Review: Cole’s Redemption – J. D. Tyler

Once, they were Navy SEALS. Now they are the Alpha Pack: a top secret team of wolf shifters with Psy powers who take on the darkest dangers on Earth. But sometimes the greatest danger lies within their own hearts….

Healer and black wolf shifter Zander Cole has survived horrors that would have broken a weaker man. But when a battle leaves him deaf and his powers dimmed, Zan is devastated. Believing himself to be a burden to his team, he sees only one option: leave the Pack forever.

White wolf shifter Selene Westfall knows pain—she is certain her father was responsible for her mother’s death. And she lives to exact revenge. So when she is challenged by a savage black wolf, she puts up a vicious fight—only to become the black wolf’s Bondmate as a result of his bite.

Two damaged souls—one filled with hatred and one who’s lost his reason for living—are forced together as they come to terms with their unlikely, turbulent bond. A love neither expected may be all that stands between them and a killer trying desperately to keep the past dead and buried….

Series: Alpha Pack #5
Release Date: March 4th 2014
Publisher: NAL/Signet Eclipse
Source: NetGalley
Reviewer: Lucy
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Reviewer’s Thoughts

Hearts are healed and mysteries are solved in J.D. Tyler’s Cole’s Redemption, the newest book in her Alpha Pack series. Zander Cole is the pack’s healer who was struck deaf in one of the previous books in the series. A little warning to readers- you can read this as a standalone book however I would not recommend it. There is a lot of back story that you lose if you haven’t read the other books. Zander is trying to find his place in the pack and adjust to his hearing loss when his fight with the white wolf Selene results in his being mated to her.

Selene is there to get revenge on her father; someone that she believed is responsible for her mother’s death so she has her own demons to fight apart from being mated to Zander. I really liked the interactions between Zander and Selene, and I like the way that both were able to show vulnerability while also finding their strength together. The one thing that I didn’t like was all the secondary characters and storyline that pulled away from the main characters. This distracted from the Zander and Selene and although I understand that you want to include the other characters it was a bit much at times. Despite this the book was interesting, bringing new characters to the series and an ending that helps set up the next book in the series.