Blue Moon

Something very strange is going on in the small town of Miniwa, Wisconsin and it all began the night that Sheriff Deputy Jessie McQuade encountered a gorgeous naked man in the middle of the woods while searching for a wounded wolf, a wolf that had just bitten a woman. Gorgeous naked man, Will Cadotte, Professor of Native American mythology should have no correlation to the wounded wolf. So why does Jessie suddenly feel that she is looking into the eyes of the most dangerous predator she has ever encountered? And why does she want to spend a lifetime looking into those eyes?

More and more wolves begin to show themselves in places that they normally avoid and even begin to attack people, so the Sheriff calls in assistance, which arrives in the form of hunter-searcher Edward Mandenauer. Jessie doesn’t think the eighty year old German man looks like he could SEE a wolf much less kill one but when she is assigned to be his secondary she learns exactly what he is capable of doing.

Jessie soon discovers that nothing and no one is what they seem. She must learn to accept that what she always assumed was fiction may very well be fact. She must learn to see with her heart as well as her eyes and she MUST make the right decision as to who she can trust or face a fate worse than death.

In Blue Moon, the first book in what promises to be an extremely exciting series, Lori Handeland does something very intriguing. She takes the myths, legends and folklore regarding werewolves, adds a bit of history and a pinch of modern science. She then throws it all in a big bowl, lets the mixer run for a few hundred pages and comes up with what is, without a doubt, one of, if not the best, paranormal book that I have read in quite a while. It has enough paranormal elements to make you think it’s impossible, enough history to make you think well maybe, and enough modern science to make you look at your neighbor in a whole new light.

The thing that I thought I would not like about the book turned out to be one of its best features. It is told in first person. Experiencing the action and the emotions directly from Jessie’s point of view is what had me jumping at every odd noise while I was laughing out loud at her sarcastic thoughts. The action is fast paced, the plot is gripping, the characters are realistic and I absolutely positively cannot wait for the next book in this series.

Reviewed by: Missy