SPRING MOON by HRH Princess Sophie Audouin-Mamikonian

Indiana, whose mother had a fascination with that famous swashbuckling archaeologist, is a boy caught in a pack of wolves who might think he was delicious, except that he's related.  His mom was a TimeTracker, but he's shown no signs of becoming that or a werewolf.  Everyone in his family is bigger and stronger.  And they have better hair too. 

Oh, what's a boy to do?

Mom's no help.  She's been locked away in an insane asylum patrolled by vampires and fairies since supposedly killing his father.  Gosh, and I thought I had problems. 

Well, he can't whoop his furry cousins the old-fashioned way, so he invests in his brain and it pays off.  He runs into a Semi (half-werewolf, half-human) and manages not to get eaten, even though Axel (the semi, whose built like one by the way), should have no qualms in doing so.  You see, it's the Semis who have given real werewolves their bad name.  But, this one's a reasonable dude and Indy is able to talk him into being pals and, even more, into training him to fight, so he can hold his own at the family reunion.

Meanwhile, Indy grows the rest of the way up and graduates high school.  He's got his sights on college, but the pack are not eager to let a potential Timetracker/Werewolf out amongst humans.  Besides being able to see into the future, TimeTrackers also tend to just vanish, go invisible, whatever.  His formidable grandfather is not anxious to lose control over the boy.  Like Grandmas everywhere, his is able to turn the tide though.

But, the thrill of freedom is short-lived when your grandparents are the most powerful werewolves in the country and there's a psychopathic one on the loose to boot.  Oh, yeah, and human girls are off-limits, dude.

Isn't it just lovely when the grown-ups pass their war on down to the next generation?

Still, it's kinda cool to have a wolf as a bodyguard passing as a service dog when you saunter down the halls of University of Montana. 

If only Bella had played her cards right...

I struggled with how much to tell you all about this story.  You know, we reviewers worry about spoiling the ending for you.  Should I tell you if Indy turns out to be a Mama's Boy or not?  Or if you'll need to vacuum after he visits?  Or, does he turn out to be just a good ol' human boy? 

Nah, I'll let you figure that out.

This was an adventurous tale, but I must admit to wishing it had been written in Third Person instead of First Person Point of View.  I know First Person is the hot thing in YA now, but some stories just need to be told in a certain way to thoroughly enjoy the fullness of it.  This story was much bigger than I could see through Indy's eyes.  This is something I struggle with as a writer myself, so maybe that's why I picked up on it.

SPRING MOON was sent to me by Entangled Publishing   and was my very first ARC for this new blog.