I really liked this book. I had my doubts about it 'cause I've been over the vampire and werewolf trend but since I haven't read that many books about werewolves as I have about vampires, I decided to give this one a try. I thought I didn't have anything to lose, especially since it's free on Kindle, I especially ignored the mixed reviews too. 
 I liked the diversity in this book. The MC was half-Caucasian half-Mexican, even if she did look white, (view spoiler)[kinda like me!, (hide spoiler)] and there was a lot of Spanish words that I understood. Tessa moves to Texas and after she goes to a party with her "friends" from school, she kisses Dastien, (view spoiler)[how do you even say his name? Daz-tin? Dustin? or does it sound more like Bastion- Dashtin? Meredith nicknames him Daz so I don't know (hide spoiler)] she gets bitten and turns into a werewolf, and suddenly her life gets turned upside down! Not only does she have to deal with her powers of getting visions of things or people she touches, she now gets introduced to a world with supernatural beings that include brujos/witches, vampires, werewolves, faeries and who knows what else is out there. 
 It's instalove at first sight, but Tessa doesn't act on it. Of course, she's been turned into a werewolf and is confused and hurt and angry about what her life has become, so she honestly has a lot to deal with without adding guys into the equation. Of course, there's swooning here and there, and she sometimes can't stop thinking about him, but it doesn't get to the point where it's super annoying or takes too much from the story because there's a lot going on with the pack and vampire attacking them. 
 I don't know why people compare this as a Twilight ripoff, because it's totally not. I think it's way much better than Twilight was. I mean, I liked but I Twilight when it came out and stuff but then I got bored of it and reading the books was blah, but for this series: I felt like I connected more with the characters in Becoming Alpha. I definitely liked it a whole lot and am looking forward to the next book in the series.