Rylie is almost beginning to learn how to be a werewolf, or so she thinks. Her life is working, so it seems.

Except people are dying – is it the responsibility of the new werewolves in town? And even if it isn’t, can she control her territorial instincts?

And Abel is struggling with his newest werewolf bite from Rylie and it isn’t going so well…

Like the previous books, this book continues the story of Rylie and her development. Rylie the new werewolf trying to find her way even as she seems to have things sorted out at the end of the last book with her and Seth and Abel.

And it doesn’t go to plan

I like that. From book one there has been a sense that Rylie is a special werewolf. Sure she turns into a wolf, sure she has anger issues and sure she doesn’t remember what she does in wolf form, but she’s a special one. Her specialness is relied on repeatedly by Seth to keep him safe and is an underlying theme

Furthermore, contrary to this idea of specialness that has been implied and so pervades this genre, we also have an indication that there are people who may be better at this whole werewolf thing than she is. That there are people who are not only better than she but that they may be able to offer her something. Or, to put it another way, the awesome and powerful figure I know Rylie will become in the future

Rylie predominantly focuses on Bekah of the new werewolves. I’m hoping this means she will play a greater role in future books and may finally be the one woman Rylie’s age who she doesn’t loathe with the fiery passion of molten silver – because it’s about time. Of course, that focus in this book means she DOES focus on her with the fiery passion of molten silver quite unlike her brother (though I do question why she repeatedly thinks of Levi as sick or even rotting).

In terms of storyline, I don’t think there’s much to say because I don’t think there is much in the way of story. People are dying but only Abel really focuses on it and he in a not very coherent fashion. They’re more a backdrop to Rylie’s daily life that both lacks the mundanity of a daily life storyline and lacks the events to set it as other than that. We have mini events, a dance, a therapist visit, Rylie’s constant hostility towards Bekah and her struggle for control and, of course, Aunt Gwyn‘s illness. But an actual storyline? I think it’s lacking, even more than the previous book which left me at times wondering exactly what I was reading, what the point was and generally losing me.

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In book 3 of the "Seasons Of The Moon" series, we find Rylie still living on the ranch with her Aunt Gwyn. Her boyfriend Seth lives in town, goes to school with her and works on the ranch along with his brother Abel. Added to the normal teenager worries of school, her Aunt Gwyn being sick, the big winter dance coming up and Seth hasn't asked her and if he does she doesn't have anything to wear; she also has the problems of being a werewolf, Seth and Abel are werewolf hunters. Plus people are turning up dead but did they die from werewolf attacks or something else?

Things get even more complicated when Levi and Bekah start school and Rylie can tell that they are also werewolf's. Why are they there in her territory? Did they have anything to do with the deaths and what do they want when they say that they need to talk to her?

Since I do not want to put any spoilers here, I will not get more into the story but can say that this is the best of the books so far with a surprise twist at the end that makes the reader want the next book now. ( )

Rylie's life has gotten into a routine. Seth watches over her when she changes and they are falling more in love with each other. Other that Abel being at the farm her life is going well. Till neighbors keep getting killed. Tore apart by what everyone believes to be wild animals. Then 2 new wolves arrive in town. Not do they need to find out who is the crazed wolf but they need to hurry before hunters come looking for them. ( )