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Leopard Moon (2012)

by Jeanette Battista(Favorite Author)

3.81 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

147500382x (ISBN13: 9781475003826)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Jeanette Battista

series

Moon

review 1: Leopard MoonORIs That a Cougar In Your Pocket Or OHSHITWEREBEAROkay, first, there is a scene, and I must pick it apart. Consider this scenario:So you are a guy and you have made general flirtatious overtures to a girl that have been met with mixed messages. She seems to enjoy your company, but you've only hung out a handful of times and don't know each other very well yet. You are done for the day and walking home when you spot her through the window of a laundromat where she is reading and presumably doing her laundry. Do you:A) Pause and see if she looks up and sees you as well. Wave and smile if she does. Maybe enter if she responds enthusiastically (big smile, waving back), or better yet, actively waves you in. Otherwise, you go back to what you were doing before... more you saw her.B) Do nothing. Keep walking. Maybe mention it at a later date when you see her again that you saw her doing laundry or invite her to align your laundry day with hers so you guys can have a study session (or whatever) and cure the laundry boredom! Or say nothing about it ever. It was just laundry.C) Enter the laundromat before she sees you and strike up a conversation with her out of the blue.The book chooses C. The book is wrong.Seriously guys, do not do this. Do not follow the book's model. Take option A. Take option B. But option C is actually really creepy, I don't care if it works in the book. In the real world, DO NOT DO THIS.Now, I follow the logic. Laundry is a boring chore, especially at a laundromat where you have to sit around, waiting for your clothes to finish the spin cycle, with nothing but a book or computer device to amuse you. Anyone would want company, right? WRONG. The fact is, you start a conversation at the laundromat, SHE IS TRAPPED. She can't leave until her laundry is done. The space isn't very big. There's nowhere for her to go if she doesn't want to keep chatting with you, no exit strategy for the conversation, because she literally cannot exit until her laundry is done, which might take anywhere from twenty minutes to two hours depending on how much laundry she has. Even in the best scenario, where she does like you and wants to hang out, IT'S LAUNDRY DAY. She's in her awful ratty laundry day clothes because everything else is being washed. She is not at her best, knows it, and is going to be rather uncomfortable at the sudden conversation even if she adores talking to you. And if she was unsure or on the fence about you before this incident, by being physically trapped in a conversation, you've now made her deeply uncomfortable and probably flat out afraid of you.So yeah. Take option A or option B. Don't walk in unannounced and corner a girl who is just trying to get clean socks.OKAY, so rant about that scene done, the rest of the book....Deeply meh. I didn't really enjoy this read. Large chunks of introspection drag out action while adding little. The plot was horribly formulaic and while I expected a fair amount of formula out of most books, especially ones with romance. But this one stuck to a formula that doesn't interest me on a good day and didn't deviate at all. A lot more time was spent with squishy sweet moments between the couple than with any real action, because sometimes good action can make me overlook even a romance formula I dislike. Cormac is a classic Good Ol' Boy, the sweet perfect gentlemanly country boy with exquisite manners and rugged good looks. He is utterly boring and has no flaw other than maybe being a kind of dumb nineteen year old boy.Good things: Kess kicked butt and had reasonably realistic reactions given the things that happened to her. That's pretty much the best I can say about this book. She definitely kicks butt when she's allowed to (though she is only allowed to rarely) and I liked that. Otherwise-- Oh, yeah I also liked Sek. Not as a villain, exactly, but as the only character I found interesting. He had a complex, if deeply damaged world view that actually got my interest, even if he was a skeezy and deeply damaged individual. So yeah. That says a lot about my reaction to this book right there.Probably a good book if you are into tragic pasts falling in love with sweet country boys with light hearted interaction and some shape shifting thrown in. But it just had nothing that made me happy.
review 2: Leopard Moon by Jeanette Batista is actually book one in the Moon series about shapeshifter romance of several varieties. This book follows Kess, a wereleopard, and Cormac, a werewolf.Kess is on the run from her clan, or really her brother, who tried to abuse her. She's been running for almost a year when she unknowingly lands in werewolf territory. When Cormac, the pack alpha's son, finds her in leopard form, the attraction is undeniable. And Cormac must help protect the girl who now holds his heart.I thought the author did a great job with pulling werewolf legends, creating a believable wereleopard, and even tying in a little history. The characters are believable, even if the romance was a little fast for me. Her writing style is good as well, and brings life to the story. less

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