Review: Excellent Shifter Read!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 21, 2013
I love shifter books. Werewolves, dragons, jaguars, bears - if there is a bit of animal in that human, I want to read about it. It's a sickness...my friends make fun of me...but when there are books out there like Hunter's Moon, it's easy to explain why this sub-genre pulls me in.This book centers around the lives and romance of Aren and Sasha. He's a werewolf but his pack doesn't hide out in the woods and kill innocents. They're businessmen, doctors, musicians - upstanding members of their community and deeply ingrained in the city of Reno. Aren runs a consulting business and sounds like quite the deal closer, though most of his time is spent chasing his mate through this story. He's charming, mature, and protective without being all "you're a helpless female, I must rescue you." Seriously, how many romances do you read where part of an intimacy scene has to do with the man disarming the woman?That's so hot...pretty sure I died a little bit right there.Sasha is kind of a badass. Tough, ex-cop, jaguar shifter - protective and caring but riddled with anger and guilt. She was changed into a shifter against her will and made a lot of bad choices trying to right that wrong. Choices that included waging a battle against a werewolf pack and almost killing her mate. I really enjoyed watching her grow through the pages and learn to trust others while figuring out her own drama. The slow build up of her relationship with Aren was well-written and realistic with all the starts and stops one would expect when someone can't trust themselves enough to just let go and fall.Suspenseful and plot-driven, Hunter's Moon kept me on the edge of my seat from the first page. Drama and mystery is interwoven with the paranormal elements and the romance, making this a well-balanced read even for non-shifter lovers. Being a bit of a gear-head, I loved all the car talk in the book, and the Elvis references gave the story moments of levity without falling too far into the cheesy arena.I give this book 4.5 stars. Hunter's Moon is the second book in the Moon series, but I read it without having read the first. It stands alone with bits and pieces of the previous installment creeping into the current story seamlessly. I will be back-tracking to read Moonlight, the first book in the series, as I have fallen in love with the pretty words Lisa writes.