Moonlight Temptation (Lucani Lovers #4) by Stephanie Julian
Paranormal Romance
January 21, 2011
E-Book
Ellora’s Cave

Reviewed by Tori

Evie has been through a lot. From being kidnapped and terrorized to discovering she is a witch; Evie is now living in a borrowed house with a 17 year old werewolf who is trying to help her control her powers and being pursued by two sexy men. Could things be any worse?
Dr. Dane Dimitriou knows Evie is having problems adjusting. So is he. He wants her badly but feels his aggressive standoffish personality is not what she needs. So he calls in his best friend, sexy easy going Ryan, to help Evie become more comfortable with her new life.
So who will Evie chose? Or will she have to chose at all?

Stephanie Julian writes some very steamy erotica featuring very smexy shifters. Yum. Her books are mainly themed for ménages. The sex scenes in here are great. Very physical and descriptive. But that’s all it was. Sex. I never felt a true romantic or emotional connection between our protagonists like I did in past books. It happens so fast. It felt forced and coercive. Dane and Ryan have the attitude that they know best. I didn’t buy it. Evie meets Ryan and within 6 hours they are going at it. She knows nothing about him. Within two days her, Dane, and Ryan are having a ménage. By the end of the week, they are all in love and ready to settle down and live happily ever after.

Huh?

Dane has done nothing but avoided her for months, and she never asks why. That was a problem. We never really get her opinion beyond that they are good looking sexy men and she feels a little uptight being attracted to both of them. She really had attitude in the previous book- Edge Of Moonlight. But in here she just seems to agree with everything they say. She lays down and allows them to do it all for her. We are getting together. Okay. Your going to do this. Okay. The one time she does try to back off, all they have to do is kiss her and she goes back to being their “okay” girl.
I also had a problem with Dane. He starts out in a devious manner and I just couldn’t warm up to him. I never fully understood why he has such a problem relating to Evie or vocalizing what he wants. It’s as if he feels he can’t take the “no” so he maneuvers around it to make sure it doesn’t happen. It felt seedy. I could accept Ryan a little better, though he too seemed to think more with “little Ryan” then anything else.

I wish we could have divulged a little more into Evie’s magical problems. Once she gets into this relationship everything seemed to correct itself automatically. It is too easy a fix for the build up we were given about Evie and her dangerous powers in the beginning here and the previous book.
We do get some arc development in a few small sub stories, but not as much as I expected. Some old faces are in here that pleasantly surprised me. Cat and her elusive Ty. Evie’s brother John and his mate Kaine. We are introduced to a new character towards the end that spells out a possible and very interesting romantic interlude down the line.

While this gets a solid B for smexiness, that’s all we get and I felt the plot and arc suffered for that.

Rating: C-

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