Book Review - New Moon by Rebecca York

Ms. York's Werewolf series has managed to grab me from the very first book and although I've had New Moon on my to be read shelf for some time I hadn't had the chance to pick it up until recently. Between moving house and my own writing things have been more or less hectic.

However I'm very glad I managed to find the time to pick the book up and escape once more into the fabulous world she has created.

The Marshall clan, which appears throughout the Moon series, is a family of werewolves. Unfortunately all the males are Alpha werewolves which can make working together very difficult indeed. Normally they are able to attempt their first shift around puberty and many have died during that first shift. The females until recently, have either died at birth or during their early years. This changed in the first book of the Moon series due to one of the men mating a woman who is also a geneticist. Each of the women this generation of Marshall clan has become involved with, has proven to have some level of psychic ability which has helped to bind the clan together, along with the research of one of the women to find a way to help the female children survive and reduce the odds of the male children dying during their first change.

As all the males are Alpha's when the family meets it can be a strain as each man is suddenly vying for dominance amongst the group, and it takes the strength of the women to prevent all out fights from breaking out.

In New Moon we're introduced, fully, to Logan Marshall, a landscape architect who like the other adult males of his family is able to change into a werewolf. During a job in wolf form he stumbles into a trap that almost claims his life. Much like a normal bear trap, from the description in the book, this also has a psychic addition to it, which leaves him drained and unable to focus enough to change, that is until a female wolf stumbles upon him.

Before his pain filled gaze the wolf shifts into the form of an attractive, and very naked young woman. Logan half assumes, due to the pain, that he's seeing things but with her aid he is pulled from the trap. Unfortunately the trouble has only just begun for Logan. Rinna isn't from earth, but from a parallel dimension where things have taken a turn for the strange in the last few generations. In an effort to keep him safe and help him heal Rinna pulls Logan back with her through to her world and launches him into a battle for freedom, love and his own sanity at times.

Ms. York skillfully handles a love story that combines some horrifying story elements as Rinna attempts to overcome, through Logan's patient help, a past that has left her fearful of the touch of men. She creates in Logan a strong, brusque, arrogant, yet sensitive Alpha male that touches the hearts of women, and an independent, focused warrior woman, with a terrible past and gentle heart that has been forced into hiding for most of her life.

I strongly recommend Ms. York's New Moon to readers of paranormal romances, if you enjoy the works of Angela Knight you'll certainly enjoy Ms. York's novels. I give this book a resounding five star review and I'll be on the look out for the next of her works.

Author - Ruth Glick writing as Rebecca York

ISBN 13: 978-0-425-21602-6