Rating: Five stars
Genre: Fantasy, Paranormal, New Adult, Humour
Available from:
https://www.amazon.com/Moon-Tortured-Sky-Brooks-Book-ebook
Synopsis
Death should be the end of your life— not the beginning.
Sky Brooks’s life started with a death—her own. Sky’s spent the first twenty-three years of her life unaware of this, among other things. She always thought she was just a shapeshifter until she wakes up in a strange house in rural Illinois—battered, bruised, and with only vague memories of her mother’s death at the hands of vampires.
At the request of a powerful witch, Sky is put under the protection of the Midwest Pack. But she isn’t sure she can trust them, especially after she meets the dangerously sexy Ethan, a pack member, who’s known for being more ruthless than altruistic. After she’s attacked by a necromancer, a mercenary, and the vampires who killed her mother, she has no choice but to accept the pack’s help.
The Midwest Pack aren’t quite what they seem—but then again, neither is Sky. As they form an uneasy alliance to search for the reason behind the vampires’ vicious attacks, it becomes clear that Sky possesses magic no one has ever seen—and it all started with what happened at her birth.
Review
Synopsis
Death should be the end of your life— not the beginning.
Sky Brooks’s life started with a death—her own. Sky’s spent the first twenty-three years of her life unaware of this, among other things. She always thought she was just a shapeshifter until she wakes up in a strange house in rural Illinois—battered, bruised, and with only vague memories of her mother’s death at the hands of vampires.
At the request of a powerful witch, Sky is put under the protection of the Midwest Pack. But she isn’t sure she can trust them, especially after she meets the dangerously sexy Ethan, a pack member, who’s known for being more ruthless than altruistic. After she’s attacked by a necromancer, a mercenary, and the vampires who killed her mother, she has no choice but to accept the pack’s help.
The Midwest Pack aren’t quite what they seem—but then again, neither is Sky. As they form an uneasy alliance to search for the reason behind the vampires’ vicious attacks, it becomes clear that Sky possesses magic no one has ever seen—and it all started with what happened at her birth.
Review
Meet Skylar, a beautiful and peacefully innocent young woman, in a beautifully peaceful and innocent life. She loves her adopted mother, she loves her boring little world, and if she’s a bit snarky it can be forgiven because, after all, her birth mother was a witch and the book launches off almost immediately with her beloved adopted mother being murdered by brutal vampires. Oh, and she herself is possessed by a spirit shade (the only means by which her hexy birth mother was able to save her life while dying in utero). Into this collision of worlds comes a pack of werewolves, a scheming necromancer, and of course a dark but unbrooding potential love triangle between Skylar and the brothers Josh & Ethan. As you follow along with Sky’s discovery of her true identity, powers, and the world into which she’s been plunged, what’s left to miss with such a set of dynamics?
The answer is, surprisingly, very little! With a cast of solidly dark, cynically antiheroic characters and a heroine brimming with angst and sexual tension but too strong a personality to just tip over at the typical cues or temptations of the genre, McKenzie Hunter’s first book in the Sky Brooks Series is a fantastic read. The origin stories and character development are creative, the interplay of fantasy with realism keeps things grounded and believable (there aren’t any “oh come ON” beggar-belief moments to exasperate the reader), and the plot hinges on scenes of intense action with deeply emotional internal development for Skylar rather than on her potential love triangle. With a powerful female lead who refuses to be controlled by anyone, enemy or ally, and instead forges her own path and her own band of friends in a supernaturally shady world just to the left of our normal Starbucks and sunshine reality, Moon Tortured reads more akin to Buffy than Twilight, without feeling copied or tired in any way. This book is excellent, and will leave you very happy that there’s a series following it!
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