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A review by tita_noir
Moonstruck by Lauren Dane
4.0
REREAD SEP 2021-
Upped my original rating considerably. have to say, I liked this a lot better on my re-read than I did in my original read. Decided to go back and re-read because a third book is coming out and the blurb intrigued me.
For some reason I received it better. it still has some of the issues I mention in my original review below. I will say I got the sense of the town better this time around and the why of the power balance. And the hero/heroine were appealing and sexy.
The biggest con is still the propensity for public, nasty confrontations by the different characters. There were a lot. More than should happen amongst adult people.
But I listened on audio this time and maybe it was the narrator but it was a lot more entertaining that I remember.
Oh well, I'm off to the second one now.
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ORIGINAL REVIEW
This was hard to rate. I didn't dislike it, but the plot made no real sense. It feels like it was circling around something and didn't quite get there.
The heroine Katie tread dangerously close to the Mary Sue line. And the central conflict -- a balance of power between the wolves in a small wolf/witch controlled town, made not a lot of sense really. I honestly could not grasp it. It just seemed like the story careened from one confrontation to the next with the same warnings, threats and arguments repeated over and over. Also some characters seemed to have convenient plot personality changes from one confrontation to the next.
This ends on -- not exactly a cliffhanger, but it is clearly the first book in a series because while the central romance ends on a HEA, the overall big conflict is just ratcheting up with consequences for the central couple. And yet I don't believe I am intrigued enough to follow through.
Upped my original rating considerably. have to say, I liked this a lot better on my re-read than I did in my original read. Decided to go back and re-read because a third book is coming out and the blurb intrigued me.
For some reason I received it better. it still has some of the issues I mention in my original review below. I will say I got the sense of the town better this time around and the why of the power balance. And the hero/heroine were appealing and sexy.
The biggest con is still the propensity for public, nasty confrontations by the different characters. There were a lot. More than should happen amongst adult people.
But I listened on audio this time and maybe it was the narrator but it was a lot more entertaining that I remember.
Oh well, I'm off to the second one now.
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ORIGINAL REVIEW
This was hard to rate. I didn't dislike it, but the plot made no real sense. It feels like it was circling around something and didn't quite get there.
The heroine Katie tread dangerously close to the Mary Sue line. And the central conflict -- a balance of power between the wolves in a small wolf/witch controlled town, made not a lot of sense really. I honestly could not grasp it. It just seemed like the story careened from one confrontation to the next with the same warnings, threats and arguments repeated over and over. Also some characters seemed to have convenient plot personality changes from one confrontation to the next.
This ends on -- not exactly a cliffhanger, but it is clearly the first book in a series because while the central romance ends on a HEA, the overall big conflict is just ratcheting up with consequences for the central couple. And yet I don't believe I am intrigued enough to follow through.