Title:
Hunter’s Moon

Author:
Cathy L. Clamp &
C.T. Adams

Published By:
Tom Doherty Associates, LLC/
Tor Romance

ISBN #:
765-34913-2

Release Date:
December 12, 2004

Format:
Print

Tony has a business. His front is security, but in reality he’s a hired assassin for the “Family.” He picks his jobs carefully, and is very methodical about them. After all, it’s not the killing he likes but the money. Unfortunately last year he had an unexpected complication. Unknown to him, he was hired to kill a female werewolf. Not knowing they even existed, he managed to get bitten and still survive. The woman he was hired to kill understandably won’t help him, so he’s had to learn the ropes of being a werewolf the hard way. Now he’s sitting in a bar, waiting on another woman who wants to hire him for a job. He’s had a rough week, and even though it’s close to the full moon he thinks he will be able to handle it.

Susan is desperate. She knows she’s being a doormat to her family; she just can’t seem to stop it. Cruel and vicious though her family is, they are still blood. The only way she can think to stop it is to take drastic measures, and that means hiring Tony.

Hunter’s Moon is written in first person purely from Tony’s point of view, and it is a very different book from what I am used to seeing in romance. It reads more like a detective novel than a romance, until the story gets farther along. Tony comes across hard and unforgiving, but just like Susan you begin to really like him in the end. He was an intriguing character, a cold hearted killer one minute and worrying about Susan the next. Even he seemed bewildered by how much he began to care for Susan, and I found that to be one of the reasons I liked the book. Susan has an unbelievably devious and cruel mother, and her sister isn’t much better. Susan and Tony are a mated pair, and Tony fights it every step of the way. There isn’t a lot of sex in this story; it’s more about how Tony copes with finding his mate. I’m sure there will be other books in this series, and I look forward to reading them.


Reviewed by: Julia