Not a bad read at all for a book about werewolves. I did feel like it was going a little too slow for my liking in the beginning but thankfully, things started looking up. We had more action, more angst, more drama, and more romance, which wasn't that much to my liking. Don't get me wrong, I do love my romance but I just didn't feel like it was needed here but that said, it was well done. I didn't like how it was trying to be a love triangle though. Honestly, I wasn't feeling it. 
 The twists and turns were very good, and I found myself really working hard to put the clues together to get there before Mac did. :) I felt like Hemlock would have worked really, really well as a standalone but since it's not, I liked how most of everything was turned out nicely and that there was just enough to lead to a sequel. The suspense in the 'epilogue' sort of thing was very well done.