Review: Difficult to keep reading
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 29, 2014
I only read this book because I saw on the Author's blog that it was a part of the Moonlight series. I had no desire to read it when I originally read the summary and I wish that I had kept to that decision. This is a story of a well meaning plantation owner that happens to be a 'were' that wants to utilize the plantation as a front to funnel slaves to freedom. After purchasing the plantation he discovers that one of the slaves is actually a werewolf and his mate. Although the motive is altruistic, the relationship between the characters felt tainted. I think had the story been told from a different period time with the slavery as a backstory, I might have been able to stomach the relationship. Since the slavery was at the forefront, you can't help but question the impossible logistics of maintaining a secret relationship between a plantation owner and a field slave that has to slip out of the locked cabins each night. My recommendation is to skip this book. The role of the few characters mentioned that appear in subsequent books does not provide any significant insight.