Review: Harvest Moon by Sam Burns and W.M. Fawkes
SYNOPSIS:
Lost best friends grow back together.
Alexis Mena has waited five whole years for his childhood sweetheart to come back from college. He’s ready to get marked, mated, and finally settle down, but when the stoic farmer returns, there’s a wall between them that Alexis can’t scale. Looking at Ridge every day is too much for Alexis, so when his cousin offers him the chance to stay with her and her husband, he jumps to get away. If he can’t have the life he’s always dreamed, with the Grove pack, at least he can stop waiting.
Ridge Paterson returned from college with nothing to his name but an old truck, a one-eyed barn cat, and a heap of debt. Fortunately, he’s also got hope—hope all that schooling’s prepared him to turn the family farm around. But no sooner has he set foot back on Paterson land than his parents decide to sell it out from under him. Listless and lost, he lets Alexis slip through his fingers. Left with cut roots and a heap of desperation, the man he left behind tempts him to find a new place to call home.
There’s more on the line than student debts and insecurities for the young werewolves. The mysterious Condition is affecting Alexis’s cousin, threatening her pregnancy and everything Alexis holds dear, and the man with the skills to solve it all might just be an alpha willing to follow his one-true love halfway across Virginia for a chance to put down roots of his own.
REVIEW:
This was not the story, or I should say that this was not the couple I was hoping for, but I liked the book still. Alexis and Ridge are friends-to-lovers and wow did this book drag my heart through the ringer. The plot twists were still plenty and the couple that is the focus of the next book has me excited.
Alexis’s pining for Ridge is a palpable emotion, and it hurts. He is constantly waiting on Ridge and Ridge just seems obvious to it all. Alexis leaving was the final wake up call that Ridge needed. When Ridge sees his life and plans crumble around him, he shows up at the Grove pack and asks for a place to stay. And from there these two spend a decent portion of the book tip-toeing around each other and their feelings. It was frustrating at times, especially with Ridge who seems absolutely oblivious to any deeper connection because he is too focused on having his alpha’s need to provide checklist completed before showing Alexis any kind of love.
Eventually though, these two get it right and when they do, it couldn’t have been any more perfect. In terms of plot, I liked how Ridge filled in a gap that was desperately needed in the Grove pack. But throughout the story I found myself more intrigued with Aspen and waiting for the moment Brook realized he was back. There are additional developments on the mysterious Condition, but what I am really looking forward to is Brook and Aspen getting a shot at an HEA.
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