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kathydavie's review against another edition
2.0
Fifth in the Monere erotic urban fantasy series about a race of children of the Moon who have lived on earth for millennia. (GoodReads lists this as #7; they are including two short stories.)
The Story
Mona Lisa regrets kicking Dante out…even if he did kill her and her family in another incarnation. So she goes with a small contingent of guards to bring him back from Cozumel where people have sighted a sabre-tooth tiger.
Then a crisis occurs in Washington D.C. when a partially-shifted Monere man rescues a girl from a burning building and the Queen Mother requests that Mona Lisa become the Monere ambassador to the world.
The Characters
The Monere are aliens who used to live on the moon before their planet exploded and they came to Earth to live amongst us. Think vampire. They mostly feed through the actions of their Queens calling down the moonlight and spreading that light out to their people. They are a savage race in many respects and the Queen Mother of the Monere has done what she could to help her race survive and now she sees another opportunity for their evolution through Mona Lisa.
Lisa Hamilton is Mona Lisa, a one-quarter human and three-quarters Monere. Enough that she is a Monere Queen and in charge of her own territory in Louisiana.
Her people include Lord Amber, who has his own territory now; Dante and his brother Quentin along with their parents, Nolan and Hannah Morell; Dontaine; Chami, who plans to stay behind with Lord Thaddeus Schiffer, Mona Lisa's brother who will take over running the Louisiana territory while Mona Lisa acts as the Monere ambassador; Tomas, the new master-at-arms for Louisiana; and, Aquila are all staying to protect Thaddeus.
Jarvis Condorizi is the birdman Monere caught on a live television news feed rescuing Kelly Rawlings from the 19th floor of a burning building. Jarvis is a rogue. In Monere culture, he would be killed on sight as no rogue Monere is allowed to roam free. It's his plight that the Queen Mother uses to persuade Mona Lisa to take on the role as ambassador. For she will issue a blanket pardon to all rogues who will come in and help form the new embassies for the Monere.
Prince Halycon is the Demon Prince of Hell and Mona Lisa's mate. He loves her dearly and will do anything to protect her.
My Take
This is more of a bridge and rescue novel. Mona Lisa brings Dante back into the fold and a possible disaster proves an opportunity for the Monere community to embrace new changes by coming out to the rest of the world.
On the whole, this was terrible. The further in I read, the worse the writing got. There's the bit where she and Dante have escaped Mona Sierra's people and she's riding commando on top of a sabre-toothed Dante discussing how wet she's getting from the friction of Dante's pelt. Oh, please, "honeyed wetness starting to drip down his sides…"?
For a Mixed Blood Monere who spent some 20 years and 6 months surviving in the human world, Mona Lisa is an idiot. What? Was she living under a rock all that time? For one, the Queen Mother is sending Mona Lisa out with a briefcase filled with a total of $1 million in cash and expects her to rescue the birdman and come out to the world. Hullo! Banks anyone?? Security issues? Besides, how can they only have a million bucks available for such an important mission when they all seem to have private planes and such.
Then there's the rescue in D.C. Mona Lisa and her people hang out to a Residence Inn when they're expecting that the FBI and Homeland Security are likely to take them in charge. Um…duh?? Hey, why not just save some money and go for a Holiday Inn or Motel 6. They both have just as much security. Just before heading to the hospital to see what the situation is with birdman, Mona Lisa doesn't understand why her people want her to change out of her old jeans, comfy T-shirt, and sneakers? When she's about to expose her people to the world?
Surprisingly, there's not much sex in Mona Lisa Eclipsing…at least in comparison to the previous stories.
The only real value to this particular story is in the opening salvo of revealing the existence of the Monere. I am so hoping that book six is better written as I am curious as to how Mona Lisa and her people will survive out in the visible world. Especially if this idiot continues to run around.
The Cover
The cover is lovely with its profile of Mona Lisa gazing down her bare arm with a body of water with leafless trees along its banks anchor the bottom and a bloodred moon eclipsing is the focus just above the title.
