I thought this was an excellent audiobook and a good, unusual story. There are some really bad guys who deserve to die, and a mysterious woman who is willing to give them what they deserve. Perhaps it would be best for everyone (except the bad guys) if she was just allowed to continue, but of course, we don't allow anyone to be judge, jury, and executioner. Especially if she seems to be crazy. But in this book, she didn't seem to make any mistakes except to kill an FBI agent while his partner looked on from across the street. A partner who will hunt the huntress, pretty successfully it seems. Not that he can catch her, and that's what keeps it interesting.

So far, the people she kills are child abusers of the worst sort, so it's pretty hard not to hope she doesn't get caught. And the FBI hunter seems to feel much the same, but unfortunately he has a job to do that doesn't entail allowing killers to roam free.

This was good enough that I decided to continue on with the 2nd in the series, partly because the first book had an introduction to the second one. Seeing as how I have invested 5 minutes in the second book, how could I not continue? ( )

I was surprised by how much I ended up enjoying this book. The first few pages didn't impress me, but the fast paced, thrilling plot drew me in and kept me racing through the pages. My only big complaint is that the author couldn't keep her time line/corresponding ages straight. That kind of thing gets under my skin almost as much as bad grammar, but it's nothing too hard to fix. Not sure if I'll read the rest of the series yet. ( )

First book I've read by this author. Really very well written overall, although it did seem to drag in spots (I can always tell when I start checking to see how much further I have until the book is done) perhaps due to over describing places and physical appearances. An interesting psychological thriller, and as I recall the editing is good; the one error that stood out may have been a transfer to Kindle glitch.

May have given this one four stars, EXCEPT - only one small part of the story is tied up by the end of the book. Just too many major cliffhangers left at the end for me. I understand that as a series, the author may have to leave unfinished business, but too much in this case was left open.

I actually set this one aside about half way through to read a different book, but did come back to finish it, and thought the second half held my attention better than the first. ( )

I enjoyed "Huntress Moon" from beginning to end. It's original, genre-savvy, character-driven and kept me engaged and guessing all the way through.

The premise sounds conventional enough, a Joe Friday, tightly-buttoned up FBI agent leading a manhunt to find someone he thinks caused the death of one of his agents, except that this is a womanhunt and he's not entirely sure what she did to cause the man's death.

The FBI guy is so old-school noir that it took me a while to realise the story was set in this decade. I thought Andrea Sokoloff did a great job in painting a picture of a man who sees himself as introspective, enlightened, skilled at reading people and dedicated to doing his job well, while still letting me see that the man has no awareness of how irrepressibly male his perceptions and assumptions are.

Twisting itself around the story of the male hunter, like ivy on a tree, is the story of a deadly, driven woman who kills men, sometimes subtly, sometimes with a great deal of blood and keeps moving. This woman, the Huntress of the title, isn't the typical step-inside-the-mind-of-a-killer-and-be-glad-you-don't-live-there kind of character. Even though we're right there when she does some of the killing, she remains much harder to read and much more intriguing than that.

As the Huntress follows her own blood-strewn path and the FBI man plays catch-up, what kept me reading was a desire to know two things: why the Huntress does what she does and what Special Agent I'm-so-straight-I'd-break-rather-than-bend will do when he finds out.

I won't go into the plot here other than to say that it's well constructed, full of surprises and grim without ever being exploitative.

The book works as a stand-alone novel, reaching a satisfying conclusion but leaves the door open for the dance between the straight-man and the woman-who-kills to continue. So far there have been four books in the series. I'll certainly be reading the next one.

Alexandra Sokoloff also writes supernatural novels and I'll be giving them a try as well.

I recommend listening to the audiobook. R. C. Bray's performance is close to perfect and his range of voices is impressive. ( )

A good read, well paced, some suspense, interesting reveals, an investigator whose family isn't involved in the case with a connection to the target that hasn't been done to death. The alternating viewpoints work well. The black associate wasn't quite as well conceived, but better than if the cast were colorless. ( )