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From Melbourne’s gleaming skyscrapers to its throbbing nightclubs, Riley Jenson’s world is raging with danger and desire. A drop-dead-gorgeous werewolf–with a touch of vamp coursing in her blood–Riley works for an organization created to police the supernatural races. But when she wakes up naked and bruised in a barren alley, she knows only that she must run for her life.

Within moments Riley collides with the sexiest man she’s ever seen: steely, seductive Kade, who is fighting a life-and-death battle of his own. With old lovers and enemies gathering around her, Riley knows she is being pursued by a new kind of criminal. Because in Riley’s blood is a secret that could create the ultimate warrior–if only she can survive her own dangerous desires….


From the Paperback edition.

Customer Reviews:

• Fascinating
  After a long year of waiting Keri Arthur finally picks up her series starring Riley Jenson. Good news is that there will be a new installment every month for her next three novels, at least that is what I have heard.
  
  Kissing Sin picks up almost right after Full Moon Rising. Although a few months have gone by after Quinn left and worse of all Riley wakes up in a strange place with no memory. She was being held capative by another breeding/cloning institute. She escapes with the help of Kade, a horse-shifter. What's even more of a surpise is when she goes to report to Jack and fill him in, not only is he and Rhoan waiting but so is Quinn, who had been avoiding her for the past few months.
  
  Apparently Quinn wants to go exclusive with her and be with her and her only, but Riley hs a problem with that. There are still a lot of issues she has to work out with Quinn so she can't promise him much. Especially with oh-so-delicious Kade and new aplha werewolf Kellen(he was in Full Moon Rising towards the end, when Riley was going to meet Misha)
  
  The book has quite a bit of sex for a sci-fi/fanstasy novel, but it is not so bad. There is a lot of investigating like in the first one, this time Riley is trying to figure out who is behind her kidnapping and the whole research lab thing. Overall a very good book with a surprise ending, not one that I want to give away. So read it for yourself if you're curious and then wait eagerly until the end of the month like the rest of us for the next installment....more info
• Aargh! Frustrating!
  I liked Full Moon Rising (the first book in the series) quite a bit and snatched this one up as soon as it came out. I cruised happily along until about the last 1/4, I guess, when I just skidded to an abrupt halt. Quinn annoys me. His whining and angsting annoys me. (Is he really Richard Zeeman in disguise? I have to wonder.....) Riley annoys me for putting up with it. And as with some of the other reviewers, Riley's rampant sexuality is a bit of a turn-off for me. I'm all for a hot book, and I understand that because she's a wolf, she's sexual. I get it. And I also get that because her character is a wolf (and therefore NOT human), she's not constrained by a human code of sexual morals. But there's a bit of a squick factor for me when I read about her casual sex in the clubs, and her sex with her mates, and her sex with Quinn, and her sex with the new horse-shifter in town, and her sex with the enemy so that she can get information.... Enough already. The cloning plotline is intriguing and I'm definitely curious about the identity of the mole, but I'm bored with Riley's nymphomania. Thank goodness the sex scenes are short enough to allow a larger story to develop. I just wish I weren't so put off by Riley's sexcapades, because I find myself really struggling to stay interested in the series.
  
  2.5 stars from me, but I'll round it up based on my affection for Full Moon Rising, the first book in this series....more info
• Kissing Sin
  Nothing like a very "gifted" stallion to take Riley where she needs to go :-) No sense sticking to the original werewolf/vampire love story. And a big surprise is involved in book 2....more info
• Could have been so much better....Not too impressed.
  I loved the first book in this series. This second book started out inviting, but then quickly became redundant and old. This series is starting to suffer the curse of the Anita Hill books but much quicker. This story could have been so much better if there was more focus on the story and less focus on tallying up the number of bed partners Riley has. I'm not a prude by any means and I don't even mind a couple of sex partners; but this scenario of everyone wanting the main female character, and all she has to do is look smolderingly at any and every new male character and then they are both so swept up in desire they have to have sex that instant, right where they stand-has all been done before. I'm all for great sex in the story, but I also like a little bonding between the characters to go along with the sex. This book felt like Mrs. Arthur was trying to create a mystery, but was force to add a quota of sex scenes and new sex partners every few paragraphs, and had to try to tie up the story around the sex. The book was tiresome for me and I really had to force myself to finish reading it. I'm not sure if I will bother reading the next installment if my library happens to get it in, but I definitely won't be buying it....more info
• I really didn't care for it at all but I gave stars for effort
  Maybe it's because I started with this one instead of the first book. You see I didn't realize this was number 2 in a series till I got it home. But then again that has never stopped me before. I am an AVID reader. And not to toot my own horn, I am pretty good at catching up to the back story when it's given in a series book. This one... gave a back story at times, but really left things hanging in a lot of areas. And the ending left things more than just a little open ended for another book, I felt like it was incomplete.
  
