• Yes, omg! And the world building idiocy drove me absolutely insane.

    Like, this one part where the were-something (might have been a werewolf?) was like, “only the first born of any pair of weres will also be a were” or something, and the immediate reaction… was to wonder why the were population wasn’t taking over the whole country or whatever. And the were took that seriously, saying the only reason their population wasn’t huge was a large number of stillbirths and such.

    They try to backtrack that a few books later, and deal with the actual consequences of the fact that they literally can’t increase their population without polyamory - clearly someone informed the author of how stupid that was - but still, that initial response was some of the most obviously not-thought-out world building I’ve seen.

    … okay, maybe that’s not true, but some of the worst I’ve ever seen in a book I continued to read, anyway.

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      Agree, that part made no sense! If only the first born can be a Were, it wouldn’t matter if they swapped partners because the man/woman each could only have one. Trying to backtrack that made it unnecessarily confusing.

      The books also made me appreciate the show so much more. I love how they fleshed out Jason’s personality and others that were just glossed over in the books, and Jess’s addition. I also understand why the show kind of went off the rails near the end, because the books did too lol.