Hunter\'s Moon

Lori Handeland continues her paranormal series with Hunter’s Moon, a book that is a bit “more” than Blue Moon, the launch book for this continuity. It is more exhilarating, more compelling, causes more nail biting and definitely leaves me wanting more of this ingenious series.

Edward Mandenauer is head of the Jager-Sucher, a secret government agency whose sole purpose is to research, hunt and destroy werewolves. He has a new agent that needs to be trained so he calls in the best that he has, Leigh Tyler. Leigh is not at all happy about her newest assignment; she works alone and she likes it that way. Like it or not she follows orders, so she loads her gear and heads to Crow Valley, Wisconsin. She likes it even less once she arrives. Within an hour of her arrival she encounters several werewolves, a half naked man in the woods and the woman that she is to train. She doesn’t like any of them and things go downhill for her from there.

The place she is to stay is above a bar in the middle of the woods, the half naked man, Damien Fitzgerald, is the bartender . . . although that might not be so bad . . . and the reason behind her becoming a Jager-Sucher is suddenly haunting her. Can things really get any worse?

Leigh, you ain’t seen nothing yet!!

If you liked Blue Moon you’re going to love Hunter’s Moon. Leigh and Damien are very strong and authentic characters. They each have secrets and scars from their past that make it virtually impossible for them to trust anyone, yet neither can resist the allure of the other. With each page turned, each secret revealed, each scar healed I fell more and more into the story and more in love with this couple.

Damien is not the only person with whom Leigh produces sparks. From the minute they lay eyes on each other, Leigh and her trainee Jessie McQuade rub each other the wrong way. They snip, snap, growl and do everything except howl at the moon in an effort to achieve the alpha female position. The result is a hilarious, always well-timed tension breaker that just may have you spewing your beverage choice all over the book.

With most things, the sign of a treasured object is how clean it is, how beautiful it is and how well protected it is. The indication of a treasured book is a little different. The more spine creases it possesses and the more ragged the cover the more we love the book. It’s something that only a book lover understands, just as only a book lover understands that if you truly love a book you buy a second copy (I wish I could get that through to my DH). I highly advise buying a second copy of Hunter’s Moon, I know I plan to.

Reviewed by: Missy