The title itself, Mona Lisa Eclipsing, is confusing. To eclipse is to hide or obscure, to block when this story is more about revealing.
The Story
Mona Lisa regrets kicking Dante out…even if he did kill her and her family in another incarnation. So she goes with a small contingent of guards to bring him back from Cozumel where people have sighted a sabre-tooth tiger.
Then a crisis occurs in Washington D.C. when a partially-shifted Monere man rescues a girl from a burning building and the Queen Mother requests that Mona Lisa become the Monere ambassador to the world.
The Characters
The Monere are aliens who used to live on the moon before their planet exploded and they came to Earth to live amongst us. Think vampire. They mostly feed through the actions of their Queens calling down the moonlight and spreading that light out to their people. They are a savage race in many respects and the Queen Mother of the Monere has done what she could to help her race survive and now she sees another opportunity for their evolution through Mona Lisa.
Lisa Hamilton is Mona Lisa, a one-quarter human and three-quarters Monere. Enough that she is a Monere Queen and in charge of her own territory in Louisiana.
Her people include Lord Amber, who has his own territory now; Dante and his brother Quentin along with their parents, Nolan and Hannah Morell; Dontaine; Chami, who plans to stay behind with Lord Thaddeus Schiffer, Mona Lisa's brother who will take over running the Louisiana territory while Mona Lisa acts as the Monere ambassador; Tomas, the new master-at-arms for Louisiana; and, Aquila are all staying to protect Thaddeus.
Jarvis Condorizi is the birdman Monere caught on a live television news feed rescuing Kelly Rawlings from the 19th floor of a burning building. Jarvis is a rogue. In Monere culture, he would be killed on sight as no rogue Monere is allowed to roam free. It's his plight that the Queen Mother uses to persuade Mona Lisa to take on the role as ambassador. For she will issue a blanket pardon to all rogues who will come in and help form the new embassies for the Monere.
Prince Halycon is the Demon Prince of Hell and Mona Lisa's mate. He loves her dearly and will do anything to protect her.
My Take
This is more of a bridge and rescue novel. Mona Lisa brings Dante back into the fold and a possible disaster proves an opportunity for the Monere community to embrace new changes by coming out to the rest of the world.
On the whole, this was terrible. The further in I read, the worse the writing got. There's the bit where she and Dante have escaped Mona Sierra's people and she's riding commando on top of a sabre-toothed Dante discussing how wet she's getting from the friction of Dante's pelt. Oh, please, "honeyed wetness starting to drip down his sides…"?
For a Mixed Blood Monere who spent some 20 years and 6 months surviving in the human world, Mona Lisa is an idiot. What? Was she living under a rock all that time? For one, the Queen Mother is sending Mona Lisa out with a briefcase filled with a total of $1 million in cash and expects her to rescue the birdman and come out to the world. Hullo! Banks anyone?? Security issues? Besides, how can they only have a million bucks available for such an important mission when they all seem to have private planes and such.
Then there's the rescue in D.C. Mona Lisa and her people hang out to a Residence Inn when they're expecting that the FBI and Homeland Security are likely to take them in charge. Um…duh?? Hey, why not just save some money and go for a Holiday Inn or Motel 6. They both have just as much security. Just before heading to the hospital to see what the situation is with birdman, Mona Lisa doesn't understand why her people want her to change out of her old jeans, comfy T-shirt, and sneakers? When she's about to expose her people to the world?
Surprisingly, there's not much sex in Mona Lisa Eclipsing…at least in comparison to the previous stories.
The only real value to this particular story is in the opening salvo of revealing the existence of the Monere. I am so hoping that book six is better written as I am curious as to how Mona Lisa and her people will survive out in the visible world. Especially if this idiot continues to run around.
The Cover
The cover is lovely with its profile of Mona Lisa gazing down her bare arm with a body of water with leafless trees along its banks anchor the bottom and a bloodred moon eclipsing is the focus just above the title.
