Celtic Moon by Jan DeLima Also by this author: Summer Moon, Autumn Moon
Series: Celtic Wolves
Also in this series: Summer Moon, Autumn Moon
Published by Penguin on September 24th 2013
Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Contemporary, General, Romance
Pages: 304
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781101615676
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Like father, like son… Sophie Thibodeau has been on the run from the father of her son for more than fifteen years. Now her son, Joshua, is changing, and her greatest fears are about to be realized. He’s going to end up being just like his father—a man who can change into a wolf. Dylan Black has been hunting for Sophie since the night she ran from him—an obsession he cannot afford in the midst of an impending war. Dylan controls Rhuddin Village, an isolated town in Maine where he lives with an ancient Celtic tribe. One of the few of his clan who can still shift into a wolf, he must protect his people from the Guardians, vicious warriors who seek to destroy them. When Sophie and Dylan come together for the sake of their son, their reunion reignites the fierce passion they once shared. For the first time in years, Dylan’s lost family is within his grasp. But will he lose them all over again? Are Joshua and Sophie strong enough to fight alongside Dylan in battle? Nothing less than the fate of his tribe depends on it…
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Karen’s Review
I am driven to read and when I connect emotionally to characters in books I am thrilled. In Celtic Moon, a paranormal shifter book, I was invested in the characters emotionally. If you like the camaraderie that writer Nalini Singh has between her characters in both her urban fantasy series Psy/Changelings and Guild Hunters, then Jan DiLima’s Celtic Wolves series is a series to add to your to be read list. If you are like me I am always hunting up paranormal or urban fantasy series that really spark my interest that are well written and have good character development. They must also must have a long game type story arc, that ties the series together. There are a select few authors that are one click pre-order authors and I have now added DiLima to this list.
The story in Celtic Moon, is not your typical shifter romance as the story takes place fifteen years and lots of heartbreak, after the two main romance characters Dylan and Sophie had met. This isn’t your typical girl falls in love with a guy who can turn into a wolf. This is a real life paranormal book, girl falls in love with a very secretive man, gets knocked up, he gets even more secretive and possessive, and she feel isolated. He reveals his secret as the big bad wolf in an ‘I’m the alpha here me howl’ fashion, with disastrous effects. The sane human girl freaks and runs away with her baby in her tummy, because ‘Dude just turned into a wolf the size of a pony’, I would have run too! I was thrilled that a heroine in a paranormal book had a real reaction, run for the hills, and that stuff is freaky. So that is the premise of the book. The book picks up fifteen years later with the return of heroine Sophie with teenager in tow. Sophie’s reason for returning, is that she fears her teenage son is starting to turn furry.
I understood and connected with Sophie on a visceral level, she is the mama bear willing to do anything for her cub. She is strong and a no bullshit woman, she isn’t the naive college student who met Dylan shifter leader. One of the delights is that she acted like any sane woman would with her get out of ‘Dodge’ attitude.
Dylan meets his teenage kids and has Sophie back in his life, but she is not the meek innocent girl he met all those years ago. This woman has grown fangs and her nails are painted jungle red, as she has become a tough bad ass to protect her son. Dylan is a idiot, a likable hero, but still an idiot, he obviously knew nothing of modern woman when he met Sophie. He was using the ‘what not to do with your non paranormal mate’, guidebook in his interaction with Sophie sixteen years prior. There wasn’t just one misunderstanding among this couple but tons of misunderstandings and times he did not listen to his mate. His people who he sacrificed all for did not have his back. I am not that thrilled with the people Dylan has pledged his life to, they kinda seem like users.
There were a few characters that despite a great set up, disappeared too early from the story for my liking, namely Sián. I think her character could have become a fulcrum. What, just pack and leave, no show down. I understand her leaving was done to open up the story arc to the outsiders of this one shifter community, to give the readers a bigger urban fantasy world to explore, but an opportunity was missed in this characters departure without conflict.
In all this was one well written book that absorbed my attention.
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