Full Moon Rising

Riley Jenson, Guardian, Book 1

By: Keri Arthur

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins

Publisher's summary

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.

Bite into another Riley Jenson novel.

©2006 Keri Arthur (P)2006 Books on Tape

Critic reviews

"Fans of Anita Blake and Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse vampire series will be rewarded." (Publishers Weekly)

Would definitely listen again

What did you like best about Full Moon Rising ? What did you like least?

Interesting take on a supernaturally aware world: the bits of world building throughout the story provided the answers to most of the questions that arose during the course of the work.

What did you like best about this story?

What about Justine Eyre’s performance did you like?

The narrator was the reason I originally looked at this story, and I was not disappointed. She did a really good job with the accents and keeping them and the voices consistent.

What would have made this romance irresistible?

A romance would have helped. I would categorize this story as romantic suspense - which to me means a suspense story with some romance elements. The males in this story didn't deliver the romance. Instead the faint possibility is waved as a tease.

Any additional comments?

I'm interested enough in the possibility to listen to the next story in the series even thought I was disappointed to see the change in narrators.

Still one of my favorite series.

No matter how many times I read/listen this is still a fantastic story! It has the perfect combination of supernatural, Romance, lust, and mystery. Thank you Ms. Arthur!

I liked it...

I liked the book, But as an Australian from Melbourne I was disappointed that the narrator didn't have a real Australian accent... I liked the references to Melbourne rather than some US city. I also think that Laurel K Hamilton is better at writing sex scenes though, This writer still needs to work on hers, and have a bit more imagination...

Full Moon Rising

This book is Fantastic and I recommend it to everyone who love's Paranormal books.

Enjoyable

Would you try another book from Keri Arthur and/or Justine Eyre?

Yes first time reading this author but enjoys Ms Eyre narrations

Would you recommend Full Moon Rising to your friends? Why or why not?

Yes. I enjoyed that that main character accepted for the most part who she was to the point she needed not to justify it, I found it refreshing that she through herself into without thought of what others thought of her choices.

What about Justine Eyre’s performance did you like?

Her ability to make you believe that either a male and or female part was believable.

Could you see Full Moon Rising being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?

not a clue

Great book

Language is a little much at first but over all great book, great story line!! And great voice over.

Good story just a few issues

I really enjoyed the story of the book and the characters. The narrator was pretty good but kept the same tone the whole time. If the character was in pain, angry , in the throws of passion whatever it all sounds the same. There were some situations the character got into that were pretty upsetting *ie date rape* that were glossed over. No real anger about it or emotional fall out just “hmm well that was weird”. Like i said i had some issues but over all a good story and im interested to start the next one

Should come with Xanax

Dear Audible Friend, I really want you to think twice about buying this book and then keep thinking as long as it takes to decide against it. It has to be the single most FRUSTRating book ever recorded. Because there was a fraction of a sliver of a chance the author would somehow redeem herself with a good ending I had to listen to the bitter end - and there wasn't one! She just set up her next book and said "stay tuned". I honestly had to take a sedative to sleep because I was so unbelievably angry.
Thanks for letting me vent - now to be more helpful. There is a laborious (evil people making mutant clones) plot that the author labors and labors over and still manages not to resolve. Irritating but nowhere NEAR as bad as what she does to the romance. She creates a truly fabulous male lead ( I was madly in love with him) who is tragically wasted on a woman who is genetically incapable of fidelity and all but indifferent to love. Sex in this book is a 'call of nature' and it has all the appeal of any 'call of nature' you can name. And so she has unemotional sneezy orgasms with unpleasant men while the romantic hero waits in the car. Needless to say, this relationship goes the way of the plot- nowhere. I wanted to scream and chuck my IPOD out the window.
It's horrible - stay far far away.

XXXtrodinarily bad

I am no prude. I don't mind sex in my books. I don't have some need for monogamy or care if sex is casual so long as the participants are consenting and safe. I applaud people who treat sex as a celebration. The thing is, this book says that the sex is a celebration (while repeatedly belittling anyone who treats the werewolf way as not for him), but this book is not in any way a celebration of sex. The basic premise behind the sex bit (one of about 4 unresolved and frustrating plot lines) is that for a week leading up to the full moon, werewolves must have sex nearly constantly or they will become blood hungry beasts who will savagely rape/murder indiscriminately. It is degrading, disturbing and unnecessary.
Aside from the sex happening every chapter or so, the heroine frequently has sex with 1. men she hardly knows with no intention of getting to know them 2. men she does not trust/like 3. men with whom she is having sex in exchange for information and 4. men who make absolutely clear their lack of respect for her as a person/species. Apart from all this, there are several rape scenes treated like they are no big deal, sex in the middle of breakins and rescue attempts, and a total lack of anything that might make the non-stop orgy remotely more than mere porn.
Which brings me to the "plot". If you could cut the sex down to something approaching sensible (well then the book would be about 2 hours long) you would have three seperate dastardly plots at world domination which somehow are related and somehow appear to focus on a girl who is relatively unimportant except for a secret that the people masterminding the plots would be delighted to know about, except that they are unaware of it, despite having- apparantly- been planning to use her for at least a year. Confused yet? There are plot holes big enough to drive a truck through, and almost nothing gets resolved. The kidnapping of her brother, which gets her involved, is left largely unresolved. One whole plot line that is never quite explained is left open with its wildly unlikely involvement in the other unexplained. Everything about this book is terrible. Bad sex, bad plot, bad writing.
I am now going to do something I have only ever done with one other book, and return it.

Just garbage...

I so want my token back for having gotten this horrible book. The story is weak, so constantly shoe horning sex into is a desperate lame attempt at making it interesting. Typical Laurel K Hamilton wanna-be trash.