Shadow Moon

The Huntress/FBI Thrillers, Book 6

By: Alexandra Sokoloff

Narrated by: R.C. Bray, Rinelle Harkin, Casey Turner, Meghan Kelly

Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins

Publisher's Summary

For thousands of years, women have been prey. This time, the predators lose.

Book six of the award-winning series now available!

Does fate connect us?

Mass killer Cara Lindstrom is in the wind after a deadly encounter which leaves FBI Special Agent Antara Singh questioning her own sanity and fitness to serve. ASAC Matthew Roarke exiles Singh to Portland to work as an assistant to his old mentor, retiring profiler Chuck Snyder - but a mysterious break-in alerts Singh and Snyder to an active threat revolving around an old case: a series of brutal murders of homeless teenagers on the streets of Portland and Seattle.

Singh and Snyder must go on the road and deep into Roarke and Cara’s pasts to discover a pattern of destiny and interconnection that holds the key to unsolved child murders, past and present.

The Huntress series takes place over six months in the present and in multiple timelines in the past. Shadow Moon is a culmination of those characters and story lines, and it is strongly recommended that the series be heard in order:

Huntress Moon
Blood Moon
Cold Moon
Bitter Moon
Hunger Moon
Shadow Moon

©2019 Huntress Productions (P)2019 Huntress Productions

I hope this isn’t the end...

FOR ANYONE THAT WAS PUT OFF BY THE POLITICAL OVERTONES OF THE PREVIOUS BOOK, THIS BOOK DOES NOT TAKE A POSITION ON EITHER SIDE.

This is book six on the Huntress series. This book is not a stand alone and this series should be read in order.

This author’s writing is so beautifully descriptive. She takes you places with her words that become so vivid and real.

Alexandra Sokoloff writes about the beauty in nature and about the hideous faces that are hidden in the abusers of women and children. In present time this story is more about the female FBI agent (Singh) who was introduced in the previous book. Following her meeting with Cara Lindstrom Singh is unsure if she can continue to be in FBI. Before she can tender her resignation her SAIC gives her a new assignment. He wants her to work with his mentor, Chuck Snyder. Singh discovers a parallel between her boss (Mathew Roarke) and Cara and their paths have crossed many times over the years. For each arrest or saved victim Roarke makes, Cara makes another kill.
Meanwhile there’s an open cold case in Snyder’s files that may be back to terrorize Snyder. It’s up to Singh and Snyder to solve this one
R C Bray narrates this book with three others. Narration
Is excellent.
This book has my HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION.
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Perfect if you are a gun and man hating feminist

Wow, what a bunch of obvious man-hating, politically charged drivel. I purchased this book, because anything that RC Bray narrates is at least we'll narrated, but even he can make this palatable. The narrators did a great job, considering the material.
I don't know anything about the author, except that she has a serious ax to grind with the male population, especially if they are from a smaller town. The term "deplorables" with all of its charged insidious undertones comes to mind.
I can understand setting up a story and developing characters that support your narrative. But her contempt of men and guns is so obviously painful, that it's laughable. The author
Her description of a visit to a gun show was the equivalent of visiting the den of the devil, where all men were oozing dangerous levels of testosterone and acting as if possessed. Not to mention that this was experienced through the eyes of a male FBI agent.
I also had no idea that our Supreme Court was staffed by two sexual predators, and that, consequently, our justice system could never really address the plight of women.
Virtually all men in this story are portrayed as lecherous, clueless, gun toting rapists. Those that aren't are so conflicted, that it's hard to call them men.
Trucks turn into vans and back into trucks. Jeeps turn into ATVs, making chase scenes difficult to follow, and further erode the credibility of the author.
The abuse of children and women is a terrible blight on our society and needs to be addressed and eradicated. I'm afraid that the obvious bias against all makes and all guns undermines all credibility.

why get political?

