Review: Loving Lucius (Werescape #4) by Skhye Moncrief

[Eva Millien]

Blurb:

She thinks it's impossible to hide her freakish powers. He thinks she's trying to worm herself under his skin to gain entry into his clan's secret Shifter laboratory.

Things couldn't get any tougher when Lady Elise's life flounders deep in The Wild after the extraterrestrials terminated her warlord father's reign over his city. On the run from the aliens, her father entrusts Elise and her sisters into the care of some passing Shifters. But that's not what troubles Elise. Her father has offered her body as the prize to one of the Shifters in exchange for their help in safeguarding his daughters. And the icing on that cake is founded in her father's dangerous secret about his daughters' true father--a secret he shares with only Elise, a secret she dare not utter, one explaining the three sisters's unusually strong psychic powers of healing. Powers that strike fear in Normals. She literally lives in fear of skin-to-skin contact with anyone and of witch hunts. Being labeled a witch is no better than being connected to the aliens who invaded Earth--aliens responsible for her psychic powers. This little skeleton in Elise's closet is best left buried therein. But now she's the foreigner with life and limb at the mercy of strange Guardians who ask questions, watch, and listen to tattling heartbeats...

Lucius is into exhuming secrets. Although, maybe he's best named Luscious, his tools for exhumation aren't the standard shovel and bucket of that sort of business. Well, that's when a Shifter's inner Wolf tosses them aside for mating. He's fighting a needy Wolf and his clan's safety when he takes on saving Elise and her sisters. But all it takes is one infiltrator to learn the truth about his sire's pre-AEI governmental medical laboratory and all bets are off that Earth will ever be controlled by humans again. Trusting Elise sets off all sorts of alarms--untimely omens that warn he's definitely risking being next in line to head his sire's clan as well as his clan's safety and humanity's. But nature seems to have it in for the unlikely duo. And whether they like it or not, the best fix for the problem is tied to Elise bending to temptation of the touch and LOVING LUCIUS.

My Review:

This erotic paranormal romance is a riveting futuristic story that keeps readers shivering in suspense.  First let me state that I have not read any of the other books in this series, so I will recommend that the series be read in order because of the overall conflict with the aliens is ongoing and it really needs to be understood to get the full impact of the story.  The story has a very interesting concept with intriguing elements that certainly captured by interest, so I will be reading the other books, as for this story I found the story to be enjoyable and entertaining even though I was little lost on the origins of how they got where they are, although I did find that it ended a little abruptly, I’m not sure why except that I wasn’t expecting it to end yet. 

3  STARS 4 FLAMES

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http://www.theromancereviews.com/viewbooks.php?bookid=13995

Purchase Links:

http://www.amazon.com/Loving-Lucius-Werescape-ebook/dp/B0086QICOG/r...

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/werescape?keyword=werescape&sto...

May 27, 2012, 206 pages, ebook

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15707485-loving-lucius

Werescape:

 Life has gone to Hell in two generations. Extraterrestrials altered the human genome, splitting humanity into two subspecies of humans, Shifters and Normals. Sometimes Shifters and Normals work together for survival in cities or remote villages. Other times they war for dominance. Regardless of the outcome, they must survive and fight against human enslavement. Hunted by aliens for breeding stock, Shifters understand this the most. Especially, Wolf males. But every once in a while, a female Shifter is born and her Cougar protected from detection because nobody knows what the aliens want with Cougars…

1. Cougar

2. Resurrecting the Beast

3. Beauty and the Brute

4. Loving Lucius

5. Seducing Beauty

6. Big Bad Beast

7. Blackberry Wine

About Skhye Moncrief:

(Off Goodreads)

Like many authors, Skhye wrote fiction while in junior high and high school. After attaining a BS in geology, she jumped back on the wagon full speed, California or Bust ever since. She loves to write and tends to forget everything, even the time, while in front of her laptop. Her genres include paranormal, fantasy, and sci-fi romance. She has been a member of Romance Writers of America since 2003.

Where to find the author:

http://skhyemoncrief.com/

http://blog.skhyemoncrief.com/

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=659800548

http://twitter.com/#!/SkhyeMoncrief

Books by Skhye Moncrief:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/1262812.Skhye_Moncrief