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3.96 AVERAGE
3.96 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
3.5 The first half of this was great. The back half dragged and then was super speed. Strange pacing. Still, a fun read as Ilona Andrews continue to be amazing.
adventurous
medium-paced
Feb. 2025: Continue my relisten for the 2025 Read-Along. My opinion has not changed.
4 Moon Stars
Suspense, Intrigue, Adventure, Betrayal, Romance!
I'm a big fan of Ilona Andrews. I love the Kate Daniels series, so I set out to check out her other works and I’ve not been disappointed.
I loved the relationship between Cerise and William. Cerise, she's strong and determined, and admirable. She holds her family together when disaster happens. I loved William's vulnerability and dedication. He has his difficult and sad childhood. He's a changeling, he's a monster, but when William loves, he loves true and it's forever.
"If you love him, fight for him. Nothing worth keeping is free in this world. If you don't love him, cut him loose. Just don't take too long to decide. Our future might be short.”
As for the story it starts out slow and the plot was vastly complicated then On the Edge, but still a great read. Basically, if you liked On the Edge then you will like Bayou Moon.
2021 Audio: I loved the audio. It had me discovering new things I missed in this story my first go around. The voices are distinctive. I really enjoy Renee Raudman's narration. She's a wonderful narrator to listen too.
4 Moon Stars
Suspense, Intrigue, Adventure, Betrayal, Romance!
I'm a big fan of Ilona Andrews. I love the Kate Daniels series, so I set out to check out her other works and I’ve not been disappointed.
I loved the relationship between Cerise and William. Cerise, she's strong and determined, and admirable. She holds her family together when disaster happens. I loved William's vulnerability and dedication. He has his difficult and sad childhood. He's a changeling, he's a monster, but when William loves, he loves true and it's forever.
"If you love him, fight for him. Nothing worth keeping is free in this world. If you don't love him, cut him loose. Just don't take too long to decide. Our future might be short.”
As for the story it starts out slow and the plot was vastly complicated then On the Edge, but still a great read. Basically, if you liked On the Edge then you will like Bayou Moon.
2021 Audio: I loved the audio. It had me discovering new things I missed in this story my first go around. The voices are distinctive. I really enjoy Renee Raudman's narration. She's a wonderful narrator to listen too.
William, a wolf changeling, is living in The Edge when his former country's government asks him to destroy The Hand, a very bad group from another country.
Cerise lives in the Mire, swampland in The Edge. When her parents go missing, she discovers that they are being held by The Hand and that an enemy family is involved.
Not a bad continuation of this series, but William and Cerise never really grabbed me as main characters. It was a decent story though, and I really liked seeing some of the characters from the last book.
Cerise lives in the Mire, swampland in The Edge. When her parents go missing, she discovers that they are being held by The Hand and that an enemy family is involved.
Not a bad continuation of this series, but William and Cerise never really grabbed me as main characters. It was a decent story though, and I really liked seeing some of the characters from the last book.
This is much darker than any of the Kate Daniels or Hidden Legacy books and doesn't have the snarky humor that lightens those series. If I hadn't been told parts of the story would play into the Inn Keeper series which I really am excited to read I would have stopped this 3 or 4 different times. It's my first non 5 star rating of the 16 books + the novellas I've devoured int he last few weeks by IA.
Plot:
Cerise Mar live in the Mire where the Weird dumps exiles. They are poor, and others call them rats since there are so many of them. Her parents vanish and her clan goes out to war against their rivals, but something else is hiding in the Mire. And in to her life comes William, who is on the hunt.
My thoughts:
Oh I adored William in this one. I kept thinking of the guy Wolf in The 10th kingdom mini series, because he was just insane, and William the Wolf was insane too, he just managed to keep it inside. But we got to hear his thoughts and see the glimmer in his eyes, and I fell hard.
This is then the second Edge novel and this time we meet people from the Mire, weird swamp dwelling crazies the bunch of them. Cerise is one kick-ass woman who uses old magic to maker her sword powerful, and she needs to man to take care of her. William wants someone in his life but he knows that no sane woman would be with a changeling and it does break me to see him think like that. But he is such a good guy, protective, and not so good in social situations. That just makes me wanna hug him. Together they are just perfect, but they will have to work for it.
