These books are really fun, not only from a paranormal perspective, but as romance as well. The author leaves just enough to the imagination that you can fill in what your imagination wants to see. I look forward to many more rainy nights with Yasmine Galenorn's works. ( )

Camille and the crew being run ragged, as night after night attacks and her amped up magic training. There's a lot of sex with her one or all of her three husbands, while I enjoy a good sex scene, it started to feel excessive. and not necessary to the story. There was also a lot of detailed spell explanation that at first fit with the flow of the story and then started to feel like filler. All things seem to lead toward Gulakah and the Aleksais Psychic Network and Camille risks her life going undercover to try and stop the killings and save disappearing supernaturals.

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There’s a new front opening in the war against Shadow Wing – cemetaries are being ransacked of ghostly residents, zombies being raised and a new, sinister psychic network has started in the city

Their all too brief holiday is over, it’s time for Camille and sisters to get back into the action

This world continues to be huge beyond all measure – we have the massive range of different beings, the fae, the elves, dragons, demons, the wereanimals and vampires and witches and magic users of various stripes. We have the different realms, the threat that the demons represent, the battle on so many levels across so many plains. It’s huge, it’s vast and every single part of it is used and involved excellently

While, as I’ve mentioned below, this can lead to some distraction, it also creates a book where everyone lives. Camille and her relationships are really passionate and powerful. They’ve really done a good job of building a home life in the story along side the massive battles against everything this huge world can throw at them. The characters have also grown a lot since the first book. Ok, a lot of that is in the many new shiny powers they have managed to hoard, but there’s also how they grew as people, how they’ve found their level with their various other characters (though I still hate Camille’s relationship with Smoky).

There’s also a real sense that they have built something. For a while I thought we were just going to have random monsters every single book without any real sense if progress. But it has become clear that the war isn’t just about the spirit seals, but also about the networks and allies that Camille and her sisters are building. The war will come, and it won’t simply be a case of who owns the most spirit seals wins. I really wish they’d focus on this far more – the preparation, what the susters have achieved.

Camille has a very high sex drive. And with her three husbands I’m more than tempted to wave a flag and cheer her passionate sexual agency. She is in charge of her sexuality, her desires, her wishes. She dresses sexily, for herself and she feels not the slightest shame as she lives her life loud and clear.

Which is all nice but dear gods, I was mightily sick of her libido by the end of this book. Anything gets Camille going. Anything. She started meditating? Horny. She takes a bath? Horny. She washes the dishes? Horny. Magic ritual? Horny. Just seen a terrible death of civilians? Needs therapeutic horny time! Honestly if she’s not bored by now she should at least be picking up friction burns.

This adds to a general padded feeling of the book which is something we’ve mentioned over and over again through this series. A lot of the old problems continue – the extremely detailed description and dwelling off every meal plan. But we also get lost in the world building – I get it, this world is huge and, as I said, amazing. But not everything needs mentioning every time. Like if the sisters are fighting zombies, we don’t need a brief aside on the many other kinds undead out there. They’re not relevant. And oh ye gods enough with the Stand Alone Stuffing. We do not need the same “let me introduce myself” with every book. This is book 13. THIRTEEN. We know who Camille is.

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I tried to start reading this and couldn't get in to it. I picked up Dragonfly in Amber instead and read it all and jumped into Voyager. I have a couple weeks before its due back to the library. I'll wait before returning it. ( )

I want to start off by saying that this is my very first venture into Yasmine Galenorn's Otherworld series. Haunted Moon An Otherworld Novel is book number 13 in the series. It took me a few chapters to get my bearings and for the story to start to flow. After about Chapter 4 the story started to flow really well for me and I did enjoy the book. I would suggest that everyone to go back and read the books in order before reading this book. If you are already a fan of the Otherworld series, then you are gonna love this book. There's plenty of supernatural action going on and plenty of another kind of action going on between our main protagonist and her three men.

We’re the D’Artigo sisters: savvy half-human, half-Fae ex-operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. My sister Delilah is a two-faced werecat and a Death Maiden. My sister Menolly is a vampire married to a werepuma. And me? I’m Camille, a wicked-good witch with three sexy husbands. I’m a priestess of the Moon Mother, and I’m training under the Queen of Darkness. Unfortunately, playing in the dark means that sometimes you stumble over secrets better left buried…

There’s a new Fae sorcerer in town—Bran, the son of Raven Mother and the Black Unicorn—and I’m the unwilling liaison between him and our new Earthside OIA. With cemeteries being ransacked and spirits being harvested by a sinister, otherworldly force, Aeval sends us to rescue the missing wife of a prominent member of the Fae nobility. Our search leads us to the mysterious Aleksais Psychic Network and, ultimately, to face the Lord of Ghosts where Morio and I must undergo a ritual that will plunge us directly into the world of the dead. ( )