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Moon's Fury (Tales of the Sazi, Book 5)

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I own all of their books, and eagerly await each one. This book left me cold. Adam, seemed more like a beta wolf than a possible alpha. Cara, shouldn't been left in charge of a paper bag much less a pack. It was interesting to learn more about the Wolfen and Sazi, but really this book was hard to finish. I skipped pages because there just seemed like too much filler and not enough action. I was never clear on why the bad guys kidnapped girls or what happened to them at the end.

Temporary sheriff Cara Salinas is a werewolf and alpha female of her Texas Sazi pack. Adam Mueller is second-in-command of the Minneapolis Sazi pack. Adam is scouting Cara's small Texan town because some of his pack members may be relocating there. Lucas Santiago is a Wolven. He is one of the most powerful leaders in werewolf society. Lucas arrives in Texas attempting to merge the two packs. Adam and Cara are wondering why Lucas is needed. They soon get their answers when lies and treachery are uncovered.

While they try and find a way to seamlessly join the packs, a rogue group of Sazi birds are reeking havoc and killing people in town. Cara must save the packs and the humans while trying to tamp down her intense need to mate with Adam.

Moon's Fury is a good story, one I hard a hard time putting down. The chemistry between Adam and Cara is very strong and very intense right from the start and it only gets better as book progresses. I really enjoyed how their Sazi forms were much more prevalent than their human forms as well. Moon's Fury is a paranormal romance in every sense of the word, making it very interesting, sexy and unique.

Nannette
reviewed for Joyfully Reviewed

This fifth book in the Sazi series is rather variable. Parts were very good and parts rather dragged or didn't feel comfortable. Although the fifth in the Sazi series, about werewolves, and containing many of the characters of previous books, it isn't necessary to have read any Sazi stories before to understand most of the events in this one. There are some less common aspects to this series, for example the frequent discussion of scents that the werewolves detect, even in human form, which help them to know whether people are lying or afraid, but there's also much that is familiar in this sort of tale, including the Alpha Male character in this book, Adam Mueller. Adam's like lots of other policemen male characters and he loses some points in this story for not telling the heroine, Cara Salinas, what's going on half the time.

Cara has become the Sheriff of Tedford County in Texas when the previous Sheriff had a stroke. However she's found it a little difficult to adjust and things aren't made any easier in that she is now the Alpha of her small pack. It can be very hard for her to reconcile her werewolf rules, to protect them from discovery, with her policewoman's need to help and to serve. When she is visited by Adam Mueller from Minneapolis and discovers that some of Adam's pack may have to move down to her territory it starts a lot of planning as to how this can be managed. There's also a side plot with a lot of giant birds apparently eating livestock and stealing young girls; this part of the plot moved in fits and starts and was always a bit weird.

The good aspects of the story were some of the locations, the story being told from the point of view of the Latina policewoman as well as through Adam's eyes, and the interesting and varied range of characters. However it never felt like it really glued together as a proper story, the romantic element seemed rather more of an afterthought at times, and the different plot threads being linked seemed too ridiculously unlikely a coincidence. I finished the book not entirely sure why the girls had been kidnapped, what was going to happen to them in the future, and who the snake man really was (presumably he will appear in a subsequent book). This story is probably one for fans of the Sazi series and not one for a newcomer as, despite its good points, it wasn't completely satisfying.

Originally published for Curled Up With A Good Book © Helen Hancox 2007

I've been a big fan of the Sazi series since it came out. I was pleased to see a brief cameo made by Tony and Robert from the first two books. But even a visit from the old characters did nothing to liven up the story.

Unlike the other four books, I had no desire to reread it again. No desire to reconnect to the characters, or laugh at an amusing moment. Thankfully, I checked this one out front the library. Worth at least one read, but nothing that would make me want to wait for the next book in the series.

I have read Hunter's Moon, Howling Moon and Moon's Web and enjoyed all of them immensely. They were original and imaginative. But Moon's Fury was rather flat and slow. The story does not really pick up until more than halfway into the book. I did not feel the same interest for Adam and Cara in this book as I did for Tony and Sue, Raphael and Cat, Lucas, Bobby and Asri in the previously mentioned books. I was actually relieved to have Tony, Bobby and especially Lucas show up in Moon's Fury. Lucas and Will were more interesting in their limited role than most of the other characters.