  Then of course the reason I love these books The Sex.
  But even that in this book became tedious. It was frequent, which I don't mind at all, but mechanically written about. It started off awesome with the main character having a steamy scene with Kade the Shape Shifter, and then just petered out afterwards. There was no real substance to the characters other than her being adament to tell the Vampire character OVER & OVER about her being a wolf and prone to having multiple partners and that wasn't going to change. Yet time after time he would come back to whine about it somemore. Midway through the book I was hoping she would just go ahead and kill him to add some spice to the thing. I just felt that the writer took a lot of liberty with the idea that you would just KNOW what they were talking about or going through. Again maybe it's because I didn't start with the first book. But after reading this one. I really don't have that feeling that I want to go out and find the other one. ...more info
• fast paced action packed romantic fantasy
  On an earth where supernatural species like vampires and werewolves exist, the Directorate of Other Races polices the paranormal and the guardians are the ones who act as judges, jury, and executioner. Rhoan and Riley are fraternal half-vampire-half werewolf twins who work for the Directorate, he as a guardian and she is a liaison. Her boss wants her to be a guardian but she doesn't want to be an assassin who kills whenthe situation calls for it.
  
  Riley wakes up on what she later learns is a breeding ground where gene manipulation, cloning and creating cross-species is practiced even though it is against the law. They want Riley because she is one of the few cross species that survived. She escapes with the help of a horse shifter and finds herself plunged into the heart of the Directorate investigation to find and stop the people who are conducting such research. She barely escapes with her life after attacks by various species thanks to the vampire, who wants to sire children on her and in exchange gives her information about the people she seeks. Riley is determined to stop them so the attacks on her life will end and she can go back to the normal.
  
  Keri Arthur is one of the best authors of paranormal romances writing today and fans of her works will compare her to Laurel K. Hamilton, and Kelly Armstrong. The heroine is a strong willed woman who accepts her nature and tells men who can't accept her for what she is to take a hike. KISSING SIN is a fast paced action packed romantic fantasy that takes place on an earth so descriptive readers will feel they must have visited it.
  
  Harriet Klausner
  
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• Kissing Sin-Okay
  So i loved the first book! It was amazing and action packed! Yes, a lot of sex but still good. The 2nd book you meet a lot of new characters and new types of creatures but it kind of drags. It also ended in a strange spot. The main charcters life is ruled by her hermones and it does kind of annoy me. I liked Quinn in the first book, and in the 2nd i still do but he whines a lot but riley is having sex with lots of different people. Though i didnt enjoy the 2nd book as much as the 1st it wont stop me from reading the rest of the series! I am hoping riley will grow in the next books! ...more info
• Better than the first
  "Kissing Sin," the second in the "Riley Jenson Guardian" series, is to me the perfect sequel. The original had action, intrigue and sex. The sequel has more of the same, in that approximate order. The sex that threatened to overwhelm the plot the first time around is still in place, but toned down so that I found it more acceptable (though stll rather over-the-top in most instances). The action has basically doubled. And the intrigue is fantastic.
  
  For me, the book works in part because it's constantly posing questions and answering them with new ones. Every time there's a new question, the plot grows that much more fascinating and you're hooked even deeper. Reading the book, I felt like a fish caught on a hook. I had to find out what would happen next. Then it happened and I loved it and wanted more. That's the "Kissing Sin" experience from start to finish.
  
