Devon’s review of Racing the Moon by Michele Hauf
Paranormal romance ebook released by Silhouette Nocturne 1 May 08
Racing the Moon is the debut offering from Silhouette Nocturne’s new Bites line, which consists of electronically published paranormal short stories. If you enjoy erotic romance novellas from epublishers like Ellora’s Cave or Samhain, you will likely enjoy this story. You will certainly know what to expect: lots of mental lusting, an isolated situation, a bit of “getting to know you” banter, and the good old horizontal tango.
The “getting to know you” banter was the best part of the story. I’ve read and enjoyed Ms. Hauf’s work before, and she writes good dialogue. It makes the characters seem more interesting, and moves along what is otherwise pretty standard fare. My interest was engaged, despite the fact that my eyes rolled quite a bit.
The beginning of Racing the Moon kept making me think of a commercial. Like a Coke commercial or a perfume commercial, something….Anyhoo, it’s a hot and dusty summer evening when mechanic Sunday Best pulls up her tow truck to a smoking hot backside bent over a broken-down Dodge. Owner of said backside, Dean Maverick, is equally enamored of Sunday’s hard nipples. Dean really needs his truck fixed, because he’s a werewolf, it’s going to be a full moon and he really needs some poontang if he’s going to control his wolf.
Once Sunday realizes that Dean is a werewolf, she wants him gone. Sunday is a “familiar”, a conduit between the human and demon realm who can shift into a cat. And cats and ‘dogs’, well, they don’t mix. Sunday also has some issues when it comes to sex. Tricky ones. So even though she thinks Dean is super duper hot, and he makes her nipples hard, Sunday’s going to pass on the sex. But it’s getting darker and darker out…
This definitely suffered from the usual sexed up short story issues. Way too much mental lusting. Yes, they’re warm for each other’s form, we get it. So tell-y. Show me. The relationship development, such as it was, felt rushed. I didn’t particularly believe there was any love connection between the two. But I enjoyed the two characters, particularly heroine Sunday. Overall, it was an enjoyable story for what it was. And you can try it out for 89 cents (that is, if you don’t win one of the coupon codes)! That ain’t bad at all!
Grade: C+
Summary:
When the full moon rises, his urgent sexual desire becomes overpowering…and satisfying his demanding lust is the one way he can stop his transformation.
But now he’s stranded in the middle of nowhere, with a storm raging outside, and moonrise imminent. And only the beautiful stranger who rescued him can keep the wolf at bay. Only, she’s resisting his ardent seduction with all her might.
It’s not that she doesn’t ache for him every bit as hungrily as he does for her. Their mutual attraction is fierce and explosive. But they are very different species…and surrendering to her desire will call forth something much more terrifying than the wolf.
Read an excerpt here.
