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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780312938482
ISBN number: 0312938489
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Page Count: 352
Printing Date: February 07, 2006
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Release Date: February 07, 2006
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New Orleans is known for sinful pleasures and strange magic, but for cryptozoologist Diana Malone it offers one irresistible attraction. For over a hundred years there have been whispers of wolves around the Crescent City, and the recent discovery of bodies in the nearby swamps hints at a creature even more dangerous…one that could make Diana’s career and fortune, if she lives to capture it.
Adam Ruelle is a reclusive former Special Forces officer, the last of a mysterious Cajun family rumored to be cursed, and the only person skilled enough to guide Diana in her search. Rugged and captivating, he fills her nights with desire…but by day, Diana is plagued with doubts. Adam clearly knows more than he’s telling, but is his aim to protect her or distract her? Something is stalking its prey in the Louisiana bayous, and every step towards the horrifying truth brings Diana closer to a centuries-old enemy that lives for the smell of fear and the thrill of killing, again and again…
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I had read a positive recommendation of one of her later books and the sample excerpt on Amazon looked good, so I decided to read up to the book from the beginning of the series. I'm starting to think that was a very bad idea.
This, the fourth book in the series, is set in Louisiana-- crescent moon/crescent city. From what I remember from my visits there, she gets the city and surrounding area right physically. She has problems with cadences of speech though so conversation doesn't read well. I wanted to give the hero a handful of "th"s. He said "de" instead of "the" but had no problem with any other word beginning with "th". He also way overdid the "cher".
Once again, Handeland tries to maintain suspense by killing people off just before the heroine figures out the right question to ask. In fact the body count is pretty high for a book that isn't particularly creepy-- she manages to come close a couple of times but never manages to raise the hair on the back of my neck like other authors such as Michael McDowell in The Elementals have done. (If you really like creepiness in the deep south I recommend McDowell.)
The heroine is inconsistent. She's out looking for wolves in the bayou country but doesn't take her own gun and didn't even bother researching Louisiana carry laws. Men keep giving her guns and she keeps being ineffective with them despite claiming to have taken a firearms course and becoming a fair shot.
Her very first guide gets killed after giving her his gun and running into the swamp. She thinks she is being followed by a dead guy around New Orleans so she decides to go out and camp out alone in an old mansion with broken windows, no security and a bad reputation-- a mansion that until recently had been the hangout of tramps so you could just imagine what the inside would be like. And when she very first enters the house is smells like dirt and blood. Later she has a make out session in the place with her second guide without having cleaned it out at all. Yuck.
This book also has also another deus ex machina ending, dragging in the Jagger-Suchers to explain and fix things.
Handeland has trouble with plotting a conclusion. She is very prolific so lack of time might be what prevents her from figuring out a satisfying ending. I haven't read one of this series that didn't rely on something swooping in from left field to save the day. If the only thing you are interest in is the romance(i.e., the sex because the relationships in her book, doesn't build-- the characters just jump one another) then her books might be enthralling. If you really want a story-- characters, plot, suspense, the whole ball of wax, then she consistently disappoints.
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Loved this book! I love the series and know when I buy one it is going to be a great read.
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This was a good book by Lori. Then again i think all of her books are great. My favorite night creature novel is Blue moon book #1. Lori has a talent and i wish she would write about vampires like she does her werewolves
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As a lover of the Handeland series, I was not disappointed in Crescent Moon, the fourth installment in the series. Widow/Cryptozoologist Diana has been hired to hunt a wolf in New Orleans, where a series of deaths have been occurring. Trying desperately to hold on to the belief that her late husband was not insane, and that he really saw the things that he said he did, she sets out to solve the mystery of "who or what is killing people and why"? Once a reknown person in his field of study, the academic community now shuns her husband and has labeled him "crazy" because he believes in werewolves, and died while trying to prove it. Could werewolves and monsters be real? In order to find out, Diana heads into the swamps of New Orleans to solve the mystery.
Crescent Moon has everything a romance/paranormal fan would want....a sexy/mysterious tracker/guide who is possibly cursed, and who also appears to be helping to capture the evil wolf (or he is simply protecting the wolf, that he is), while solving several and lots of murders. You also realize, halfway through the novel, that Diana will make a wonderful addition to the Jager-Suchers organization.
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Like Handeland's earlier works, I enjoyed this book. It is always jarring for me initially because most of the paranormal romance/suspense books I read portray the werewolves as the heros or heroines. Not so with Handeland and I like the refreshing twist. This book wasn't as good for me as some of her earlier ones but I will give her the benefit of the doubt and figure that had more to do with me as a reader than her as a writer. Nevertheless, I did like the book and have liked her previous books a great deal. I will continue to buy Handeland's books.
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