3.5 Stars 
 I really enjoyed this book, maybe I was just in the mood for it, but it was fun story to read. I liked the werewolf society the author created and the idea of having an alpha pair with the alpha male in charge of the men and the alpha female in charge of the women was interesting. There were some plot holes that bothered me a bit, but nothing so egregious that it was completely distracting. 
 To be upfront, some of the things that bothered me: 
 1)	People's ages were confusing, I get that Adian was probably around 18 or so, in fact the whole pack seemed to be in high school. If wolves have amazing healing abilities and are accepted in society, where are all the older wolves? The existence of parents who are also shifters proves that shifters don't mysteriously disappear after they hit the legal drinking age . . . 
 2)	Why does no one bother to explain the rules of the society to Jade? I understand they wanted her to unintentionally fight for Aiden - really I do. But at the same time, wouldn't it have been a good idea to tell her that if she killed a competitor after a surrender she would be killed? Or you know, anything about her new world? This whole plot device of keeping the main character in ignorance for stupid reasons so that they made obvious mistakes is getting very old very fast - actually the first time I saw it annoyed me and that has not changed up to now. 
 3)	There was so much yes/no/maybe/should we/not good for us/lying/blah blah blah between Jade and Aiden the author just didn't get to the actual mystery/story. I get that this is a trilogy, but every book in a series should have its own beginning, middle, and end. Otherwise just charge me one price for the whole series because when there is no real ending I feel like I am paying for a whole book and receiving only the first third of it. This is certainly not the worst offender for this flaw, but the fact that the author dropped the real mystery of the cougars and what is going on was very frustrating. 
 4)	Why does Jade's Mom always seem to be gone/not care where her father is? Maybe this will be answered in the future but seriously, if you are going to write parents into the books, at least explain their absence when you decide they are inconvenient. 
 I know that sounds like a lot of flaws, but they were mostly minor plot issues for me and didn't have to do with the writing style or quality. The story isn't particularly deep, but if you just want something light to read that has a nice story and an interesting world it is good. The story isn't really meant for the younger spectrum of YA in my opinion - the cougars and nasty guys and do bad things, there are insinuations, etc. However it fits in well for the more mature YA readers. 
 The book was well written and I look forward to reading more of the author's books (EDIT: I take that back after having read the first book in the author's series I can definitely say that this one is infinitely better - I could barely finish the other one).