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3.63 AVERAGE
3.63 AVERAGE
Way more of a romance than an urban fantasy.
Charlotte is a detective in New Orleans. A rubbish one but that's ok because the murder mystery doesn't amount to much anyway. Max is the bodyguard of the underworld crime king and he has been in love with Charlotte for years. Cue much angst and drama.
The setting of New Orleans is massively underused. I understand that New Orleans is an unusual city with a distinctive style and atmosphere but this could have been set anywhere. The story outside of Charlotte and Max's relationship starts with potential but gets lost in all the romance drama.
There isn't one scene that Charlotte and Max don't end up together in, talking and flirting. Normally with Urban Fantasy, I get annoyed because the love interests spend so little time together so you'd think I should have liked this. But, I don't know why, it just got too much, even for me. I think it was done at the expense of building Charlotte's world and so it all feels very limited.
Max is a sweetheart and my heart breaks for him the way he's head over heels and just wants to be with Charlotte. For a character that's supposed to be a hardened killer, he seems like just a big softie. He carries the whole book and I read it really just for him.
Charlotte is independent and fun to read but also she's kinda mean and closed off. She has her reasons but Max is such a sympathetic character and it's easy to forget he's a killer so it makes it hard to like Charlotte when she is so cruel to him.
The writing is average, there are some dodgy bits here and there but it's not offputting and it's a fun and easy read. There are 10 books in the series though so hopefully it will improve as it goes on!
I intend to read the next one, all the setup has been done so I'm hoping for a bit of a more in-depth story. If not I'll be quite happy with just reading another book with a lot of Max in it!
Masked by Moonlight is a fun, quick Urban Fantasy romance read with a likeable and very sweet love interest!
Charlotte is a detective in New Orleans. A rubbish one but that's ok because the murder mystery doesn't amount to much anyway. Max is the bodyguard of the underworld crime king and he has been in love with Charlotte for years. Cue much angst and drama.
The setting of New Orleans is massively underused. I understand that New Orleans is an unusual city with a distinctive style and atmosphere but this could have been set anywhere. The story outside of Charlotte and Max's relationship starts with potential but gets lost in all the romance drama.
There isn't one scene that Charlotte and Max don't end up together in, talking and flirting. Normally with Urban Fantasy, I get annoyed because the love interests spend so little time together so you'd think I should have liked this. But, I don't know why, it just got too much, even for me. I think it was done at the expense of building Charlotte's world and so it all feels very limited.
Max is a sweetheart and my heart breaks for him the way he's head over heels and just wants to be with Charlotte. For a character that's supposed to be a hardened killer, he seems like just a big softie. He carries the whole book and I read it really just for him.
Charlotte is independent and fun to read but also she's kinda mean and closed off. She has her reasons but Max is such a sympathetic character and it's easy to forget he's a killer so it makes it hard to like Charlotte when she is so cruel to him.
The writing is average, there are some dodgy bits here and there but it's not offputting and it's a fun and easy read. There are 10 books in the series though so hopefully it will improve as it goes on!
I intend to read the next one, all the setup has been done so I'm hoping for a bit of a more in-depth story. If not I'll be quite happy with just reading another book with a lot of Max in it!
Masked by Moonlight is a fun, quick Urban Fantasy romance read with a likeable and very sweet love interest!
An amazing book. Max Savoie is an amazing hero, throw in the Mob, a smart and hot detective and wallah!! Highly recommended.
Don't you hate it when you only realise that you've read a book when you are almost at the end? I was most of the way through this, thinking the familiarity was only because I had read a lot of shifter books lately but then as I was heading for the ending I realized I knew what was going to happen! Grrr. Still, I remembered I enjoyed this the first time around but I do like my heroes to be a little more white-hat than in this one.