This book totally switched gears on Caleb and Lazar, making Lazar sympathetic and Caleb a jealous dick, and it seems to have done it all for the Love Triangle. (Insert birds chirping and violins playing here.) TBH, were I Dez I wouldn't want to date either of them.

Obviously I didn't enjoy this book as much as I did Otherkin. I still liked it, but it felt as if so much about what these stories were about--what Dez was about--had changed. She moved further away from her life as a disabled person, because she wasn't any longer, and that lack of thoughtfulness about her body and her self was to this story's detriment. Still, her friends were there (found family wacky boarding school), and there were new evil plans from her enemy and new cracks in that enemy's armor. A good book, but the weakest in the series.
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I just couldn't finish. I feel bad, because I really enjoyed the first book in the series. This one suffers from some SERIOUS middle book syndrome, which made it unreadable for me. The characters are annoying - Dez feels so whiny and blah to me, where she was cool and strong the first time around. The others kind of fade into black because they're so boring and forgettable.

Plot-wise, yawn. I just couldn't do it. I'm pretty sure I'll be giving my copy away, even though I have a pretty signed copy of the first book.

In Berry’s follow up to Otherkin we are instantly thrown back into the action. The Tribunal have broken into each of the shifters homes, not to kill them, but to still their hairbrushes. Right away Dez is on alert and with the strange incidents happening with her mother, she knows that they need to assemble at the school and figure out what is going on. Dez has grown into her shifter abilities but as a result she has become even more stubborn. I have a feeling that is a natural trait with all tiger shifters and maybe that is the reason that most shifters are not fans of tigers.

Dez does continue to make mistakes but in her head they are for the good of the people she loves. Her love of Caleb becomes blurred when Caleb’s half-brother and Tribunal baddie, Lazar, steps back into the picture. This time Lazar wants to help the shifters. He supposedly has seen the light and wants nothing to do with his father. Instead he wants help from the shifters to escape the Tribunal but the other shifters except for his sister, Amaris who has already escaped and is helping the shifters, don’t believe him and think it is a trick.

I think if it wasn’t for Caleb’s sudden jealous streak there would not be a love triangle. Unfortunately, as with most YA books, there is one now but it doesn’t deter from the main part of the storyline. I did find myself seeing Lazar as not the enemy but as a tortured soul who is truly looking for a way out from under his father’s tyrannical rule. The only part that was hard for me to accept was how easy Dez trusted Lazar who previously tried to kill Dez and her family.

At times the action does read a bit heavy but all in all Berry does an excellent job in keeping the action rolling page after page. With each new revelation I was riveted to the pages wondering what will happen next.

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Berry seems to be a victim of the sophomore curse. Othermoon fell flat for me in many areas. While this book had a lot of potential, most of that potential was not realized. Berry had the opportunity to carry on the amazing story she wrote with Otherkin, and it seemed as if she attempted to. However, this effort was not nearly as good as the first novel.

The character development in this story was non-existent. Sure, we learned more things about Dez throughout the course of this book, including where she came from, but Dez, herself, did not grow or change at all. An outward change forced on a character does not change who or what the character is. Dez was the exact same person at the end of the novel that she was in the beginning. Likewise, while other characters confessed things randomly, and in unnatural ways, their inherent personalities remained the same. No one gained strength or showed any improvement or growth, other than Lazar and Caleb. I loved Lazar in this book, and I am interested to learn more about him. Caleb turned into an abusive, creepy jerk, but the rest of the characters pretty much remained the same.

The plot was very clearly manipulated by Berry. Nothing happened naturally. Every single occurrence seemed forced, and it was obvious that the author was manipulating the story line in order to achieve the desired outcome. This made the entire book seem unrealistic. Therefore, I was unable to read this novel with a willing suspension of disbelief because nothing seemed natural. Odd character behaviors came out of nowhere without warning, and a lot of what the characters said didn't make sense. Furthermore, every event was so orchestrated and coincidental that I couldn't possibly buy into what Berry was selling.

Overall, I'd only recommend this book to you if you read the first novel in the series. The concept is still intriguing, and I will give the third book a chance, but right now I am not impressed with this series. The first book was amazing, and that caused me to have high hopes for the sequel. Unfortunately, Othermoon did not live up to those expectations. Here's hoping book three will be better. ( )