New Moon,  Lisa Kessler

Review from Jeannie Zelos book reviews

Genre:  Romance, sci-fi and fantasy

We've reaches the end and I'm always feeling conflicted when that happens. In part because I love a good series and its hard to say goodbye, but set against that is the feeling of satisfaction when the little clues throughout the series are finally wrapped up, when we know who was behind things and why, how it all worked out. 
With a good series we're left feeling hope for the future, that these people we've got to know so well are facing a time when they can finally relax, live a normal life, enjoy their friends and family. Still, I love rereading series so from me its not really Goodbye but See you later ;-)

The back to back reads through a whole series work best for me too, when each book is still fresh in my mind, so its easier to follow the story, recall which character fits in where. Sometimes after months and lots of other reads its hard to recall exactly who belongs with whom, and how they fit in the overall story.

I remember Sebastian from the first book, and he's changed. Or has he? Maybe its just my perception of him, as looking back the seeds of his discontent were clear even back then, but i just didn't see it. 
Its a great author who can turn around a character so the callous, murdering, immoral man we met becomes someone we love, who we want to have that HEA...but Lisa does it for Sebastian.
I found he was a terrific man, that he had been trying to put things right as much as he could for a long time, and with a father like his no wonder he grew up to be the man he was. Thank god for his mother's influence, its whats kept that core of humanity in him.
Sebastian and Isabelle don't have the best start, with her trying to kill him....well, until her wolf tells her she Just Can't Kill Him! That's a bit of an eye opener and changes everything. Isabelle is shocked. 

Its another fabulous adventure, when plans get made, and changed and remade all the time. Nero has really hit bottom in its actions here, kidnapping a child for Antonio Severino's cruel crusade, but it proves the catalyst for some unheard of co-operation. 
Things quickly change in the story as the plots unfold, and this final book brings in many of the characters we've met in the preceding books. It opens up the Packs even more than they have been. It was a struggle getting Lana accepted into the pack, as she was a jaguar shifter back in the early books but since then they've become more accepting, less Wolf only insular and that's given them an edge they needed for this final battle. 
They're not just a wolf pack now but have Jaguars, Psychics and humans among them and that's given them strength, and maybe what Fate intended, that supernaturals work together, find power in collectivety. 

I've enjoyed the series as a whole, and love this last book. Looking back to some of the books that weren't quite top whack I can see the gaps that bothered me back then filled in now and I understand why things played out certain ways. 
Despite not all the books being five star reads for me, the series as a whole deserves a solid five stars, it all adds up now.  

Stars: five,a great read to finish a fantastic series

ARC supplied for review purposes by Netgalley and Publishers

Finally we get Sebastian’s story. Sebastian has been the jaguar villain at times (mostly) and has been hated by the pack since the beginning. But over the course of the books, Sebastian’s loyalty to Nero, the real villain of this series, has been questioned and now even his father is suspicious. It’s certainly fitting that the last book in Kessler’s Moon series belongs to Sebastian-although I did have my questions of how he could become a good hero. I shouldn’t have worried because the author had that in the bag!

As in the previous book, Wolf Moon, the action begins in Sedona, Arizona with the wolf pack there. Isabelle, Raven’s sister, is still living there, even though her sister has moved with her mate, Luke, to join the Reno pack. She’s a bounty hunter and has good fighting skills. When she tries to kill Sebastian, the insta-love thing that werewolves are famous for, hits her hard. That had to be the fastest I’ve read for that to happen! Not a real spoiler, as it happens fast (and is mentioned in the blurb). As Sebastian is her enemy she isn’t going to tell him, and of course killing him is now off the table. It’s not about her loving him, it’s all about her inner wolf, and that wolf is enthralled by him. Her human side still hates him-at first-and of course she has what she thinks are good reasons. On Sebastian’s part, he is supposed to make the pack from Sedona attack the Reno Pack. His father, the leader of Nero, is a cruel man and driven by his madness. Sebastian has no intentions of going up against the Reno pack and he knows it’s going to culminate in either his death or his fathers.

And now that we get Sebastian’s side of the story, we get his thoughts, and his reasons for doing all that he did in the past as assassin for Nero. And most of all, his extreme hatred for his father. His father, head of Nero, was responsible for horrible experiments being performed on werewolves, whether it killed them or not. Nero has been the villain throughout the series, and now it’s time to take it down.

Laced with full tilt action and violence, this book also features the sensual romance between Sebastian and Isabelle. And no, it’s not non-stop sexy times and actually takes awhile to get there, which I can appreciate. Since they are on the brink of war with Nero throughout the book, the romance was needed to balance that. And of course, each of these books has featured a couple finding their mate, and this was no exception.

I’ve really enjoyed my time with the Reno wolf pack. It was fun catching up with the pack this time, even though it’s mostly under disturbing circumstances. Kessler has pulled out all the stops to give her readers an excellent ending to this series. And she succeeded admirably. Highly recommended to adult readers of paranormal romance, and urban fantasy fans might enjoy these books as well. Although these are billed as standalone, I would read them in order as the story does progress from one book to the next. Just my opinion anyway.

I received a copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review.

This is the first in the series for me and I sorta wish I had read the first 7 to have a better understanding of what was going on. 

Sebastian is Nero's best assassin. He does what he has to and no one knows the secrets he's keeping. He doesn't openly defy his father, but he does make it very difficult for him. 

Isabelle is a PI and bounty hunter. She's used to going up against the bad guy and getting what she wants. However facing off with Nero to find out what happened to her father isn't going to be as easy as she thinks. When her wolf makes a decision that takes her choices from her....it's going to be a long ride for these two shifters. 

Kidnappings, killings, plans for revenge, finding family, and so so so much more. It was quite a great book and I couldn't put it down.