From Goodreads: Rylie’s been bitten. She’s changing. And now she has three months to find a cure before becoming a werewolf… forever.

Rylie’s parents force her to attend summer camp, but she’s just as miserable at the girls’ camp as she was at home– there’s nothing vegetarian for her to eat at the mess hall, she hates hiking and archery, and the other campers taunt Rylie mercilessly. One night, the bullying goes too far, and Rylie runs away. She doesn’t get far. It’s a full moon, and she isn’t alone in the forest.

She wakes up unharmed in her cabin the next morning with no memory of what happened. The only sign something has changed are the healed scars on her chest, her increasingly keen senses, and her sudden craving for raw, bloody meat.

A boy from the other camp seems to know what’s happening to her, but Rylie isn’t sure if she can trust herself with Seth. He’s way too cute and he knows way too much.

Rylie soon learns that she only has until the end of summer before she becomes just like the monster that attacked her: a man-eating werewolf hungry for human flesh. Unless she can find a cure, she’s going to transforming at the end of the summer and lose her life to the hunger.

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I enjoyed this novel.  Rylie, the main character, is just like me, so I really loved reading her perspective of things.  Like Rylie, I don’t like being around lots of people, I want to do my own things, I don’t like when someone tries to tell me what to do, and I hate camp.  I really feel like we’re one in the same!  Having all these similarities to Rylie helped me to connect with her as a character, and I completely take her side in all things in the novel, especially when it comes to the bratty girls she had to deal with at camp.  I was not as connected to Seth as I was to Rylie, but I think part of the reason for that is the fact that he is very aloof.  He manifests and disappears just as quickly, and I don’t feel like I got to know him as well as I’d liked to.  Because of this, I had a little difficulty with Rylie’s “love” for him, as I feel like their time together was rushed, but, I do believe Seth is going to be a key character in the next segment of the series, and I am very excited to see him back in action, hopefully at the forefront of the novel.

I found the werewolf aspect of this novel very interesting and I highly enjoyed that it stepped away from the traditional werewolf story and took on a presence of its own.  Reine has created a world in which the shift to werewolf is a slow descent that allows the person changing to come to terms with their new life.  I also really loved the descriptions Reine gave in terms of the shifts during each moon phase.  Until I picked up Six Moon Summer, I’d never read a werewolf novel that truly allowed me to see the changes in my mind’s eye.  Reine is a very talented writer and her descriptions hit home, causing me to see, and feel, the changes as Rile undergoes different segments during the moon cycles.

The end of the story has a nice conclusion; no cliffhangers here, and I am very thankful for that.  It seems many novels in a series are currently leaving the reader hanging, and I am not a fan of those types of endings.  Six Moon Summer has an ending that, while allowing closure, also allows speculation and room for the upcoming sequel, for which I am very excited.  Three and a half stars.

I received a copy of this novel from the author in exchange for an honest review.