Sasha’s future was stolen from her the moment she was bitten. Now she’s on the run from the Nero Organization that transformed her from a human detective into a shape shifting jaguar assassin.
When a rogue bounty hunter threatens her younger sister, she’ll be forced to fight, and with nowhere else to turn, Sasha will need to trust the one man who has every reason to want her dead.
Aren is a werewolf with a secret. While protecting his twin brother and Alpha of the Pack, he found his one mate for life. Sadly she’s also the jaguar assassin who tried to kill them both. Now Aren is struggling between his animal nature to love and protect her, and his loyalty to the Pack.
Series: Moon #2
Release Date: 10/21/13
Publisher: Entangled Publishing
Source: Manic Readers
Reviewer: Michelle
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Hunter’s Moon is a paranormal romance between a werewolf shifter and a human turned jaguar asassin. Sasha was bitten and is now a jaguar shifter. Aren is a werewolf shifter, brother of their pack’s Alpha, and victim of a shooting at the hands of Sasha. Their history is filled with tragedy. Sasha was involved in many acts that harmed Aren and his family, but Aren can’t stop pursuing Sasha. Despite their past history and her mistakes—she is Aren’s mate. The premise for the story is excellent. However, I found it difficult to continue and finish this book. The details of the storyline and character development were contradictory and repetitive. The execution of the storyline just didn’t capture my interest.
In the first few chapters the author used the phrasing “why he was so successful in business” in so many ways that each time I was reading a scene or description with the “hero”, Aren, I automatically added “why he was so successful in business” in my head. The sad part is that it was usually written into the storyline. So each time Aren would make a plan or control his emotions it was “that’s why he was so successful in business”. It became very annoying.
Our heroine, Sasha, was unlike any heroine I’ve ever read. This lady was all over the place—neurotic. First she wants Aren to leave her alone, then she calls for Aren to hide her sister. He risks his pack’s life to hide the sister. Then she accuses him of trying to put her sister in harm’s way to get back at her. She constantly accuses him of betrayal, not loving her, and wanting to hurt her. She was like a black cloud in the storyline. I was not vested in her character and there were no traits that displayed anything that would endear a reader to her. Even when she showed concern for her sister it was still about her and her past. I do realize that there are some women that have been wounded in the past and continue to make everyone pay for what happened to them. The author portrays it beautifully because Sasha is a bitter, shrew intent on causing misery for everyone around her.
Aren’s character is supposed to be a fierce, strong fighter. However, Aren allows Sasha to run over him at every turn. He never pushes back or tries to reign in Sasha’s pity party with a strong rebuke. He remains silent even when he knows that she is wrong and needs to be corrected. Whenever she gets upset he falls in line like a puppy and does whatever it takes to make her happy whether it’s yoga in the middle of the night or allowing her to meet an ex-boyfriend alone and he apologizes. He blames himself for not being kind, trusting, or understanding enough. He seemed less like a man in love and more like a man that has self-esteem issues. Perhaps the author wanted to portray a man that is steamrolled by his mate in an effort to win her over. This is certainly the feeling I get when I read about him. Unfortunately I just couldn’t relate to a docile werewolf shifter.
I could make no sense of the plot. First they were being tracked and were afraid because the bounty hunter had their scent and could find them anywhere. Then they change cars and hotels to avoid the werewolf tracking them. How can changing a car or hotel room cause a werewolf to lose their scent? Wouldn’t your scent be wherever you went? And wouldn’t you simply lead them to whatever new place you were going? It made no sense. It was like the author was writing and forgot what she wrote in the previous chapters. There were numerous examples of inconsistencies. I felt like I was on a merry go round and couldn’t get off.
I’m giving this book a three because I know I prefer strong, independent, and resourceful female and male characters. Everyone doesn’t have that same preference. If you like neurotic leading women and weak leading men with a circuitous storyline this book is for you.
