A review by beckylej
Moonshine by Alaya Dawn Johnson

4.0

In Alaya Johnson's imagined Prohibition-era New York, vampires and all manner of other Others walk the streets alongside humans. Zephyr Hollis is all to familiar with their kind and feels that they deserve just as many rights as humans. When she discovers a young boy recently turned by a pack of vamps who call themselves The Turn Boys, she know she can't take the kid to the police. The law states that turned children must be staked. In steps Amir, a mysterious non-human and a student in one of Zephyr's classes. Amir agrees to take the boy into his protection in exchange for a favor: Zephyr must help him track down a crime lord named Rinaldo. Rinaldo -- the man who controls the Turn Boys. Rinaldo -- a man so elusive, no one can recall ever having seen his face. And, as Zephyr soon learns, not a man at all. Rinaldo is a vampire who has taken something very precious from Amir.

This first in the Zephyr Hollis series is a unique twist on urban fantasy: blending the historical setting of 1920's New York and the events of that time with the paranormal makes MOONSHINE an interesting stand out.