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Full Moon Rising (Riley Jensen, Guardian, Book 1) | 
 enlarge | Author: Keri Arthur
Publisher: Dell
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  75 reviews
Sales Rank: 18947
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0553588451
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92
EAN: 9780553588453
ASIN: 0553588451
Publication Date: December 26, 2006
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Product Description
In this exciting debut, author Keri Arthur explodes onto the supernatural scene with a sexy, sensuous tale of intrigue and suspense set in a world where legends walk and the shady paths of the underworld are far more sinister than anyone envisioned.
A rare hybrid of vampire and werewolf, Riley Jenson and her twin brother, Rhoan, work for Melbourne’s Directorate of Other Races, an organization created to police the supernatural races–and protect humans from their depredations. While Rhoan is an exalted guardian, a.k.a. 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….Easier said than done as the city pulses with frenzied desire, and Riley is confronted with a very powerful–and delectably naked–vamp who raises her temperature like never before.
In matters carnal, Riley has met her match. But in matters criminal, she must follow her instincts not only to find her brother but to stop an unholy harvest. For someone is doing some shifty 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.
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Keri Arthur received a “perfect 10” from Romance Reviews Today and was nominated for Best Shapeshifter in PNR’s PEARL Awards and in the Best Contemporary Paranormal category of the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Awards. She lives with her husband and daughter in Melbourne, Australia.
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 Full Moon Rising May 26, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Lots of twists and storylines in this book - not to mention some seriously sexy scenes.
 Stab it with a silver plated wood stake through the heart...please! May 13, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Took a risk coming to this from my typical sf/fantasy reads because I loved the Anne Rice vampire novels. Needless to say this is a literal waste of time. No character development, no...well I could go on, I realize...believe me there isn't much of anything in here - it reads like a late late late night soft porn it's so dark I can't see anything that's happening made for tv movie.
Someone must be reading this because I see there are sequels, but if you take your reading the slightest bit seriously, leave this one alone.
 Not so much bite ... (2 1/2 stars) March 8, 2008
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
I'm a huge fan of Kelley Armstrong's supernatural series, so when I found Keri Arthur's first novel about a half-werewolf half vamp heroine, not to mention the fact that it was set in my home city, the premise immediately appealed. However, while there are a number of promising elements, it was ultimately rather disappointing. Aside from Riley, the characters were not particularly well-drawn and at times the novel felt like a pale imitation of a pastiche of Armstrong and Laurell K. Hamilton. Even the characters' names sounded like they could have come straight from one of Hamilton's "Anita Blake" novels.
I found the plot hard to follow, too, and I agree with previous reviewers that the sex was just too much. I have no problem with sex in literature (though I think it's overused as a device) so long as it advances the plot. In this case, they most often didn't - Riley's frequent bonk-fests seemed to be included for titillation and were pretty much extraneous.
Another problem (more of a nitpick, really): while this author is apparently Australian, the Americanisms bugged. I'm not saying the characters needed to go around bellowing, "G'day cobber!" (I don't know any Aussie who does, thank God!) but if an author's chosen a particular setting, the language needs to be relatively authentic. Riley "pops a can of soda" instead of opening a can of soft drink. In this book, there are no car parks in Melbourne, there are "parking lots." They don't get into lifts, they get into "elevators." And it's not South Bank, it's Southbank!! Okay, one or two instances, I'd let it pass, but these are just a couple of a number of examples. That's fine if you're writing a novel set in America, populated by American characters. It was not clear if she is originally American (which would explain it) or if these changes were made in the editorial process to make the book easily translate to American audiences or what. However, if the setting is Australia and the characters are Australian, I implore this author to make more of an effort to write how we speak (and in fairness, there were times she did get it right).
However, despite its shortcomings, "Full Moon Rising" was a good airport read (I'd picked it up waiting for an overseas flight) - not too demanding either intellectually or in terms of concentration. I think this author shows some promise, but this book doesn't quite meet my "Would read it again and again" test.
FAST PACED URBAN FANTASY THRILLER December 22, 2007
This is a thoroughly enjoyable book - very fast paced, unique and imaginative urban fantasy who dunnit. However, if you are in the market for a paranormal romance, you may be disappointed. There is a significant love interest but no happy ending and the sex scenes are pretty raw. There's also a fair few of them although in large part, they fit with the story.
I dont know what I expected when I bought the book as I was mainly interested as the setting was Melbourne where I once lived. It certainly surpassed my expectations, with good characters, a strong plot, plenty of action, it is dark and sexy - yet still left me with a bit of a lump in my throat.
The book seeded clues to the whodunnit (some resolution at the end of this book but many not until the end of the third in the series) in much the same manner as Robert Jordan does in the Wheel of Time series so it's a case of - note down that clue or you'll miss it!! For this reason, some readers may find it hard to follow as you need to be awake and kicking to keep up with who is who and what the implications are.
I raced out and bought the rest of the series the very next day. Great fun!
 seriously above average. October 19, 2007
It's a spy novel! No, it's a smokin' hot romance! No, it's a Vampires and Werewolves novel! No, it's ALL of the above, in one tidy package!
Loads of adventure, loads of paranormal workd-build-hints, and stonkin' big heaps of great sex with none of the hang-ups and "oooh, I'm such a bad bad girl, I'm so deadly and I hate it" that have made Laurel K Hamilton's Anita Blake series such a boring read lately. It's sort of a mish-mash of some of the other books I've read, but since it's done better than most of them I'm not objecting. Plus, it takes place in Australia, so how cool is that?
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