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Liked It “I enjoy the Guardian Series...love have a girl half wolf / half vamp kick butt.” see full review » see other reviews » |
Didn’t Like It “Boring. Skipped more than half the book. Really the only reason I finished it was because I wanted to see how her realtionships worked out. I missed quinn in this book. So I will try the next book. if it isn't good then I am done with the series.” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“Boring. Skipped more than half the book. Really the only reason I finished it was because I wanted to see how her realtionships worked out. I missed quinn in this book. So I will try the next book. if it isn't good then I am done with the series.”
Adele A wrote this review 3 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“I enjoy the Guardian Series...love have a girl half wolf / half vamp kick butt. ”
Raquel A wrote this review Monday, August 31 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“If the other books on the Riley Jenson series got a 2, this one gets a half star. I barely even read it. Okay, I read it, but I half skimmed it, finishing it in one hour. It probably has to do with the fact that the most interesting things in the series were not in the book namely psycho guardian Vampire and extremely old masochist vampire who keeps coming back for Riley.
o8oyCe wrote this review Tuesday, August 25 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Even the entire mystery/investigation the directorate was after in this particular book was half-assed. They had TWO investigations going on, unlike the other books where there was one investigation which was streamlined into an entire story arc.
This book seemed like an attempt to introduce more potential men into Riley's bed (which thankfully, hasn't happened yet. She has kept to the 'three men' rule ... or the author has anyway... in which there are only three significant men in one book and all the rest are one night stands...) and eliminate some of them.
For someone who advises heaps of compromise for her brother, Riley just doesn't find compromise.
This series NEEDS to end. Just one more book to end all of the romantic entanglements because the cycle is repetitive and old. New characters and a new story might get her into a new and better perspective in her story telling and might get her out of the cyclic, I want to be with you but can't angle. Her directorate investigations are good. The world building shows promise, it's all of these issues dealing with sex (the author wanting to show that she is a progressive thinker) and monogamy and basically romantic entanglements that have me throwing this against the wall. The only reason I managed through this book was because as I said it showed some promise... If the author actually fixes the 'romance' it might be worth reading again.”
“ Two dangerous cases at once...She is trying to stop the horrible deaths of women from an unknown, risking her life once again. Meanwhile Riley is forsed into searching for a member of her "pack". The pack that kicked her out. Both her and her brother are kidnaped and taken to an unknown island. But this is not enough stress for the young wolf, her lover wants a comitment. She is fighting to save her life, her brother's life, human lives and make an important chioce. How can she do it all ?”
Debbie P ..aka Yodamom wrote this review Saturday, August 1 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Wonderful story, hated the ending ”
Yvette T wrote this review Friday, July 3 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“The Riley Jenson books are great if you want a fun, sexy romp that requires little thought. They are not classics and they don't compare to other paranormal stuff, but for a few hours escapism they will do just fine.
Anna C wrote this review Wednesday, February 4 2009. ( reply | view 1 replies | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
I recommend reading them in sequence.”
“Riley Jenson needs all her supernatural abilities to hunt down a particularly eerie serial killer, in Keri Arthur's Embraced by Darkness.
Tez Miller wrote this review Tuesday, December 2 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Riley Jenson is one of the Directorate of Other Races' guardians, trained to hunt and destroy her prey. With both vampire and werewolf genes, she is mostly werewolf, but has a host of other paranormal skills: she can switch her vision to infrared, is clairvoyant, and can wrap shadows around herself. Mixing searching for a missing pack member and investigating recent serial murders, Riley's on the hunt.
Set in Melbourne, this series was first published in the US, thus there are terms that don't seem to fit with the Australian characters. "Cell phone" is used instead of "mobile phone". "Mom" is used instead of "mum". "Ass" is used instead of "arse". North American readers shouldn't find this a problem, but for Aussie me it's jarring, and took me out of the story. Mind you, it had been over a year since I'd read a Keri Arthur novel (I read the first four quickly and consecutively), so reading the novels back-to-back probably won't make the issue too distracting.
Be sure to read this novel before The Darkest Kiss, as the latter's first chapter deals with a spoiler from the former.
The narrative flows easily, and the final hunt is particularly engrossing - Keri Arthur improves with each novel. Riley usually has numerous sexual partners, but now she's considering going solo with Kellen. Though his name was familiar, I didn't remember much about him. He throws Riley's phone out the window of a limo, and from there on I didn't like him. The move had "control freak" written all over it, not to mention the careless waste of money. Riley deals with the situation rather calmly, but in real life losing a phone means losing all your contacts and perhaps important files. I don't find Kellen romantic; rather an ungrateful shite. It says something about him that Riley keeps pining for vampire Quinn, though I don't think he's any better.
And that whole mother thing in the book's summary? While that bit is featured, we don't actually end up meeting Riley's mum. But another issue from Riley's childhood comes to light, and a new supernatural ability saves the day. That she has so many powers gets her out of jams a bit too easily, and I don't care for her private life, but the rest of the book is fabulously intriguing and entertaining. That it's set in places familiar to me makes it all the more worthwhile.”
“Liked it better than the previous one, after all the love-triangle situation seems solved, but the conclusion of both "mysteries" was too rushed in my point of view.
lara c wrote this review Monday, November 17 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
The author built really well the increasing suspense but it seemed to me that, at the breaking point, after saying for 300 pages how difficult was to kill the bad guys, it all ended a little too quickly. I don't know how to explain it but I had the impression that, while Riley worked hard for the whole book trying to have the upper hand, at the end the bad guys die as they suddenly run out of luck...does it make any sense?! Am I the only one that had this impression?
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“Not the best one, but not bad either. Riley takes some much needed time off work to vacation on an island retreat. She soon gets contacted by her old pack leader, who's granddaughter has gone missing, presumed dead and he orders Riley to help investigate her disappearance. He threatens her saying he will kill her mother if she doesn't cooperate. In the meantime, Riley also has a second case she's working on dealing with an evil entity going around mysteriously possessing men and making them brutally kill their adulterous wives or girlfriends. Also Riley has to make a decision in her personal life: it's either Kellen or her job.”
mystic serenity wrote this review Friday, November 7 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
