Review: Come Out Swinging by Sam Hall

Come Out Swinging by Sam Hall

Series: Reach for the Moon Trilogy #2

Publication date: April 24th, 2021

Pages: 372

Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

DNF Percentage: 53% (185 pages)

Synopsis:

They struck me down.

They tried to end me.

But I'm about to come out swinging.

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Review:

Paige woke to a pounding headache and a dark realization from the town coroner. Paige's father did not die of a stroke but of foul play. Now she is on a mission to find out who killed her dad and who hurt her while also trying to organize the fights for the Alpha position that she had set about to avoid choosing someone herself. Along the way she starts to explore what it means to be a nix and what power that may hold. When she touches on something bigger than her understanding with her men she finds out that she is the catalyst for change within the shifter world. But can she stay alive to fill that role?

I don't DNF a book easily. There is always that voice in the back of my head that tells me that if I quit now that there may be a time when I wonder what happened and have to start the series all over again. The question I asked myself when I find a grumble in my internal monologue as I reach for my ereader to start my reading time. If I am that against picking up that book and reading, should I even be reading it? There are so many books out there in the world and there is no way I will be able to read them all in my lifetime. So I need to make sure the time I spend reading I am devoting it to books I enjoy the stories of. This one was not for me. 

Once the plot line twisted from Paige being simple a alternative version of a wolf shifter to something greater that involved what they essentially saw as shifter gods, it was done for me. I was enjoying watching Paige explore her identity and the mystery of her father's death but when they started hyping her up to be this all powerful being, I wanted to read no more. I have read too many books that turn that way over time and I always found them boring. A key to characters is making sure they have equal or more weaknesses to their strengths. I feel making the character essentially a goddess may be a little too strong. 

I think if the book lost a bit of the extra fluff within it then it would be an interesting premise. But at 53% I tapped out.