- Paperback: 432 pages
- Publisher: Piatkus Books (27 May 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0749942274
- ISBN-13: 978-0749942274
- Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 3.2 x 17.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 40,031 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A rare hybrid of vampire and werewolf, Riley Jenson works for Melbourne's Directorate of Other Races, an organisation created to police the supernatural races - and protect humans from their depredations. 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. But that's the least of her worries. Evil is on the rampage in Melbourne and it's up to her to stop it...
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Keri Arthur recently won the ROMANTIC TIMES Career Achievement Award for Urban Fantasy and has been nominated in the Best Contemporary Paranormal category of the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Awards. She's a dessert and function cook by trade, and has one daughter.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is the 9th and final Riley Jenson book from Keri Arthur. Riley has grown a lot though this series. She's learnt to do what she must in order to survive, but she's never been comfortable with what that might mean for her. She doesn't much like what she's become. But she can't just walk away from the Directorate. After the events of the previous book, Bound To Shadows, she's become more unsure of herself than ever.
This series took a while to grow on me. I didn't particularly like the first 3 books, and gave up on it for a couple years. But I did eventually pick it back up and I'm very glad I did. I've come to love Riley as she's grown and changed, and I can't help loving her reluctance to become the killer the Directorate wants her to be. The ending of Bound To Shadows was harsh and left me hanging. It left a lot to tie up in this final book and my hopes for it were high. Happily, it wasn't a let down in any way.
The story picks up a little while after the end of Bound To Shadows with Riley just returning to work. It doesn't take long for things to take a turn for the worse, but I so did not see what happened coming. It was a very different idea to anything I'd have predicted, and I think it works very well. Riley's past is haunting her, but not exactly the past she expected to. With the turn of events, it led to some interesting problems. The plot flowed smoothly and quickly, and I felt the up and down ride with Riley pretty cleanly. I don't want to go in to details and spoil anything, but I will say that I truly loved the ending. It had me tearing up and it was just perfect. And can I say that I just adore Rhoan and Liander? They are awesome. And I finally love Quinn too. It took 9 books, but hey, I got there in the end. I'm sad to say goodbye to Riley and the rest now, but at least the series ended on a high. This is my favourite Riley book for sure, I had a lot of trouble putting the book down. Threads that had been left from several books ago were picked up and tied off nicely, as well as some newer ones. Things were left neat enough for the end of a series, but not so neat you can't imagine more happening with the characters in the future.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, despite being sad that Riley's series is over. I'm really looking forward to Keri's spin off series featuring Risa (Dia's little girl) when it comes out. I know she's mentioned that Riley and her team will make the odd appearance so as much as I'm looking forward to Risa's story, I'm looking forward to just a little more of Riley too. I loved this book and while I'm sure this series wouldn't be for everyone, I'd still really recommend it. And if you loved the previous Riley books, then this is clearly a must read.
This series took a while to grow on me. I didn't particularly like the first 3 books, and gave up on it for a couple years. But I did eventually pick it back up and I'm very glad I did. I've come to love Riley as she's grown and changed, and I can't help loving her reluctance to become the killer the Directorate wants her to be. The ending of Bound To Shadows was harsh and left me hanging. It left a lot to tie up in this final book and my hopes for it were high. Happily, it wasn't a let down in any way.
The story picks up a little while after the end of Bound To Shadows with Riley just returning to work. It doesn't take long for things to take a turn for the worse, but I so did not see what happened coming. It was a very different idea to anything I'd have predicted, and I think it works very well. Riley's past is haunting her, but not exactly the past she expected to. With the turn of events, it led to some interesting problems. The plot flowed smoothly and quickly, and I felt the up and down ride with Riley pretty cleanly. I don't want to go in to details and spoil anything, but I will say that I truly loved the ending. It had me tearing up and it was just perfect. And can I say that I just adore Rhoan and Liander? They are awesome. And I finally love Quinn too. It took 9 books, but hey, I got there in the end. I'm sad to say goodbye to Riley and the rest now, but at least the series ended on a high. This is my favourite Riley book for sure, I had a lot of trouble putting the book down. Threads that had been left from several books ago were picked up and tied off nicely, as well as some newer ones. Things were left neat enough for the end of a series, but not so neat you can't imagine more happening with the characters in the future.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, despite being sad that Riley's series is over. I'm really looking forward to Keri's spin off series featuring Risa (Dia's little girl) when it comes out. I know she's mentioned that Riley and her team will make the odd appearance so as much as I'm looking forward to Risa's story, I'm looking forward to just a little more of Riley too. I loved this book and while I'm sure this series wouldn't be for everyone, I'd still really recommend it. And if you loved the previous Riley books, then this is clearly a must read.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
4.5*, just losing out on a 5* due to the length of time Riley & Quinn spend apart in this tale....
