My Favorite So Far: Edge of Moonlight by Stephanie Julian
16 May, 2010 in Erotic Romance 13 Comments#3 Lucani Lovers Series
125 Pages
Purchase @ Ellora’s Cave ebook
book received for review from author
Etruscan wolf shifter Kaine Giliati has longed for John Simmons since he willingly agreed to wipe all memory of her from his mind. The pain in her heart is only magnified by terror—the ability to call her wolf appears to have deserted her, as well.
For months after he and his sister escaped a crazed kidnapper, John has been dreaming about a beautiful woman he’s never met but who seems so familiar. A woman he’s shocked to find in a dark bar one night. A woman who agrees to come back to his apartment for raw, passionate sex.
Edge of Moonlight picks up where Moonlight Ménage leaves off. Kaine is heartbroken after John, a human, willingly agrees to have his memories wiped after the events leading up to his sister’s capture and exposure to the Lucani. Smokinhot Cliff Note: In book #2 Kaine and John meet when his sister Evie was kidnapped. Horrified when he finds out that Kaine is a werewolf he shoots her (that bastard!). Forbidden to make any contact with him, Kaine can’t stop thinking about him until fate decides to intervene.
Meanwhile John is having odd, erotic dreams about a woman with multi-colored hair. After a crap day he winds up at a local bar, only to see the woman he has been dreaming about.
All Kaine wants is just one night with John only their hot hanky panky sessions begins to unravel the memory spell on John and he starts to remember…
This is the most emotionally gripping out of the 3 books so far and my favorite. If you’ve read Kiss of Moonlight and Moonlight Ménage , Edge of Moonlight stands out ahead of its class. Stephanie Julian really hit all my hot buttons:
1. Humor
2. Just the right about of relationship/emotional angst. i.e. not too much, not too little, just right.
3. Suspense
There is quite a lot going on in this latest installment so I’m going to diagram it all out for you. I’m talking flow charts, excel spreadsheets, and pie charts (nah, just making sure ya’ll are awake).
- Kaine suddenly is unable to shift after her night with John
- Evie (John’s sister) unleashes her unstable powers and only the wolves can help her
- John starts to remember…Everything!
- Knowing John will be disgusted with her after he ‘remembers’ she is a wolf; Kaine decides to go after Evie’s kidnappers to make everything all right.
Edge of Moonlight is my favorite out of the series. Kaine is one of my favorite types of heroines to read about; funny, self deprecating, and a lady that can and likes to kick a little ass. At times I got a little lump in my throat over her worry when John would find out about her being wolf and his interest would turn to disgust. And there were times when I got a little turned on when they had hot, passionate nookie on the kitchen table. Edge of Moonlight has all the right erotic ingredients and I’m looking forward to more Lucani wolves books.
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P.S. Isn’t the cover? Why can’t I have bangs like that….
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KC, thank you so much for the great review! This is definitely the best way to wake up on a Monday morning. I loved writing Kaine’s story. Thank you! And yes, the cover is one of my favorites. Syneca is a cover artist goddess.
Great review. I haven’t tried this series yet but have on TBR.
Nice review!! I like this series and can’t wait to read this one!!
Oh gosh I read this one last night.. from nine o’clock till 2 this morning… My review will be coming this week!!!
My favorite thought is Nic and Duke’s story… but this one was just as hot.
Great review… I love how you called him a bastard! LMBO! My feelings went out to John a bit… I mean freaked out as hell that werewolves really did exist and things like that… But the way he made up for it rocked my world!
Yet another series I have to get my hands on. Sounds great! And yep, great cover
@Stephanie Julian thanks for stopping by *waves*
@Tori This is fast becoming one of my favorite PNR erotic shifter series…it’s kind of naughty and I like that!
@Cecile John was a bastard for shooting Kaine!!! He made up for it by kissing her boo-boos in a really sexy way
@Fiction Vixen let me know when you read this one so we can squee together
@Janna The cover is fabulous!!!
I’ll have to pick up some books by this author. Now, I’m really interested.
Don’t know what kind of hair you have, but take the pic to a good salon and get ‘em cut!
Eeeeps! Sorry peeps having technical difficulties with the images, should have it fixed ASP!.
@Melissa I tried bangs once, they never want to lay right.
Ooooo a new series for me to get into. Lovely review KC, you pimp with the best of them!! adding it to my TBR list!
@Bearsy if you are looking for a quick read shifter series, I really like this one. Especially Edge of Moonlight.
This was my fav of the series as well. Something about John and Kaine did it for me. I hated to see Kaine emotionally tortured like that.
The cover – very nice but so not Kaine! We needed a warrior woman with crazy hair on there instead of the fur collar imho.
I’ve been hearing great things about this author-I really must give her a try.