Where the Wild Things Bite

by Molly Harper

I’ve been dying to try the Half-Moon Hollow series for a while and I couldn’t resist a book-loving heroine and a charming vampire pairing. This is also my first book that I’ve read in the series. I’d say readers can make it through without any prior knowledge of the previous books, but I’m sure reading them would help them have a better connection to secondary characters who come up later.

The heroine, Anna, was hired to research whether a guidebook to shifters was the real deal or not. It is and she opts to hand deliver the book back to its owner, Jane Jameson Nightingale, as the book has some pretty sensitive material best said in person. However, her plane to Half-Moon Hollow crashes after the pilot abandons the controls and tries to rob her of the book. Thankfully, the only other passenger on her tiny little plane is a vampire named Finn, who saves her life.

Unfortunately, the plane crashes and strands Finn and Anna in the woods, potentially with some crazy dude still after them and the book.

I loved Anna as a character. She has severe anxiety, agoraphobia, and hates flying, all due to a very toxic mother who was essentially grooming Anna to become dependent on her so she’d never leave the house. Reading about her upbringing was so sad and I was cheering for her the whole way.

However, her romance with Finn felt flat to me as I didn’t often feel the emotional connection between them and because Finn’s backstory wasn’t as fully explained as Anna’s. At times, it made their interactions (and there are a lot of them since they’re stranded in a forest together) a little boring.

If you’d like a paranormal romance with that has some lighthearted, lost-in-the-woods action, I’d recommend Where the Wild Things Bite. But if you’re prefer your romances with some emotional depth, you may find this lacking.

– Amanda

Delivering a rare book to a valued customer is definitely part of mild-mannered archivist Anna Winthrop’s job description. You know what isn’t? Protecting her precious cargo from mid-flight theft by the very pilot who is flying her to Half-Moon Hollow…while trying to appear as unappetizing as possible to the only other passenger, a vampire. Undead bookstore owner Jane Jameson could be waiting a very long time for her book. Possibly forever.

Fortunately, Anna’s dashing fanged companion Finn Palmeroy helps her fend off the attack, but not before their plane crash lands in the forest hundreds of miles from civilization. Great, now she’s stranded with a priceless tome and a rakish vampire whose bedtime is fast approaching. Why does everyone want this book so badly, anyway? Anna just wants to get it to Jane before Finn decides to turn her into dinner-or sweep her off her feet. Okay, the second option is really tempting. But they’re not out of the woods yet…