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Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Book Review: Hunger Moon (The Huntress/FBI Thrillers #5) by Alexandra Sokoloff

Hunger Moon (The Huntress/FBI Thrillers, #5)
Title: Hunger Moon (The Huntress/FBI Thrillers #5)

Author: Alexandra Sokoloff 

Stars: 21/2 stars out of 5

Review:
This is the first book I have read by Alexandra Sokoloff  If this is any example of her other series I will not be picking it up. Hunger Moon is nothing more than a  political commentary on the current president and the sexual abusive that comes from power men. (This is a book review not a debate)

The authors writing style was jagged jumping from character to character with very little transition causing me to wonder who was doing what the entire book.  Book 1 or book 5 I always enjoy an author taking the time to update readers.   Alexandra Sokoloff  was unable to truly update readers without confusing them due to the excessively large amount of characters in the book.
The story didn't flow but felt as if she wrote parts separate and than threw them all together in hopes the work worked.
 The political commentary was heavy handed and almost unnecessary.  I found both sides of the law lacking anyone who was redeeming characters. The world is filled with enough hate this story seem to keep that hate moving forward.
Thank you to netgalley and the publisher for the advance copy Thomas & Mercer

Synopsis:
Special Agent Matthew Roarke has abandoned his rogue search for serial killer Cara Lindstrom. He’s returned to the FBI to head a task force with one mission: to rid society of its worst predators. But as the skeletal symbols of Santa Muerte, “Lady Death,” mysteriously appear at universities nationwide, threatening death to rapists, Roarke’s team is pressured to investigate. When a frat boy goes missing in Santa Barbara, Roarke realizes a bloodbath is coming—desperate teenagers are about to mete out personal, cold-blooded justice.
Hiding from the law, avenging angel Cara Lindstrom is on her own ruthless quest. She plans to stay as far away from Roarke as possible—until an old enemy comes after both her and the FBI, forcing her back into Roarke’s orbit. This time, the huntress has become the hunted . 
Kindle Edition366 pages
Expected publication: October 24th 2017 by Thomas & Mercer
About The Author:
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 MoonBlood MoonCold MoonBitter MoonHunger 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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