29 May 2010
Format:Paperback
The Riley Jensen Guardian series comes to an end with this really great tale, starting about 3 months after Bound To Shadows ended, and with a very poignant scene in which Riley says a final goodbye to Kade, but from then on, Riley's straight back into the deep end of things.
She gets called to a mission where someone has been killed by a red demon with claws and her chat with the deceased's soul and her investigations lead her to a whorehouse where she is injured quite badly and begins to fade before the Directorate can get anyone to her; we then see how her bond with Quinn works - as soon as he senses that she is in trouble, he starts driving towards her, but then realising that she is fading faster than he could ever hope to get there, Quinn turns to his Aedh side and abandons his car and reaches her just in time. It was touching and romantic scene, and Quinn was so drained physically as well as emotionally, and had put his own life in danger to save hers. They drive off home, with Quinn following Riley in his car when out of the blue, she gets shunted by a huge lorry, manages to get out of her car, though, only to watch in horror whilst the lorry then deliberately rams and rolls Quinn's car, crushing it. She tries to get to him, but is hit by several darts and all fades...
When she comes to, Riley has no recollection of who she is, where she is or who the people around her, but she hasn't lost her instincts and the case that she was investigating seems to have followed her to Dunedan, an entirely were-territory. I'm not going to elaborate here, other than to say that the plot was very well conceived and thought-out, so much so that Rhoan, Jack, Liander and even Quinn truly believed that Riley was dead.
Yes, Riley and Quinn get their HEA, and the commitment that Riley makes to Quinn is such an emotional moment, totally the one that I'd been rooting for all along. I so loved how despite Quinn being her heart but supposedly not her soulmate, she committed to him in every way possible, choosing the significance of full moon to do so.
For me, whilst the Riley tales have always been great paranormals, the underlying romance between Quinn and Riley is what made the books, and at one point, I did think that possibly they wouldn't ever get their HEA, based on their natures. This series SO went out with a bang, and I am looking forward to the start of the connected tales featuring Risa, who pulled Riley back from the brink in Bound To Shadows. I am unsure whether we'll see Riley and Quinn in those, but given that the little girl is the offspring of an absentee Aedh parent, and needs Aedh guidance, good old Quinn has to be on hand to help, doesn't he?...Pretty please?!
She gets called to a mission where someone has been killed by a red demon with claws and her chat with the deceased's soul and her investigations lead her to a whorehouse where she is injured quite badly and begins to fade before the Directorate can get anyone to her; we then see how her bond with Quinn works - as soon as he senses that she is in trouble, he starts driving towards her, but then realising that she is fading faster than he could ever hope to get there, Quinn turns to his Aedh side and abandons his car and reaches her just in time. It was touching and romantic scene, and Quinn was so drained physically as well as emotionally, and had put his own life in danger to save hers. They drive off home, with Quinn following Riley in his car when out of the blue, she gets shunted by a huge lorry, manages to get out of her car, though, only to watch in horror whilst the lorry then deliberately rams and rolls Quinn's car, crushing it. She tries to get to him, but is hit by several darts and all fades...
When she comes to, Riley has no recollection of who she is, where she is or who the people around her, but she hasn't lost her instincts and the case that she was investigating seems to have followed her to Dunedan, an entirely were-territory. I'm not going to elaborate here, other than to say that the plot was very well conceived and thought-out, so much so that Rhoan, Jack, Liander and even Quinn truly believed that Riley was dead.
Yes, Riley and Quinn get their HEA, and the commitment that Riley makes to Quinn is such an emotional moment, totally the one that I'd been rooting for all along. I so loved how despite Quinn being her heart but supposedly not her soulmate, she committed to him in every way possible, choosing the significance of full moon to do so.
For me, whilst the Riley tales have always been great paranormals, the underlying romance between Quinn and Riley is what made the books, and at one point, I did think that possibly they wouldn't ever get their HEA, based on their natures. This series SO went out with a bang, and I am looking forward to the start of the connected tales featuring Risa, who pulled Riley back from the brink in Bound To Shadows. I am unsure whether we'll see Riley and Quinn in those, but given that the little girl is the offspring of an absentee Aedh parent, and needs Aedh guidance, good old Quinn has to be on hand to help, doesn't he?...Pretty please?!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
best ever riley jenson book it brings every thing together i really enjoyed this book couldnt put it down.
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