Midnight Moon by Lori Handeland

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	• Midnight Moon (A Nightcreature Novel, Book 5) Lori Handeland St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2006 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 14 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

great

I thought it was one of the best in the Nightcreature Series so far. Handeland continues the series with Cassandra (whom we met in the previous novel--i.e. voodoo priestess) who is on a mission in Haiti to find a voodoo priest reputed to be able to raise the dead. Apparently, it is an art the society wants to know how to do to remove the curse (also from previous novel). Although, Cassandra has her own reasons for wanting to raise the dead. Apparently, Cassandra is in the witness protection and had lost her young daughter through a horrible situation from her past. Still grieving, all she can think of is having a way, a chance, to bring her back. Cassandra's past unfolds slowly as the novel and its mysteries also unfold.

I was completely engrossed in the storyline throughout this entire novel. I simply could not put it down. Handeland outdid herself with this one.

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Jager-Suchers Rule!

Voodoo Priestess Cassandra has a ton of secrets, but her main desire is to raise her daughter from the dead. And where better to learn the secrets of the dark arts than Haiti, and an evil Bukor, Mezareau. Led into the mountains by a secretive, sexy and mysterious guide Murphy, who wears beads and feathers in his hair, Cassandra realizes and finds more than she bargained for. Finding romance, lots of mystery, and a few zombies, Cassandra struggles to find the answer to how to remove a curse from a fellow friend/Jager-Sucher, and resurrect her daughter. If you are a lover of the series, Handleland will not disappoint. And you will even get to see some of your other favorite characters in the series, Elise, Edward, Diana and more. It was an enjoyable read that took me only two days. Get it and read up!

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So So

I found book five of the series to be slightly disappointing. It was still a good read but lacked the werewolf edged passion I have come to expect from Ms. Handeland.

Cool but Disappointing

I'd read Handeland's other Moon books and enjoyed them, but I was let down with 'Midnight Moon.' I really liked Cassandra in the previous novel, 'Crescent Moon,' but Ms. Handeland made Cassandra into a thing where, if you toss a bit of sex her way, she forgets all else.

That's all there really is to her story: she meets 'mysterious bad boy thief' Devon Murphy in Haiti while looking for a way to raise her daughter from the dead, they talk, get shot at, meet a voodoo master, have sex, learn new things about shapeshifters, have sex, more sex, and Cassandra has to go back home to New Orleans but he meets up with her there for some more sex. That's it. The only saving grace in the story is the rich details of Haiti and voodoo, but it comes in small pinches. I'm all for sex but it could have been so much more magical if 'sex' didn't equal 'love' in this book.

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Midnight Moon by Lori Handeland

I have read all five of the Lori Handeland MOON series. I hope she writes more, these are some of the best paranormal books I have ever read. Highly recommended

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Under the midnight moon, dark secrets are revealed?Cassandra thought she had the perfect life until she suffered a devastating tragedy. Now she has a new identity as Priestess Cassandra, owner of a New Orleans voodoo shop, and a new purpose. A research trip for a paranormal secret society leads Cassandra to Haiti, where rumors fly of a sinister voodoo master, Jacques Mezareau, who can resurrect the dead. Fortune hunter Devon Murphy agrees to guide Cassandra there safely, but his sensual appeal promises danger of a different kind?

and desperate hungers must be satisfied?
As Cassandra and Devon make their way to the eerie jungle village, their attraction explodes into an intoxicating desire, and Cassandra begins to question her resolve to never let another man into her life. Her attempts to resist Devon become more and more impossible. But when she succeeds in learning Jacques?s macabre ritual, her new powers may have come with a terrifying price. Now, haunted by violent dreams that grow more vivid as the midnight moon approaches, Cassandra must uncover the shocking truth about an ancient curse before it leads her to destroy herself?and everyone she loves?

?Elise is Handeland?s most appealing heroine yet?this tense, banter-filled tale provides?solid entertainment.?
?Publishers Weekly on Dark Moon

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