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I love Riley Jenson books! She is a very well developed character that shows its OK to be vulnerable with her heart, but does not let it get walked all over. She has the perfect amount of sass, and her fighting skills get better with each book! I like how well Ms. Arthur writes about each of the men in Riley's life and makes me feel like I know and care about the characters.
In the 2 books I have read, so far, I love the the ongoing mystery of what will happen next in the labs and love the addition of each the men in her life.
I admire that Riley still has hope for love and seeks it out even after being lied to repeatedly by Misha, Talon and others she thought cared for her. She still seeks love after being used and abused terribly by these same mates, used for breeding purposes and as a lab rat by the people hunting her as well as by the people she once cared for.
I think with each new book I get more intigued to see how she will deal with the next obsticle and I like that she seems to deal with the problems like most people do and wrestles with how to come to terms with the decisions she makes and is forced to make.
I would recommend this series to anyone that likes a fast paced mystery with a heroine that is sassy and real.


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Kissing Sin Keri Arthur 9780553588460 Books Reviews

This book ended far more abruptly than I expected it to, which I guess is a good way of saying I didn’t want it to end. I’m looking forward to the next book. These books are very sex-positive, which I think we need in our rather prudish American culture. Riley is smart & courageous. She makes a kick-ass heroine despite her aversion to killing, which is also what sets her apart from the guardians. I’ll definitely keep reading the series to see what Arthur comes up with next.
Riley Jensen is a half-werewolf, half-vampire dhampir with a love of her wolf heritage and overall contempt for most vampires. She's a liaison for Melbourne's Directorate of Other Races - an aussie equivalent of the FBI for supernaturals. Or she was. Now she's being pulled closer and closer to the one job she's never wanted - being a guardian. Kissing Sin begins with Riley waking up next to a dead body, and her life takes another horrified spin when she realizes she's been caught and experimented on in the continuing conspiracy to get her pregnant.

The plot of Kissing Sin is a continuation of the one begun in Full Moon Rising, so I'd recommend you start there if you're so inclined. Unfortunately, I'm afraid I'm not feeling remarkably charitable about recommending this series so far. It's not bad, really, it's just...while I've never thought of myself as particularly prudish, Riley's sexual promiscuity in Kissing Sin has crossed the line - from a species-centric celebration into pathetically gratuitous. I understood the reason behind having SO much sex in Full Moon Rising - we were told over and over and over that the full moon almost completely commands a werewolf's sexual needs for the seven days preceding the full moon. I didn't like it, as it always seemed like sort of a flimsy excuse and I personally believe the survival need supersedes sexual ones, but at least there was a reason for it. That reason was no longer relevant in Kissing Sin and yet I couldn't see any difference AT ALL between Riley's sexual behavior in this book versus the previous one (other than the names of the partners) - and that IS a failing. I'm sorry, but when the sexuality of a heroine of a book doesn't just become the plot, but completely obliterates the plot (like LKH's Anita Blake series) there's something wrong.

Not to mention the vampire mogul Quinn is back and in a COMPLETE about-face, is now clamoring for an exclusive relationship with the werewolf who just last book he had made no bones about leaving behind. There's a very flimsy and unbelievable reason given for that abrupt about-face that never quite works. That's a shame, actually, because I like Quinn. More so than Riley. Unfortunately, Kissing Sin suffers from some of the same issues that Full Moon Rising does. Both are at times muddy and plodding, and other times frenetic and confused. Both are flawed.

Still, not all is bad. Riley is a competent, intelligent protagonist who stands on her own two feet (or four paws) and doesn't walk around waiting for a male to save her. She's a bit saucy and a bit wicked and she tends to get into trouble...I sure wouldn't let her drive my car...but when she isn't "celebrating" her sexuality with every interested male, she's a solid heroine. Quinn, the ubersexy and ultrarich vamp, is less layered and complex in this one, but still a favorite character, and I sincerely hope to see more of him in future books. Riley is still supported by a solid group of secondary characters - Riley's vampire boss (Jack) and one of Rhoan's mates (Liander) in particular - who are interesting and sympathetic with a lot of development potential, and the bad guys are still really repugnant.

I think I'll be giving Riley one more try, but unless the sex in the next book is either toned down or given a more believable connection to the plot, I doubt I'll stick around for more than that.

Warning The Riley Jensen series is NOT a romance series - it's an erotic urban fantasy. If you expect that going in, maybe you won't have the negative reactions that I did.
The main issue I have with these books so far is that they just start and stop; there is no beginning and no ending. The first few chapters of this book were a little confusing to me because it doesn't start where the last one left off. Riley just wakes up naked in an alley after she's (surprise-surprise) kidnapped yet again and I was left wondering if my book was perhaps missing the first chapter or two that lead up to this point. The ending of this book was much the same--It left me with no closure and seemed like my book was missing the last chapter that lead into the next book. I also found it a little hard to keep track of the names of the "hermaphrodite-wolf-shape shifter-clones." Since there are several of them and they all have two different names, it was a little difficult to follow in the end when you find out who some of the bad people are.

With that being said, the rest of the book was really good. The addition of two new characters, Kade and Kellan, added a new level of drama to Riley's already crazy love life. Both of them shake things up for Quinn who gets a bit too controlling in this book. He's starting to irritate me a bit because he just can't seem to get on board with what shifter's are all about. While there were a few things that I thought were a bit predictable, there were also several twists I didn't see coming. A few of my questions did get answered and I'm really hoping to find resolution to more of them in the next book. ONE MAJOR THING that I did at the end of this book that I didn't do at the end of `Full Moon Rising' was read the first chapter of the next book, `Tempting Evil.' Thankfully, the next book seems to pick up where this one leaves off - which makes me happy!! Had I read the first chapter of `Kissing Sin' before I bought it.......I'm not sure I would have continued with this series.

Conclusion If you get on board with Riley and "the ways of the wolf" you're really going to enjoy this book. If you can't get, you should probably stick to reading Twilight.
I love Riley Jenson books! She is a very well developed character that shows its OK to be vulnerable with her heart, but does not let it get walked all over. She has the perfect amount of sass, and her fighting skills get better with each book! I like how well Ms. Arthur writes about each of the men in Riley's life and makes me feel like I know and care about the characters.
In the 2 books I have read, so far, I love the the ongoing mystery of what will happen next in the labs and love the addition of each the men in her life.
I admire that Riley still has hope for love and seeks it out even after being lied to repeatedly by Misha, Talon and others she thought cared for her. She still seeks love after being used and abused terribly by these same mates, used for breeding purposes and as a lab rat by the people hunting her as well as by the people she once cared for.
I think with each new book I get more intigued to see how she will deal with the next obsticle and I like that she seems to deal with the problems like most people do and wrestles with how to come to terms with the decisions she makes and is forced to make.
I would recommend this series to anyone that likes a fast paced mystery with a heroine that is sassy and real.