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World Weaver Press
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Catch Starthorne has spent a lifetime running from the prophecy that names him as the one who will save the shifter race, but now that he has returned to his home in Clawcrags, he may have to face his destiny. Determined to slip through fate's fingers, Catch sows confusion, making friends from foes, mixing up the occasional sleeping death potion, and matching wits with an overbearing lion-shifter, who appears to have plans of his own. While Catch schemes, Ascot works to retrieve him with the help of a witch and a pair of madcap shifter rebels. But every attempt to reach him earns her fresh enemies and embroils her ever deeper in the conspiracies surrounding the prophecy. After five hundred years of repressed tension and social strife, the Clawcrags are ready to explode-and it sometimes seems someone's working hard to see that they do… (more)
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LibraryThing member jjmcgaffey
This story follows directly from the end of The Meddlers of Moonshine (which I read, but didn't reread for this); Catch and his captors are on the way to the Clawcrags, with Ascot and party following as quickly as possible. I finally figured out what my problem was with the Meddlers, which was
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worse with this book - the first book was very cartoony, perhaps because it was aimed at YA or just a style thing. The characters were simplistic even when they went deeper. In Meddlers they were still cartoony except when flashes of real feeling sneaked out and made the cartoony style look just that, flat and simplistic. And here, there's still a thin skin of cartoony (Condorella the Very Dark Blue Shading to Violet...), but there's a lot of real feeling, emotions, and relationships (friendly and otherwise) driving the story. When I finally gave up trying to hold it to the simplistic style, it became both richer and a better book. No cartoon could contain Starley and Jolt's feelings towards Cavall, or Cavall toward Mistral, or even (a last holdout for cartoony) Bandersnatch's feelings for the Alph - forgiveness and not, seeing past the old image, accepting new truths. Lethe is mostly a very annoying distraction; he tries to set people up to be puppets, but they refuse (even the ones who are!). Some convenient coincidences, but they work within the story (though I don't understand the cat/bird shifters). Actually, I don't understand quite a bit of it and I'm perfectly all right with that. I'll reread the series in a while and see if it runs more smoothly without the assumption of the cartoon style. It does look there will be more books, though - nice setup for the next one. Heh - werewolves of Shadowvale are going to be getting something of a shock... Show Less
LibraryThing member Reader1984
Into The Moonless Night is the third book 3 in the Moonfall Mayhem series. It continues the story of Catch Starthorne who spent the last two books as the person from a prophecy which says he will save the shifter race. This book sees him returning home to Clawcrags.
I felt the romance was a little
However, there's a lot going on in this book, lots of subplots which I enjoyed and loved seeing new and favourite characters battling with their own demons and trying to find their way. The antagonist was of particular interest to me as he really had to use his smarts more than anything as he wasn't on the same playing field as the other protagonists. The ending felt a little abrupt to me, and i wasn't sure whether that was becasue there's another book to be written but overall a good book to read and I enjoyed following the trials and tribulations of all characters.
I felt the romance was a little
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unresolved, there was a lot of potential but I felt like the two characters involved weren't together for that much of the book, and this was a little disappointing.However, there's a lot going on in this book, lots of subplots which I enjoyed and loved seeing new and favourite characters battling with their own demons and trying to find their way. The antagonist was of particular interest to me as he really had to use his smarts more than anything as he wasn't on the same playing field as the other protagonists. The ending felt a little abrupt to me, and i wasn't sure whether that was becasue there's another book to be written but overall a good book to read and I enjoyed following the trials and tribulations of all characters.
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LibraryThing member Reader1984
Into The Moonless Night is the third book 3 in the Moonfall Mayhem series. It continues the story of Catch Starthorne who spent the last two books as the person from a prophecy which says he will save the shifter race. This book sees him returning home to Clawcrags.
I felt the romance was a little
However, there's a lot going on in this book, lots of subplots which I enjoyed and loved seeing new and favourite characters battling with their own demons and trying to find their way. The antagonist was of particular interest to me as he really had to use his smarts more than anything as he wasn't on the same playing field as the other protagonists. The ending felt a little abrupt to me, and i wasn't sure whether that was becasue there's another book to be written but overall a good book to read and I enjoyed following the trials and tribulations of all characters.
I felt the romance was a little
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unresolved, there was a lot of potential but I felt like the two characters involved weren't together for that much of the book, and this was a little disappointing.However, there's a lot going on in this book, lots of subplots which I enjoyed and loved seeing new and favourite characters battling with their own demons and trying to find their way. The antagonist was of particular interest to me as he really had to use his smarts more than anything as he wasn't on the same playing field as the other protagonists. The ending felt a little abrupt to me, and i wasn't sure whether that was becasue there's another book to be written but overall a good book to read and I enjoyed following the trials and tribulations of all characters.
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Original publication date
2018
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Moonfall Mayhem, 3
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