  As the book opens, Riley Jenson is waking to the realization that she has no idea where she is, how she got there, or why she's so far from any source of help. It appears that she's killed someone, but she has no recollection of the action. It's a strange beginning to the novel, but not surprising given the sort of adventures she had in the first book. It's also the start of a stream of action that almost never stops. The only interruptions are for action of a different sort--between the sheets, against a wall, in the shower or somewhere else altogether--or for dialogue that develops the characters even further.
  
  I can't really describe the plot any further without running the risk of spoiling things, and there's so much to spoil. The last 80 pages or so are some of the very best fiction I've read in years (and kept me all but breathless), yet taken by themselves they mean very little. It's the way the reader becomes invested in these characters that gives the stream of action its impact. I found myself caring for characters I didn't particularly like, an oxymoron if ever there was one.
  
  Riley Jenson was interesting in "Full Moon Rising," but with "Kissing Sin" she's just stepped over the line and become irresistable. Thank goodness the publisher decided to release the first four books in paperback only one month apart. I can't wait to see what happens next!...more info
• Misleading
  I wasn't feeling this at all. I wasn't aware that this was the second book in the series but like a reviewer stated before me that usually doesn't bother me I can catch up. I think it's marketing is misleading the description on the back makes it seem like that the heroine is Riley and the hero is Kade. But after one or two sex scenes he completely disappears from her radar and all the focus is on the boring old fashioned Quinn who is always whining about her being a whore for her job. I think it's all well and fine to like sex but every male within the vicinity is attracted to her and they all want to impregnate her as well.
  
  And what's the deal with the whole werewolf soul mate thing? How do they know that when they have met their soulmate? She keeps saying that she is looking for her soul mate but she is a half-breed, how does she know she will even have a werewolf soul mate?
  
  I couldn't even finish this one and I skipped to the ending in hopes that she had picked one guy to be with but the ending was pretty open. I wont be buying the next installment.
  
  If you like steamy love scenes with little to no emotion involved then this is the book for you if not I recommend you read Sherrilyn Kenyon for a good werewolf romance....more info
• Late to the Party but Darn Glad to be There...
  Although many reviews have already been written on this novel, I'm not sure we are giving the book as much credit as it deserves. Yes, it's another sexy paranormal, but the adventure component really leaves me breathless. The fights are well-staged and assaults led on enemy compounds with small groups of--er--good werewolves, vampires, shape shifters, etc are NOT predictable. There is an element of surprise/danger to the leads that is not always present in the more typical books. Also going beyond the sensuality part of this genre is always a welcome change. Yeah, everybody is as busy as little bunnies--including the bunnies--but the relationship between bunny-business, adventure and character is more balanced. My only "complaint" is the name of the Australian towns take a little getting used to--I keep thinking the characters are on another planet!. ...more info
• Above average
  *** Back cover synopsis ***
  From Melbourne's gleaming skyscrapers to its throbbing nightclubs, Riley Jenson's world is raging with danger and desire. A drop-dead-gorgeous werewolf with a touch of vamp coursing in her blood Riley works for an organization created to police the supernatural races. But when she wakes up naked and bruised in a barren alley, she knows only that she must run for her life.
  Within moments Riley collides with the sexiest man she's ever seen: steely, seductive Kade, who is fighting a life-and-death battle of his own. With old lovers and enemies gathering around her, Riley knows she is being pursued by a new kind of criminal. Because in Riley's blood is a secret that could create the ultimate warrior--if only she can survive her own dangerous desires...
  
  *** Personal opinion ***
  The beginning was abrupt but the plot follows what was going on in the first book, "Full Moon Rising". In this book Riley and Quinn's relationship takes a turn that made me feel sympathetic towards Riley and angered towards Quinn. I can totally understand his reluctance to trust Riley with his heart but his possessiveness towards her was just too selfish. In ways I just think Quinn is hurting Riley that he doesn't even know the effect it has on her. This book actually has more focus on their on-and-off relationship that to me was the star of this book.
  My disappointment comes in yet again about Riley's promiscuity. In the first book, it didn't bother me that much but in this book, I didn't like the fact that she was sleeping with someone to get information for the Directorate. I had to constantly remind myself that she was after all, a wolf, and they consider the act to be perfectly normal.
  The ending to this book actually did brought tears to my eyes as it did to Riley. Nonetheless, still an enjoyable book and even better than the first....more info