ISBN: 9780553588453
Publisher: Dell Publishing
Rating: B
Riley Jenson is a dhampire; half vampire and half werewolf. Her affliction is one that she shares with her twin brother Rhoan and once they reached adulthood they were ceremoniously removed from the pack they were raised in and forced to find their own way in life. Rhoan is a Guardian or assassin for the Directorate of Other Races while Riley is an admin in charge of setting the assignments for the Guardians. The Directorate was created to protect humans from the less than pleasant supernatural issues. When Rhoan goes missing on a mission, Riley finds herself thrust into a world she has been fighting for most of her life;the life of a Guardian. Rhoan’s disappearance comes at the time when the moon is riding high and wreaks havoc on Riley and other wolves due to their hyper sensitive need to mate. Riley learns that she may not be able to trust those she allowed close to her, and ultimately may have to trust the naked Vampire with no memory, Quinn, who shows up at her door and says he is friends with Rhoan. Riley must learn to trust in Quinn and her own instincts if she will be able to save Rhoan.
It took me a while to be comfortable with the overall storyline of Riley and her hyper sensitive need for mating, not because I’m prude, but because one of her partners, Talon, just gave me the creeps. Which in the end is the point and Arthur did an amazing job creating that creep factor. The characters are very diverse and each has a distinct quality that separates them from each other and since there were a lot of characters to keep track of in this debut novel of the series, it helped to feel who the characters were as well as remembering their names.
There was a lot of action and tiers of the plot and I wasn’t sure how it was all going to tie together at the end and ultimately the overall plot will carry over to the future books of this series, but Arthur was able to resolve the issues that were specific to Full Moon Rising and make me a fan.
Full Moon Rising is full of heat and passion and a lot of sex and for those who dont’ like a lot of voracious sex in your books this is definitely not the book for you.
Arthur took a particularly sensitive issue involving a date rape type drug and wrote it with clarity and feeling which allowed me as a reader to experience the anger, resentment, disbelief and betrayal that Riley felt. Arthur’s writing exceeds the words on the page as she translates these words into real emotions which for me as a reader is the mark of a favorite.
