Mercury's War
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- Under 100
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 420
About this book
Mercury's War is one of the central novels in Lora Leigh's Breeds series, the long running paranormal romance saga about genetically engineered human animal hybrids who were created by a shadowy private organization and have been fighting for their freedom and their humanity ever since. The series is enormous, with several distinct branches focused on the lion Breeds, the wolf Breeds, the feline Breeds, and various other animal lineages, and Leigh has produced dozens of full novels and novellas in this universe.
Mercury Warrant is a Bengal Breed, a tiger hybrid, who has been living quietly since the events that left him scarred and emotionally walled off. His mate, in Breed mythology, is the woman whose biology is the perfect genetic match for his and whose presence triggers physical and emotional responses he cannot suppress. When Ria Rodriguez walks back into his life, the mating heat starts almost immediately, and the rest of the book follows them trying to figure out whether they can build a relationship while old enemies are still trying to kill them both.
Leigh writes the kind of paranormal romance that is not for everyone. The heat level is consistently high, the mating bond removes a lot of the ambiguity that other paranormal romance writers play with, and the alpha male tropes are turned up to eleven. Her audience knows what they are coming for and Leigh delivers it with the practiced confidence of someone who has been writing these books for many years.
The wider Breeds universe is dense. New readers can probably manage Mercury's War as a standalone, but the references to other Breeds, to the Council that created them, and to the ongoing political struggle for legal recognition will make more sense after reading earlier books in the series. Fans of J.R. Ward, Christine Feehan, or Sherrilyn Kenyon will find familiar territory here, even if Leigh's Breeds run hotter than most.
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Book facts
- Author
- Lora Leigh
- First published
- 2008
- Reading time
- About 8 hours
- Pages
- 420
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Contemporary Romance
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, MOBI, Read online