Name: Blood Hunt
ISBN: 9781602822092

L. L. Raand

Sylvan, the Wolf Were Alpha, forges an uneasy alliance with Detective Jody Gates, heir to a powerful Vampire clan, to battle a shadow army of humans and rogue Weres. With outside forces threatening to destroy the Praetern Coalition, Sylvan battles Pack resistance to her newly-turned Were mate and Jody fights her growing hunger for human reporter, Becca Land. A Midnight Hunters Novel.

Blood Hunt

Carol Bailey

This is the second book in a new series. The first is “The Midnight Hunt.” 

The synopsis on the Boldstrokes website is: 

“Sylvan, the Wolf Were Alpha, forges an uneasy alliance with Vampire Detective Jody Gates, heir to a powerful Vampire clan, to battle a shadow army of humans and rogue Praeterns bent on destroying any hope of legal acceptance of the non-human species. With outside forces threatening to destroy the Praetern Coalition, several female Were adolescents turn up missing and chaos descends upon Sylvan's personal guards when Sylvan and her new mate are overtaken by breeding frenzy. While Sylvan struggles to protect her Pack, Jody fights her destiny as well as her growing hunger for human reporter, Becca Land.” 

Although I think it helps if you enjoy scifi/paranormal stories I don’t think is a requirement to enjoy this book, but I would recommend reading the series in order. 

One of the nice things about this book/series is the way the characters and storyline develop. It’s written in such a way that it’s easy to just accept that Sylvan, Drake, and Jodi are who they are without over thinking the vampire, werewolf, and human triangle. They are well written, likeable, and engaging characters.

I’m looking forward to seeing what happens next.

Megan Cooper

Second in Radclyffe's urban fantasy series. Starts right up after Midnight Hunt and the pace doesn't give the reader much time to catch their breathe - lots of action, lots of characters and lots of preternatural sex. As much as I like reading Rad's stuff, I know damn well that she moves things so damned fast that it doesn't give the reader a chance to question some things that either don't make sense or are just beyond the realm of believable. If I remember the timeline, it's been about a week and Drake's gone from a human doctor to a werewolf, to the alpha's mate and then into full blown heat. But if Drake doesn't seem to mind, I'll let it go because it was a good fun read. 

Rad's done a good job of setting up the world but the focus is on the Werewolves and Vamps with only a glimpse of a Fae and mention of Psi and Mages. Of course, there is already a large cast of characters, so bringing in more characters may make the series hard to follow. That's one of the things that irks me in her series - the cast of characters tends to get too big and everyone has to make an appearance (or three) in every book. She resovles most of the plot points in the book, leaving a few open for the next book and definitely ending it with a foreshadowing of what dastardly things are going to happen next. 

Just hope that this series isn't going to go the way of Laurel K Hamilton's Anita Blake or Merry Gentry series where the plot gets lost admist all the sex.

Tess

L.L. Raand

Sylvan, the Wolf Were Alpha, forges an uneasy alliance with Vampire Detective Jody Gates, heir to a powerful Vampire clan, to battle a shadow army of humans and rogue Praeterns bent on destroying any hope of legal acceptance of the non-human species. With outside forces threatening to destroy the Praetern Coalition, several female Were adolescents turn up missing and chaos descends upon Sylvan's personal guards when Sylvan and her new mate are overtaken by breeding frenzy. While Sylvan struggles to protect her Pack, Jody fights her destiny as well as her growing hunger for human reporter, Becca Land. A Midnight Hunters novel.