Tracy’s review of Moon Burning
On a mission to save her people from extinction, Sabrine pretends she has no memory in order to gain access to her enemies: the Donegal clan. A raven shifter, she is determined to retrieve the sacred stone that rightfully belongs to her people. But soon she’ll be engulfed in her burning desire and growing love for the Donegal laird who believes he saved her-and the dangerous and inescapable secrets destined to keep them apart.
Sabrine, a raven shifter, is on a mission. She needs to infiltrate the Donegal clan to retrieve a sacred stone and get it back to the cave where it normally resides before her younger brother goes through his coming of age ceremony. If she doesn’t get it back in time he may not be able to fully realize his shifter gifts and powers. So Sabrine heads to the Donegal lands, where she thinks the stone is hidden, but before she can decide exactly how she’ll get in to look around she is shot out of the sky with an arrow.
She is found by the acting Laird, Barr. Barr was sent from the Sinclair clan to train and teach the young man Circin how to be a good Laird, and a good warrior and protector of his people. But Barr’s thoughts go a bit haywire when he meets Sabrine. He knows almost from the moment he catches her scent that she will be his mate but Sabrine is stubborn and keeps denying what she knows to be true. She fears Barr’s wolf as the wolves have destroyed the avian shifters little by little over the years.
Besides the stubbornness of Sabrine, Barr has his hands full with a distrustful clan due to bad leadership in the past. The problem is, that the previous leader didn’t die off he was asked to step down and the man who was asked is not happy at all. He’s got a score to settle and he’s not afraid to use any and all means to reach the end result that will make him Laird once again.
I thought this was another good addition to the Children of the Moon series. I loved seeing the shifters in all of their varied forms and I thought the author, once again, was quite creative in giving us yet another clan to get to know.
That being said I did have a bit of a problem with Sabrine and Barr. Not that I didn’t think they weren’t perfect for each other but I didn’t truly feel the bond that I think I was supposed to be feeling. Sabrine’s stubborn attitude tended to get on my nerves a bit even though I understood her reluctance to trust a clan of people who had been her enemies for her entire life. Barr was nothing but wonderful to her from the word go however, and I felt bad for the guy when his mate just wouldn’t give him the trust he deserved.
We met bird shifters in this book and there’s a bit of a surprise with Sabrine’s brother at the end of this book. I’m hoping we get to know more about that in future books.
In the end Lucy Monroe gave me another entertaining read that I couldn’t quite make myself put down once I started reading. I can’t wait for the next book in this series.
Rating: 4 out of 5
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