Timeless Moon (Tales of the Sazi, Book 6) (Mass Market Paperback)

by C. T. Adams (Author), Cathy Clamp (Author) "JOSETTE MONIER STOOD motionless in the faint moonlight beneath the spreading limbs of an ancient hickory..." (more)
Key Phrases: Cathy Clamp, New Mexico, Raphael Ramirez (more...)

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"I read the book in one sitting. I look forward to the next book in the series, because it has to be the beginning of a series. A world this enjoyable deserves more than one visit. This book has some new twists in the werewolf's tail that were very cool."--Laurell K. Hamilton on Hunter's Moon

Product Description

Josette Monier is a legend among the Sazi. 



One of the most powerful, beautiful, and oldest Sazi in existence, she lives in self-imposed exile.  Her gift of sight is so strong that to be around other living creatures is to be in pain. 



What Josette has experienced lies beyond the scope of the Sazi, for her mate is in love with someone else.  But when her gift of sight reveals trouble for her community, she knows that she has no choice.  She must set aside her personal pain and save her people.  And perhaps save herself and find love again. 

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Tor Paranormal Romance (March 4, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0765356651
• ISBN-13: 978-0765356659
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #215,270 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

• This is item 6 in The Tales of the Sazi Series.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars romance?, March 21, 2008

By	Christina Regina (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews

The Sazi world is interesting and complex, and all the characters have both these qualities as well. I liked most of the storyline (which I won't go over as other reviewers did fine jobs) - the problem I had with the book was with the main characters. They were both fleshed out well, but I didn't want them together (reasons below), and I have a hard time liking Rick. Having characters from other books involved didn't detract from the story, but it certainly shows the reader how small the Sazi world is and all of their soap-opera antics. All of the characters have flaws and are imperfect just like everyone else on the planet, and they generally redeem themselves in a way to make the reader look past their mistakes individually. But when looking at them in an overview, it is a bit too much like tv life. Or maybe real life, but I am looking for escapism here. For example, Raphael was married and mated to Amber, they had children, but he slept with her sister Fiona. Amber left, then married Charles, but is still mated to Raphael (as he is to her) although Raphael is now married to Cat. And they all know each other, and are connected to each other through either family ties or Sazi workings. Um, Days of Our Lives without the supernatural element? And Tony (the first book, which to me is the best) is the only one, I believe, to be married to and mated to the same person. But she is human! What's the point of the mating if no one mates, or can reject the mate? I suppose if you stay alive for a couple of hundred years, it may get dull, but still! The mystery is pretty good, the reader is given a couple of groups that may be involved in the attacks on the seers and Josie. But the romance wasn't to my taste. At all.



Spoilers!!!!!

Josie and Rick were married once upon a time. He wanted children, she didn't. He thought she was reckless with her gifts (she's a seer), they fought and goodbye. Then he let her believe he was dead. He shows up, she almost immediately forgives him (and sleeps with him) and worries about what he thinks of her - Is she cold-hearted? What will he think when he finds out she has a "true" mate? - even though he hasn't been around while she has had to fend for her life from assassins for a century. Who is he to judge her?! So how is he supposed to know that Raven is her "real" mate - he hasn't been in touch because he'd been pretending to be dead! Rick married twice after he left her, but didn't have children with them. When Josie asks if he has children he replies flippantly, "Well, I may have them around somewhere." Or something to that affect. What?! One of the reasons he left her was because she wouldn't have kids, so he wouldn't even want to know? Or keep tabs on his sleeping partners - just in case?! Or even to provide for the kid(s) or to help in case they may be a shifter? Argh! When Raven, Rick and Josie all met up I was hoping that either Raven would kill Rick, or Josie (what was she thinking?) would pick Raven instead and he and Josie could end up together. Instead she and Rick are together and Raven is now in pain because he lost his mate too. <sigh> Josie may have been foolish in her choice (why would she trust him to stay now?), but Rick didn't deserve her.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointingly vague, March 21, 2008

By	Helen Hancox "Auntie Helen" (Essex, England) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

C T Adams and Cathy Clamp seem to be able to write very quickly and their Sazi series has been very popular. This is another book in that series but to this reader at least it felt rather rushed, vague and without any solid plot.

Josette Monier is one of the older Sazi, a seer who has visions of the past, present and future on a daily basis. She's been living in self-imposed exile for some time but her peace is shattered by yet another assassination attempt by some Sazi snakes. She defeats the snakes but is asked by another Sazi to help them as someone is attacking the other seers and Josie may be the only one strong enough to overcome their adversary.

Josie was previously married to Rick Cooper but he walked out on her and since died. When Josie discovers Rick is actually alive she has to decide whether to trust him, to reconnect with him and whether he can help her to uncover what's going on with the Sazi seers. Rick has to decide whether the harder, perhaps more heartless Josie is worth becoming involved with again. And Josie has a secret that Rick doesn't know - that she is mated to one of the other Sazi.

Most of this story seems to be about Josie and/or Rick being attacked by Snakes or humans, escaping, phoning some other Sazi up for help and new identities, and then onto the next attack. The reunion between Josie and Rick is actually rather low-key, considering their history, and they seem to get back together surprisingly quickly and easily. Rick was a good character with his ability to feel and enhance emotions which had caused him to live as a recluse for a century and Josie was also well written as a troubled woman with great powers and a tendency to do her own thing without planning but also with a need for care, protection and love.

The rest of the cast of characters in this book was vast and it added greatly to the complexity and didn't really work for me. The overall story felt pretty directionless most of the time, I wasn't sure by the end who the enemies actually were, many events seemed to happen for no apparent reason and the resolution of the story, such as it is, was also rather a damp squib. I have enjoyed a couple of previous books in this series but this one was a real disappointment.

Originally published for Curled Up With A Good Book © Helen Hancox 2008

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Amature Writing, May 5, 2008

By	Margaret P. "mhp2027" (Boulder, CO USA) - See all my reviews

The book opens with a woman who is feeling sorry for herself. A shape-changing snake assasin tries to sneak up on her, exactly like dozens of snake-assasins did before (one at a time). She shape-changes into a bobcat and kills it. We then switch to her ex-husband (he snuck away after a fight and pretended to be dead; you'll have to wait until later in the book for details on why this is "okay"). He is off living somewhere else by himself, feeling sorry for himself, when some friends comes asking for his help. They are all from a race of immortal shape-chagers in a fight with some other faction of shape-changers. It takes him less than a minute to determine that the friend's cell-phones are bugged by the assasins. Oh, dear, that is how the assasins killed so & so.

The back cover on this book is the worst I've read in years. It lies ... or perhaps was accidentally put on the wrong book. The writing style is amature. Very amature. The characters are mellodramatic superheros of vast power. The villians are idiots ("The last two dozen assasins went up against this lady one at a time and were killed. Oh, boy, my turn to try the exact same assasination plot!") But then the heros are idiots, too, so I guess fair is fair. The fight scenes are plentiful and read like the closest the authors' have come to a fight is playing video games.

Altogether, I was pretty disappointed.