Review: Tempting Danger (World of the Lupi Series Book 1) by Eileen Wilks

Tempting Danger by Eileen Wilks
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Great Start To The Series

I first read this book years ago and was reminded of the series by a post I read of Facebook. I decided to give the series a re-read, and realised that I’d never reviewed the books, because when I first read them I didn’t leave reviews. I’m righting that omission now.

This book is an Urban Fantasy/Paranormal Romance hybrid. In my mind Paranormal Romance books focus solely on the romance aspect of things, whilst Urban Fantasy is much more plot and action orientated. Whilst there is a hefty dose of romance in this book, there is also a great deal of plot, which is a fine line to walk. I believe Eileen Wilks succeeded in walking that line.

Lily Yu is a homicide detective with San Diego Police Department. She’s only 28 and is proud of achieving that goal. She is also a Sensitive, someone who can sense magic and magical beings. In this reality supernatural creatures are acknowledged but people are prejudiced against them and they only recently got some rights to be treated as citizens but werewolves or Lupi as they are called can still be killed when they are wolf form.

Lily has been called to a murder and follows the leads that send her to Rule, a prince of the Nokolai pack of Lupi. There is an instant connection, but he is the suspect in the murder.

Lily has to walk a tightrope between what is right and procedure within her department and the unspoken rules of the brotherhood of cops. Her feelings for Rule complicate matters

All the characters in this book are interesting, in particular Lily’s grandmother. She’s fascinating, as is her relationship with Lily. Lily is a complex character disguised as a straight forward one. With each chapter we peel back another layer of her personality and see her more clearly. We learn less about Rule in this book, but he’s still a very interesting and enigmatic character who loves his people and his family.

This book ends with a HFN, but leaves many questions unanswered and draws the reader on into discovering how the problems are solved.

I’m so glad I re-read this book, I can’t wait to start on the next in the series.

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Review: Luna Touched (Brides of the Aashi Series Book 1) by Belle Harper

Luna Touched by Belle Harper
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Fun and Easy To Read

I’d probably give this book 3.5 ⭐️ if I could.

Luna grew up in the foster care system and has never felt settled anywhere. When she saw a job ad that intrigued her she ended up travelling to a different world to become a wife to a four armed, two tailed alien. Except they didn’t really give her all the information.

Luna is to be mated to five aliens and she doesn’t get any say in which ones she is to be mated to. When the alien she is to paired up with turns out to be an arrogant, mean spirited individual she knows she has to do something, she just needs to figure out what that is.

This was a light hearted and fun book to read. Perfect for a prolonged period of isolation. The characters are pretty shallow and the plot is thin but it is fun and there is plenty of hot scenes to entertain the reader.

It’s not the most challenging of books, but it certainly is a fun one, and sometimes that’s just what you need.

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Review: Oblivion (Rise of the Sphinx Series Book 1) by J Kearston

Oblivion by J. Kearston
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Mythical Shifters

I’d probably give this 3.5 ⭐️ if I could.

This author is new to me and though I enjoyed the book, but I don’t know if I’m intrigued enough to read the next one in the series.

Raina is a 25 year old single mother, who’s life has been difficult at best. The light of her life is her 4 year old daughter Skye. One day Skye is kidnapped as she leaves school, right in front of Raina’s eyes and to her surprise she manages to chase down the large, strong man and not only retrieve her daughter but kill the man. This is the start of a journey that leads her to three mythical shifters who take to both her and her daughter almost instantly (one is a bit more reluctant).

These three shifters are outcasts because they lost their chance at mating one of the very rare female shifters available, years before. They are driven to protect Raina and Skye, despite them being human, but the plot thickens when they realise that it’s shifters that are after Skye.

It’s quite a simplistic step by step plot, which is sometimes relaxing, because you don’t have to think too hard. I didn’t really connect with Raina much. She seemed a bit two dimensional to me, as were the other characters. To be honest my favourite was the 4 year old!

This book is escapism when you don’t want to think too hard about what is coming next, when you don’t want too much angst, but a little bit of peril is fine.

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Review: Enemy (The Aces Series Book 3) by AJ Macey

Enemy by A.J. Macey
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

An End To Keira’s Journey

I’d probably give this book 4.5 ⭐️ if I could.

This book starts with Keira and Chase in Europe. It’s been months since Keira saw the Aces, but Chase has been helping them keep an eye on Keira’s father, spending half his time with them and half his time with Keira. When Keira gets a heads up that her father has put out a bounty on all the top tier of the Aces MC, including her former lovers, she gets herself back to the Nevada to help them before her father than can destroy anything else of her life.

Whilst Keira doesn’t want her men to die, she’s not yet ready to forgive them for the hurt they caused her when they doubted her loyalty. It’s going to a long hard slog before she’ll trust them again. However, being there is half the battle as far as Garrett, Brooks and Stone are concerned and Chase just wants his girl to be happy, no matter how that’s achieved.

This book is no different from the others in that it has large amounts of action, large quantities of hot sex and lots of violence. Keira and her men are all passionate, fiery people and they live life on the edge. It’s well written with interesting characters and I enjoyed it a lot. It's a satisfying end to a dark and complex series.

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Review: Starlee's Turn (The Wayward Sons Series Book 2) by Angel Lawson

Starlee's Turn by Angel Lawson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Brand New Start

After Starlee’s mother takes her back home, despite Starlee’s wishes, she returns to a restrictive, dull and lonely life. She tries to explain that needs to be allowed to spread her wings a little but there is no shifting her mother. Then the crisis point hits on her 18th birthday and she runs back to Lee Vines, her grandmother and the boys next door.

Given a chance to start again in Lee Vines, her grandmother insists that Starlee enrol in the High School and actually experience life. What started as a holiday romance has been given a chance to thrive. What they don’t expect is the interference from outside that threatens everyone’s happiness.

This book contains a lot more teenage drama than the first book, because they are in their senior year at high school. Adding in a bunch of teenagers to the plot creates all sorts of tension. Sierra is strong character who is put into a hard position when she took over the care of her brother when their parent’s died, and then to take in another three boys as a foster parent is extraordinary for a women in her mid-20s. She tries so hard to do the right thing but it seems sometimes she’s fighting a losing battle.

Everyone is these books are trying to do their best in difficult circumstances and it makes the characters seem more real when they are frustrated and angry, but try to keep control because they no it will do no good to lash out.

It's a good series, and I’m interested in what comes next.

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