Review: Moon Bayou by J.R. Rain & Rod Kierkegaard, Jr. (Samantha Moon Case Files #1)
Note: This ebook was provided by Curiosity Quills Press via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Samantha Moon is in New Orleans trying to find a young woman who has gone missing. Things get complicated when she finds out that a vampire faction has been searching for her. Add to that a pack of werewolves and a vampire that Sam has never met before yet claims to have been turned by her, and Sam wonders how much worse it could possibly get. Sent back to a time where slavery was legal and rumblings of a civil war were rampant, Sam finds herself unable to return to the twenty-first century and her family.
Moon Bayou is the first book in the Samantha Moon Case Files series from bestselling authors J.R. Rain and Rod Kierkegaard, Jr. The series is a spin-off of J.R. Rain's popular Vampire for Hire series which also has Samantha Moon as its lead character and is a series that I have on my to-be-read list. Samantha Moon is a vampire who just happens to be a private investigator and a former federal agent. She's also got two kids and a boyfriend who's a werewolf shifter. Her latest case takes her to New Orleans but everything quickly gets out of hand when she's sent back more than two centuries by the descendant of voodoo queen Marie Laveau. Now she has to figure out who's draining women of their blood and find a way back to where she belongs before she's left with no other choice but to wait more than two hundred years to do so.
This being my introduction to Samantha Moon and having no previous knowledge of the original series, it read pretty well, though, being the reader that I am, I would have preferred to have gone through all the earlier books just to have more background on Sam and how she came to be a vampire and a private investigator. The story itself was intriguing, especially because what started as one case about a missing young woman quickly escalated into one that was more difficult to solve, especially since Sam didn't have the advantages she did in the twenty-first century. Add to that being a vampire with needs of her own and Sam certainly faces challenges but meets them head-on. I love that she's such a strong heroine and one who makes no apologies for who she is and what she's capable of. Sam Moon is one kickass vampire PI.
J.R. Rain and Rod Kierkegaard, Jr. combined forces to come up with a refreshing take on vampires. Now, please take note that I have NOT read any of the books in the Vampire for Hire series so my opinion is based solely on Moon Bayou. I was far from bored while reading this and certainly enjoyed the interspersed historical tidbits in the story. This does end on a cliffhanger (damn you, evil cliffhangers!), so I'm going to be keeping an eye out for the sequel. I also read a preview of another Rain-Kierkegaard collaboration entitled The Dead Detective and am itching to read that as well. ^.^ With a well-paced story and quirky characters, Moon Bayou was a novel that merged the past and the present with lots of mystery and suspense to hold my attention all throughout and leaves you craving for the next one. Four stars! ♥
Date Read: 02 July 2015
Learn more about J.R. Rain here and Rod Kierkegaard, Jr. here.
Purchase Moon Bayou on Amazon.
Moon Bayou is the first book in the Samantha Moon Case Files series from bestselling authors J.R. Rain and Rod Kierkegaard, Jr. The series is a spin-off of J.R. Rain's popular Vampire for Hire series which also has Samantha Moon as its lead character and is a series that I have on my to-be-read list. Samantha Moon is a vampire who just happens to be a private investigator and a former federal agent. She's also got two kids and a boyfriend who's a werewolf shifter. Her latest case takes her to New Orleans but everything quickly gets out of hand when she's sent back more than two centuries by the descendant of voodoo queen Marie Laveau. Now she has to figure out who's draining women of their blood and find a way back to where she belongs before she's left with no other choice but to wait more than two hundred years to do so.
This being my introduction to Samantha Moon and having no previous knowledge of the original series, it read pretty well, though, being the reader that I am, I would have preferred to have gone through all the earlier books just to have more background on Sam and how she came to be a vampire and a private investigator. The story itself was intriguing, especially because what started as one case about a missing young woman quickly escalated into one that was more difficult to solve, especially since Sam didn't have the advantages she did in the twenty-first century. Add to that being a vampire with needs of her own and Sam certainly faces challenges but meets them head-on. I love that she's such a strong heroine and one who makes no apologies for who she is and what she's capable of. Sam Moon is one kickass vampire PI.
J.R. Rain and Rod Kierkegaard, Jr. combined forces to come up with a refreshing take on vampires. Now, please take note that I have NOT read any of the books in the Vampire for Hire series so my opinion is based solely on Moon Bayou. I was far from bored while reading this and certainly enjoyed the interspersed historical tidbits in the story. This does end on a cliffhanger (damn you, evil cliffhangers!), so I'm going to be keeping an eye out for the sequel. I also read a preview of another Rain-Kierkegaard collaboration entitled The Dead Detective and am itching to read that as well. ^.^ With a well-paced story and quirky characters, Moon Bayou was a novel that merged the past and the present with lots of mystery and suspense to hold my attention all throughout and leaves you craving for the next one. Four stars! ♥
Date Read: 02 July 2015
Learn more about J.R. Rain here and Rod Kierkegaard, Jr. here.
Purchase Moon Bayou on Amazon.
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