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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN num: 9780765354013
ISBN number: 0765354012
Label: Tor Paranormal Romance
Manufacturer: Tor Paranormal Romance
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 384
Printing Date: August 01, 2006
Publishing house: Tor Paranormal Romance
Release Date: August 01, 2006
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World-class entertainer and Sazi councilmember, Antoine Monier has taken his big cats all over the world without any trouble---until his latest trip to Stuttgart, where one of his tigers is stolen and killed. To Antoine's surprise, the German police have another tiger in custody---a tiger who is actually a lovely Turkish American woman, Tahira Kuric.
Like Antoine, Tahira is a shapeshifter, but of the Hayalet Kbile, the ghost tribe of shapeshifters. And despite their immediate attraction, Tahira wants nothing to do with Antoine---the Sazi are the enemy of the Hayalet Kabile.
But Tahira doesn't have a choice, because she and Antoine have discovered that she is a fabled 'power well,' able to store magical energy from other shapeshifters---and something is hunting her, eager to use the powers for itself.
Only if they can set aside their peoples' ancient rivalry and rely completely on each other---body and soul---can Tahira and Antoine save themselves and their people.
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And the trend continues. I loved this one as well.
But first, a brief PSA: Phone lines in Germany are underground--thus, the phones do not go out regardless of how bad a winter storm is. Cars drive on the right in Germany, and the driver sits on the left, just as in the U.S. You won't find a roast beef sandwich, or indeed a sandwich at all in a typical German restaurant--you might possibly find one in an English pub or an American diner. When flying from the U.S. to Germany, you'll never arrive at 5 p.m. Note: this is all stuff that you wouldn't notice unless you live here, and it really makes no difference to the story.
I was a little sad to discover that this third Sazi book didn't feature Tony again, nor was it written in very first person, but it didn't take me long to get caught up in the new characters--maybe a page or two.
Antoine Monier, the shapeshifting half-lion, half-cougar leader of the Sazi cats, and world-famous entertainer, discovers a were-tiger being held in a cage after poachers killed several tigers. He rescues her, only to find that she's a member of the Hayalet Kabile, a tribe thought to be extinct--a tribe that views the Sazi as enemies.
Meanwhile, Antoine's grandmother has challenged him for control of the clan, charging that he's allowing those under his care to come to harm and that he's not making full use of his gifts.
Tahira is the were-tiger Antoine rescued, and it quickly becomes apparent that it's not a simple case of poachers. She'd been searching for her missing brother Rabi, and had been missing herself for a month--of which she has little memory. The abductors are clearly looking specifically for shapeshifters.
The search and investigation are exciting and will keep you turning pages long after you should have turned out the lights. But it's exciting because you care so much about the characters. Both Antoine and Tahira are very powerful, but neither of them knows much about their more unusual gifts, and as a result neither uses them to the fullest.
Antoine is a seer, but his visions make him feel worried and helpless, so he ignores them as much as he can. Tahira is a power well--that is, she can absorb and store power from other shapeshifters--but she has no understanding of what that means, and instead has always thought the powerful members of her clan had avoided her because she was useless.
It's fascinating to watch them discover their potential while they discover their attraction to each other, while dealing with danger, mystery, winter storms, and the leader of the snakes who's there to witness the challenge and sees himself as a rival for Tahira's affections.
The secondary characters--Antoine's grandmother and employees, as well as the villains--are all realistic and have plot threads of their own. I'm hoping to see more of several of them, particularly the Australian Matty; Margo, Antoine's secretary; and Larry and Bruce.
As with the previous two Sazi books, Captive Moon is a dense, rich story that seamlessly combines fantasy, mystery/adventure, and romance. I hope this series continues a good long while.
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Even though I like this kind of book, this book just didn't do it for me.
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I stumbled into the Sazi books a year ago and fell in love with this world of shapeshifters and magic. They are dangerous, fascinating and noble. In Captive moon, Antoine (a powerful lion shifter)is investigating the murder of some of his cats when he discovers a tigress unlike anything he's seen or heard of before. She's a shapeshifter, but she's not Sazi and she's not interested in letting him help her, even though she's trapped and dying.
If you dig shapeshifters, thrillers, or paranormal romance, you'll dig this series!
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I really enjoyed the second book in this series and was looking forward to this one. I was a bit disappointed. I think the authors had a good idea, but didn't push it into as much depth as they could. I didn't feel they brought out the culture of the Turkish and German lands they were visiting enough and the characters were not as relatible as they could be. Again, I think it was a lack of depth of the character. I get that Antoine had a bad childhood and that is what is holding him back from wanting to let go with his visions, but for Tahira to be able to know him so well in only a few days and one sexual encounter to be able to diagnose his problem and advise him on it was silly. Also, the scene where her brother escapes completely annoyed me. The thought that he could have so easily escape for over a month! and didn't because he simply never thought of it?! I know this is fantasy, but that is simply unrealistic human behavior.
I'll continue reading, simply because I liked the very first two books, but I certainly hope this was a one time only goof.
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This was as dull as dishwater. Too many details crammed together which didn't make any sense. The sex wasn't very good. I found some of the writing actually a bit childish. I didn't care about the two main characters, and the female lead was just annoying. This is not a patch on Hunters Moon and Moon's web.
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