Had to DNF, I could not get into the story. I tried coming back to it multiple times but just could not get into it.

This book is a unique spin on the typical werewolf/vampire book, with oodles of mythology and world building.

Jillian is immortal, made so by a curse because her fated mate is someone meant to bring balance to the very unbalanced world/war between werewolves (lycans) and vampires. He is reincarnated randomly into new bodies, and it's one such new body that shows up in her town in the form of Damien. Damien knows something is off about him, but doesn't quite understand the extent of that. Through a mix of a bit of stalking, threats on his life, one very understanding father, and very petty friends, Damien finds himself in the middle of a real war.

We start this book in somewhat normal territory, with Damien starting school, getting to reconnect with childhood friends, getting over some trauma, but that rapidly escalates into fated mate, fighting for your life territory, complete with tents and prophecies. While I am still a little unclear on Damien's complete set of powers, he certainly has a lot of weight on his shoulders. The book took us on a whole journey - what felt like years worth of time for Damien. As the setup for a series, this certainly delivered on world building.

I absolutely love stories about vampires and werewolves so I was excited to start this new series. Sadly I was highly disappointed with this one and won't be reading the next one. Not only was I incredibly bored and found myself easily distracted while trying to read it it was way too stalkerish for my taste. I mean seriously we start out with the main female character, Jill, breaking into the main male character, Damien's bedroom so she can go through his things and watch him sleep. And somehow when Damien wakes up one night to see Jill in his room he thinks this is completely normal and procedes to fall in love with her. I really should have DNFed it but I struggled on til the end in hopes that it would get better because I was curious to see how the big battle would turn out, however that was a waste as it was very tame and short for all the buildup that was put into it. It felt rushed as if the author realized she was close to the final page count and needed to end it quickly.

I am obsessed with paranormal romance, but this one fell a bit flat for me. I thought Jillian was a nice character, but for me the chemistry with Damien wasn’t there, probably because he just wasn’t very well developed. It’s a bit hard as well to get away from Jill being a stalker and her actions aren’t really appropriate, especially for an immortal, just felt obsessive and immature. Sadly this just put me off.

Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for a free copy for an honest opinion

A slow burner but once you get further into this book it grips you. A great tale of supernatural battles between God's, Wolves and Vampires. I really enjoyed this tale and read the last three quarters in one sitting as I couldn't put it down. I look forward to reading, more by this author.

I'm a sucker for werewolf romance books, so I was stoked to read this! I liked the premise: Jillian is an immortal lycan but her soul mate, Damien, is doomed to repeatedly die and be reborn in a new body. I loved how the author flipped the Damsel In Distress trope & made Jillian the most active character. Too often, these kinds of books just don't do that--you usually get the male MC being the strongheaded alpha, but in Blessings of Luna, it was Jillian, and I really liked that about this story. This alone made me FEEL SO MUCH for Jillian, and with the slow burn aspect, I was definitely doing the impatience dance (but in a good way!).

I think my biggest complaint would be that Damien really wasn't all that active as the male lead. While I loved the Damsel In Distress trope, the story fell prey to the unfortunately habit of the "damsel" doing not-much-of-anything while the hero (Jillian) did everything. My reasons for being frustrated, though, stem from feeling like Damien just wasn't well-fleshed out. The two characters were unequal in every possible way. Jillian was a BOSS, but Damien...well...it's hard to recall much about him.

Long story short: Blessings of Luna was okay. It's a good beach read, I think, or the kind of book for those who really enjoy alpha females with a splash of supernatural & romance. It might not work, though, for those who like traditional Paranormal Romance novels.

This is an ideal book for those who love Fantasy, Romance, Vampires and Werewolves.

The characters were likeable although seemed to be just a bit too excepting of the Fantasy world.

It was engaging and kept me fully involved.

Blessing of Luna is one of those books that flips trope norms on it's head. In this story, the female is more of the role of the protector, with the knowledge and skills needed, and the male is somewhat in the dark and needing her help. I really loved the world created here and the characters, I wanted to keep reading to see what would happen next.

The reason for only three stars though is it felt awkward in places in it's execution. From the description, I thought the characters were older than they actually were and in many ways this felt like more of a New Adult book than anything else, but you can't tell that from the description. I also like mystery, but I felt a little more information in the beginning would have been helpful to keep me pulling me out of the story as I tried to think through if I was forgetting information not already given in trying to understand why some of the characters were acting as they were. Timing was also strange in certain parts where you got the sense more time passed than could have passed, so this was hard to follow.

All of that being said, I plan to look for more books by this author and give them a try as well!

Thank you to Black Rose Writing and NetGalley. I received this book in exchange for an honest review.

The writing is good ; the character stalking though makes the story a little ....awkward to read. But it is written to where you get wrapped into the story which is nice. It's vampire & werewolf new adult story. Downloaded from Netgalley free -- free review.

