THE CHARIOT: SCORPIO RISEN by Desiree Lee

Publisher: Tease Publishing
Date issued: October 2008
ISBN: 978-1-934678-97-8
Short, shapeshifter romance
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Reviewed by Valerie

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Deylen has had to take over the leadership of the Centruoide Clan after his mother and father were killed. He knows who is responsible, but needs to prove it first. Deylen is a scorpion shifter and his clan is very loyal to him. One day he hires a mortal to work with him and things start getting much more complicated. Senca McLaine does all she can to show Deylen she is able to do the work he gives her. She can’t help feeling attracted to the mysterious man. She has a plan while she’s in town and surprisingly Deylen offers to help her. But suddenly, Deylen isn’t the only one who is interested in her and she becomes a pawn in the war between Deylen and his nemesis, Koda.

This is an interesting story. Reading about the scorpion shapeshifters, the Scorpion King will come to the mind of the reader. Desiree Lee has written a captivating story with some interesting characters. I haven’t read a story about scorpion and spider shifters before and it was a nice change. There’s plenty of action and intrigue going on and the romance is sensuous and hot. Only a couple of things disturbed me with this story. First of all I felt the main characters were a bit two-dimensional. There could have been a lot more emotion and feeling in the story. Also the dialogue seemed stilted and almost old-fashioned. As a contemporary, I would have expected more colloquial dialogue. But this didn’t stop me enjoying this story and reading more from this author.