The action is constant. William is hunting a man named Spider who is a real freak. The two states in the Weird is on the verge of war, and something in the Mire can turn things around. It just depends on who gets it first. So we have William clashing with the Spider, the Hand, his band hunting the Mars, The Mars feuding with their rivals. Bodies piling up and magic going wild. Because there is strange forgotten magic in the Mire.
This weird world, the edge, located between our world The Broken, and the magic world the Weird is the best thing about this series. It is well done, and there is always something strange going on. Great world building and great history.
When I left the world I did wonder, who will be in book 3? In book 1 I saw William clearly for the next one, but here, I just do not know.
Recommendation and final thoughts:
You can just jump into this one or go back to book 1, it does not matter, but of course in book 1 you get to meet William too, and that one is really good. This is a book I do recommend to all. It's fun to read, there is action, there is romance, and there is some cool magic going on, and I always like an interesting world.
Reason for reading:
Book 1 was awesome
Cover thoughts:
She is cool, but him floating around, nah not so much. I would take him out.
Cerise Mar live in the Mire where the Weird dumps exiles. They are poor, and others call them rats since there are so many of them. Her parents vanish and her clan goes out to war against their rivals, but something else is hiding in the Mire. And in to her life comes William, who is on the hunt.
My thoughts:
Oh I adored William in this one. I kept thinking of the guy Wolf in The 10th kingdom mini series, because he was just insane, and William the Wolf was insane too, he just managed to keep it inside. But we got to hear his thoughts and see the glimmer in his eyes, and I fell hard.
This is then the second Edge novel and this time we meet people from the Mire, weird swamp dwelling crazies the bunch of them. Cerise is one kick-ass woman who uses old magic to maker her sword powerful, and she needs to man to take care of her. William wants someone in his life but he knows that no sane woman would be with a changeling and it does break me to see him think like that. But he is such a good guy, protective, and not so good in social situations. That just makes me wanna hug him. Together they are just perfect, but they will have to work for it.
The action is constant. William is hunting a man named Spider who is a real freak. The two states in the Weird is on the verge of war, and something in the Mire can turn things around. It just depends on who gets it first. So we have William clashing with the Spider, the Hand, his band hunting the Mars, The Mars feuding with their rivals. Bodies piling up and magic going wild. Because there is strange forgotten magic in the Mire.
This weird world, the edge, located between our world The Broken, and the magic world the Weird is the best thing about this series. It is well done, and there is always something strange going on. Great world building and great history.
When I left the world I did wonder, who will be in book 3? In book 1 I saw William clearly for the next one, but here, I just do not know.
Recommendation and final thoughts:
You can just jump into this one or go back to book 1, it does not matter, but of course in book 1 you get to meet William too, and that one is really good. This is a book I do recommend to all. It's fun to read, there is action, there is romance, and there is some cool magic going on, and I always like an interesting world.
Reason for reading:
Book 1 was awesome
Cover thoughts:
She is cool, but him floating around, nah not so much. I would take him out.
The second book of The Edge series by Ilona Andrews was much more enjoyable to me than the first one. I think I am more invested in the story now, because of reading about George, Jack, and Gaston in the Innkeeper Series. I also really liked the main character in Bayou Moon, Cerise Mar. She is strong, smart, gifted, and doesn't lie to herself. That's my kind of heroine.
Additionally, the world building really kicks into high gear in this second installment. This is a novel where you can forget about reality and immerse yourself inside of it- excellent, excellent escape reading.
I'm looking forward to the third book in the series.
2019 update
This is still packs an entertaining wallop the second time through.
Additionally, the world building really kicks into high gear in this second installment. This is a novel where you can forget about reality and immerse yourself inside of it- excellent, excellent escape reading.
I'm looking forward to the third book in the series.
2019 update
This is still packs an entertaining wallop the second time through.