Attain Hungry Ghost Tales Of The Pack #2 Fabricated By Allison Moon Audio Books
teeth I need Plus Lesbian werewolf sex is kinda weird she said with a laugh Too much fur Long claws It all just gets in the way from Hungry Ghost ChapterNo other book in my reading journey from Aristophenes's excellent Lysistratapennedyears ago to Enchanted Nikki Jefford's awesome latest published last week has contained the sentence Plus Lesbian werewolf sex is kinda weird I'm sure I'd remember I have tons of Lesbian friends If any of them start dating werewolves at least I'll know how to advise themIf you haven't yet read Lunatic Fringe book one in Allison Moon's excellent Tales of the Pack series I would recommend you do so before starting Hungry Ghost just to get you up to speed The Pack is a group of women who are friends sometimes lovers housemates and werewolves As a pack they protect their area finding werewolves who seek out and kill women and exacting their revenge Lexie Clarion is the newest member of The Pack and she's finding it difficult to fit in She has a wolf inside her and she has transformed before but she doesn't do so at the full moon like her Pack sistren This could be that Lexie has a very rare gift she is a Peacespeaker an entity with the ability to broker negotiations between conflicting tribes or packs It's a rare gift from her mother's side and her mother died before teaching her anythingPlus having had a rough break up at the end of the last term Lexie has neglected school stuff like signing up for classes One of the scanty few choices she ends up with is Indiginous Linguistics It's an odd course but Lexie learns things in there that come in handy later She also sees things at a BDSM club that prove to be similarly useful How can I not adore a book that uses an SM club as foreshadowingMore girls are dying around Milton College and The Pack is angry They are finally coalescing under their new Alpha Renee This time the battle will be ferocious as they fight the ancient powerful full blood werewolves known as the Rare wolves And few who go up against the Rares live to tell the taleAs much as I loved Lunatic Fringe I think I like Hungry Ghost even better Maybe it's because I've figured out what Allison Moon does better than other writers of werewolf lore She truly delves into the lupine mind that coexists inside each Pack member giving us a look at these creatures from the inside The Pack only transform into wolves on the full moon but that wolf mind is always there always working beneath the human mind Also as new as she is to the werewolf world Lexie is also a relative cub in the lesbian world Until she lost her virginity last year she hadn't really considered her sexuality much She'd er satisfied her physical cravings but there was no strong lust after either males or females In the first book she found that she was definitely into women One thing I like about Hungry Ghost is that Lexie's biggest physical craving despite her fun at the aforementioned club was non sexual rather the supple gentle back scratching and hair stroking the other pack members performed Yeah a toe curling orgasm is a good thing Lexie reasons but after a shite day it's nice just to have somebody to hold you We follow the Pack as they learn the tactics and skills they'll need to survive their forthcoming battle Lexie has discovered something within herself that she teaches the Pack When the time comes the battle scene is one of the most exciting I've read in awhile The Pack find the going tough fighting hard for every victory and suffering with every defeat In the end they find help from some unlikely allies With Hungry Ghost Allison Moon deftly avoids the many pitfalls second novels face So often the writer uses all of his or her creative ammunition in book one By book two we already know the main characters we're already aware of our surroundings and steeped in the series' mythology So many second novels are comparably weak because their characters don't wash well and there's nothing new for them to do They serve their purpose in book one and they just get in the story's way in book two Not so in Hungry Ghost It's the exact opposite In Lunatic Fringe Lexie was welcomed into the pack but she remained an outsider choosing her lover over the pack In this book she now lives in the house Since the story is told from Lexie's point of view we get to meet Renee Hazel Jenna Mitch and the rest as if for the first time The girls of the pack have changed just as Lexie has We are there as they learn one another's habits and oddities and as a new type of sisterhood descends upon the PackThere are parts of Hungry Ghost that had me cracking up others had me tearing up It is a beautiful emotional melange as we follow Lexie and her friends preparing to face some of the most dangerous creatures on earthBest of all notwithstanding studded outfits at the BDSM club nobody freakin' sparkles The I think about this book the I like it And I oddly can't think of how to explain that haha except that it took a little while after finishing it for me to realize I really enjoyed it It's unlike any other story I've read in this general literary category probably because it doesn't fit into any specific category Which is a good thing view spoiler I'll totally admit to being sort of boring in that I sort of lamented the absence of Archer at first hide spoiler AwesomeIt's so refreshing to read a work of fiction that I actually relate to So many romps into fantasy out there are straight white and boring A delightful page turning seuel Allison Moon's pack of ueer werewolves continues to surprise and delight In this book we learn of the backstory of the characters and the world of the werewolves presented in Lunatic Fringe and some of the characters are further developed Like many an ensemble drama Buffy anyone I often wished that the supporting characters were better developed the world richly built and explained and oh yes the werewolf sex freuent but it's really hard to complain as the ever thickening plot keeps you turning pages past your bedtime Also if you attended a small progressive liberal arts college you're in for some fun nostalgia and satire of those exciting nurturing navel gazing years I am so eager for the third installment that I would be cranky at Ms Moon for turning to a different book first if that book were not a comic called Girl SexLunatic Fringe was a novel I struggled with and I had to take a break for a few months to finish it It focused to heavily on the relationship and there wasn't enough about the werewolves for me to enjoy Despite this I picked up Hungry Ghost with some trepidation and haven't regretted that from page oneThe lore in this series is original and intriguing The strong feminist voice is refreshing and something that I love so much about this series as it's so rare to find The characters and their growth is so believable and satisfying that I want to read the rest of their story right now to see where they go from hereBut most of all this book has finally made me fall in love with Lexie In Lunatic Fringe I found her frustrating and kept hoping that the next chapter would bring a fresh POV to give a change of pace In Hungry Ghost I enjoyed seeing the story from her perspective and seeing
her growth directlyI wish there had been character development of the three male werewolves and Lexie's dad especially as without them the fight with the Rare's would have turned out uite differently With such little appearance in the narrative I didn't feel emotionally invested and the moments that should have been so emotional and meaningful felt flat and out of placeThere were also characters that really played no role at all and could have been left out such as Lexie's aunt whose impact on the story is so little she could have been replaced with a journal or proper father developmentOverall this is an enjoyable story that is well written thought out and ultimately satisfying.