Full Moon Rising by Keri Arthur

Full Moon Rising (Riley Jenson Guardian, #1)

by Keri Arthur

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.

Reviewed by celinenyx on

4 of 5 stars

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Urban fantasy isn't really known as a serious or realistic genre, but Full Moon Rising is probably the silliest urban fantasy novel I've read. Werewolf orgies? Check. Weird-ass supernatural hybrids created in a laboratory? Check. Clones trying to kill the main character? Check. Super duper hot ancient vampire? Check, check, check.

There is this common complaint in the more amorous genres that the main characters always take some time to make out despite being in mortal peril. Riley takes this to new heights, by being so horny that she takes time to do the naked tango with several people, even though she's trying to save her twin brother in the meantime. I think it's hilarious - Keri Arthur took the 'shifters aren't bothered by nudity' and absolutely ran with it. I appreciate a heroine who goes for what she wants, even if that means naked gyrating on a werewolf club dancefloor.

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Trigger warnings: rape, date rape, drugging person for date rape reasons, medical intervention without consent, violence, death, imprisonment, slut-shaming.

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