Today's mini-review is for Lori Handeland's Hunter's Moon.
Hunter's Moon is number two in a series which so far consists of four novels, and one novella, with a fifth novel due out next month (which gives you just enough time to read all of her previous Nightcreatures books before the new release).
Lori writes wonderful werewolf novels in first person. Anyone who's into paranormal should check her out. She puts a new and fascinating twist on the werewolf story by basing it upon Ojibwa Indian lore.
Lori has taken the Ojibwa legends and built on them to create a fascinating world of undercover werewolf hunters trying to stop bands of evil werewolves from ruling the world. It may sound a bit out there, but trust me, give Blue Moon, the first in the series, a chance.
Hunter's Moon stood out to me because of the sometimes questionable sanity of the heroine, and the sad-yet-sexy hero. There are many twists through which you get to watch the characters evolve. You also get to hear more from the characters intorduced in the first book of the series - not just a "hello, yes, we're still alive." Jessie and Will play an integral part in Leigh's transformation throughout the book, and in helping to uncover why werewolves are dying in the woods without being shot.
Hunter's Moon is the story of Leigh Tyler, a once peppy kindergarten teacher turned introvert werewolf killer after a werewolf kills her family and is stopped just short of reaching his goal - her.
Leigh is now haunted by the memories of that night when a werewolf with eyes she recognized killed all she had loved and she was thrust into a life of vengeance, teetering on the edge of insanity.
Now Leigh has been called to a small Wisconsin town that's becoming overrun with the evil shapeshifters to help combat them. She's also been given the task of training Jessie McQuade (the heroine from Blue Moon) as a new Jager-Sucher, the secret elite Hunter-Searcher team in charge of saving the world from the fanged and furry. Oh, and Jessie's boyfriend is in tow. Leigh tries to ignore the constant smooching, but it makes her long for what was taken from her years back.
As if adjusting to Jessie's contentious nature isn't hard enough, Leigh finds herself inexplicably drawn to dark, sexy Irishman Damien Fitzgerald. Leigh has managed to keep herself safely from any attachments for years, but now she finds herself with friends, and a man she may just want to share the white-picket-life with.
Things may just be looking up for her, until the man who murdered her family and forever changed her life starts appearing from between the trees. Has Leigh lost her mind - again - or has the demon from her past returned to claim her?
Now Leigh and Damien must find a way to keep their love for each other while helping Jessie and Will (hero from Blue Moon) figure out what the werewolves are up to, and most importantly, how to put a stop to it.
3 comments:
I hope you enjoyed your weekend off. I'd really like to read these books but as you know, I don't do 1st person.
Lori's book sounds good. I read her novella in the "Dates from Hell"tp anthology and really enjoyed her voice.
CV - I can understand having preconceptions (I myself am not a big chic-lit fan), but there are exceptions to everything. I really think you should give Lori a chance.
Why don't you pick up Stroke of Midnight? It's an anthology with stories by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Amanda Ashley, L.A. Banks, and Lori Handeland. That way you can give Lori a try, but if you're seriously not into it, there are 3 other stories in the book you may enjoy.
Honestly, not only because her books are awesome, but also because her humor is congruent with ours, I really think you'd get a huge kick out of this. I also don't think you'll feel about it the way you're thinking of most 1st person reads.
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