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A review by kaillem
Moonshine by Rob Thurman
3.0
Summary: After saving the world from the Auphe, Cal and his half brother Niko are building a life for themselves in New York City by running an agency tailoring to the needs of the supernatural. They take a job that should have ended quickly, but instead find themselves double-crossed. When the double-crosser abducts Cal's sugary-sweet crush, the brothers do everything in their power to get her back, including confronting old enemies, making deals with creepy gypsies, and allying themselves with less-than-savory werewolf folk. The fact that the Auphe show up again to complicate the situation makes this romp through Thurman's world even more crazy and action-packed than the first.
Review: As in the previous book, Cal is a beacon of sardonic wit, and the exchanges between Cal and Niko had me me laughing out loud--again. This is a good thing, not only because humor keeps people reading, but because the relationship between Cal and Nik is the heart and soul of these books. If you don't like the relationship, you might as well not read the books.
Promise gets an upgrade from a minor (and forgettable) character in NIGHTLIFE to an important one MOONSHINE. She's a partner in the agency and contributes to a degree ... I did feel that she was expendable, though. True, she was needed for the fight scenes and getting them started as an agency in the first place, but I just felt that she was still forgettable.
For being so important to the plot of the book, George only had a few scenes. I kind of like having a spark of sunshine here and there in the series, so I was hoping for a little more interaction between her and Cal. Of course, Cal's reasoning for not wanting to be with her is sound, though it is kind of sad.
As for the narrative itself ... it jumped around a bit. What I mean by that is that sometimes, from one scene to the next, time would lapse and Cal would be looking back on a scene and telling what happened, rather than going through the scene. For me, that's disorienting. Thurman did it some in NIGHTLIFE, but she does it more in MOONSHINE. A few times, one scene felt like it was really two edited together and not edited for continuity. That was a little annoying.
Despite those issues, I thoroughly enjoyed this book. If you liked the last one, you'll probably like this one, too.
Review: As in the previous book, Cal is a beacon of sardonic wit, and the exchanges between Cal and Niko had me me laughing out loud--again. This is a good thing, not only because humor keeps people reading, but because the relationship between Cal and Nik is the heart and soul of these books. If you don't like the relationship, you might as well not read the books.
Promise gets an upgrade from a minor (and forgettable) character in NIGHTLIFE to an important one MOONSHINE. She's a partner in the agency and contributes to a degree ... I did feel that she was expendable, though. True, she was needed for the fight scenes and getting them started as an agency in the first place, but I just felt that she was still forgettable.
For being so important to the plot of the book, George only had a few scenes. I kind of like having a spark of sunshine here and there in the series, so I was hoping for a little more interaction between her and Cal. Of course, Cal's reasoning for not wanting to be with her is sound, though it is kind of sad.
As for the narrative itself ... it jumped around a bit. What I mean by that is that sometimes, from one scene to the next, time would lapse and Cal would be looking back on a scene and telling what happened, rather than going through the scene. For me, that's disorienting. Thurman did it some in NIGHTLIFE, but she does it more in MOONSHINE. A few times, one scene felt like it was really two edited together and not edited for continuity. That was a little annoying.
Despite those issues, I thoroughly enjoyed this book. If you liked the last one, you'll probably like this one, too.