Product Description

A rare hybrid of vampire and werewolf, Riley Jenson and her twin brother, Rhoan, work for Melbourne's Directorate of Other Races, an organisation created to police the supernatural races - and protect humans from their depredations. While Rhoan is an exalted guardian, aka assassin, Riley is merely an office worker - until her brother goes missing on one of his missions. The timing couldn't be worse. More werewolf than vampire, Riley is vulnerable to the moon heat, the weeklong period before the full moon, when her need to mate becomes all-consuming...Luckily Riley has two willing partners to satisfy her every need. But she will have to control her urges if she's going to find her brother. For someone is doing some illegal cloning in an attempt to produce the ultimate warrior - by tapping into the genome of nonhumans like Rhoan. Now Riley knows just how dangerous the world is for her kind - and just how much it needs her.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13277 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Review
"'Keri Arthur's imagination and energy infuse everything she writes with zest' Charlaine Harris 'Smart, sexy and well conceived...thoroughly enjoyable' Kim Harrison 'Australian author Arthur's fast-paced fantasy-romance, Strong, smart and capable, Riley will remind many of Anita Blake, Laurell K. Hamilton's kick-ass vampire hunter.' Publishers Weekly"

About the Author
Keri Arthur recently won the ROMANTIC TIMES Career Achievement Award for Urban Fantasy and has been nominated in the Best Contemporary Paranormal category of the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Awards. She's a dessert and function cook by trade, and has one daughter.

Customer Reviews

"No sex please, we're british!"
At long last, we have a book that embodies all the excellent qualities of paranormal romance without all the unnecessary sexual marathons of "Anita Blake-esque" novels. Yes, there is a good dollop of "hot loving" in this book but just the right amount. Call me a prude, but I don't think it's a quality read when the leading lady bonks 3 different shifters or vamps on the way to the supermarket, then a further 10 on the return journey. This does tend to result in a "same old - same old".

The story itself is gritty and punchy and highlights Riley, the protagonist, as a kick ass were/vamp hybrid with a conscience. The love interest Quinn is deadly yet affable and I would most certainly like to meet him in a dark alley. Yes, hang onto your knicker elastic, this one's going to be a bumby ride!

All in all, a really enjoyable read. The characters were believeable and the plot convincing. A welcome deviation from the normal were/vamp paranormal romance novels, one that focuses on plot and an actual story as opposed to how many sexual positions the author can fit into 1 chapter!

I'm just about to buy all the books in this series. Yes, they're that good! Definately clear a space in your study - this one's a keeper.

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great looking girl-check
ability to be a tough broad-check
weird friends-check
screwed up family-check
sad love life-check
handsome men -check
sex-check

it does tick all the boxes-but there was nothing new here either in character or story-
its been done before and done better.

First of a series about a half werewolf, half vampire woman
Werewolf novels and vampire novels are both hugely popular in the urban fantasy genre - and Keri Arthur, in "Full Moon Rising", has combined the two in her heroine, Riley Jensen, a hybrid of a werewolf and a vampire. Riley's Werewolf side seems mostly to the fore - she changes into a wolf, she doesn't need to drink blood, can go out in the daytime, but does have a few vampire tricks up her sleeve such as the ability to sense things in a psychic way and to resist glamour.

Riley's twin brother Rhoan works for Melbourne's Directorate of Other Races as a Guardian - this means he is sent to dispose of any of the supernatural race that commit crimes (and the disposal is usually permanent). However when Rhoan goes missing Riley begins to worry, especially as ten other Guardians have gone missing and been found dead recently. Riley tries to persuade Rhoan's boss Jack to hunt for him, but Jack wants Riley to become a Guardian and seems to be using Rhoan's disappearance as a lever to persuade her to join. Just to add to the complication, Riley discovers a naked vampire camped outside her front door - Quinn, the vampire, can't remember what happened to him but knows he wants to talk to Rhoan and he gets dragged into the plot when it becomes clear he has a significant interest in what's been happening.

What follows is the hunt for Rhoan alongside the discovery of a plot to clone humans and supernatural creatures. Riley finds herself working with the now-clothed Quinn who turns out to be a billionaire who's over a thousand years old, with Rhoan and his lover and with the mysterious Jack, boss of the Guardians. Her time is also spent with her two lovers, Talon and Misha, both werewolves.

Although there's a well structured plot in this story it is interspersed with a lot of sex. Apparently werewolves have the mating urge for the week before the full moon and it's evidently very strong - Riley has two mates, has had up to four, and this polyandry is the norm. I wondered how, in this society, the werewolves had ever been able to integrate if one week per month they were raving sex maniacs. Anyway, Riley's making do with her mates until she finds her soulmate - but what happens if she does find him but he refuses to get into a relationship with a werewolf? Riley finds her problems compound as the plot continues as she doesn't know who to trust and who to believe and people that she thought were unconnected to the disappearance of Rhoan appear no longer to be innocent.

This is an interesting new twist on the werewolf and vampire story, although I wasn't very comfortable with the weeklong mating urge thing as I felt it rather derailed the plot and the pacing at times. Still it was an interesting enough read, it was fun that the setting was Australia rather than America, and Riley was an enjoyably feisty heroine. Quinn was an interesting character too, although I felt too much was made of his financial status (and also of Talon's) - are there that many millionaires/billionaires out there and would they hang out with people such as Riley?

This book is the first of a series and it was very clear at the end that the reader is encouraged to buy the next in the series. Although the story reached some sort of a resolution there were many significant loose ends which I imagine are to be addressed, at least in part, in the next book. Although I did enjoy reading this one I don't think I found the overall premise and the writing style gripped me enough to cause me to search out the next in the series.