Unnatural

Idk what it is about alpha beta omega books. Especially the ones grounded in shifter society. Man, the prejudice just comes flowing out, no stops, no filters, nada, just problematic statement after problematic statement. This book would have been 5 stars based only on sexual tension. Now it's a 3.x. Here's why.

ETA: I am bumping this down to 2.x because the climax gets resolved off page. Off-page. We get an epilogue that the showdown we built up to, has been resolved. Off fucking page. If you want a similar but more complex book with an on-page resolution, try Winter's Orbit.

The regular character problems:
1. Haydn. That's how you spell it right? Without the E because. Haydn is a general, was a general, who lost two thousand and something men in the past month. Haydn doesn't seem very upset by this fact, never mind what he says. They call him Death Bringer. Now I don't know about you, but nothing about this man, nothing, says Death Bringer. I don't buy it. I just don't. He should've been non combattant, maybe a strategist. I'd believe that more. Death Bringer and we never see him fight, Death Bringer and all he does is talk about how good he is at killing. Yeah sure, sure.
2. Devlin. Called that he was next in line for a book from a mile away. They always do this. Set up the side character for the next book. Just throw away the rest of the book and give me that one then. Fucking hell.

The problematic society:
Hazard goes out of her way to show you that homosexuality is great, perfectly great, but homodesignation isn't. It just isn't natural, isn't biologically possible. This isn't anyone being bigoted. It just can't work. Fine, it isn't illegal now, but come on, nobody accepts it. Do you see what I'm seeing? Can you hear what the fuck I'm hearing? Is it just me or does homodesignation sound a lot like homosexuality? 

What fucking hypocrites Royce and Haydn are. Reading the beginning, right after Haydn is like ew, omegas, then calls his father disgusting for saying much the same thing. Oh my fucking God is this a simulation? Was that supposed to be sarcastic. Does the author present these two ideas to show us that Haydn is in fact, very prejudiced. Monsieur Royce with his own brother. His own brother, man, he was prejudiced against him. Never even examined the situation, just shipped him off to war to possibly die. That relationship is fucked up for its own reasons (Lucien and Aksel? Askel?) but hot damn.

Of course I figured something was off with Haydn. I knew, but I wanted it not to be so. He couldn't just be an alpha. No, it had to be revealed that he was an omega all along. In his own words he was literally born to be fucked. Is that all omegas aspire to? To be fucked? Can you hear, do you hear the FUCKING...women btw. We're talking about women. Every time we talk about omegas we're talking about women. When we talk about homodesignation we're talking about homosexuality. The parallels are there.

Had this same issue with Irresistible Omegas. Wanting to submit, that can't be an alpha thing at all. Gotta show he's not really one. Gotta make it okay for him to submit.

Fucking disappointed is what I am. Alpha beta omega books just keep being excuses for some really shitty stereotyping. At least this one has female alphas.