Hunter's Moon

The hero is a killer for hire and though he's affiliated with the Mob and a blood thirsty werewolf to boot, he's really a nice guy. When the heroine hires him to kill her, he's a little taken aback and turned her down due to her near celebrity status but in his heart he denies her because he feels a connection to her. After she witnesses him in the Change and doesn't freak out, they very quickly start a love affair and even beginning dating not halfway through the book. The heroine is clearly very depressed because of her family and very insecure and demanding because of it. It started to annoy me a little bit just how clingy she was to the hero but she had her charms and her kindness to make us for this flaw. One major thing about this show more book that I loved and never see in a romance novel was the fact that the whole story is written from the males point of view. show less

Tony Giodone is not your typical businessman. For starters, he's a mafia hit man and a newly turned werewolf. After he adjusts (somewhat) to his new circumstances, a potential client throws Tony for a loop.

Sue Quentin has finally reached the end of her rope. Dumped on and abused most of her life, she wants to end it all, so hiring a hit man to kill her seems like the perfect solution. But when Tony and Sue meet, sparks fly. For her part, Sue doesn't flinch after seeing Tony in his wolf form, and even though Tony's world is filled with danger and darkness, none of that puts Sue off. But a sudden threat to Tony's boss throws them into danger.

Talk about your perfect anti-hero! Tony Giodone is in a class by himself. This incredible novel is show more inventive, totally riveting as well as surprisingly tender in spots. Adams and Clamp are a powerhouse team that have opened the door to an amazing new world. (Dec., 328 pp., $6.99) show less

This started out so promising, with a really great premise: a professional assassin has a potential client who has a strange request – the person she wants killed is herself. Add to that the fact that the assassin is also a werewolf, and you’re ready for a rip-roarin’ good time! Except that’s not really what you get. The story is narrated by Tony, the assassin, and I just didn’t like his tone. I found him to be flippant and overly emotional, when I really wanted him to be hard and cool. And if the werewolf stuff isn’t enough for you, there’s some extra weird metaphysical stuff at the end that really makes no sense at all. I generally enjoy paranormal/urban fantasies, but this was a little too much for me. I’m not show more interested in finishing this series. show less

Wow--really excellent story, and beginning of a series. In the first place, it's extremely unusual to read a romance written in first person. And when that first person is the hero? Unheard-of. I'd like this book just for that alone. But then the story was good, too. A werewolf who's a mob assassin falls in love with a woman who hires him to kill her.

Hunter's Moon, a paranormal romance novel by writing partners C.T. Adams and Cathy Clamp, begins with Sue Quentin, recent lottery winner, attempting to hire Tony, a professional hitman, to kill her. Apparently Sue is tired of being stepped upon by her controlling, abusive mother and sister, especially since she became rich and they expect her to support them. Tony refuses, but listens to her story, and the two unexpectedly fall into a whirlwind romance. When Sue's relationship with Tony makes her a target of his dangerous enemies, he must fight to protect her not only from her family, but from his past as well.


Oh, and Tony is a werewolf, although that doesn't actually change much.

Their author bio reads that "C.T. Adams and Cathy Clamp show more have been writing together for several years... They've been writing together for several years," which hardly bodes well for the editing in the rest of the book. The premise of the universe, although it takes most of the book to get to this, is that there is an ancient race of shapeshifters, whose abilities are passed through bites, called the Sazi. The term is short for Anasazi, a prehistoric culture of the Native American Southwest.

Adams and Clamp, however, obviously didn't bother to do any actual research about the Anasazi before using them as the basis for the spiritual, close to nature Native American trope; as one character says, complete with a misplaced comma: "It properly translates to, cave dwellers." "Anasazi" was not even the name that the ancient Southwestern peoples used for themselves. It is a Navajo word meaning "Ancient Enemy."

The lack of research is even more frustrating when it comes to Adams and Clamp's portrayal of emotional abuse and depression. Sue's original wish to commit suicide-by-proxy is taken at face value as a completely lucid and well-thought-out decision, not as the product of a person who has been trained over many years to feel completely helpless. Even her psychologist - recommended by Tony - speaks of needing to support her "choice" to commit suicide, despite his diagnosis of her condition. These are not friends that a mentally ill person needs around.

There is also the fact that, although this seems to be the intention of the story, Sue has not really learned to take care of herself and how to stop taking the abuse that others heap on her; she has merely redirected her dependence from her mother to Tony, who (in order to get around the constraints of the first-person narration) has a habit of eavesdropping on her private conversations with her therapist. This is certainly a realistic portrayal of an abuse survivor's behavior, but hardly the happy ending the authors make it out to be.

The plot itself is mostly predictable: girl meets boy, boy is professional hitman and werewolf, thankfully his wolf form isn't violent and it's not like the fact that he kills people for a living says anything about his personality. Which is to say, annoyingly unbelievable, even within the confines of the fictional universe.

The only good thing to say about Hunter's Moon, other than the fact that they used a pretty font on the cover, is that it might make a decent beach read for someone not easily frustrated by the above problems. Even then, Adams and Clamp's universe is hardly a world that, in the words of Laurell K. Hamilton's cover blurb, "deserves more than one visit."

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The story starts with a hitman being hired to kill the person hiring him and finding out that actually there's an attraction there. She's a lottery winner who is losing the will to live and he's a werewolf who is finding his life as an assassin successful but empty. He wasn't always a werewolf but he's learned to cope.

I enjoyed it, both characters came across as being very real and very in love. I'm looking forward to more in this series.

I gave this story 5 stars, because it was a fantastic book. It was written in first person but every character had their own speech, way of doing things and their own 'scent'. Increible funny, poignant and action packed. In this story he has already been a wolf for a while, and an a hit man for longer and has taken pretty good care of himself. And even though you know he's a hit man, he's also the hero of this story and you can't help rooting for him, especially after he meets the heroine. There those characters who are too stupid to live, but she is not one of those, which is why our hero is attracted to her. She is just too sensitive and has been down-trodded on and I felt sorry for her but I did not get annoyed with her for whining, show more which she did not do much of. And her accpectance of him from the very beginning, is what made the hero fall for her. And they dealt with real issues of life, relationships and their prospective lives. Like how he helped her depression by having her see a psychrtist, and how she made him believe he was not just a violent animal. I can't wait for the sequel in August 2005. This was a romantic, action-adventure, funny, serious and just true-blue love story. I hope you enjoy these talented authors. show less