Totally love this series and every book just keeps getting better .
Easy five stars and looks forward to next instalment

Hunger Moon by Alexandra Sokoloff.
The Huntress/FBI Thrillers, Book 5.
Special Agent Matthew Roarke has abandoned his rogue search for serial killer Cara Lindstrom.
A brilliant read. Love this series. Couldn't put it down. 5*.

When I decided to read this book, it escaped my attention that this was actually a sequel in a series. Now I really wished I had read the previous books before, as it would have made understanding this one much easier. I really struggled to get familiar with the characters and the book's style, there where many references to previous events and characters which made me feel like missing something important. However, this got better after about half of the book, where the story focused on present events. The writing was compelling and at times very graphic, but always fitting with the plot.

The topic of the book is shocking, depressing, infuriating, and emotionally draining. This was my first book by the author, and I was impressed by what I learned about her in the afterword, her support for so many good causes and her urge to write about politics. A remarkable book and author, whom I will follow more closely in the future.

Hunger Moon by Alexandra Sokoloff is the 5th in the FBI/Huntress Series.

Amazing series!

First, let me thank NetGalley, the publisher Thomas & Mercer, and of course the author, for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

My Synopsis:
To re-cap, Cara Lindstrom is a vigilante, systematically trying to eradicate the evil of the world. She has killed many men who have evaded justice for too long. Matthew Roarke is the FBI agent who was tracking her. Was is the operative word. Roarke, whether he admits it or not, is in love with Cara, and is no longer actively in pursuit.

Roarke has a new goal. He wants to create a better FBI, overhaul VICAP, tackle the backlog of unprocessed rape kits, create a year-round task force to pursue human trafficking rings, and then use that task force to spread the idea across the nation. His boss thinks that’s great. However, in order for Roarke to pursue his goal, his boss needs him to handle something else first.

The FBI is really concerned with CyberTerrorism right now, and there have been nationwide demonstrations, all organized on-line using encrypted emails and servers, and through various social media. The aim of the demonstrations is to promote women’s rights, and to end their persecution. The FBI thinks the group BITCH may be spear-heading the movement. The world has gone a little crazy since the new president has taken office, and the announcement of a certain man for a possible Supreme Court seat has everyone on high alert. This man is a mysoginistic nightmare who is known for giving light sentences and outright dismissals of rape charges, usually saying the victim was to blame. The demonstrations are now targeting the universities.

So Roarke heads out to the Berkely campus to look into an attack on two male students. What he finds is a group of privileged boys taking what they considered their right. While parents and faculty look away, young girls are being gang-raped. Since no charges are ever filed, nothing is done. But retribution is coming.

Meanwhile, Cara is on an Indian reservation, where no US lawman can arrest her. While there, she is taking care of the white men who use this law to aid in their own appalling crimes. But Cara is being hunted too. The loathsome Sheriff Ortiz is still after her, and using the dark web to entice other like-minded men to rape and brutalize women, and to hunt down Cara for him.

My Views:
Alexandra Sokoloff doesn’t shy away from the tough topics. The whole series has had Cara and Roarke battling child abusers, drug dealers, child trafficking. This book tackles the rape culture. In an “afterword”, the author says she did not exaggerate any of the statistics used in this book. That is really scary. The book also tackles the new US President and his agenda. I am not a US citizen, and am not political. However, unless you have been living in a cave, it would be hard not to be aware of the 2016 presidential race and outcome. Sokoloff decided to incorporate the outcome into her book, and it played in nicely – which is also scary.

There is so much depth to each character, so much emotion. Singh in particular showed another side. That was great! Sokoloff makes you feel it all. If you are a squeamish, or really political, this series may not be for you. It was really gritty, and the rape and brutality may be difficult for some readers. The author didn’t hold back, and the story just flowed.

This, as always, was a great, fascinating, fast, and really disturbing read. I loved it!

