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Last edited by fight4whatisright on Fri Apr 01, 2011 3:04 pm, edited 1 time in total.




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Hey there!
First of all I'll just say this isn't something I'm a big fan of, I for the life of me do not understand what the fascination is with writing stories around wolves but to each his own I guess! ;)

I havn't read any other chapters so this is just my opinion on this particular one.
Critiques: -Can they not talk and all use telepathy? Is that why all of the dialogue doesn't have quotation marks?
-Lol at first I thought you were saying that one of the wolves was getting a lap dance, haha but hey....
-Did you steal that last line from Pirates of the Carribbean? :D

Overall it was well-written, the dialogue wasn't bad and the suspense build-up was believable.
Good job!
~day
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Hey, f4wir. I'm Jet. I've read the first chapter of this that you've posted, and I notice immediately that you've switched the perspective from Dakota to a pack. Perhaps you should make a note of this change, because for the reader, it's slightly odd. Almost as if we're suddenly reading a very different story.

Kasia’s fur – as white as the snow carpeting the forest floor - ruffled in the icy breeze as she trotted alongside Isius, a few paces ahead of Jasmine, the alpha female, and Zeda and Shayne, the youngest of the pack.


Now, this confused me in the first chapter too before I understood the shape-shifting, but I think you need to decide whether you're going to use human terminology - e.g. boyfriend, brother - or wolf terminology, e.g. alpha female. There has to be a consistency, else it's quite odd to read. I think you should definitely use "males" instead of "men" if you're going to refer to "men" - meaning human men, outside the pack - later on.

Since she’d become a shape-shifter


I also think you might take some time to expand on the shape-shifting before you go straight into calling it that. This is a very non-committal way of introducing it.

Not everyone’s a fighter. Jasmine consoled her.


Remember your dialogue punctuation. Occasionally it slips. This should be:

Not everyone's a fighter, Jasmine consoled her.

Zeda darted out from behind Kasia and launched herself at Isius, landing on her head just for a fraction of a second before bouncing off and over the other pack.


This is a nitpick, but I find this really hard to visualise. Is that really a natural movement? Yes, I could see Zeda going over Isius' head, but landing on it? That's a bit much.

Like the above reviewer, I don't really understand the fascination with wolves, but I like the atmosphere here and the way you introduce the other pack. You could probably slow the pace a bit, so we have a bit more of the family dynamic and a fraction more build-up. I was also a little bereft of any clear character interpretations here. Some of the moments were sweet, but Kasia didn't seem more than a cut out. I can see that there's opportunity for that to change with the hook you left here, so I won't comment further than that. Hope to see more of this posted soon. :)

- Jet.



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