Moonlight: The Big Bad Wolf (Knights of Black Swan, book 4)
by Victoria Danann
My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars
The fourth installment in the Knights of Black Swan (Order of the Black Swan) series by +Victoria Danann is Moonlight and it focuses mostly on Stalkson Gray, the werewolf alpha and his pack from Elk Mountain that was having issues with too few females.
We see a little of Bakka and Heaven in this book, and Storm and Lithia are in this one a great deal because of Lithia's pregnancy and also the desire of the Order to try to work with her father, Deliverance. Ram, Elora and Helm have moved back into Jefferson to try to keep Elora safe after the failed attempt on her life in the last book. Glen is also featured a little more in this book.
The Order learns more about the other worlds in this book, especially when they work with Deliverance to help the Elk Mountain pack decide what to do to protect their future. The also learn more about Vampirism, and the fact that what they have encountered in their world, the diseased form that they finally found the cure for, is not the only kind and in fact it has completely different look in other worlds.
Lithia and Elora are able to bond and talk to each other throughout this book more, especially now that Elora has given birth to Helm and Lithia is pregnant. The uneasiness that Lithia used to feel towards Elora because of Storm's involvement with her before Lithia, is slowly being replaced with a shared experience and friendship that only two woman who have went through the same things can have.
Slowly things are changing in the Order , as Sol is getting married and planning to step down in two years, so he is preparing to train his replacement. He would like it to be one of the members of B Company, but they have their own person in mind to recommend for the job and hope that they can get Sol to see their point of view.
Once again we have many layers and areas of story going on at the same time, yet they all mingle together into a real-life story. Once again you find yourself liking characters and wanting things to go their way. Even Deliverance is found to have a few redeeming qualities!
The Knights of Black Swan VAMPIRE HUNTERS reading in order strongly recommended:
1.My Familiar Stranger (Black Swan 1) My Review
2.The Witch's Dream (Black Swan 2) My Review
3.A Summoner's Tale (Black Swan 3) My Review
4.Moonlight(Black Swan 4) My Review
5.Gathering Storm (Black Swan 5)
6.A Tale of Two Kingdoms (Black Swan 6)
7.Solomon's Sieve (Black Swan 7)
8.Prince of Demons (Black Swan Novel)
9.Vampire Hunter (Black Swan 8)
10.Journey Man (Black Swan 9)
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The Witch's Dream (Order of the Black Swan, Book Two)
by Victoria Danann
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
After getting book one, from free on Amazon, I found that if I signed up for the authors, +Victoria Danann newsletter I could get book two for free, and since I was already hooked after reading book one, I had to sign up and get book two!!
The Witch's Dream starts off within a few weeks of the end of book one. This is definitely a read in order series, in fact I would say it is more like each book is a part of a whole larger novel, so you can read the second set of chapters without reading the first. There is a review at the front, but that is just enough to refresh your memory between book publications really. Just my take on the series, as an avid reader.
Elora and Ram are at his brother's place to do what the elves call hand-fasting, which is their marriage ceremony. Everyone will be there, then they are all going to Edinburgh to work with Bakka for a bit on his new Vampire project.
This book gives you more details about Black Swan, because this time we are in Edinburgh, and so we learn more about this area of the world. We also get to learn a little more about Ram's family and we Kay's sister's. This book does focus more on Lithia and Storm, because they are off on one mission, and then Ram, Elora and Bakka are on another. We learn about Storm's requirement into Black Swan and his past, what Lithia knows of hers, and then later even more of her past. Again, there are many layers of story going on at the same time, yet they all weave together perfectly to create a perfect picture.
The whole scope of Black Swan is changing at this point because of Elora's arrival into this world, her unique blood and the perfection of the vampire cure. At the same time, the men of B-Company have been together for a long time, but they are finally finding the women that complete them and deciding that maybe the life of a Knight is done for them and it's time to retire. The question is can one ever really retire from something like the Black Swans?
This book is hard to review because anything I say can spoil book one for someone who has not read it, and yet if you are reading a review of book two, shouldn't I assume you have read book one? Not really, so I try to be vague, but vague just does not work in this book!!
Each book is dependent on the one before it - I said this before, I look at this series more like each book being a set of chapters in a large novel and when finished the complete series will make one large novel. If you look at it that way, then reading them in order and understanding that everything ties together is easier.
The thing is we have the same main characters in this book - B Company - Storm, Ram, Kay, Elora, of course Monq, the directors Sol and Simon, and Bakka. Now we add in some new characters in this book, learn more about each of the previous characters and the story grows. The situations are changing fast, things not thought possible are happening with lightening spend, and yet they are all still rolling with the punches and doing the best they can.
It's just a captivating story. You are pulled in to the point that you are laughing with one couple, crying with another, mad at one person, rooting for another, wanting to punch one and so on. They become part of your world and your life, you feel like you actually know these characters, and that is what a truly good book and a truly good author does. They make you part of the story.
The Knights of Black Swan VAMPIRE HUNTERS reading in order strongly recommended:
1.My Familiar Stranger (Black Swan 1) My Review
2.The Witch's Dream (Black Swan 2) My Review
3.A Summoner's Tale (Black Swan 3) My Review
4.Moonlight(Black Swan 4) My Review
5.Gathering Storm (Black Swan 5)
6.A Tale of Two Kingdoms (Black Swan 6)
7.Solomon's Sieve (Black Swan 7)
8.Prince of Demons (Black Swan Novel)
9.Vampire Hunter (Black Swan 8)
10.Journey Man (Black Swan 9)
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