This fifth installment in Sokoloff's excellent 'Huntress/FBI' series is a fast, and furious, read. The narrative crackles with an angry energy, a sense of injustice that echoes the real-life rise of the #TimesUp and #MeToo movements. Sokoloff is a master storyteller who gets the pages whirring and keeps the entertainment levels high, but she's also unafraid to hold up a mirror to the ills of contemporary society, the pervasive misogyny that has existed for millennia in various forms but seems to have crawled out of the shadows into the light (and the highest of offices) in recent times.

At its heart, HUNGER MOON is about two people who hunt down the worst of society, the heartless and selfish predators who care little for the damage they cause. Matthew Roarke and Cara Lindstrom are both seeking justice; they just operate on different sides of the law. And perhaps have slightly different views on what are the most fitting or just punishments for heinous crimes.

After chasing vigilante killer Lindstrom throughout previous books, FBI Special Agent Roarke is trying to step back, and focus his work life elsewhere. But he can't shake his connection to Cara. Especially when it seems her actions, and her story, have begun to inspire a whole host of others across the country. "Lady Death" has had enough, and time is up for rapists and predators ...

Roarke and his team find themselves pressured into the strange position of protecting the privileged, of trying to prevent vigilante justice that might have plenty of justification. Meanwhile Lindstrom is being hunted by the very kind of people she's tried to punish, who inspired her vigilante actions.

It's hard to read HUNGER MOON without thinking of various real-life campus rape cases that have hit the news, and the ways in which universities and law enforcement have systemically failed so many victims over the years. Or the recent Hollywood scandals and the #MeToo movement, which are themselves only a high-profile example of pervasive issues women have faced across so many industries and cultures over so many years. Patriarchy, misogyny, the abuse of power.

Sokoloff fearlessly delves into those oh-so-current themes while delivering a barn-burner of a crime thriller. HUNGER MOON is entertaining, and confronting. Polished storytelling packed with raw and authentic emotion. Like a UFC fighter dressed in a tailored suit, it's stylish but bristles with barely-suppressed menace. It's the kind of book you devour in one sitting, but doesn't feel 'breezy'.

I would suggest that readers may get even more from HUNGER MOON if they've read at least some of the first four books in the series, but regardless of whether you start here or back in the beginning, I'd recommend crimeloving readers give Sokoloff and her hard-hitting series a try.

Hunger Moon
By Alexandra Sokoloff

This is book 5 in the Huntress/FBI Thrillers series.

I must say that I have brought into the series and the characters. I would recommend that if you are going to read, that you go back to Book 1 – Huntress Moon, as it sets so much of the scene.

In this volume, Special Agent Matthew Roarke returns to the FBI to head a task force with one mission: to rid society of its worst predators. However there is a new threat to rapist operating on university campuses, and Roarke’s team is pressured to investigate.

Hiding from the law, avenging angel Cara Lindstrom is on her own ruthless quest, hunting predators in her own way.

This series is an easy to read set of books, that engages the audience. They are starting to get predicable in outcomes.
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I devoured Alexandra Sokoloff’s FBI/Huntress series and was totally drawn into the strange, electric and slightly magical relationship between FBI agent Matt Roarke and deadly serial killer, Cara Lindstrom. In many ways this last book is even more magical, suffused as it is with the moon’s glow, Navajo legend and the Mexican saint, Santa Muerte, or Lady Death. By stark contrast, this is also a strong indictment of the current US president – and Sokoloff doesn’t hide her horror of his misogyny. She sees his ascension to power as a real threat for the rights of woman. And she doesn’t mince her words: “the ascension of the ultimate troll, a sexual predator now determining national policy.” For all through this series Sokoloff has spoken up for the rights of women, showing her readers the horrific plight of women who have been trafficked, prostituted or simply neglected by an uncaring system. Hunger Moon takes us into the Canyon de Chelly, deep in Navajo land, where Cara had fled from California after being granted bail. Here too, It looms large – the evil that rampages against women. White men are hunting down and raping Navajo girls, and Cara is hunting the hunters. Soon, however, she finds herself the target of an evil, corrupt law enforcement officer from her past, who whips up hatred against her on several online forums, and offers a reward if she’s brought to him alive. Roarke, meanwhile is returning the Bureau with a new focus – to set up a task force focused on protecting young girls from trafficking and abuse. Before setting it up, he has to investigate an uprising against rapists at colleges across the US. Again, this book is beautifully plotted, written in a taut, sophisticated style and features a totally gripping climax that left me breathless. It’s ruthless, violent and utterly, utterly readable.

