Good but could be better
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I did enjoy this book and it was different and the writing was of a very good quality but I have read other works by the same author and I was looking for more.
I found this book by chance and it is a perfect book for when there is nothing on the TV. A nice couple of hours with this book and some Diet Coke.
But the tension is a bit light at parts and if you put down the book you won't be dying to find out what happens next.
But saying that the story is realist, you could see of it happening and the non-roaring at the moon does fit in.
I will read the other books in the series.
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A reasonable werewolf/crime book but lacking that special something
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"Killing Moon" is the first book I've read by Rebecca York and it was OK - but only really that. She takes the common werewolf theme and adds her own twist to it, which I liked, but somehow there didn't seem to be enough meat in this book to make it really gripping.
Warning - spoilers below!
Megan Sheridan is a researcher in a biotech company who has her own specific project that she's working on but she keeps getting other basic work handed on to her by her boss. One such job is to take a blood test from a guy to do a genetic test on him. When she arrives at the home of Ross Marshall she finds him laying naked in his lounge and mostly unconscious. Upon further investigation (wouldn't you?!!) she discovers he has a fever and has been shot. She instantly turns from medical research worker to nurse and looks after him, despite him telling her to bog off. Interesting character switch for her there!
Ross is a werewolf. We learn a little about the werewolf situation in this book which isn't traditional (unrelated to the moon - despite the book's title! - but passed down genetically although with very tragic results in most cases). Ross is a Private Eye and he seems to be very successful in detecting serial killers, passing on the information to policeman Jack Thornton - although it's not really explained how he actually finds all these leads (I am unsure how helpful being able to turn into a wolf would be in these situations). Anyway, Ross has identified Donald Arnott as a killer who has bodies in his garden and was shot on the way back from checking the scene out.
Our story is told through four points of view - Megan, Ross, policeman Jack Thornton and Donald Arnott the serial killer. The tension builds slowly throughout the story - will Arnott kill again, who is trying to hurt Megan, why are there problems at the biotech lab - but it never really grips completely. Most of the story seems to be Megan slowly realising that her lover is a werewolf; this part of the story is done quite well - she doesn't instantly accommodate to this rather bizarre piece of information but it seeps in over some time. Still, we are told that their relationship has been caused pretty much by Ross's hormones and it isn't apparent what else the two of them have together that could make it work out. Plus she doesn't seem very good at keeping secrets at all, and Ross is, necessarily, a secretive chappie.
As often in fiction, magically at the end of the book, despite not having done much work, she makes a breakthrough in her biotech work which sets her up financially for life. This kind of thing is so rare in real life it always seems rather cheating for it to happen in fiction - and in this case unnecessary as Megan's future is pretty sorted anyway.
So overall, did I like it? Well, it was OK. The writing was OK. The worldbuilding for the werewolves was OK. The plot was OK. The resolution was OK. I think you've got the picture.
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