Elise Hanover feels the pull of the moon--even in its dark phase. She is a werewolf who feels nothing but disgust for the bloodlust and violent tendencies inside her. Nick Franklin is the man she met and fell in love with in college, and the man whose touch first awakened her beast. When she realized that her lust for him inspired the wolf inside her, she ran as far and as fast as she could. To defeat her furry side, she has spent the last five years in a secret location in Montana, trying to find a cure for lycanthropy. Just as she feels she's at the edge of a breakthrough, her research is interrupted. Nick is now an FBI agent--and he's standing in her lab. Minutes after they leave the building, it explodes, destroying all of Elise's research and the serum she needs to fight her bloodlust. Together, Nick and Elise must race to find a cure for before the next full moon rises. Dark Moon is full of dry wit, steamy chemistry, and truly scary villians.
Reviews:
kislany (Cyprus) (2007/07/13): This is the third instalment of the Moon series by Lori Handeland. This time we get the story of the rather cold and aloof Elise, briefly shown in the previous books. She is a hardcore scientist trying to find a cure for the werewolves. Now we will know more about her, understand her story and her troubled past, as well as her relationship with the boss, who turns out, is more to her than just a boss. And of course, very early on in the novel we understand that she is a werewolf herself. No wonder she is so hell-bent in finding a cure!
Just as she meets after several years her long lost love, NIck, her compound is blown to bits and she has to run for her life. Nick, now an FBI agent, acompanies her to Fairhaven, where her boss and other team members are located currently. Fairhaven is the place where suddenly a lot of people go missing, with no traces at all, except for some blood on the floor, so the Jagersucher team is searching for clues...
If you've read the previous two novels, you will be on very familiar grounds with this novel, as the stories sort of repeat themselves, for the series veterans there are no major surprises. But if you have never read the series, I recommend you pick it up, even starting from this book. Each book is standalone and you don't need to have read the previous ones. However for the sake of continuity in the storyline and to understand better the interaction between the people, I recommend you start from the first book, Blue Moon.
