"Scorching hot tale, but moves too fast"

While happy for her dear friend Regina and the love she found with her vampire mate, Missy found herself oddly uncomfortable at her friend's post-wedding engagement party. It could have something to do with the outfit her friends had conned her into wearing, or the fact that they were determined to set her up on a blind-sex romp. Or there was the fact that the object of her sexual fantasies, the charismatic and ultra-sexy Graham Winters, was present.

Fed up and determined to escape from whatever fate her friends had in mind for her, Missy flee into the night and ran right into her dream lover.

After one smell, Graham knew she was something special, and when he asked her into his bed, he opened the door for Missy's greatest fantasies to come alive. Feeling herself entering an almost surreal state, Missy agreed to his intense proposition and found her life drastically, sensually, and oddly changing. Everything she had known to be reality, everything she thought she knew about herself, became open to new interpretations.

To say Christine Warren writes a hot tale would be a massive understatement. Scorching doesn't even do her writings justice. FUR FACTOR is hot enough in scenes to melt one's monitor.

But still, I found myself oddly unsatisfied. The hero is a perfect alpha, determined and demanding, with the knowledge that his word is law. But Missy leaves a bit to be desired in a heroine. While she has many reservations about where her relationship is heading, she seems to give in way too easily. For someone who is still new to the unfolding paranormal events in her life, she is too accepting. In short, she is too submissive. True, a mate to an alpha has to accept his word over hers, but she would also have to have a dominant enough streak to lead as well. While Missy can, and does, show some spunk occasionally, with Graham she isn't true to her own personality.

Another thing that bothered me about the story was how quickly things moved. While this is a paranormal, it still asks one to suspend reality a bit too much.

Add in the fact that the mind-blowing sex leaves her weak and sore, although with a smile, and yet they have sex over and over and over again. Rough, passionate sex, multiple times a day, after six years of abstinence on her part. Again, this seems a bit far-fetched. Love the more sex approach, but this is a bit much.

Would I read more of Christine Warren's stories? Yes. I am considering FANTASY FIX, the novel that goes before FUR FACTOR, that tells the story of Regina and her vampire mate. I am curious about the way Regina came to find love.

Did I enjoy FUR FACTOR? Kind of. It was an entertaining read, and almost melted my monitor while I was reading, but it asked me to overlook a few too many things.

Rated: NC 17.

Reviewed by Michelle Houston
Courtesy Sensual Romance
Posted April 29, 2003

Summary

Graham Winters is a werewolf with a teensy problem. His idiot cousin wants to take over Graham's position as Alpha of the Silverback Clan all because of an archaic Lupine tradition that says an unmated wolf can't lead a pack. As far as Graham is concerned, things can't possibly get any more complicated.

Until they do.

Minding his own business at his best friend's engagement party, Graham is unprepared for the lust that blindsides him when he catches a glimpse of a mysterious human woman with an ass that makes his mouth water and his brain tickle. But, has he seen her somewhere before?

Suddenly the idea of taking a mate doesn't sound so bad, because he could definitely get into making cubs with his mystery woman. Now he just needs to find the perfect way to get into her...

Sexual Content: NC-17. Genre: werewolf.