Review: 3+ stars (since it's free) - Some original ideas make it better than the first
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 17, 2012
I am doing an A to Z challenge using only Kindle freebies to try and whittle down the virtual TBR pile bloated by indescriminant one-clicking, so I read all three of Bevill' Moon Trilogy. Amber Moon was actually a bit better than the first, Black Moon, but I was surprised by the shift from shifters - um, well the change in focus from the cat shifters of the first book to the elven court in this one. The first book was really thin storywise but Bevill did a bit better in this one, though there is still some oddness to the writing that makes it feel more like a fanfict than an actual book, and there are still some technical issues which are noticable to even a not-at-all-technical reader like me (words used oddly if not incorrectly and wrong words missed by spell check).There are some creative ideas here and the female lead was actually fairly interesting, the male elven lead didn't have enough screen time to make him much more than a beautiful cutout (even though the bit we know of his history gave him potential.) And having read all three books, mate bonds are the author's favorite device to cement a relationship - this book unlike the others doesn't have any sex though. There is an attempt here at an overarching plot, the first book didn't have that sense at all, but the story ends fairly abruptly and picks right back up in the next book Silver Moon, so if you are considering reading Amber Moon you probably want to have Silver Moon waiting to go when you are finished (if it is still free too.)