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Reluctant Werewolf Chronicles #1
Moon Cursed
My name is Charlotte Lear and I didn’t want to be a werewolf. But thanks to circumstances totally beyond my control — okay, mostly — that’s what I am. Now every month the Full Moon turns me into a hairy, angry, smelly wolf and all I can do is make sure I’m contained so I can’t hurt anyone else.
I’m trying my best to live a normal life (well, as normal as possible when you’re a werewolf and your best friend is dating a vampire). But when the wolf who turned me insists I go to a mandatory wolf pack meeting, everything changes. Before I know it, a group of militant monster hunters armed with silver bullets have me in their sights.
With the help of an annoyingly dogged (but admittedly kind of sexy) werewolf named Raff, I have to stop the hunters before they kill me and every other werewolf they can find.
Moon Cursed is book one of The Reluctant Werewolf Chronicles, a humorous urban fantasy series with lots of suspense and a little bit of romance.
I’m trying my best to live a normal life (well, as normal as possible when you’re a werewolf and your best friend is dating a vampire). But when the wolf who turned me insists I go to a mandatory wolf pack meeting, everything changes. Before I know it, a group of militant monster hunters armed with silver bullets have me in their sights.
With the help of an annoyingly dogged (but admittedly kind of sexy) werewolf named Raff, I have to stop the hunters before they kill me and every other werewolf they can find.
Moon Cursed is book one of The Reluctant Werewolf Chronicles, a humorous urban fantasy series with lots of suspense and a little bit of romance.
225 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 17, 2018
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Tori Centanni
18 books191 followersTori Centanni is a nerd girl and a recovering goth. She likes dark, quirky stories with elements of humor. When not reading or writing, she can be found baking, watching too much television, and wrangling cats. She lives in the Pacific Northwest.
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January 22, 2018
This was first published on my blog "Lecture toute une Aventure"
Hard...really it wasn't easy to get into the story at first as i really disliked Charlie...she is really immature and so annoying that she got on my nerves. However , if you can read through these first chapters until the story and investigation really starts you won't close the book after until it's finished but yes you need to go over the first chapters first.
Charlotte, aka Charlie, is intelligent, she can really be focused on her goals and when she wants something she goes to big end to have it....it could be an advantage but the way she is it's also the opposite as she get too close minded as a result. She wanted to become a vampire....so she studied them in great length, managed to find some real ones and their address when it's not a well know fact they exist to start with....she put years in this project and for that i can admire her. Now when things don't go as planned and she becomes a werewolf...she doesn't study it, she isn't trying to understand no she just flatly refuse it, shackles herself, refuse to meet other werewolves and keep thinking they are all mindless beast.....
After spending so much time on vampires i can see why she got disappointed but really 3years and more of this childish behaviour? really? complaining all the time, being jealous of her best friend because he could still become one....not even trying to research a little what she has become? For me that was too stupid and childish!
Later in the story we learn a bit more about her reason but still it was hard to warm up to her.
Raff is the opposite, it was hard not to get attached to him, he is courageous, funny and quite patience to cope with Charlie. I really loved him and Michael is an excellent friend as well.
I really loved when the story really started with attempted murder on Charlie and other cases, the way she is put in the middle and doesn't have time to really overthink made it very interesting as she is discovering by force what she never wanted to see ( and how wrong she was).....the investigation is fast and we can imagine the next trouble that will arise which make it even more tempting to jump already on the next book ( but not available yet so patience it's needed)
There is a little humour yes but also dark moment and lots of actions. There is the presence of some Lgtb allusions ( Damien and Michael, Jessica and her girlfriend) but as it wasn't the focus on the story and just allusion it didn't bother me.
all together i did enjoy it and i'm very curious to see how the author will process for the rest of the series and see if Charlie will mature a little.
Hard...really it wasn't easy to get into the story at first as i really disliked Charlie...she is really immature and so annoying that she got on my nerves. However , if you can read through these first chapters until the story and investigation really starts you won't close the book after until it's finished but yes you need to go over the first chapters first.
Charlotte, aka Charlie, is intelligent, she can really be focused on her goals and when she wants something she goes to big end to have it....it could be an advantage but the way she is it's also the opposite as she get too close minded as a result. She wanted to become a vampire....so she studied them in great length, managed to find some real ones and their address when it's not a well know fact they exist to start with....she put years in this project and for that i can admire her. Now when things don't go as planned and she becomes a werewolf...she doesn't study it, she isn't trying to understand no she just flatly refuse it, shackles herself, refuse to meet other werewolves and keep thinking they are all mindless beast.....
After spending so much time on vampires i can see why she got disappointed but really 3years and more of this childish behaviour? really? complaining all the time, being jealous of her best friend because he could still become one....not even trying to research a little what she has become? For me that was too stupid and childish!
Later in the story we learn a bit more about her reason but still it was hard to warm up to her.
Raff is the opposite, it was hard not to get attached to him, he is courageous, funny and quite patience to cope with Charlie. I really loved him and Michael is an excellent friend as well.
