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Im Mond Des Raben (2014)

by Lucy Monroe(Favorite Author)

3.89 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

3404169557 (ISBN13: 9783404169559)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Bastei Lübbe Taschenbuch

series

Children of the Moon

review 1: Medieval Scottish shape shifters. This is Barr's story. He's gone to straighten out the Donegal clan & there's a lot to straighten. He finds a naked girl wounded in the forest & "claims" her (you know how these Alpha Scottish shape shifter are ;) Sabrine is really a raven shape shifter. She's trying to find a sacred stone that was stolen from her clan. There's a secondary romance with Earc ( a Sinclair clansman who is Barr's Beta) & the clan healer. This isn't a bad story, but I had to take away a star due to poor continuity of the series. In "Moon Craving" we're introduced to Circin, who is supposed to be just a youth from the clan. Muin is his younger brother, who is Omega (less aggressive then the other wolves).In "Moon Burning" Circin is suddenly the heir to the Lairds... morehip & his older sister is the healer. Muin just another youth in the Pack. I don't think it's that difficult to keep up with writing this series. Heck, make a flow chart or something so you can keep everyone straight!
review 2: I saw this book in the library and having read Lucy Monroe's books in the past and enjoying them I decided to pick this one up and give it a try. But I have to say I was slightly disappointed as I read through the book it pretty quickly even finding it at times a little dragging especially in the beginning. Now this book had a familiar set up to some of the books that I have read in the past and have enjoyed so you would think I would like this one, but I didn't and I just felt like I couldn't connect with the story and the characters. I even liked the minor characters Earc and Verica better than the main characters story to be honest, and enjoyed them a lot more and even rooting for them to get together. I loved they got married and how once he claimed her that there was no way he was going back and was completely devoted to her. I loved the love scene between the pair in the cave with it being both of their first times as well as binding them to one another in a mating ceremony which was common for their people. During the mating ceremony was where they learned that they were true mates, which is like being soul mates, where they were meant to be with one another and would be unable to be with another physically, emotionally, and spiritually until one of the partners died and I thought that was great because as soon as the two came onto the page together I could tell they were meant for one another. Originally I thought that Earc and Verica would have their own book in the future and this was just the set up between the pair, but a part of me was glad that they got their story told here and made it more enjoyable for me. I don't know why I liked them so much, but I did.Now I liked Barr just fine and I could feel for throughout the book and could tell that he really cared and loved Sabrine, who though had some valid points was stubborn half the time and kept repeating that they couldn't be together even though she loved him. I think this was one thing that I didn't like was that Sabrine was putting her people over her heart after spending years and years protecting them and thinking that they wouldn't accept Barr in her life, which was crazy. Granted I understand why she pushed him away and why she did what she did because she feared her people would kill Barr and that was the last thing she wanted because she loved him, but after awhile it just got to be too much and too much repeating it over and over again and not only to him, but to herself as well and I got a little sick of it. I just really didn't connect with her so much even though she was this strong, independent woman who could take care of herself, but on the flip side she never let anybody in or let her wall down until the very end of the book, and it was heartbreaking especially when Barr was so desperate to learn about her and get her to trust him and it would cause him pain when she didn't. Also when she wouldn't at first accept him as a wolf, which was a part of him and something he couldn't or wanted to change because that was who he was. And it was agony to watch as she rejected him as the wolf and my heart just broke for him and made me want to give him a hug knowing that the woman that he loved and considered to be his was rejecting apart of himself and not accepting of him. I could feel the hurt ooze off the page from just that alone and it made him a little cold to her, which she did deserve and she thought she deserved as well though it hurt her too.Though that did change eventually and it was such a beautiful scene and probably one of the highlights of the book for me. Sabrine asked him to turn into the wolf, now realizing that she does love and accept everything about him even the wolf part of him which her people the shapeshifting birds considered to be their enemy, to show him how much she did change. She knelt down beside him not cowering in fear like she did before and embraced him as the wolf and stroke him and just showed her love for him. And it was so beautiful. She then rubbed her head on his head which in the raven shifting community, which she does turn into a crow that was her shapeshifting ability, was a sign of affection and what her raven craved for inside of her so she did just that. And he reciprocated back, rubbing his furry face over hers gently in his own show of affection, but he went further then that rubbing her entire body with his fur, which she happily allowed telling him to do what he needed to do. Which for him was great because not only did he feel her acceptance of him, but it was what the wolf craved and marked his scent on her. Then he turned back human and they make love sweetly after that, making it such a loving scene and utterly beautiful. This was my favorite scene between the pair bar none.I just thought the beginning of their relationship just seemed so rushed with no real build up or anticipation to it like some books have. I was expecting more of a fight coming from Sabrine especially knowing he was her enemy and she set this whole thing up so he would take her into his keep thinking she was an innocent woman so she could look around his keep for this stone that was stolen from people that they needed back immediately in order to save their species. Of coarse she didn't count on their attraction to get in the way, but I just thought she would fight it more and not be so easily swayed. She gave up her virginity really without any coaxing from him at all and it just didn't quite feel right to me. I just wanted the anticipation to be built a little longer. Something just didn't mesh with me, and their relationship didn't really connect for me until the end when they admit their love and commit themselves to one another.Also another thing was her looking for this stone that was so important and she kept looking and looking and knew she needed before she could leave, and then suddenly Verica had it all this time. I was like what? Where did that come from? I guess my point was it was too easy almost and I thought there would be a little more to the search then it was because after all that was the reason she was there in the first place, but that plot point seemed almost moot and more of an afterthought with more of the plot going on people trying to kill her or the other characters in the book, the hate people had of crow shifters, and just Sabrine's back and forth of why she couldn't be with Barr or trust him, and she had to think of her people only and also her hate of wolves. So, I just thought there would be a lot more too it then that plus I thought that maybe she would find it and Barr would catch or something like that, but it was just in Verica's possession and that was it. But maybe the point was that Sabrine didn't trust anyone besides herself and thought she had to do it on her own, but still.So, the book was okay with most of the highlights coming at the end when Sabrine finally had her light bulb moment and accepted that he was her mate that she loved and was about to have a child with (which I just thought that was thrown in there too) and was happy about it. I think I finally like the fact that she let go and allowed someone else behind her wall finally after all this time being alone and being a warrior that protected her people. And there were a couple of suspense things too, but also they were almost too easily resolved as well, though I do like that Sabrine or Barr didn't get seriously hurt or killed by those people that were trying to do so, but again it was too easy with both of the villains of the story getting killed as their punishment. I just thought that the villains would be there throughout threatening not only their relationship, but both their people the wolves and the birds and would have this big confrontation at the end, but that didn't happen. Also, though I was glad that this happened, Sabrine's family accepted Barr very quickly and easily without much of a fuss that he was a wolf at all so all of Sabrine's worrying was for nothing and all that angst she had. I just thought there would be some questions there, but there weren't. So, why did Sabrine think that her people would kill Barr again, making it agonizing between the two of them? Because I didn't see one bit of problem at all, no confrontation, nothing. So, they were more forgiving then Sabrine gave them credit for. Maybe it was her own prejudice she was projecting about the wolves and not what her people felt all along until she learned better and fell in love with Barr. Because her grandmother didn't have a complaint about him and even accepted him right away and even let them complete the mating ceremony that was common among their people. Maybe the other books are better in this series and if I see them at the library I will give them a try, but I am not dying to read the next one in the series like I have for other series in the past. But with that being said I am curious and would give it a try if given a chance. less

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