Somewhere between "Pride and Prejudice " and the rise of bands of vampire brotherhoods, we romance readers became a bloodthirsty lot of chicas.
That's why the idea of being taken vigorously on the floor of a fetid Turkish prison cell by a starving half-beast who'd as soon gnaw apart our steaming viscera as ravage our virgin flesh is just about the hawtest romance novel scenario a girl could dare imagine!
Luckily for us, Sharie Kohler -- aka Sophie Jordan, she of the well-mannered, yet sensual Regency romance - has created "To Crave a Blood Moon ," and an entire Moon Chaser series of intensely entertaining and wickedly sexy novels of hell-bent adventure 'bout a bunch o lycans (werewolves), hybrids and the lovers who wend their ways into soft, squishy underbelly of werehumanity.
How does a group of Really Awful Werefolks get a good-guy, half-breed lycan hunter to head over to the dark side and give into his basest werewolf nature? Easy! Well...not so easy if we're talking half-were Sebastian Santiago. They can starve him for weeks and toss into his cell a gorgeous innocent when the moon's full and the hunger's upon him.
But that don't mean wolf boy's gonna' nosh on the pretty little morsel. Seems Sebastian's able to hold on to his humanity despite being fully mad with hunger by slaking his thirst, as it were, w/ pretty Ruby Devereaux, the kidnapped Louisian' offered up to him on a dastardly platter.
Ruby's hyper tuned-in to Sebastian's needs, which is nothing new; she's always been nearly suffocated by the desires of those around her. Yet imprisoned as his "captive prey," Ruby's life is changed forever when Sebastian's adversary turns hers and Sebastian's intimate connection from best-enemies-with-benefits to desperate souls searching for some way to find an "ever after," let alone one with something akin to "happily."
If you expect a kind of hairy-visaged, "Teen Wolf" flavah to "Blood Moon," think agin'. Kohler's take on the silver bullet-riddled mythology of yore is decidedly fresh, vigorous and mostly depilated. And the were males are fighters and lovers, deliciously alpha, yet perfectly capable of supporting their independent females, albeit in the sensitive-on-the-inside, jealous, overbearing and animalistic-on-the-outside style we romance fans know and love.
See? Told'ya potential evisceration by a lover's a turn-on; it's all in how you look at it.
What do you love about werewolf romances? How much blood and gore can you take along with your romance lovin'?
Ooooooooh, I love me some hunky wolf-men and these sound absolutely delicious!
My favourite were-novels are those in Patrice Michelle's Scions-series. The first book is primarily about vampires but the second and third one (Scions:Insurrection and Scions:Revelation) both have to-die-for wolf heroes. What I love about them is that they are so absolutely primeval (in a positive way!) and possessive of their mates. And the mating ritual isn't bad, either 
- they have to bite their mates to stake their claim and that's just ... *shudder* Have I already mentioned how sexy they are?
~LisaK
hi 1lovealways! What a great book! You may notice above my embarrassing story about "A Hunger Like No Other." 
The cover also happens to be a fave of mine. I'm so glad that you came over here from the Romantic Reads boards, too! I go there to find new reads, but don't tell anyone! If you like historicals, Kresley Cole has fab ones, too. But everyone's crazed for her paras right now. Come back soon.
Amy. Grrrreat? too funny. But yeah, talk about tension. The description of this scenario made me go all, 'uh, yeah, I'm there now.' I was so glad I remembered which pile the book was hiding in.
