Least favorite wild dog pack member?
Hi!
Probably somewhere between Dart and Alpha (the half wolf).
But it’s hard to say Alpha, because Alpha was great in Alpha’s Tale, and he was at least interesting to me in the first couple books he was in. But then, somewhere around Endless Lake (maybe even in The Broken Path), his writing...changed? Alpha and Lucky were supposed to have come to some sort of agreement at the end of Darkness Falls, but in TBP, they never touch on this again. Alpha also seemed more complicated in the earlier books. As strict as his laws and punishments were, he was on some level capable of caring about the dogs in his Pack, and he had a couple neutral-to-even-gentle moments. By Endless Lake and Storm of Dogs, however, he turns on his Packmates easily, and he’s needlessly cruel even to his own detriment (see: renaming Storm “Savage” and then exclusively calling her Savage even when he’s trying to get her to come save him). So I’m not sure if it’s the character that I dislike as much the writing for him.
For Dart, it’s the perpetual anger, the way she spied on Arrow in Into the Shadows to such an extent that she couldn’t even scout properly, the way she was still trying to blame Breeze’s crimes on Storm and Arrow even after it was clear they were innocent. She causes a lot of drama, which would be good if it was interesting, plot-driving drama (like what Breeze causes), but it’s not; it’s stupid drama that anyone in the Pack could resolve in a heartbeat if they thought about it at all.
TL;DR, character-wise Dart’s my least favorite; writing-wise, I really dislike how Alpha was handled, to the point that it detracts from my enjoyment of the character.