Stacey Thompson-Geer

I received this e-book for review from Bewitching Book Tours as part of the author's virtual book tour. I did not receive any compensation for my review, and the views expressed herein are my own.

A book with both vampires AND werewolves? What could be better? The book cover of the female vampire biting into the male is very eye-catching and appealing. The book trailer is equally appealing. I should have loved this book...I wanted to love this book...but there are two reasons primarily why this didn't happen and both can be remedied.

I actually think the plot of the story is pretty good: A vampire is hired to hunt down a werewolf. I think that the book could potentially be very good with more character development which, perhaps, could be achieved by extending the length of the novella. It is fun to enjoy a bad-ass protagonist like Rose, but I think she could be even better! I particularly liked the character of Bobbie, the fire witch.

Unfortunately, the review copy that I was given is fraught with grammatical and spelling errors, which made it difficult to read and interfered with my enjoyment of the book.

With a good editor and more character depth, the book could be improved.

MY RATING: 1 star… (mais)

I enjoyed this short read. It easily held my attention all the way through. At times, I thought Rose was just a bit too brash, but then she would say or do something that would just melt my hard-heart into a gooey puddle. She also is funny, in a snarky kind of way. I like that she thumbs her nose at her ostensible superiors, often showing them up as highfalutin, know-it-alls who actually are somewhat out of touch with reality.

Throughout the book, there is sort of skirmish going on between the politically correct group, who admonish Rose to conform more to their standards and Rose, who seems honestly not to give a rat’s patootie about kowtowing to their demands. She is enlisted in helping them solve a tricky problem; determined to resolve the issue in her own unique way.

Rose is a quirky, not always particularly likeable heroine, who I am eager to follow along with on her next adventure. Stacey is an author who knows how to create a story that entertains by creating a world similar to our familiar one but darker and much more dangerous. Then she adds characters that inspire loyalty in spite of their flaws; in my opinion, it is a winning combination.

This book was provided to me by the author, through Bewitching Book Tours, in return for my honest review.

Reviewed by Laurie-J… (mais)

***NOTE MY REVIEWS OFTEN CONTAIN SPOILERS***

Rose is a 130 year old vampire who’s just been called upon by her council to kill a rogue werewolf. She thinks it will be an open and shut case leaving her free from the council’s drama for the rest of eternity. What she doesn’t plan on is a spunky young fire witch, an overzealous FBI agent and her maker all showing up and adding drama to her quiet little world. She may be hunting the werewolf, but someone out there is setting her up for crimes she didn’t commit in the process. Will she get to the bottom of it before she finds herself frying in a jail somewhere?

Silver Moon is a quick and enjoyable paranormal tale. It’s not really a scary story, nor is it a romance. Basically I’d called it paranormal fiction if that’s a genre. Genres are one of those things about books and writing I’ve never been that interested in. To me there’s interesting and not interesting, those are the only things I really need to know about a book.

There were really only three things I didn’t like about this book. The first is a taste thing, I like nice lengthy novels with lots of plot twists and details so for me a novella just isn’t long enough so I really would have like to have seen more bulk to the story. Two the final scene switches from the consistent first person point of view to a third person point of view scene. I prefer books to maintain the same point of view throughout the work. Finally she brings in a rather large cast of characters for a short novel so that we don’t get the chance to really get to know them all.

The book is very fast paced and well written. For the most part it’s a first person point of view from Rose’s eyes. It flows smoothly and has a good share of surprising plot twists and interesting characters. You’re quickly immersed in a world of vampires, werewolves and witches, however because it’s a novella though it’s mentioned that there’s a lot going on politically in the world of the supernatural it’s not really gone into too much because of the length of the novel. The book took me about twenty minutes to read so if you’re looking for a quick fun read this would be a great choice for reading.

Rose’s character was easy to relate to regardless of her disregard for humans. You’re invited in to some of her past and as well as her present predicament. This character has a lot of interesting interactions that I would be curious to know more about however again do to the length we get snippet but not a ton of detail about the past and present. Rose is the most well developed character, however Geer also creates some interesting secondary characters including Bobbie a 21 year old witch and Jerry an attractive werewolf. Both of these characters were slightly fleshed out, but not really completely again due to the length of the novel.

Geer presents us with an intriguing world and I’ll admit I felt frustrated because I wanted to know more about the world and the characters within that world. Hopefully this is just the beginning with more novels to come, but I’m not really certain about that.

Overall I’d definitely recommend the novella to readers who enjoy paranormal literature and shorter works of fiction.… (mais)