Bayou Moon

The Edge, Book 2

By: Ilona Andrews

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins

Publisher's summary

Cerise Mar and her unruly clan are cash poor but land rich, claiming a large swathe of the Mire, the Edge swamplands between the state of Louisiana and the Weird. When her parents vanish, her clan's long-time rivals are suspects number one.

But all is not as it seems. Two nations of the Weird are waging a cold war fought by feint and espionage, and their conflict is about to spill over into the Edge - and Cerise's life. William, a changeling soldier who left behind the politics of the Weird, has been forced back into service to track down a rival nation's spymaster.

When William's and Cerise's missions lead them to cross paths, sparks fly - but they'll have to work together if they want to succeed…and survive.

Spend some more time on The Edge.

©2010 Ilona Andrews (P)2010 Tantor

Critic reviews

• Audie Award Nominee - Judges' Award for Best Paranormal Audiobook, 2011

enjoyable series

second book in the series I have read enjoy the story greatly love scenes are overly sexualized but other than that great series thank you

Bayou MoonI

I absolutely love this series, snd pray they write Jack, George, and Lark's stories. Just can't get enough of this series. please, please, please continue this series. lol!

The Andrews magic strikes again.

The Andrews magic strikes again. Just wow! Incredible world of swamp and putrid creatures and humans made up of animal parts by magic and then there is a horrific feud. Add to that two spy organizations that stop at nothing to kill off each other. How could one find true love in this mess? Read and find out. Renee Raudman narrated with her usual zeal and dramatic flair. Does she ever have a way with accents.

Great Sequel

Great sequel! The new characters are great and the best is we get to catch up on our darlings from the first book!

❤️ Excellent world ßuilding

Pros: Love the world building and interesting characters with awsum abilities.

Cons, Im not a fan on introspection and teenage constant self doubt.
The heavy humping and soft porn, I could do without.

Great!!!

It was even better that the first one! You have got to read it. Ops, listen to it! The Author was great and the narrator was fantastic also. I truely can not wait until book 3 comes out.

You go Girl!

Listened for Fun (Audible)
Overall Rating: 4.50
Story Rating: 4.50
Character Rating: 4.50

Audio Rating: 4.50 (not part of the overall rating)

First Thought when Finished: Bayou Moon was great! I knew William's story would be kick ass but really it was Cerise is the one who shined.

Story Thoughts: Love stories that give me a Hatfield and McCoys feel and this one nailed it! I have had this book since 2013 and was so glad to finally get to it. I am loving this series and there isn't much that I can say about that hasn't been said before. I will say that the thing I love most about it is the action. There is lots of it and it is kick ass!

Character Thoughts: I love William. Ok I loved him in the first book too but loved him even more here. What I loved most was that Cerise made him shine, her family made him crazy, and his predicament made him think fast on his feet. I did love Cerise too and her kooky family. She actually stole the show as far as I am concerned. She was smart, ballsy, and a wonderful leader. I am thrilled to the 2 rascals get their own books! I think those will be interesting.

Audio Thoughts:

Narrated By Renée Raudman / Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins


Again Renee did an excellent jobs. This are not short listens though so be in it for the long haul. They are worth every minute but at 15 hours it is a commitment!

Final Thoughts: Bring on Book 3!

another great book from Ilona Andrews

I really enjoy the Magic series and this series is going to be another one where I can't wait to get the next one to come available.

B+ rating....

My Review:
Overall.... 4.0
Performance... 5.0
Story.... 3.5

I love audiobooks, but unless I'm on a roadtrip, I only get about an hour a week to listen to them. This audiobook was 16 hours long and I only had one small roadtrip when I got to listen to it. As a result, this book took me about 6 weeks to get through. That was entirely too long and I think it affected how much I enjoyed the book overall.

This is a complex world and a complex story, but at the heart of it were Cerise and her family who live in the swamps. William is a changeling...i.e. a wolf shifter...and her love interest. The overall story line was very layered with intrigue and levels of interest from the three different levels of this world. But I'll be honest with you...because it took me so long to get through it...the politics of who all was after what and who was working with whom, got completely lost for me. For me, this book remained about Cerise and William and their developing relationship which I did really enjoy.

For William, being a changeling is not something good in this world. The world considers them feral and tried to kill them all at some point. So he never lets most people know what he is. For Cerise, she doesn't give a damn what he is and I absolutely LOVED that about her. Cerise is one tough cookie and she does what she wants (unless it will hurt her family) and then she does what's good for the family. She's loyal to a fault, tough, but so wanting for a life and the love that she finds with William. For him, he's never even considered that he could find the happiness that he does with Cerise. He is also really tough, but has a vulnerability which just tore at my heart because he wants to belong somewhere so badly. I loved him in book #1 and fell even further for him in this story.

There is a LOT to this story...a lot of characters, a lot of layers of politics, and I'm not going to get into all that. I will say that something that the team of Ilona Andrews does incredibly well is adding children to the story. In book #1 there were Georgie and Jack (which we get to see again in this book ...yay) and then this one had Lark and the boy that I can't remember his name that William takes under his wing. They added so much impact to the story with very little overall page time.

And I can't do an audiobook review without mentioning Renee Raudman's INCREDIBLE narration. Wow. There are SO MANY characters in this book and each one sounds distinctly different. I don't know how she does it. Even the kids from book #1, Jack and Georgie...sounded exactly the same as they did in book #1. She has to have over 100-150 voices in her repertoire and it boggles my mind.

I have to admit, I'm on the fence about book #3. These absolutely are the kinds of books I enjoy on audio, but that one's 14 hours. But it also features Kaldar...who I loved in this book. Maybe I will just sit down and read that one and save the shorter books for my audio enjoyment.

One of the best series I've ever read!!-

The Ilona Andrews husband & wife team are creative geniuses! I have read this series a million times & am always left in awe. My only issue is that they have no plans to continue with the series after Steel's Edge, aside from cameos in their Innkeeper series. I just love the Edge Universe and adore all the characters. Rena Raudman always gives an incredible performance & can't imagine anyone else reading for IA. Well done.