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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780425190715
ISBN number: 0425190714
Label: Berkley
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Page Count: 352
Printing Date: June 03, 2003
Publishing house: Berkley
Release Date: June 03, 2003
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Rebecca has done it again. Some writers promise me a sleepless night and this author is one! There is not a book in this series that won't make you listen to house settling sounds and see monsters in the shadows.
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Not bad. The overall storyline was good, but it was a little to melodramatic and soap operaish. The dialog left a lot to be desired. There were a lot of exchanges like this: "Ross." "Megan." "Ross!" "Megan!" "Oh God, Ross!" I kept wishing they would say more than each other's names. Also, some of the things they did seemed a bit unrealistic, or unreasonable. I'm still not sure why Ross felt he needed to search Megan's house, and I was a bit creeped out by his lingering over her stuff. Yeah, I get that he was supposed to have chosen her as his "mate," and that no other woman will do, and he will always want her so when he thought it was over he was despondent blah, blah. But, I don't know...that move seemed a bit desperate and needy, and I guess I don't like my alpha guys desperate and needy to the point where they start to resemble a creepy stalker.
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This is what a werewolf novel is supposed to be like! The character development was good, the storyline was interesting, and the romance was HOT! While a bit far-fetched as to the explaining of the werewolf gene....let's face it, were talking about werewolves here, you can't get much more far-fetched than that! I really enjoyed the private detective angle also. I liked this one enough to order the rest of her series. If you like were-novels, then I would definately suggetst giving this one a look!
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I have been a fan of "monster" books since I was about 10; the werewolf type presented in this book is not unique (why do so many writers decide that for some reason the werewolf "gene" is deadly to girls? Scientifically girl babies are MORE robust, not less . . . *shrug*), but the overall concept is really quite interesting.
Ross Marshall is the latest in a line of werewolves descended from a single forebear - apparently around the time of the druids - who dared to ask the gods for a gift . . . although that gift was granted, it comes with a price; baby girls are stillborn and many of the boys die when they are teens and very first try to transform. Ross is a bachelour and determined to stay that way, as he is afraid he will turn out to be like his father - a very cruel man - as well as afraid to even try to have children. However, he is also curious if, genetically, anything can be done. So, he calls a genetic testing lab and asks for someone to come out and test his blood. Dr. Megan Sheridan is sent. It is love at very first sight (of course).
Wrapped around their love story is Ross' endeavor to bring a serial killer to justice (he works as a PI) as well as his friend - Detective Jack Thornton - becoming suspicious about Ross' involvement in the death of a serial killer 5 years ago.
Overall, this was really a good book. Lots of thrills and chills and the dynamic tension between the romantic leads was well done - in a REALISTIC manner, rather than the typical romance novel approach, which is to have the two romantic partners dislike each other for no good reason. For fans of paranormal romance action thrillers with a twist, you'll like this one!
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"Killing Moon" is the very first book I've read by Rebecca York and it was OK - but only really that. She takes the common werewolf theme and adds her own twist to it, which I liked, but somehow there didn't seem to be enough meat in this book to make it really gripping.
Warning - spoilers below!
Megan Sheridan is a researcher in a biotech company who has her own specific project that she's working on but she keeps getting other basic work handed on to her by her boss. One such job is to take a blood test from a guy to do a genetic test on him. When she arrives at the home of Ross Marshall she finds him laying naked in his lounge and mostly unconscious. Upon further investigation (wouldn't you?!!) she discovers he has a fever and has been shot. She instantly turns from medical research worker to nurse and looks after him, despite him telling her to bog off. Interesting character switch for her there!
Ross is a werewolf. We learn a little about the werewolf situation in this book which isn't traditional (unrelated to the moon - despite the book's title! - but passed down genetically although with very tragic results in most cases). Ross is a Private Eye and he seems to be very successful in detecting serial killers, passing on the information to policeman Jack Thornton - although it's not really explained how he actually finds all these leads (I am unsure how helpful being able to turn into a wolf would be in these situations). Anyway, Ross has identified Donald Arnott as a killer who has bodies in his garden and was shot on the way back from checking the scene out.
Our story is told through four points of view - Megan, Ross, policeman Jack Thornton and Donald Arnott the serial killer. The tension builds slowly throughout the story - will Arnott kill again, who is trying to hurt Megan, why are there problems at the biotech lab - but it never really grips completely. Most of the story seems to be Megan slowly realising that her lover is a werewolf; this part of the story is done quite well - she doesn't instantly accommodate to this rather bizarre piece of information but it seeps in over some time. Still, we are told that their relationship has been caused pretty much by Ross's hormones and it isn't apparent what else the two of them have together that could make it work out. Plus she doesn't seem very good at keeping secrets at all, and Ross is, necessarily, a secretive chappie.
As often in fiction, magically at the end of the book, despite not having done much work, she makes a breakthrough in her biotech work which sets her up financially for life. This kind of thing is so rare in real life it always seems rather cheating for it to happen in fiction - and in this case unnecessary as Megan's future is pretty sorted anyway.
So overall, did I like it? Well, it was OK. The writing was OK. The worldbuilding for the werewolves was OK. The plot was OK. The resolution was OK. I think you've got the picture.
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