I began to suspect Moon's Fury might have a hint of Anita Blake when you learn Cara has a dreaded problem. She goes into heat that she cannot control and it forces her to do every male she can for as long and hard as she can till the point of injury. She tries to control it by drinking a special tea. Can anyone spell "ardeur"? Then I was positive the ghost of Anita Blake was in the house when Cara and Adam have public sex, first to power up for binding the pack, then continue doing it just cause they're too randy to stop (she is in heat remember) and don't care if the pack forms a circle around them to watch. Not a very classy move nor an original one. It has been done ad nauseum in Anita Blake. At least Cara and Adam are monogamous and maybe there won't be another binding ceremony.

If you haven't read the first three books mentioned above, please don't let this review scare you off. Those books are well worth the time and money.

I'm hoping CT Adams and Cathy Clamp haven't run out of ideas for their Sazi books, because I really like the world they created! But this one wasn't one of their better efforts. The main characters didn't seem like great alphas - too accommodating, too submissive, too inadequate. They're both decent enough people, but aren't very enthralling as main characters. And the evil that must be faced here is so nebulous as to be incomprehensible. There is obviously a "big bad" out there, but information about it was so sparsely defined that it would have been better to leave it out of this book entirely. It wasn't necessary at all for Adam's presence among Cara's pack. And the way Lucas, Bobby, and Tony were worked into the story was pretty contrived. The whole thing would have worked better as the secondary story arc in a different book.

havn't finished the book yet, but so far, awesome book. great for fans of the sazi series.

Considering the fact that I stayed up until four in the morning reading this novel, I think that is enough to say I liked it. The romance was a bit slow going in that there was murder, kidnapping, and betrayal to solve first. I, for one, have no problem with that. My one problem with the story was the fact that I read the teaser from book 4. The teaser began book five with Adam arriving in Texas and being brought into the room with Cara's entire wolf pack rushing to him to plead for his help in becoming their much needed alfa before their pack becomes instict or taken over. That was completely the opposite of what happened in this book. For awhile I stayed confused wondering if I was confusing this book with another series, but I guess the teaser was only an idea of the authors but nothing set in stone. Otherwise, I thought this was a great addition to the series.

Tedford County, Texas Sheriff Cara Salinas is the alpha leader of her werewolf pack. When Minnesota pack second in command Adam Mueller arrives in Texas, Cara has some concerns as werewolves normally stay close to home. Cara has not been made privy to the knowledge that the Sazi Counsel has decided to disband the Minnesota pack and relocate the members to other packs; some like Adam will join Cara's squad.

However, Cara has other immediate concerns besides her attraction to the newcomer. As the sheriff she needs to stop a serial killing group of Sazi eating the offspring of her and his packs. Adam has found his soul mate and assists Cara as they investigate the murders only to uncover a lethal conspiracy that could set back the Sazi for years to come.

The Sazi moon thrillers have been consistently some of the best romantic fantasies on the market in recent years. The latest tale MOON'S FURY will add to the reputation of the authors and their top rate series. The story line contains two terrific subplots; a well written paranormal police procedural and a romance in which being a soul mate is not enough as both need to learn to respect the other. As with the previous books, each one expands the Adams-Camp mythos, but also can be read as a stand alone.

Harriet Klausner

Even wolves in the wild find a little privacy for mating. If you read this you will see what I mean. I found that scene gross. And not set up well enough to keep me from being tossed right out of the story. It colored my impression of the whole book and not in a good way. In front of relatives..eew. I did think the characters were well drawn in the begining and I enjoyed the scenes with the heroines family and the those where the intended couple are getting to know each other. The resolution didn't make the grade in my opinion and some things like when one adult character speaks through the mouth of a child via magic to 'let the family know they are all right', that was just horrible and violating, in my opinion. The family is portrayed as devout hispanic catholics, delivering a message that way smacks of demon possession and was a cruel and gross thing to do, out of character with what was written earlier in the book. Bummer. Try one of their others because there is some good writing in this and the world they've built is interesting it just didn't carry all the way through this work for me and I wished I'd been warned.