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Moonglow Darkest London Book 2 eBook Kristen Callihan

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Moonglow Darkest London Book 2 eBook Kristen Callihan

Daisy Ellis (older sister to Miranda from the first book) is finally free from her abusive arranged marriage. Deciding to let loose and have some fun at a friend's party, Daisy finds herself out back with a potential paramour when they stumble across two gruesome dead bodies. Victims of an animal attack? Before they can retreat, the attacker strikes them as well.

Ian Ranulf has a secret, one that could be revealed by the string of brutal murders across London. Trying to find the killer before that happens, Ian stumbles across the latest bloody scene. When he realizes that one victim (Daisy) is in fact not dead, he whisks her away before she can give the police a statement. Then begins a complex pairing full of secrets, danger and sizzling sexual tension.

I loved how Daisy and Ian both were instantly intrigued by one another, right up until they both realized who the other was, and the connection via Miranda. Then I loved how each really, really wished the other was someone else! Despite their best attempts, they are drawn to each other. Their banter is outstanding, and as they grow closer, their honesty and pain is also well written.

This story really expands on the mythology introduced in the first book. Several other supernaturals types are woven in to a complex and multi-layered world. The plot steadily builds to a dramatic conclusion, and then a secondary consequence that I sure didn't see coming. I look forward to seeing how it continues.

Two books in, and this is a new favorite series. I will have to resist mainlining the next several books.


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Moonglow Darkest London Book 2 eBook Kristen Callihan Reviews

I adore the blend of fantasy and romance that is Kristen Callihan's writing. Each of her stories is pure intoxicating poetry and Moonglow is no exception. As it weaves the intriguing mystery and fog of London around you, you don't realize just how attached you are becoming to feisty Daisy and charming Ian with his egotistic humor as they flirt and tease each other. Surrounded by all the other buffed up heroes of Callihan's works, Ian stands out being smooth, suave, and refreshingly lean and lithe (just the type I adore!) But rather than being just a standard romance, this blends fantasy deftly in with Ian being a werewolf, with the usual wrestling of control, and with Daisy discovering her own elemental powers (which shouldn't surprise anyone considering she's the elder sister of Miranda, the heroine of Firelight). Characters from Firelight do make appearances, but this can easily be read as a stand-alone. The only real complaint I had with this was in originality. This work borrowed a lot of details from Gail Carriger's Alexia Tarbotti Parasol Protectorate series. (Scottish werewolf clan with a Beta named Lyall, an Alpha named Conall, and another important figure named Maccon, and the SOS is very much akin to the BUR group from Gail Carriger's novels.) There were so many similarities, I started to wonder if there was a crossover planned. But aside from that, the romance between Ian and Daisy was wonderful. Every single minute of them subtext and overt coyly toying with each other brought a grin to my face, and I couldn’t get enough of them in scenes together. The prejudice they had to overcome with him knowing she was the sister-in-law of the blustery & powerful Lord Archer who hated him, to his behavior to her sister coloring her opinion of him, to their past with her coming from abusive relationship, to him being bereaved after the deaths of his wife and son, with the lingering threat of the killer hunting Daisy.
This time around Ian Ranulf is suffering some personal problems related to his penchant for red-haired woman, but when he happens upon the aftermath of a werewolf attack, Ian is going to discover that willowy red-heads can't hold a candle to feisty curvy blonds. And since the killer still has the lovely Daisy in his sights, Ian will do everything in his power to keep Daisy safe from the 'were' while also trying to keep the killer from exposing the existence of Ian's wolf-shifting race to the rest of the world.

Coming into MOONGLOW, I just couldn't imagine where Callihan was going to take her series. With the way that the background mystery of FIRELIGHT wrapped up there didn't seem to be threads hanging for a follow-on story just a character, Ian, who was such a cad in his efforts to keep Miranda and Archer apart. But then again I'd forgotten that Miranda has two sisters and apparently they are going to be the thread that connects the first three Darkest London books.

I really enjoyed MOONGLOW even though it is more standard PNR fare than Callihan's FIRELIGHT - that is if 'standard' can be stretched to include paranormal romance with a touch of suspense in a historical setting - since there isn't the same type of mystery surrounding Daisy and Ian as the intriguing one surrounding the masked Archer in the first book.

But what MOONGLOW does just as well, is the development of the two leads and the slow build of their relationship even as there is a strong initial attraction. The fact that Ian has such a core of pain and loneliness makes him really appealing and Daisy who is equally wary of attachments after her disastrous marriage - and who also bears emotional scars almost as deep as Ian's - is equally appealing. And as in the previous book, the banter between the starring pair is very entertaining.

I had a couple nits with the story that knocked MOONGLOW down just half a notch from FIRELIGHT Daisy's part of the family secret is handled oddly when it is revealed to us, the culmination of the mystery surrounding the werewolf serial killer is wrapped up a bit too quickly - I wanted a bigger battle and more emotion in the aftermath, and I'd have also like to have seen the emotional potential behind Daisy's fate near the end of the book milked for full impact.

But really my nits are minor, and MOONGLOW guaranteed a place for Callihan's books on my auto-buy list. I am really looking forward to the next story, WINTERBLAZE, to see if final sister Poppy can regain what she's lost and I am hoping that since Callihan has added some more paranormal elements to her Darkest London world that she isn't just planning just a trilogy for the three sisters - I can easily see the series going at least one more book past that since there are a few side characters that I wouldn't mind seeing more of.
Daisy Ellis (older sister to Miranda from the first book) is finally free from her abusive arranged marriage. Deciding to let loose and have some fun at a friend's party, Daisy finds herself out back with a potential paramour when they stumble across two gruesome dead bodies. Victims of an animal attack? Before they can retreat, the attacker strikes them as well.

Ian Ranulf has a secret, one that could be revealed by the string of brutal murders across London. Trying to find the killer before that happens, Ian stumbles across the latest bloody scene. When he realizes that one victim (Daisy) is in fact not dead, he whisks her away before she can give the police a statement. Then begins a complex pairing full of secrets, danger and sizzling sexual tension.

I loved how Daisy and Ian both were instantly intrigued by one another, right up until they both realized who the other was, and the connection via Miranda. Then I loved how each really, really wished the other was someone else! Despite their best attempts, they are drawn to each other. Their banter is outstanding, and as they grow closer, their honesty and pain is also well written.

This story really expands on the mythology introduced in the first book. Several other supernaturals types are woven in to a complex and multi-layered world. The plot steadily builds to a dramatic conclusion, and then a secondary consequence that I sure didn't see coming. I look forward to seeing how it continues.

Two books in, and this is a new favorite series. I will have to resist mainlining the next several books.