New Moon: Rebecca York
By: Elizabeth Headrick | 03.06.07 | Paranormal & Urban Fantasy: Romance | Permalink | Digg this! | Save to del.icio.us
Werewolves have been part of human mythology for millenia, going all the way back to ancient Greece. Though the stories vary in their details the basic idea is always the same: a human transforms into a wolf under the influence of the full moon. Rebecca York takes this idea and ties it into the men of the Marshall family. All of the men are born to become werewolves, thanks to an ancient Celtic ancestor who requested assistance from a god and cursed his family in the process. New Moon is the newest in York's werewolf series and details the story of Logan Marshall and the horrors he faces as he learns to accept his true nature.
Logan is on a moonlight run through Maryland forest when he's caught in a steel-jaw animal trap. The trap is specifically designed to catch shapeshifters but Logan isn't the one the trap was intended to catch. As he lays on the ground, poisoned and bleeding in wolf form he comes face-to-face with something he thought didn't exist, a female werewolf. As she frees him from the trap they are approached by soldiers, men not from this dimension. To save Logan's life the woman takes him through a portal into her dimension and hides him. Logan finds himself entrenched in a war that is not his but he stays when he feels himself being drawn to the mysterious shapeshifter, someone who can truly understand him and what he is. Will he be able to build a life with her, knowing that they are truly from different dimensions and can they be happy this way?
As with her other werewolf novels Rebecca York does something truly amazing; she takes a fascinating legend and makes it utterly boring. As with her other male leads Logan is one dimensional and very cookie cutter. I can't even begin to connect with her characters and the love scenes make me shudder (and not in a good way). I cannot in good faith recommend this book to anyone.
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Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Berkley (March 6, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0425216020
ISBN-13: 978-0425216026
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