Abusing the Alpha

By: Erin R Flynn

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Struggling to get over what the vampire councilman did to her, FBI Division Chief and Chicago wolf Alpha Seraphine Thomas dives into her job to cope. She’s making more headway on getting her office trained—and other offices—helping Simone with corruption in their community she was blind to, and solving a stack of cases that aren’t hers. And calling it a “stack” is seriously downplaying it. The plan to get all the area’s shifters at the same gathering and become allies, instead of smaller groups always handling things alone, comes together but not without issues. Overall, it was worth fighting for the idea and what’s best for the community, even if she’s terrified to finally stand before her pack after killing Engle and sending bad wolves off to the council. In other words, there’s too much going on with adopting little brothers and a new house, getting an instant family with the Dorcuses… Who wouldn’t need a short vacation? But do the problems seem to follow her from home, or are paranormals everywhere so messed up? Seraphine Thomas is a crime series filled with Chicago attitude and a strong heroine that pushes what most would think a female lead capable of, along with the heat being involved with several men brings while trying to figure out what she wants.

I look ve these books this is a reread

But I think Ive hit the nail on what bothers me about the race issue. Flynn deals with it like she thinks she deals with sexism. Such idiots ignore them yayadaha yada yah. Except here's where it alternates. She doesn't ignore lack of female representation, the wage gap. There is no colour blindness for woman. There's no way she doesn't get acknowledged as a woman. And the sexism gets called out. It would stupid to say sorry didn't notice you were a woman. I just see people no sex. Etc. Being woman informs my experiences, choices and my decisions. I'm not naive enough to believe be can't see it. I do believe that people don’t want to see race because they don’t want to deal with it. It is white privilege and although she tackles injustices of all types. All is really included in her books. Race doesn’t sit right but I accept it’s (not just because she’s white, over simplifying it). Really what it means in her life she’s experienced sexism but not racism so her writing is through that prism.

I just have this awarensss as a person of colour, no one is really colour blind. I feel like even the way sera handles injustice against supernaturals is telling compared to race. Biggest pet peeve is the part where sera shared she believes that white woman where to oppressed to be bigots or part of the oppression of black men. They took part in it. I mean in 30s-50s woman took their families to lynching with a side of picnic. Family day out. They accuses innocent black men of rape. They abused their slaves, inherited and owned slaves. They had the slaves nurse their children and forced these poor woman to feed their own children sugared water. May they rot in hell. All I’m saying it’s about perspective Erin R Flynn is woman. She writes about it well. But … that line always stops my heart cold

Fantastic Addition to the Series

Love the characters, world-building and plots of each book in this series! So many twists and turns. Happy that these are available on Audible Plus!