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Strength of the Pack

by Kendall McKenna

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Lieutenant Lucas Young doesnt know much about shifters. When Sergeant Noah Hammond is assigned to Lucas platoon, the Marine Corps True Alpha werewolf challenges the Lieutenants authority and his self-control. As Lucas learns to dominate and command Noah, he struggles against a strong attraction and deepening emotional bond. During their combat deployment to Afghanistan, Lucas and Noah begin mirroring legendary partnerships. Their bond and their power grow as they survive dangerous combat and ambushes. When one of them is wounded in battle, they both must embrace the strength of their bond before they lose each other forever.… (more)
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lucas has never dealt a lot with shifters, but his platoon is augmented with shifters, and then he gets the true alpha of the marine pack. lucas doesn't know how to deal with him, and his commanding officer doesn't really provide support, so lucas does what he can to be dominant but understanding. he doesn't understand his reaction to noah, the true alpha. as the two get to know one another in combat situation, lucas has to overcome his human sensibilities and realize that wolves think and react differently.

what i liked: i liked noah and lucas together. i liked that lucas was willing to learn and didn't think that he knew everything about wolves. i liked that wolves were not a secret society, and i liked the relationship between humans and wolves. i liked that noah was so protective, and i liked the build in relationship between all the characters, not just lucas and noah. i liked the story and how the strengths of the characters shone through.

what i didn't like: the commas. oh, my, goodness, the, commas. so, many, unecessary, commas. just ridiculous. i would usually put this in the editing/grammar section of my review, but it really is the only thing that stopped me from rating this 4.5 stars or higher because it annoyed me so much ( )
  mamawerewolf | Jun 26, 2023 |
Sergeant Noah Hammond is a Marine, but he's also a werewolf. When Noah is assigned to Lieutenant Lucas Young's platoon, he finds himself both drawn to his new commander but wanting to challenge him at every turn. Lucas doesn't have a lot of experience with shifters, but he's not about to let his authority go challenged without a response--and he can't ignore his own response to Noah's presence. The two find a balance that works, just in time to ship out on their deployment. The connection between them is intense, and it only seems to grow as they face the challenges of combat together.

I don't know. This all seemed a bit forced to me and almost superficial. I normally have no problem getting into military stories or shifter tales, and with this being both, I expected I'd enjoy this quite a bit. I guess it just wasn't my cup of tea... ( )
  crtsjffrsn | Aug 27, 2021 |
Re-read March 23, 2015
Still 2.5 stars. It was fun, even though Lucas was beyond dense and poor Noah suffered so much. ( )
  NannyOgg13 | Mar 27, 2021 |
1.5 stars.

Unimpressed.

There is a very disappointing amount of military action, considering the location as well as the length of the book. The story reads like a manual on werewolves, mostly werewolves' mating/sex. The language is dry and heavy with unnecessary details and peculiar military terms.

HUGE pet peeve: specialized language and/or foreign language.

I am not a native speaker. I suspect a few of these words/abbreviations might be well known to those who grew up in the US, but then again, a lot of it is still a mystery to even your average American, who has nothing to do with the military - I know, I asked around and bugged the hell out of my husband and friends.

The book is not reader-friendly.

The author should have provided a list of military terms and their translation, but since she didn't, this is for those of you who is not "in the know":


Useful links:

- US Marine Military Ranks, Lowest to Highest

- List of US Marine Corps acronyms and expressions

- Glossary of Military Terms & Slang

A few take outs:

- NCO: Non Commissioned Officer

- Victor: Military Armored Vehicle

- Ka-Bar or K-bar: combat knife

- seven-mike: seven minutes

- oscar-mike: on the move

- Gunny: nickname for Gunnery Sergeant, improper to call a Master Gunnery Sergeant this

- RTB: return to base

- LPC: Leather Personnel Carrier. Combat boots or any shoes for that matter.

- OCS: Officer Candidate School or Officer Cadet School

- klick: kilometer

- BLUFOR: In military wargames, blue is generally used to represent friendly forces and red (though sometimes orange) to represent enemy forces.

- IDE: Improvised explosive device.

- EOD: Explosive Ordnance Disposal (Specialist Jobs).

- CP is, obviously, Combat Post, still took a sec for my mind to decypher. That's a sec that took me out of the story.

- five-hotel: Five Hours? HOTEL - military phonetic for the letter 'H'

- three-golf: (Have NO frigging clue - Mrella). GOLF - military phonetic for the letter 'G'

- MCRD: Marine Corps Recruit Depot


If you speak military, good for you. If not, I hope the list helps. ( )
  Mrella | Mar 8, 2021 |
I'll admit this book surprised me. Why? Well, I suppose for starters I was expecting a fairly traditional shifters tale. Did I get that? Definitely not. There wasn't the typical "mate" identification. There wasn't the instant bond/link/understanding that seems to be so stereotypical of this genre. There were also other differences in the whole that made this book hard to put down.

Was it perfect? Well, no. There were a few instances where I honestly asked myself WTF? But that was overridden by the fantastic descriptions of the locations, the additional details in the extra characters in the story and the detail in which the military aspect was told. Add to that the hot, super sexy MC's, the sinfully hot encounters between them and you can see why I'm so happy with this book. ( )
  ShazOV | Feb 10, 2021 |
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Lieutenant Lucas Young doesnt know much about shifters. When Sergeant Noah Hammond is assigned to Lucas platoon, the Marine Corps True Alpha werewolf challenges the Lieutenants authority and his self-control. As Lucas learns to dominate and command Noah, he struggles against a strong attraction and deepening emotional bond. During their combat deployment to Afghanistan, Lucas and Noah begin mirroring legendary partnerships. Their bond and their power grow as they survive dangerous combat and ambushes. When one of them is wounded in battle, they both must embrace the strength of their bond before they lose each other forever.

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A Marine werewolf and his commander bring legends to life while surviving combat deployment in Afghanistan.

Lieutenant Lucas Young doesn't know much about shifters. When Sergeant Noah Hammond is assigned to Lucas' platoon, the Marine Corps' True Alpha werewolf challenges the Lieutenant's authority and his self-control. As Lucas learns to dominate and command Noah, he struggles against a strong attraction and deepening emotional bond. During their combat deployment to Afghanistan, Lucas and Noah begin mirroring legendary partnerships. Their bond and their power grow as they survive dangerous combat and ambushes. When one of them is wounded in battle, they both must embrace the strength of their bond before they lose each other forever.
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