Eclipse

A Paranormal Shifter Romance (Blood Moon, Texas Shifters, Book 6)

De: Kat Kinney

Narrado por: Tiffany Vanlandingham

Gifted hacker and vampire resistance leader Rowan Finley has lived her entire life caught between two worlds, divided by the dual bloodlines that flow through her veins. Her vampire family exploited her as a child for her rare varewolf blood. Now she may be the only person the werewolves, united with her brother Vlad's rebel vampire faction, trusts to send in as a spy to gain intelligence on the movements of the Vampire Nation at a time when a dangerous rogue operative threatens to destabilize the werewolf military. But allying with shapeshifters will require betraying her mother Zara, leader of the Vampire Nation.

Software engineer August Caldwell has been tasked by the Blood Moon pack with dual missions. He has to locate Matteo Rossi, an unstable neural manipulator and projectionist before he can cause irreparable harm to the werewolf pack structure. Even more daunting, he must find Guillermo Montemayor, leader of the North American werewolves, who has gone missing. Rowan Finley is a complication. She can't know he still bears her claiming mark from a mission where she bound him to her temporarily in order to save his life. In order to keep her safe, he'll have to conceal his feelings for her, as well as the true reason he walked away.

As a chilling communication throws the werewolf community into revolt, August and Rowan must race against the clock to stop a madman intent on destroying the Vampire Nation and countless innocents, while holding werewolves across the nation hostage.

ECLIPSE is part of the Blood Moon, Texas Shifters series. Sizzling hot romance. Guaranteed HEA.

©2024 Kat Kinney (P)2025 Kat Kinney

Werewolf & Vampire Leadership Unite

August Caldwell's illness that has been brought up in previous books takes a front and center role in this book. That and his connect with Rowan Finley, half wolf, half vampire daughter of Vampire Nation leader Zara. Their personal lives and relationship is a can worms all into itself. The damaging experiences of their respective childhoods have left scars that both August and Rowan continually deal with. The push back they get by others because of being different paranormal species, specifically on Rowan's part of straddling between both vampire & werewolf worlds mirrors that experienced by society's view of real life white and black couples.

The issues faced by not only the local, national but also global shifter communities comes to even dire level, because the personal wasn't enough to ratchet up the suspense levels. When family issues between the Caldwells' Uncle Guillermo Montemayor, leader of the North American werewolves, and his lashing out illegitimate son Matteo Rossi becomes more than a hidden dirty secret all hell is about to be let loose.

Throw in a once in a lifetime natural phenomenon just because and Kat Kinney presents the sixth book in the Blood Moon, Texas Shifters series. Drawing on the events of the real time eclipse that took place in the spring of 2024 that had the world watching with bated breath, once again this series mirrors events from current real life happenings and incorporated it in the fiction of the shifter world.

The navigation of the medical care systems and the frustration of having a rare medical issue that challenges scientists to find a cure plus the subjugation of the health insurance companies and their power to deny coverage feels like a valid lasting out at the current real life broken system.

This series is more than a superficial fantasy world but rather a fiction tackling real life social issues, if the reader chooses to think about the presented issues deeper. I previously compared the series as the werewolf version of True Blood, but I'm now rethinking it as a version of Grey's Anatomy, willingly challenging current issues through fictional exploration.

You definitely need to pay more attention than with a mindless entertaining fiction, but it is well worth your time and attention.

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So good

Really love the characters in this book. They’re absolutely fantastic. The story is wonderful and has it twist and turns and surprises.

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Varewolfs and danger

August and Rowan story was highly emotional, funny with teasing and shenanigans, dangerous with adrenaline and unexpected developments.
The danger escalate as the events unfold, the fate of numerous people is put in danger, and an impossible mission is set in motion to save them all.
Betrayal, manipulation, insecurities, secrets, and tensions are a couple of the obstacles they had to get over.
I liked the narrator input and way to bring to live the events written by the author.

Thrilling and Angsty Penultimate Story!

Story: 4 Stars, Narration: 4 Stars, Overall: 4 Stars

'Eclipse' is Book 6 of 7 in the 'Blood Moon, Texas Shifters' series and features werewolf brother August Caldwell and werewolf-vampire hybrid Rowan Finley. Thus far I think this book, and the previous book, were the best two books in the series, but in terms of the audiobooks, this one stands out as the superior one as the narration was much better. This was one of the better narrated audiobooks of the series.

This book had so much going on it's almost impossible to discuss plot in a review. It's apparent thinking back on this book that August is clearly the glue of this family, which is a little ironic considering that both he and Ethan are the the adopted sons. Or maybe that makes perfect sense actually as he most closely tethers Ethan to the family. He also most closely tethers Guillermo to the family as they have a closeness that I don't think Guillermo even shares with his sister Sofia. Everyone is close to August. The painful irony of that is when he begins medical treatment for his autoimmune disorder and becomes mostly human, he drops out of the pack bond and feels completely isolated from the rest of his family--from everyone except for Rowan.

Again this installment ends up being largely about family dynamics, and that fact really hits us over the head during the hospital scene when Dallas turns on Rowan. I've still not forgiven Dallas (or London for that matter) for what he said, and I likely never will. His character is garbage to me now. Let's not pretend that what he said wasn't the equivalent of screaming racial epithets at friend during an argument. You can't put that poison back in the bottle. You had those thoughts in your mind all along, and deep down believed them all along. His apology wasn't enough. I can't say I'm really a big fan of Sofia either. I feel she owes Rowan an apology as well, and she didn't make one. And quite frankly, I'm fed up with West always remaining neutral and refusing to recognize when people are truly being reprehensible. He's an enabler for his family's bad behavior way too often. His admonishment of August for going "no contact" for a few days was ridiculous. They all deserved it, and August had been in contact with Ethan. It was really stupid of West not to ask Ethan of all people if he had heard from August. West can be truly self-centered and obnoxious.

Another really significant moment for me in this book was the conversation between River and August where August scolds River for keeping from him that it was Guillermo who killed Alek. River asked August to cut him some slack and to let him know when he's being an ass but do it a few weeks after the fact. I want someone to shake River and tell him to stop lying to his family. He is going to turn into Guillermo. He can't keep "classified" things from his family and then use his family connections to get them to do things for him without telling them everything. He's on a slippery slope. Remember the scene in 'Hunted' when West accused River of being the one that told Guillermo that West was an Omega, and River threw himself a pity party that his own brother would think him capable of betrayal? Well River, it's because you're a liar. Stop lying. Stop wiping the memories of your extended family member's memories against their will for your scumbag uncle. You've earned every ounce of mistrust, and you should be kissing August's feet that he is still willing to tell you when you are being an ass, and quite frankly, you need to be told in the moment. Otherwise 20 years from now, your brothers might call you and tell you that you can call off the guys you sent to kill them, and when you tell them it wasn't you, they don't really believe you at first.

But like I said, in the end, this series ends up being more about family dynamics than it does about werewolves, vampires, demyelination disorders, projectionist powers, etc... and I am very much looking forward to the final audiobook!.

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Eclipse

Eclipse Book 6 of Blood Moon, Texas Shifters by Kat Kinney is an intense and exciting addition to this series. Great characters, great worldbuilding, wonderful shifter romance with some steamy scenes. Tiffany Vanlandingham did an excellent job narrating the different characters. I have enjoyed every story I have read/listened to and highly recommend this series!