Review: Moon Dance by J.R. Rain
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD
This book has an interesting concept. I like the whole idea of a Vampire investigator and how she deals with daily life. However, I didn’t like the heroine’s constant fixation on every man. She focused on a 67 year old man, a bartender, and her client. All of them were handsome, one with juicy lips and the like. Her marriage was a disaster, but I would have liked to have seen her stand up to her husband a bit more. She’s a private investigator and can’t figure out a way around his threats? She can find out who shot a werewolf in broad daylight but not how to crush her husband’s plan to destroy her if she didn’t fall in line with his wishes? That didn’t make sense to me.
The author has really great storytelling ability, and I never lost interest in the book. I was just a bit baffled at the heroine’s actions. She commits illegal actions for her client but won’t do the same for her children. Not to mention, she knows her husband is cheating on her long before he ends the marriage and does nothing. She could have gained proof of adultery and so many other things that would have threatened her husband’s cushy little world. Perhaps she will in later books, and I’m willing to give the second book a shot to find out.
A minor irk was the amount of emphasis placed on the sun’s damaging effects to the heroine. After the first couple of times (the first of which was hilarious), it became repetitive as the readers were aware of the sun’s ability to harm a vampire and didn’t need to be told repetitively.
There is one particularly sharp scene in the book where the heroine is about to be attacked. The author wrote that scene perfectly even the decision she makes afterwards. I would have liked to have seen her use those butt-kicking skills to help her children.
Again, I’m more than willing to give the second book in this series a shot because the author is a solid writer with a unique way of telling a story. She certainly did discover a void in the vampire community and filled it well. I hope the additional books answer some of the questions and put more emphasis on the heroine’s determination to be reunited with her children.