I really loved when the story really started with attempted murder on Charlie and other cases, the way she is put in the middle and doesn't have time to really overthink made it very interesting as she is discovering by force what she never wanted to see ( and how wrong she was).....the investigation is fast and we can imagine the next trouble that will arise which make it even more tempting to jump already on the next book ( but not available yet so patience it's needed)
There is a little humour yes but also dark moment and lots of actions. There is the presence of some Lgtb allusions ( Damien and Michael, Jessica and her girlfriend) but as it wasn't the focus on the story and just allusion it didn't bother me.
all together i did enjoy it and i'm very curious to see how the author will process for the rest of the series and see if Charlie will mature a little.
March 24, 2019
Moon Cursed begins when Charlie becomes a werewolf in a very odd way. Then three years later she still isn't used to it. And things start to get complicated when someone is after her and her friends.
This book was okay. I liked the overall idea of the story, but I didn't like the heroine. She complained a lot and I was frustrated with how she treated others.
This book was okay. I liked the overall idea of the story, but I didn't like the heroine. She complained a lot and I was frustrated with how she treated others.
February 9, 2018
Ok so the protagonist isn't necessarily likeable for most of the book. She's whiny, arrogant, closed-minded, selfish, and so on. Don't let that put you off. She, and the other characters, are really well developed. Their reactions ring true, and that makes this a fantastic story. Charlie's awful at times, she can be really cringeworthy to read, but her story is so honest, raw, and heartfelt that it leaps off the page.
The plot was really well done, it was reasonably straight forward but I read for the characters, so this suited me just fine. I can't wait to read book two.
The plot was really well done, it was reasonably straight forward but I read for the characters, so this suited me just fine. I can't wait to read book two.
October 13, 2018
I read the author's most recent book first, so I knew coming into this book that there would be grammatical things that annoyed me, which there were, such as: the author going from past to present tense in the novel instead of having a consistent tense. Also she doesn't use the Oxford comma, which the editor in me noticed in every compound sentence. Besides those two things, most of the rest of the grammar was fine.
The plot was fine too, compelling enough to keep me reading.
My biggest pet peeve was the main character. She is so obtusely immature, conceited, annoying, and downright bitchy that I found it hard to care about what was happening to her. She matures as the story gets to the end, which I suppose was the purpose of the first novel, but she's so naive about what she is and refuses to learn anything, even though she has a hard-on for vampires and somehow knows everything about them.
I also thought the novel had some plot holes and could have used some developmental editing. Also, there is a difference between a "twist" and "trick" when it comes to literature, and I think the situation you find out about a certain family member of hers was a trick and not a twist. There was zero foreshadowing about what went down, and it came out of left field near the end of the novel.
I thought the fact that the werewolves called the hunters "monster hunters," therefore insinuating themselves as monsters, while fighting the stereotype that they were monsters, was a little poorly planned. I felt like they wouldn't call them "monster hunters" after getting to know the characters.
I also knew going into this series (because of reading Demon Fire by the author) that the main character would have a problem with killing, even if others were trying to kill her. Which they were. I wished the characters (particularly the main character) had the mental fortitude to do what needed to be done.
I'm invested enough to try and read the second one to see what happens. I'm hoping the main character continues to mature throughout the novel because she is just insufferable at the moment. I don't mind her being a prick to Raff, her love interest, in fact I like the tension it adds, I just hope she gets nicer to others who are just trying to help her and is open to hearing about her werewolf nature, since she is so clueless about how anything works.
The plot was fine too, compelling enough to keep me reading.
My biggest pet peeve was the main character. She is so obtusely immature, conceited, annoying, and downright bitchy that I found it hard to care about what was happening to her. She matures as the story gets to the end, which I suppose was the purpose of the first novel, but she's so naive about what she is and refuses to learn anything, even though she has a hard-on for vampires and somehow knows everything about them.
I also thought the novel had some plot holes and could have used some developmental editing. Also, there is a difference between a "twist" and "trick" when it comes to literature, and I think the situation you find out about a certain family member of hers was a trick and not a twist. There was zero foreshadowing about what went down, and it came out of left field near the end of the novel.
I thought the fact that the werewolves called the hunters "monster hunters," therefore insinuating themselves as monsters, while fighting the stereotype that they were monsters, was a little poorly planned. I felt like they wouldn't call them "monster hunters" after getting to know the characters.
I also knew going into this series (because of reading Demon Fire by the author) that the main character would have a problem with killing, even if others were trying to kill her. Which they were. I wished the characters (particularly the main character) had the mental fortitude to do what needed to be done.
I'm invested enough to try and read the second one to see what happens. I'm hoping the main character continues to mature throughout the novel because she is just insufferable at the moment. I don't mind her being a prick to Raff, her love interest, in fact I like the tension it adds, I just hope she gets nicer to others who are just trying to help her and is open to hearing about her werewolf nature, since she is so clueless about how anything works.
January 12, 2018
“I’m trying my best to live a normal life (well, as normal as possible when you’re a werewolf and your best friend is dating a vampire).”