The title itself, Mona Lisa Eclipsing, is confusing. To eclipse is to hide or obscure, to block when this story is more about revealing.
hoping4more's review
5.0
I love that there were no spoilers for the last quarter of the book, it took me by complete surprise and I loved it. I was starting to wonder what more trouble this poor girl could get herself in without it being overkill so I love where the series is headed with this new plot-line.
The mexican memory loss craziness of the majority of the book was thrilling and I loved getting Dante back in the picture. It had been awhile since I last read the other books so I was drawing blanks right along side Mona Lisa, which was fun. But if you want the effect of knowing when she doesn't, you may want a refresher.
Great job Sunny, as always :)
The mexican memory loss craziness of the majority of the book was thrilling and I loved getting Dante back in the picture. It had been awhile since I last read the other books so I was drawing blanks right along side Mona Lisa, which was fun. But if you want the effect of knowing when she doesn't, you may want a refresher.
Great job Sunny, as always :)
unwrittensoul's review
3.0
Felt like two books in one. The last part of the book felt like a totally separate idea. I wish she would have just made that part a completely separate book and wrapped up the story in the first part a little better. I was just left so unsatisfied with the ending of this book. I hope this is not the end of this series because it was not wrapped up very well.
lalabristow's review against another edition
5.0
Published on my blog: Welcome to Larissa's Bookish Life
Rating: 4.5 Stars
*Contains MINOR Spoilers for the previous books in the series.
It had a been a long while since I read the last Monere book and even though I was really looking forward to Mona Lisa Eclipsing, I had no idea how much I missed this world until I finally got to read it. When I did though, I got on such a wild ride with Mona Lisa and her men, that I didn’t want it to end!
As with every book in the Monere series a LOT happens in Mona Lisa Eclipsing and what is described on the blurb is nothing but the tip of the iceberg. I’ll do my best to not spoil anything.
Mona Lisa Eclipsing starts off not long after the events in Mona Lisa Darkening and it has been 6 months since Mona Lisa went from being a nurse in Manhattan that believed something was very wrong with her, to being a powerful Queen of the Monere with a lot of friends and at least 5 men she loves and can call her own.
Mona Lisa is part of the Monere, Children of The Moon, a race descendant to aliens that once came to earth from the Moon and have been living amongst human for longer than time has been counted. Her mixed blood has not stopped her from having that something extra that marks her as a Monere Queen and ever since her life changed, she has been building her new life and reign the best way she can.
In Mona Lisa Craving {Book #5 in the series}, we met Dante, who is the warrior son of a healer, cursed by the high priestess to endure a never-ending cycle of life and death, born and reborn into an ever-diminishing bloodline. Against all odds he and Mona Lisa fell in love, but after a series of awful events, Mona Lisa ended up sending Dante away. After the Hellish events of Mona Lisa Darkening, in this new book Mona Lisa has decided she made a mistake and went after Dante in the last place he had been spotted, Cozumel, Mexico and that’s where everything went to hell in a hand basket.
Sexy Half-Monere drug dealers, Wild Monere shifters with their crazy Queen, Amnesia and a surprise turn of events that will turn Mona Lisa’s world upside down, again! All that makes Mona Lisa Eclipsing a book full of adventures, sexiness and emotions and twists that I, as a huge fan of this series, have been waiting a long time for.
If I have one complaint about Mona Lisa Eclipsing, it was that at times I felt Mona Lisa was taking some situations pretty easily, like with her amnesia and finding out about the Monere all over again. It can be me just being picky, because I know that if she had been whining and fighting it all the way through, I know I would have complained about that too. One other thing was that I felt the timing for her memory to resurface was sort of weird, not bad, just slightly odd.
All in all, Mona Lisa Eclipsing is a great addition to this awesome and sexy series and I recommend to all the Monere fans out there. If you are a Paranoemal Romance fan and haven’t read Sunny’s book yet, I don’t know what you’re waiting for!
