Even better than the first. Sasha and Hunter make a great team. I found this book to be completely action packed, LA Banks is awesome depicting action scenes that can make your adrenaline start pumping. Shogun is an awesome twist to this book. I can not wait for the next book "Undead upon Arrival". ( )

I'm really hoping I would have enjoyed "Bite the Bullet" by L.A Banks more if I had read "Bad Blood", her first book in this Crimson Moon series. I think there were several pieces of critical information that I didn't have since I didn't read the first book, so there were several times where an event seemed to come totally out of left field for me. And a couple of characters referenced events that were (apparently) in the first book and based their actions off of those events, which left me floundering.

I should also confess that I never really got into Banks' 'Vampire Huntress' series. I tried to read two of them and couldn't finish either one. I did manage to finish this one, but will probably not pick up the first nor any upcoming books from this series. It just didn't 'grab' me.

Sasha is trying to adjust to her life as a werewolf and the probable mate to Hunter, one of her fellow soldiers. She's having alot of psychological difficulty giving up the control that she's accustomed to. But she learns that when the she-wolf heat hits...there's pretty much no fighting it.

Hunter knows that Sasha is his Alpha-female mate. He would love to give her all the time and space she needs to come to this conclusion on her own. Unfortunately, there's a paranormal species summit in less than a week, someone's trying to destroy the werewolf pact, and he's been re-infected with a toxin that causes Shadow wolves to go hulky and wacko and possibly become stuck in their uber-wolf form!

Lots of action, magic, and excitement. If you're an L.A. Banks fan AND you've read "Bad Blood", I predict that you'll want to pick up a copy of "Bite the Bullet" as well. ( )