My favourite series has a new book out. I looked forward to this and wondered where we would be taken next. I had mixed feelings about this book all the way through, Roarke and Epps were being fed lie after lie while investigating possible rapes involving frat boys, and lots of powerful people ensuring they didn't get the truth. Meanwhile, a boy is kidnapped but by whom? Cara may be in danger and Singh is getting into dangerous territory. Jade is on a mission and so is the group, BITCH. My final thoughts - brilliant, thoroughly enjoyed this book, so do I recommend it -YES. 4 stars from me, only because I felt this story took ages to grip me but still worth a read for sure.

I enjoyed this as part of the series but as a story of its own I thought it wasn't great.

Hunger Moon, book #5 in The Huntress series by Alexandra Sokoloff does not disappoint!

Arrogant frat boys in a college town are targeting coeds for sexual assault at their frat parties. They watch for the most vulnerable, invite them to their parties, drug them and then assault them in a secret part of the frat house, then take pictures of them and keep score. They aren't caught, and aren't charged but then...a wealthy frat boy goes missing. Symbols of Santa Muerte, or the lady of death start to appear on campus. It appears that someone may be taking justice into their own hands.

Special Agent Matthew Roarke is back at work after a leave of absence. He's no longer looking for Cara Lindstrom, but has come back to head up a task force to find predators, in a way doing what Cara did, but legally. As he gets pulled into the disappearance of the frat boy, he realizes that what Cara would call "It" is alive and well in town...and that someone else may not be willing to wait for justice for the assaulted girls.

With every page I was drawn deeper and deeper into the hunt for the missing frat boy, the real story behind his disappearance, and the rage of those girls hurt by the callous assaults on their bodies and their lives. While fiction, it could totally happen in a college town and feel that it's real. Hunger Moon is a tour de force of suspense, drama and outrage; you won't be able to put it down!

I love this series. The avenging angel and the rogue FBI guy are back, playing cat and mouse while they attempt to solve an on campus rape. The author is not timid with her views of the rape culture that she feels has developed in our country and her assertion that the current president is a big part of the problem.

This is the first book I have read by Alexandra Sokoloff If this is any example of her other series I will not be picking it up. Hunger Moon is nothing more than a political commentary on the current president and the sexual abusive that comes from power men. (This is a book review not a debate)

The authors writing style was jagged jumping from character to character with very little transition causing me to wonder who was doing what the entire book. Book 1 or book 5 I always enjoy an author taking the time to update readers. Alexandra Sokoloff was unable to truly update readers without confusing them due to the excessively large amount of characters in the book.
The story didn't flow but felt as if she wrote parts separate and than threw them all together in hopes the work worked.
The political commentary was heavy handed and almost unnecessary. I found both sides of the law lacking anyone who was redeeming characters. The world is filled with enough hate this story seem to keep that hate moving forward.
Thank you to netgalley and the publisher for the advance copy Thomas & Mercer

This book didn't seem to really hook me the same way her first two did. Don't get me wrong it was good but I think what drew me in is fading out a bit.

DO NOT BUY OR READ THIS BOOK!
I have pretty much decided not to dignify this book with a review.
Alexandra Sokoloff has broken my reader-author covenant. She has completely alienated me and I tell you that I won't be reading or buying or recommending this or any of her future works.
Too bad because I had previously enjoyed this series.
This author has abused her medium. I will not let it lie.
I don't understand why other readers allow authors to dictate their political bias to them in a work of fiction. I read to escape, not to be bombarded with facebook-like pap and rhetoric from the left.
She is way off base. No more. Where is the reader outcry???? I am tired of authors doing this.
Just write your story -- I don't care about what your personal beliefs are. Your political leanings are NOT important -- they belong only to YOU. Stop using your work as a bully pulpit.
I blame the publisher too.