Book Review: Dark Side of the Moon - by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Synopsis: Dark Side of the Moon is #14 in the Dark-Hunters series by Sherrilyn Kenyon. We get a new setting this time, Seattle, where a Dark-Hunter named Ravyn hooks up with a human reporter. Ravyn is no ordinary Dark-Hunter, though. He is actually a Were-Hunter who became a Dark-Hunter about 500 years ago when his family turned on him. Susan is a washed-up journalist trying to scrape up the shreds of her tattered career after being publicly discredited and ruined by a set-up in her past. Now she's working for a tabloid rag just to make ends meet. She picks up Ravyn, who is stuck in cat-form, from her local vet's office and hyjinks ensue. Come to find out, Ravyn and the other Seattle-area D-H's are being hunted down and killed by a group of really badass Daimons led by Strykerius (whom we have met in previous novels). In their bid for world domination, the Daimons are trying to get a foothold in the human world by first wiping taking over the city of Seattle.

This book picks up some of the plot that got left hanging at the end of Seize the Night. It is worth reading this novel just for the stuff at the end that relates to the overall story arc. However, the romance between the two main characters is a bit lacking. I didn't like Susan very much. She is very sarcastic, which is ok and even pretty entertaining at times, but she doesn't seem to be all that lovable. She comes across as a bit abrasive and she's really not very tender with the hero at all. Ravyn's a pretty swell guy, but seems almost an archetype of the typical Dark-Hunter, with the exception of being able to change into a cat at will. By this point in the series, the romances are taking a definite backseat to the plot of the series as a whole. And that's really fine with me - I'm so enthralled in the storyline of the series that I don't really mind.

I rated this one at 2 stars in LibraryThing