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Alexandra Sokoloff has blown me away, with her Huntress/FBI Thriller Series. Huntress Moon, Book I (see my review here) continues through Blood Moon, Book II (see my review here) and I am unable to stop reading. It’s like Lays Potato Chips…you can’t eat just one. Well, I couldn’t read just one. I went through Book II, III and IV on a binge read. And…I see there is a Book V, Hunger Moon, and I aim to get my hands on that one too.
The covers are awesome and kudos to the designers. Cold Moon is done by…
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MY REVIEW
After reading Blood Moon, Book II, by Alexandra Sokoloff, there was no way I could stop. I kept on reading through Cold Moon and Bitter Moon. Now I see we have Hunger Moon, which would be Book V, and I will jump through hoops to get my hands on it.
The moon talks to Cara. Does it talk to you? What does it say?
We begin with Roarke’s nightmare, waking him. Cara…
She faces her own terror in the night, but vows IT will never take her.
“Fair as the moon and cold as ice.”
Roark’s team functions like a well oiled machine, even when personalities occasionally clash and opinions differ. They always get their ‘man’.
Cold Moon takes an even closer look into the depraved, the abused, the lost and those who care about them. Human trafficking of women and children, enslaved in prostitution, bought and sold, used and abused. Who will stand up for them, defend them, save them?
How can an online presence affect people, politics, legalities, courts…The anonymity of cyber activism.
I do not want to spoil any of the goodies contained in Cold Moon, the third book of Cara and Roarke’s story, so I will just throw out some hints and ask you…what would you do?
Evil…can you see it, smell it, touch it, feel it? Is it alive? Do you do something about it yourself?
Is it self defense, if you know evil is coming your way, and you take it out first?
My emotions are raging in anger and disgust. I know this goes on, day in and day out, and I wonder if those who, in real life, try to stem the flow of evil feel it is too big, there are too many. One by one they WILL fall.
“There is something larger at work…a force beyond the simply human. A female vengeance against outrages.” Santa Muerte
“Sometimes death for one is salvation for another.”
I love the dark and dangerous, unique and original, direction Alexandrar Sokoloff takes in this story. I am afraid to google some of the online forums she talks about. I am afraid of what I will find out. Will evil know I am looking and come for me? She continues to thrill and amaze me, disgust and frighten me, leaving me ALWAYS wanting more.
I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of Cold Moon by Alexandra Sokoloff.
5 Stars
GOODREADS BLURB
The hunt for mass murderer Cara Lindstrom is over. FBI Special Agent Matthew Roarke has been working for this moment: the capture of a killer who savagely hunts the worst of humanity. But Roarke remains traumatized by his own near-death at the hands of the serial killer who slaughtered Cara’s family…and haunted by the enigmatic woman who saved his life.
Then the sixteen-year-old prostitute who witnessed Cara’s most recent murder goes missing, and suddenly pimps are turning up dead on the streets of San Francisco, killed with an MO eerily similar to Cara’s handiwork.
Is a new killer on the loose with a mission even more deadly than hers? In the pulse-pounding third Huntress/FBI Thrillers book, Roarke will have to go on the hunt…and every woman he meets, even those closest to him, may prove deadly.
ABOUT ALEXANDRA SOKOLOFF
I’m the Thriller Award-winning and Bram Stoker and Anthony Award-nominated author of the Amazon bestselling crime and supernatural thrillers The Harrowing, The Price, Book of Shadows, The Unseen, The Space Between, and the new Thriller Award- nominated Huntress/FBI thriller series: Huntress Moon, Blood Moon, Cold Moon. Bitter Moon, Hunger Moon. The New York Times Book Review has called me “a daughter of Mary Shelley” and my novels “some of the most original and freshly unnerving work in the genre.”
I’m a California native and a graduate of U.C. Berkeley, where I majored in theater and minored in everything that Berkeley has a reputation for. After college I moved to Los Angeles, where I’ve made an interesting living doing novel adaptations and selling original thriller scripts to various Hollywood studios.
In my stories I like to cross the possibility of the supernatural with very real life explanations for any strangeness going on, and base the action squarely in fact. THE UNSEEN is based on real paranormal research conducted at the Duke University parapsychology lab, and BOOK OF SHADOWS teams a Boston homicide detective and a practicing Salem witch in a race to solve what may be a Satanic killing. THE SPACE BETWEEN, is an edgy supernatural YA about a troubled high school girl who is having dreams of a terrible massacre at her school, and becomes convinced that she can prevent the shooting if she can unravel the dream.
I also have written paranormal romance (THE SHIFTERS, KEEPER OF THE SHADOWS) and the non-fiction workbooks SCREENWRITING TRICKS FOR AUTHORS and WRITING LOVE, based on my internationally acclaimed workshops and blog (http://screenwritingtricks.com)
I live in Los Angeles and in Scotland, with Scottish crime author Craig Robertson.
When I’m not writing I dance: jazz, ballet, salsa, Lindy, swing – I do it all, every chance I get.
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Yep, this series is so you, Sherry! Glad your loving the books.
For sure. I am sooooo loving it! I want a happy ending for her, but I don’t see how that can happen.
Ok, I added Huntress Moon to my kindle through Prime, you sold me.
Glad to hear it. I think you will LOVE it, Kim.
Yeeeah. I’d be afraid of what I’d find on some of those forums. It sounds like this was one amazing read. <3
It sure was. I know authors do a lot of research to make their fiction read so real. I would be afraid they would follow me home. LOL
Ahh, it’s that addictive quality that really makes me want to read these.
I love it when I just can’t stop reading, one book flowing seamlessly into the other. I get lost in the characters world. Glad they appeal to you too.
Sherry, I just love your in-the-moment reviews! They always give me such a good sense of how the books are playing on the page.
I took some of the dialogue from those men’s forums directly from real life forums. It’s horrifying to see that there are men who really think/act like that. But it’s a percentage of repeat offenders who cause almost all of the problem. If we can focus on identifying and prosecuting those, as Roarke and his team are doing, we can eliminate SO much of the atrocity. I have to believe that there’s a will to do that.
Thanks so much for reading and spreading the word about the books.
– Alex
I get lost in your books like yours…that read so much like real life. I am always trying to get into the minds of men like this. I wonder, too, how much is nature or nurture. I will continue to spread the word!