Rating: 4.5 Stars
*Contains MINOR Spoilers for the previous books in the series.
It had a been a long while since I read the last Monere book and even though I was really looking forward to Mona Lisa Eclipsing, I had no idea how much I missed this world until I finally got to read it. When I did though, I got on such a wild ride with Mona Lisa and her men, that I didn’t want it to end!
As with every book in the Monere series a LOT happens in Mona Lisa Eclipsing and what is described on the blurb is nothing but the tip of the iceberg. I’ll do my best to not spoil anything.
Mona Lisa Eclipsing starts off not long after the events in Mona Lisa Darkening and it has been 6 months since Mona Lisa went from being a nurse in Manhattan that believed something was very wrong with her, to being a powerful Queen of the Monere with a lot of friends and at least 5 men she loves and can call her own.
Mona Lisa is part of the Monere, Children of The Moon, a race descendant to aliens that once came to earth from the Moon and have been living amongst human for longer than time has been counted. Her mixed blood has not stopped her from having that something extra that marks her as a Monere Queen and ever since her life changed, she has been building her new life and reign the best way she can.
In Mona Lisa Craving {Book #5 in the series}, we met Dante, who is the warrior son of a healer, cursed by the high priestess to endure a never-ending cycle of life and death, born and reborn into an ever-diminishing bloodline. Against all odds he and Mona Lisa fell in love, but after a series of awful events, Mona Lisa ended up sending Dante away. After the Hellish events of Mona Lisa Darkening, in this new book Mona Lisa has decided she made a mistake and went after Dante in the last place he had been spotted, Cozumel, Mexico and that’s where everything went to hell in a hand basket.
Sexy Half-Monere drug dealers, Wild Monere shifters with their crazy Queen, Amnesia and a surprise turn of events that will turn Mona Lisa’s world upside down, again! All that makes Mona Lisa Eclipsing a book full of adventures, sexiness and emotions and twists that I, as a huge fan of this series, have been waiting a long time for.
If I have one complaint about Mona Lisa Eclipsing, it was that at times I felt Mona Lisa was taking some situations pretty easily, like with her amnesia and finding out about the Monere all over again. It can be me just being picky, because I know that if she had been whining and fighting it all the way through, I know I would have complained about that too. One other thing was that I felt the timing for her memory to resurface was sort of weird, not bad, just slightly odd.
All in all, Mona Lisa Eclipsing is a great addition to this awesome and sexy series and I recommend to all the Monere fans out there. If you are a Paranoemal Romance fan and haven’t read Sunny’s book yet, I don’t know what you’re waiting for!
unwrittensoul's review against another edition
3.0
Felt like two books in one. The last part of the book felt like a totally separate idea. I wish she would have just made that part a completely separate book and wrapped up the story in the first part a little better. I was just left so unsatisfied with the ending of this book. I hope this is not the end of this series because it was not wrapped up very well.
thenia's review
3.0
Well there was no neat little bow to wrap everything up, since that doesn't seem to be the last book in the series, although there seem to be no plans by the author to write any more books.
Mona Lisa is on a trip to get Dante back home but instead gets amnesia and forgets her whole life after learning about her heritage. Dante comes to the rescue, gets tortured a lot and they get to know and fall in love with one another all over again.
When she finally gets her memory back a new crisis erupts and she ends up the new ambassador between the humans and the newly discovered Monère.
If there ever is a next book I'm curious to see how things turn out after the end of this one and how everyone's dealing with the world changing revelations.
Mona Lisa is on a trip to get Dante back home but instead gets amnesia and forgets her whole life after learning about her heritage. Dante comes to the rescue, gets tortured a lot and they get to know and fall in love with one another all over again.
When she finally gets her memory back a new crisis erupts and she ends up the new ambassador between the humans and the newly discovered Monère.
If there ever is a next book I'm curious to see how things turn out after the end of this one and how everyone's dealing with the world changing revelations.
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