REVIEWED BY CINDY
TITLE: Running Out of Moonlight
SERIES: Saint Lakes Book 2
AUTHOR: April Kelley
PUBLISHER: Self-pub
RELEASE DATE: February 10th, 2016
LENGTH: 186 pages
Blurb:
They thought finding each other would heal them both, but life in Saint Lakes doesn’t make it that simple.
Sage Rickman changed the day vampire’s kidnapped him and decided to use him as their plaything. Now that he’s back in Saint Lakes he should feel safe, right? Hallucinations and the constant paranoia made daily life impossible at times. Peace of mind is an elusive creature. Finding out he has a mate that’s feral scares the crap out of him. His mate, Garridan, needs him to be normal, but he doesn’t even know what that looks like anymore.
Review:
I want to start by saying I didn’t read book one in this series so I feel like I’m kind of jumping into the middle of the story but I think it really shouldn’t have mattered.
It has an interesting premise and everyone knows of my fondness for shifters and dragons and supernatural creatures of all sorts. Sage and Garridan are interesting characters that I really wanted to fall in love with and I did end up cheering them on for their happy ending but I did have some issues with this book.
Most of them have to do with poor editing. There are spelling mistakes and quite a few places where the tense changes from past to present sentence to sentence. And remember, spell-check really doesn’t check to see if you meant couch instead of cough.
There’s almost too many side characters in the story to keep track of and I would have liked to have seen a little more “father/son” time between Garridan and Bennett.
But the basic interesting story pulled me along to finish because I wanted to see Sage and Garridan growing and healing together and of course Sage touched my heart with his honest fear and the reactions he kept having to the people around him who meant him no harm but made him afraid anyway.
But this author really needs to invest in a better editor. I know I’m not the only person who gets distracted from a good story by things like spelling and grammar mistakes. It’s like trying to read in a car while driving over a bumpy gravel road. No matter how good the tale…you keep getting irritated and distracted by the ups and downs.
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