I really like Patricia Briggs when she's writing fantasy. When she's writing excerpts from her own experience, I find myself wishing I could end the pain. I don't know why; she's a competent writer either way. But descriptions of martial arts, descriptions of hotels, descriptions of personal beliefs inserted into the mouths of her characters (multiple characters, same beliefs), it all rings discordant to me. 
 I am also very confused by the nature of werewolves at this point. Dominant werewolves have an urge to protect! But everybody is terrified of them because they also have an urge to kill anything frightened of them, and might accidentally hurt those they care about when angry? Submissives and Omegas make people want to protect them, so should be disincluded from dangerous activities where they may be hurt by the people inclined to protect them? 
 Anyhow, this book had no plot up until about halfway through. The end picked up quite a bit, and even though the villains and resolutions were pretty standard for a Briggs werewolf novel, I enjoyed it.