Review: Blood Moon by Alexandra Sokoloff (Huntress/FBI #2)


Note: This ebook was provided by Thomas & Mercer via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

The pain and pills have kept her deadened, have dulled the whispers of the moon. But the pain is receding and the next moon is growing, and it is talking to her. 
At the beginning of her dark journey, and old Native American man had taught her that every moon has a name. This month is Blood Moon. 
She will listen and wait for the signs.

FBI Special Agent Matthew Roarke is still searching for Cara Lindstrom--his huntress--the only living witness to the massacre of her family at the hands of the Reaper and now one of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's most wanted. He's keeping an eye out for her, for personal and professional reasons, but she's also keeping eye on him, both of them still tethered to one another. The last he saw of her was after he saved her after being shot by members of a Mexican human slavery ring. When new massacres begin to crop up and evidence points to a familiar foe that has yet to be caught, Roarke wonders if the only way to put a stop to the Reaper is to seek the help of the sole survivor of his first round of rampage...Cara.

As soon as I finished reading Huntress Moon, I immediately knew I had to start Blood Moon, book two in the Huntress/FBI series by Alexandra Sokoloff, because, come on, that ending from book one was just egging me on to find out what was going to happen next with Matthew Roarke and Cara Lindstrom. You've got one of the FBI's best agents pitted against one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, but Roarke's focus is clouded by his feelings for Cara and the fact that he's able to somehow justify what she's been doing due to who she's been targeting. The conflict within him is a constant and the agent closest to him, Damian Epps, and his mentor, Chuck Snyder, can more than sense it. Roarke is also more vulnerable in this sequel, which helps humanize him even more and made me see him as more of Cara's ally than his adversary.

As for Cara, there's something about her that you can't help but sympathize with. Everything she went through as an orphaned child and what she had to endure while in foster care has made her into the person she is. Of course, that's no excuse for her crimes because not everyone who has experienced what she has turns out to be a serial killer. But I do understand her evolution from victim to survivor to vigilante and I get why Roarke felt the way that he did toward her, even though it went against his instincts as a federal agent and member of law enforcement. She and Roarke are similar in many ways, including how she knows it's job to hunt her down yet she can't help but trail him, putting herself in such close proximity to him, knowing full well that it's possible that he could spot her and be forced to arrest her.

Aside from the manhunt (ironic much?) for Cara, Roarke and his team also find themselves being thrust into putting a stop to the Reaper, the very same perpetrator who massacred Cara's family twenty-five years prior. I loved how the case that changed both Cara's and Roarke's lives becomes more than a mere back story for the cat and mouse game that's happening between them now. I couldn't get enough of the first book and the same holds true for this second book, especially with both of them ending in cliffhangers of sorts. There's a lot of tension and mystery here and I enjoyed how it wasn't a repeat of what happened before, thanks to the addition of the Reaper case. I've always been a fan of books in this genre and now I'm also a fan of author Alexandra Sokoloff's. I'm giving Blood Moon a five-plus star rating. ♥

Date Read: 25-26 May 2015

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