non-alphas in his pack? What kind of alpha is concerned with challenges? Once she mated him surely there would be no internal challenges and together they would be strong, stronger than on their own? How is his rejecting her and  waiting before mating her going to magically stop those hypothetical challenges? Somehow it made more sense to pretend he was interested in the female that threatened to out Gem's alpha status and reject Gem to buy him time (huh - to do what?) and jeep her safe? Nope, that storyline doesn't work.  He said he wanted to give her a month to cool down and then he was going to find her? Hmm... again that doesn't fit. He rejected her, did nothing, waited for a month before deciding to look for her, kept the female  who threatened her in his pack  kept that females brother as his beta?  Perhaps the next book will explain the really unlikely reasoning, perhaps the next book will see real character development, but I am not holding my breath, which is a pity, because this had potential.