Overall not a bad story. I did like the story idea. Kind of along the lines of Twilight but with a little more oomph

I really wanted to like this book, I love the Moon, I love werewolves and I love love stories. Unfortunately, there was so much wrong with this book that I simply did not enjoy it.
First of all - the characters: Jill is a stalker. There is no ifs and buts about it. I understand that she is trying to coax the soul of her lover out of its (body) shell, but that can be done in different ways than following a man to his bedroom and watching him through the window. For an immortal, she is very very immature. Her actions would be understandable for a teenager/new adult who doesn't have experience in the world not a woman of hundreds of years.. Damien is whiny and immature too . He feels like he doesn't belong but I didn't feel like he even tried to belong (not saying that would be the right thing to do, it just felt like that's what he wanted but didn't want to do anything for it). I was confused as how old he was meant to be the whole time. When they meet, there are no sparks and fireworks. It's just flat and empty and weird. When Jill visits Damien in his house for the first time (through a window, mind you), he doesn't get scared and make her leave, he sits with her and chats!? What?!
Their whole relationship felt empty, I didn't feel any of their attraction, it felt like Jill had more sexual tension with a coffee cup than with Damien. They were meant to be mates, yet they were very cold and impersonal to each other, and they disappeared on each other all the time for unspecified amounts of time!
Next let's talk about the writing style. Although there was some mature content, it felt like the book was written by someone with little to no experience with relationships. I felt like we were talked down to, some part were just plainly weird, some bits were explained to the tiniest detail and some not at all, like we were suppose to know what it meant. The book altogether is very inconsistent, it starts away sooooo slow and when it finally gets to the action, it's over within a chapter. There were some sentences that I will forever remember and now use on the regular, ie "chain howl" - what I assume was meant to be a howl that reaches many wolves at the same time, we now use regularly in our group messenger; "stay in howling's touch" - what I assume is hearing distance; and lastly I will announce my pregnancy one day just like Jill: "My love, I'm with pups."
The whole time I was reading it, I had this nagging feeling at the back of my mind, saying that I know the story, and when I finally got the final battle it hit me. This was a wolf and male version of Twilight!! Except Damien didn't make friends with the vampire that was interested in him.
This book clearly did not work for me, but I have seen that it found its fan base, so good for Ramsey.
Unfortunately, I will not be looking for this series or this author again.

Unfortunately, this book just wasn't for me. I struggled to relate to the characters and couldn't work out how old they were supposed to be. They seemed like teenagers, even Jillian who is apparently immortal and hundreds of years old. I didn't like the way that Jillian stalked Damien and I just didn't buy into the connection between them or their story. I might just be the wrong reader for this book. I'm sure other people will love it.
I received a complimentary copy of this book through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

I'm sorry but I could not finish this book. I read until almost 53% and I felt like I was torturing myself. I usually absolutely hate not finishing a book, but this book was an exception. The characters of Damien and Jillian are absolutely boring. Damien is just plain helpless and the damsel in distress. Jillian swoops in as the protector. This was pretty much a rip off of Twilight. The whole time I was pushing myself to read this, all I could think about was Twilight. I'm not trying to be rude but this was a NO for me.

Please tell me I am not the only one that had Ava Max's "Sweet But Psycho" vibes from this?

From the small amount that I had read, it was hard to get by the heroine's stalker-like behavior and unsettling actions. It was too obsessive and creepy for my liking, additional to that, I felt nothing for this couple so why waste more time than I already have on a supernatural romance that is not doing much for me?

I was disappointed, to say the least. I seriously had high hopes for this. Read that blurb—it was everything! It just seemed like too much happened before we even reached the 20% mark. 'Blessing of Luna' has an interesting premise and the overall concept sounded refreshing, but it didn't transition to paper smoothly.

The author took a different approach to the typical werewolves/vampires novels that I am now used to but that itself couldn't win me over. Jill was a borderline stalker. Actually scratch the borderline—she was a stalker. As a heroine, I liked the idea of her being a badass but her thoughts and actions were more than off putting. Like how was Damien not freak out to find a strange woman sneaking into his bedroom at night to watch him sleep? I understood the attraction but that's not even low-key cute and I say a restraining order may be needed since her stalker is showing. Boy you in danger.

“It’s him. If I was honest though, I don’t really care. I’ve come to love Damien as he is."

Girl we're at 9%, you have known him for all of 2.5 seconds and now you're claiming you have fallen in love with Damien?! You have known him for a few days. What?! I understand he is the latest reincarnation of your long-lost lover that you have waited a thousand years to reunite with but something ain't right about that.

Aside from that hot mess, I didn't buy the relationship between her and Damien. There was sexual attraction sure but no real chemistry. I felt like she had a better connection with Kain and Gabriel, and they were the secondary characters.

All in all, if the author had made the heroine a little less unhinged this would have been a winner but with what was said and done so far, our girl Jill was a bit too cray-cray for me and unfortunately (but was it really?) I decided to bury this in my dropped pile because ain't nobody got time for time.

I received this book in exchange for an honest review from NetGalley. This is the first book I've review by Blaise Ramsay. The storyline is really good, I read it in one go, it started too slow for me but when it started there were plenty of action scenes and most of the characters are very well developed. I loved reading this after I got through the slow begining I can't wait to read more books by Blaise Ramsay.