Probably a 2 1/2. I know being short stories they had to focus on the steamy steamy, but some more plot would have been nice. Also, I'm probably showing a bit of my vanilla side, but it would have been nice had just 1 of the stories not involved anal. Perhaps the cover could have showed the guy's ass as a heads up.

"Wolfe's Hope" by Lora Leigh is the 10th book in her Breeds story. It is a short story that starts when Hope is 17 and forced to mate with Wolfe by her bitch evil mother. The lab was set on fire and Hope was lead to believe Wolfe was dead so for 6 years she lived in a hell of grief and arousal, but when Wolfe shows up he is furious with her and she doesn't know why.

"Moon Lust" by Sherri L. King is about an American tourist who is in the forest of Russia who ends up injured. Her rescuer is a Ivan who is handsome, sweet, but a little strange.

"Lunewulf: Pack Law" by Lorie O'Clare is about a wolf pack who laws states each female lupine must have three mates and have kids by all there. Sophie gets the list that states her long time crush, Nik would be one. Nik is going to make sure Sophie is his. He might have to share but only under his rules.

"Devlin Dynasty: Running Mate" by Jaci Burton" is about a reporter who wants to get an interview with the very sexy Senator Jason Devlin. Once he sees her outside his hotel room he must have her. But will he trust her with her secret and would she keep it or write the story of the century.

(This is only for the story Wolve's Hope by Lora Leigh)

Hope’s mother in the scientist who is performing experiments on Wolve before the Breeds were set free. The evil scientist discovered that her 17 years old Hope is Wolve’s true mate. Thus, she used her daughter as a lab rat to try and make Wolve breed on her. Wolve bit and marked Hope, but did not do anything else with her.
The book starts 6 years after the escape of Wolve who abandon Hope. Now he is back, he has kidnapped Hope and he is torturing her (using an enjoyable way some may think) in order to confess whether she has taken another mate and has forgotten about him.
The place where he keeps her locked is not specified, but I think it must be Haven (the new Wolves’ Breeds compound/base).
In just 40 pages Lora Leigh still manages to pull off a robust love story with a bit of action on the side.

2.5 stars

Anthologies aren't my thing as there simply isn't enough pages per story to fully develop anything so stories are rushed and unfulfilling. This one is no different. I read this simply because it had a moon on the cover and was less than 200 pages (for a challenge of course). Unfortunately none of the stories were very good and basically consisted of sex for the sake of sex since the plots were lacking any substance. I've read all of these authors full length novels and enjoyed their tales.

Moon Lust - Sherri L. King ~ 2 stars
Lunewolf Pack Law - Lorie O'Clare ~ 3 stars
Running Mate - Jaci Burton ~ 2 stars
Wolfe's Hope - Lora Leigh ~ 3 stars

Ugh.

Judging by Lora Leigh's contribution (for her Breed series) I would never have thought this anthology could be bad, but I stood corrected yesterday when I read the other three stories and remained stock still in my comfy chair, staring at the pages with a disgusted/confused frown on my face.

Let's start at the beginning.

Sherri L. King's Moon Lust was amateurish in tone, style, and use of the language. The end result: the story was so boring and "frigid" I couldn't wait for it to end.

Lori O'Clare's Pack Law was the absolute worst in the bunch, and I dare say the absolute worst novella I've read so far. The premise had so much potential, yet the author turned all those little conflict-makers into a crazed sex fest, obliterating a solid "fact" of werewolf culture...Or is it just the male wolves that mate for life - with ONE partner - leaving the promiscuity to the females?
Also the language, though probably used "in context", came off so degrading to women, I merely skimmed through the rest of the story.

Jaci Burton's contribution, Running Mate was a nice reprieve from the first two novellas. It was cute in its own funky kind of way, and I wished it was longer. I would've loved to explore it a little further, maybe polishing the rather abrupt ending.
The scene in the clearing was a bit too much, though, if you ask me. It brought a huge kink in the stride of an otherwise good story.

Once again, it is Lora Leigh's Wolfe's Hope that shines the most. I loved it. Yes, it was short, too short in fact, and seriously lacking in story, but still I loved it. This hot, hot, hot novella provided a great distraction, and though I'm not really partial to the EC excuses for stories, the amount of sex and almost invisible story didn't bother me. It was more an itch scratching, not providing any real insight into the leading couple, except they had the hots for each other, but I wasn't that interested in them.



The anthology as a whole is, unfortunately, an (almost) complete waste of paper and reading time. Though it's fifty-fifty in good and awful, the four stories are far from gems you absolutely have to read.

I wouldn't recommend this book, not even to the "Breed followers", since the Breed novella doesn't provide any real insight and any new developments on that front. It's a mere interlude, one that we all can do quite well without.

So, definitely not a recommended read.

Read separately in Wolfe's Hope

This review is for Lora Leigh's "Breed" story "Wolfe's Hope". I have read every one of the "Breed" books and have reread a lot of them but not this one. I didn't like this story at all. But that's JMHO! I know others that liked it but I ain't one of them.. All I could think was I wanted to hit Wolfe upside the head more than once and wanted Hope would grow a "backbone".

I have not read the other stories in this book but only because they are both part of series by the authors and I haven't read the different series yet.

It was ok, really liked the second story and might look into that author.

Great mixture of writers. Hot and sexy. I did buy in for Breeds and wild riders but other story's were great too.

Great book. My favorite was Wolfe's Hope by Lora Leigh, I love those Breed stories. Its going on my keeper shelf, for now.

Discovered some authors I have never read before but will be looking into. All the stories in this anthology were excellent