Dinca’s review of Shifting Heat (Storm Series, Book 6) by Lynne Connolly
Paranormal Romance published by Ellora’s Cave 17 Aug 11

In Shifting Heat you will find more than heat. You will find fire… in the blood, under the skin, not to mention in a flame-scorched world of flying dragons. I thoroughly enjoyed the storyline where the good guys are not always good and the bad guys may or may not be as bad you think they are. It took me a while to decide who to cheer for and who to scorn. But you will fall in love with Andros,  anyone with a heart could not help themselves.

This is my second dragon book, so I am new to the shapeshifting paranormal genre. I steered away after the first book I tried appeared more like a textbook
on shapeshifters with very little story. It must have been the author who didn’t appeal, for I found nothing textbook about Shifting Heat, even if the heroine did work at a university.  I really enjoyed the story. I kept me reading even after it was time for lights out. The transformations were like pictures in my mind as I read. I could clearly see that beautiful blue dragon gracefully soaring above the city.

It is hard to imagine a nerdy geek as a stud muffin, but Lynne Connolly does a wonderful job. I have no problem visualizing Andros from every description, from the virile man taking his first step off a roof to turn into a dragon before he hit the pavement to the disabled geek who’s unable to move.

Andros can’t believe the beautiful dragon coming on to him, touching his mind and wanting him to return to her hotel room for a night of hot sex. Waking up after the best sex of his life, alone and groggy, with his ID bracelet missing, he returns to his apartment at Storm and discovers commotion. Something has happened and that beautiful dragon is involved.

Faye has been around a long time. A couple of generations longer than the young dragon she had selected to assist her in her plan to break into Storm. His ID bracelet is just what she needs, but she could not resist the human form from which he shifted. The taste and scent of him lingers with her long after the fact.  If only he didn’t work for the enemy.

As the storyline travels back in time and forward again, I got lost only once, which is probably more due to me than the book, since I am new to this genre. There is really nothing I do not like about this book. It holds my interest, it’s initiative, the sex is delivered with emotional heat and as far from clinical as you can get. And the story itself is new to me. There are five other Storm stories in this series. Once again I jumped in at the end of a series, though. But they all just might be worth glomming.  Each sounds just as interesting as this one.

Grade: A

Summary:

A book in the STORM world. Andros was a severely disabled geek working for STORM but now he’s a powerful shape-shifting dragon. Still a geek though. Meeting Faye when they’re sharing the same air space is a bit of a shock they quickly overcome in a convenient hotel room.

Hot, fast, rampant sex is just what Andros needs. Tangling with Faye between the sheets, against her desk, pretty much anywhere he can have her takes energy Andros now has in abundance. But he won’t let his emotions follow.

 

Faye never met anyone in her long life as exciting as Andros. But he works for STORM, Faye’s enemy. She’s never had anyone so young, either. But she can’t resist his strength, his determination—or his ripped body.

Together they must hunt down a mutual enemy, but to defeat him they have to come to terms with what they are, were and will become.

Read an excerpt.