I totally enjoyed Moon Cursed, book one of Tori Centanni’s The Reluctant Werewolf Chronicles. I’ve never read anything else by her but if her other works are even half as good as this one I will definitely need to remedy that mistake. Moon Cursed is a truly great urban fantasy, with just the right mix of thrills, excitement, adventure, suspense, laughs and even a bit of romance. I love the spunky attitude of its lead character, Charlotte Lear, and can already tell that’s she’s going down the path towards being the sort of total kick-a** heroine I adore.
Highly recommended.
I totally enjoyed Moon Cursed, book one of Tori Centanni’s The Reluctant Werewolf Chronicles. I’ve never read anything else by her but if her other works are even half as good as this one I will definitely need to remedy that mistake. Moon Cursed is a truly great urban fantasy, with just the right mix of thrills, excitement, adventure, suspense, laughs and even a bit of romance. I love the spunky attitude of its lead character, Charlotte Lear, and can already tell that’s she’s going down the path towards being the sort of total kick-a** heroine I adore.
Highly recommended.
May 30, 2018
Not what you think
I have shown the book's cover to my friend and asked him: would you expect this book to be good or bad? "Bad", he confessed. But it's unusually good. It's closer to ironic fantasy than to the usual venue of the dollar-a-dozen, literally, gendered books with such covers. And if you look at the cover closely, like I did before I decided to get it, you will see the heroine's colorful personality and her unsure, unpretentious wolf-self, the anthitesis to what the similar-looking covers usually are. The cover is perfectly crafted for the book that doesn't rush genre cliches and doesn't pander to the reader but lets the story flow naturally. The characters feel more real for that
I have shown the book's cover to my friend and asked him: would you expect this book to be good or bad? "Bad", he confessed. But it's unusually good. It's closer to ironic fantasy than to the usual venue of the dollar-a-dozen, literally, gendered books with such covers. And if you look at the cover closely, like I did before I decided to get it, you will see the heroine's colorful personality and her unsure, unpretentious wolf-self, the anthitesis to what the similar-looking covers usually are. The cover is perfectly crafted for the book that doesn't rush genre cliches and doesn't pander to the reader but lets the story flow naturally. The characters feel more real for that
January 17, 2018
I really liked this book.
Charlie is a werewolf. Not that she’s happy about it. She wanted to be a vampire. Immortal. But nooooo, she gets to howl at the moon every month. Quote: “It was literally the worst supernatural power ever. Turn into a giant, hairy beast you can’t control for 12 hours every month. Yay.” So, she’s very cynical. Can she come to terms with being a werewolf? And, more importantly, can she survive the vicious attacks from the monster hunters? The book was entertaining and fast-paced. It started out very humorous, but soon it got really serious and full of danger. I really liked it.
Charlie is a werewolf. Not that she’s happy about it. She wanted to be a vampire. Immortal. But nooooo, she gets to howl at the moon every month. Quote: “It was literally the worst supernatural power ever. Turn into a giant, hairy beast you can’t control for 12 hours every month. Yay.” So, she’s very cynical. Can she come to terms with being a werewolf? And, more importantly, can she survive the vicious attacks from the monster hunters? The book was entertaining and fast-paced. It started out very humorous, but soon it got really serious and full of danger. I really liked it.
February 2, 2018
When I initially picked the book up the first couple of pages I wasn't sure and actually put it down and started another book but I'm never one to give up so easily and as I've had other books that didn't grab me from page one, I picked it back up and I am so glad I did as by the second chapter I was hooked and couldn't put the book down. It's a great story with strong characters and even a little sadness toward the end that make may you shed a few tears but the end keeps you wanting to know how the story will continue, which I looking forward to finding out.
January 12, 2018
I enjoyed reading this book. This author is new to me so I had no expectations other then hope that the book would be good and it was.
*** Gifted copy by author ***
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*** Gifted copy by author ***
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February 23, 2018
A great werewolf story of Charlotte who wasn’t always a werewolf. Now she’s one, but not by her choice. A fast paced intriguing read.
September 2, 2019
Moon cursed #1
Another great story by Tori Centanni. I am hooked on her characters and storylines. This is the second series of her's well worth reading
Another great story by Tori Centanni. I am hooked on her characters and storylines. This is the second series of her's well worth reading
October 31, 2021
Cute story, good characters. Well written. Just not interested enough to continue the series.
February 18, 2018
An interesting and enjoyable story, though I felt that at times it was too YA-like for my current reading preferences. Interesting concept of a reluctant werewolf turning into a worthy heroine.
October 4, 2018
A fun reluctant werewolf story from a writer who understands humor. Charlotte’s pissed off about the whole thing, she was planning on becoming a vampire. Way to ruin her life!
Along the way she attracts werewolf hunters and a bodyguard in this roller coaster of a first book in the series. The writer has a deft hand and keeps the story moving until it’s over too soon. Great fun!
Along the way she attracts werewolf hunters and a bodyguard in this roller coaster of a first book in the series. The writer has a deft hand and keeps the story moving until it’s over too soon. Great fun!
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