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Wild Moon by C.R. Jane

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3 stars because it was well written, easy to read, and not that long (read it in like 4 hours) which is why I picked it up in the first place.

I was into the confused heroine at first, and I don’t mind a book that doesn’t give it all away right away and ends on a cliffhanger… but the ignorance/naivety it got a little old after a while.

I’m interested to read more of the Kingdom of Wolves series: I know they are by different authors so I look forward to seeing how they all piece together. And since this DOES end on a cliffhanger, I kinda want to know what’s next.

aliciaface's review

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5.0

Sooo good!

I was blown away by this book very unexpectedly. I couldn't put it down. I still have questions after I finished it in one night. Definitely reading next book!

k_foster's review

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3.0

This series seems like just one major run on sentence.

I have read 6 of the 7 book series (because I didn’t know that the last book doesn’t come out for several more months) and I just want to say that the series overall gets 2 out of 5 from me. While the books on their own are marked at 3 out of 5 stars, in all reality I would give them like a 2.5, not quite 2 but not a 3 either. The character development is so poorly done that I am not sure what is going on sometimes. The only real development is with Rune, the main character, but even that is all freaking over the place all of the time. She just comes across as waffle-y and a bit of a hussy. She runs away from a bad relationship just to find herself in a mysterious small town where people make her feel unwelcome. Then she finds herself drooling over the alphas but has no intention of doing anything because of her last relationship. But wait, now they’re all over each other all of the time. I like myself a smutty book but even I found myself rolling my eyes and skimming through it because they went from nothing to practically all of the time! And it wasn’t like it was moving the story along at all, it was just always happening. Nobody else in the story behaved the way they were so it wasn’t because they are wolf shifters or anything.

Then there is the plot line! Ugh! There is so much that is happening with no real answers, plots that just seem to stop out of the blue, new plots that start from nowhere, and a never ending cycle of BS. I feel like there is no reason for there to be 6 books much less 7. The plot could have been more concise, less chaotic, and better thought out. While I plan to read the final book it has more to do with seeing if the author is able to pull the story all together in the final hour. I don’t feel particularly invested in a happy ending per se, I mean I hope there is one but at the same time I want to see if everything concludes or if stuff just ends.

All of this to say, I am not very impressed with the series.
Plot-line – 2/5
Character Development – 2/5
Spice – 4/5
Would Read Again – 1/5
Book Ending – ?/5

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cheryldptr's review

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1.0

No idea how she doesn't understand she's surrounded by shifters when that's the world she came from previously. Just because she's unable to herself, doesn't mean she doesn't understand the basics of her own kind.
The love interests leave much to be desired and the love triangle (or square?) isn't necessary. The book ends abruptly and don't care enough about the FMC to continue the series.

toyboxtrash's review

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4.0

This book deserves more stars than it has!!
First of all the low reviews almost put me off this book because there were so many before I found the 4/5 star reviews. 99% of the low reviews seem to be people who cannot read between the lines or they haven’t actually taken in what the author has told them.

I understand why people say they are confused by the book but you need to actually read what the author is saying and build some of the background yourself. This style of writing doesn’t lay everything out In black and white. This isn’t the type of book you can skim read.

Common things mentioned in the low reviews:

1) How doesn’t Rune know she has moved to a town full of shifters?

Well this answer is simple and is explained in the book. She is a latent wolf, which means she has never shifted before, this means all of her werewolf senses that would be heightened have never emerged and she is for all intents and purposes 100% human. She confirms this by her flashbacks showing she has no wolf strength, she doesn’t heal as she still has sore ribs from her beatings etc. she has studied maps prior to escaping her Alpha/pack and she knows exactly where shifters and their packs are and she is trying to avoid them at all costs so that she won’t be sent back to the pack for punishment. Because this town has never showed up on maps she didn’t automatically know this was a shifter town. Wolves CANNOT just out themselves to humans so she couldn’t exactly walk up to someone and ask them if they are a wolf. The same why they won’t just outright ask her if she is one even if they question it. Clearly they have a suspicion and I doubt her scent has been released making it easy for them to tell. She’s never been around humans it seems which is why she asks the question of do all males try and have dominance over others both human and wolves? She won’t know if humans act in the same ways as dominant wolves.

2) if she is running away why does she have nice clothes?

Simple - She doesn’t. She stated she ran away with little clothing and these items were clearly maid clothing (black skirt, white blouse and black blouse and black heeled pumps). She said that she bought the yellow sundress when she saw it in the window because she would never have been allowed to wear that before because of her mate. She bought cheap clothing items she saw mainly in rebellion that she was never allowed to wear that kind of outfit before she ran. She said she bought the blue dress in the new town because she has a date with Daxson.

3) she asks if there are packs living here and is told there are 2 so how doesn’t she know she is in a shifter town?

When she asks about the ‘packs’ she’s asking if there are packs of wild wolves living in the woods NOT asking about shifter packs. Because she has heard and saw several wolves she needed to know if they were wild or shifter wolves. When She’s told about them obviously the character said there were 2 packs and she meant shifters but as she thinks Rune is human she can tell her that as normal gathering of wolves is also called a pack.

4) why is she so shocked when people shift?

She is shocked because she thinks she has fallen into a town of shifters that will send her back to her Alpha/Mate for punishment as it could be one of her allies. The one thing she wants away from is shifters as she can’t shift and has no abilities she feels more human and knows she will be safer in a human population. It’s not that she is shocked that wolves exist, she is scared and haunted by her pack who clearly tortured her as wolves and she is distrusting of anyone wolf Or human it doesn’t matter. She just wants as far away from shifter life as possible.

Clearly Wilder and Daxson believe she is their true mate and fated to them. They think she is human and they don’t know she is a shifter as she has never shown them any reason to not believe she is human. They convince her she didn’t see a shifter in the woods and she believes it because she can’t heal herself (obviously some healed her as per Wilder explaining the 4 types of wolves) so she thinks she is seeing things because she is traumatised from her past and doesn’t want to accept she could have fallen into shifter territory. Because she sees Wilder shift at the blue moon run, they planned to sedate her before she could run. She admits there she is a shifter and isn’t a threat which is clearly a relief to them because they stated they wanted her to want to stay before explaining that she is mated to a wolf.

I don’t believe any of this is confusing, it’s just the writing style the author has chosen. We obviously don’t know who her father is, why her mother just ran odd when she was ‘outed’ or why she was outed. Clearly she has a healing ability so I’m guessing mother was a Lycan and her father is the type of wolf that Daxsons pack is (can’t remember the name of them right now), or she has some type of magic healing ability. Maybe she is a hybrid and that’s why they made her latent. I don’t know but I’m excited to find out.

The story could have been written a little bit clearer for those who like more simplistic writing but obviously the author wants you to use your Brain to fill in the gaps. It doesn’t deserve all the low star reviews. I can’t wait to find out what’s going to happen next and I hope she continues to become more assertive and I can see how she has been beaten down to be submissive but I don’t think she really is that submissive.