So, the book itself was rather disjointed. I also think that because there were so many years since the last book and this one, I couldn't really remember all the characters and there was little to no development of them in this story. But after 7:43 time, with 4:03 left to go, I am stopping it. In a narrative about closing down child sex trafficking, kidnapping, torture and killing, the author chose to say, "There might be a a sexual predator in the White House, two on the Supreme Court..." For what purpose? Ruined the whole thing for rme and I am not finishing. Won't read anymore of her books either. Maybe this rings true for others and you'll love the "modern history" brought into the story line. But for me, it is stale, disrespectful to the reader and attention seeking, like actors at awards shows.

This is the way to end a series.

This is the best book in the Huntress series. Great writing, R.C. Bray, is awesome and the addition of Rinnelle Harkin was magnificent.

Dark But Enjoyable

The first thing that jumps off of the page with Shadow Moon was the fact that its narration is done by four narrators. And not the one chapter by one narrator and the other chapter by the other – this is a real back and forth. Any male character is voiced by R.C. Bray and the three main female characters are narrated by the three female narrators. It was a change of pace from the other books in this series, but I enjoyed it. I looked up what other people thought and a lot of people were giving this book some grief because of the difference. Bray is still narrating, but the change of pace was welcome and actually made the story easy to follow.

Second, is that the book is going to jump around a lot. There are flashbacks and older stories that really add depth to the story. Sokoloff gives the reader information about the time change, but its still jarring sometimes. I liked it, but the story is definitely non-linear.

Shadow Moon was the most different in terms of storytelling, but the stuff that Sokoloff is talking about is very real. She’s able to capture a real and terrifying underbelly and does it in a viceral and real way. The predators that she talks about throughout Shadow Moon (not Cara by the way) are insanely real and the story was able to bring this sort of reality to light – I think in hopes that if someone else takes a slightly longer or more in depth look around – they can help prevent stuff like this from stealing the childhood from children.

I enjoyed Shadow Moon, but it was dark and menacing. Sokoloff was able to capture that tone perfectly, and it lends to some fantastic reading.

I feel like I didn’t talk a lot about the actual story – but there was enough going on that would spoil it that I can’t really talk about it. The earliest flash backs in the book were disturbing and really set up two of the characters (and their “red string”). The introduction of the older profiler was also interesting, the scenes with him were fascinating to me.

Outstanding novel! Bad audio book!

I gave up on the audio book after almost two hours but did read the Kindle book which I rate 4 stars.. The audio book uses RC Bray and three female narrators. Two of the female narrators are horrid. Despite RC Bray narrating the prior five novels in the series alone (and doing so brilliantly), I can see the advantage of teaming him with a single good female narrator. I do not believe I have ever before returned an audio book due to narration issues, so this is a first for me. There are many outstanding female narrators, so why were two poor ones selected along with one excellent one?

SHADOW MOON is released two years after Book 5 (Hunger Moon). I had a series of email exchanges with Ms. Sokoloff about what I viewed as excessively negative political content of Hunger Moon which I rated 3 stars. Most of my issue was with her personal attacks of negative Amazon reviewers. Nevertheless, I continue to be impressed with the outstanding literary talent of this author. Be aware that the six novels in this series must be read in order.

Excellent Overall!!

I enjoyed everything about this experience. The author is awesome and the performances highlighted the story perfectly.

Wow

So the series has come to the end. I’m sad!!! I really really really loved this series. I can’t say how much I looked forward to the last book to see how it all came to an end and at first I didn’t like additional characters read all the different parts. RC Bray did such an amazing job throughout the series but once I got used to it I not only enjoyed it but saw the need for it. I just loved Cara and Rourke and I know they find one another!! It is meant!!! We need more people like them in the world and more characters!!! Great great job Alexandra!!! My only complaint is that I wish it didn’t end!!!

A fitting end to the last installment

Very well written as are all of the authors books. The mix of narrators was a little bit fragmented compared to just having a single narrator. However that does not detract from the overall quality of the book and the narration. Thank you for highlighting the plight of women and ran away children both boys and girls in this country. Also I love you political commentary on the many sexual predators holding high office in the USA. They do not deserve the protection of silence.

Best one yet!

Been through the whole series and the keep getting better. Hope to see more from Alexandra soon.