Review: The ultimate midnight read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 29, 2012
Romance with Claudy Conn does for paranormal fiction what tequila does for ice cold margaritas on a hot summer night. Shadowlife-Hybrid is raw, liquid pleasure.  I'll take getting lost in the hot blooded, life infused, primal lust of a werewolf over chilly vampire passion any day! After all, the idea of utterly losing control to the "animal within" is truly more frightening than a flirtation with death. Blending these polar opposites into one luscious man creates a potent elixir, and the untamed, unfettered, ultimate midnight read. That is what Claudy Conn has done. The Shadow series reaches its peak in Hybrid, the entangled romance of shape-shifter immortal Roxie MacBran and wolf-vamp hybrid Chase MacAdams.Hybrid is sheer lustful genius, but not simply because Claudy Conn's hunks and hunk-ettes are gorgeous or powerful.  When you read one of Conn's romances you are transported, to live and breathe her characters.  The plots are engaging and the levels of sexual desire and exploration her characters reach are truly and deeply inspiring.  If you are looking to work up the passions, or to indulge in some much needed release, you have picked the perfect series and arrived at the last and best edition, Shadowlife-Hybrid.About Shadowlife-Hybrid - It is never good to start a relationship on a lie, even a small one, and poor Roxie didn't know what she was getting into by agreeing to make friendly with Chase MacAdams. Pretense always gets in the way of good honest physical attraction. If the need for his help wasn't so desperate, she never would have gotten involved with him.  They needed Chase on their side if they were to have any hope for breaking WB's vampire empire apart and of saving the enslaved humans WB is breeding for food and enhanced vampire powers. WB has attracted the help of the original father of vampires, Vlad, Count Dracula.  Their mixed band of vampires, immortals, and a wizard just wasn't going to be powerful enough to face that evil.  Chase was the key; their band didn't have any chance of winning without him, let alone of surviving. A steak through the heart, even if they could get close enough to make the jab, just wasn't going to rid the world of the of darkness Dracula had become.Roxie was chosen to represent their team because, like Chase, she was unique. With a Native American shape-shifter chief for a mother and an immortal father, Roxie is an alpha female, wolf shape-shifter, with all the powers of an immortal at her command. Even so, their team needs Chase and she is the only member with half a chance of convincing him to join the fight. Chase had turned their first attempt away without even listening and so the team was sending Roxie to make a second attempt. Her mission is to convince Chase that joining their fight is within his best interest, and to do that she would need to win his trust.  Their hope was that the wolf in her would speak to the wolf in Chase and create an opening of familiarity and friendship which might win through the walls of his personal grief so that Roxie can plead their cause.The explosion of attraction between them is fiercely intense, and before either can control themselves, Roxie is caught, unable to reveal the truth of her presence and purpose before becoming hopelessly entangled in his arms. Their union and subsequent imprinting gives him access to her thoughts and he rejects her for the lie he finds hidden there.  Marked by his wolf, claimed for all time, Roxie is left with a gaping hole in her soul as he walks out of her life.  Never did she imagine that in meeting him she would come to feel such loss or that their loving would leave her haunted by a painful all consuming physical desire. As a hybrid, Chase tells her that he can overcome the imprinting of their inner wolves, but can she? Or will she be left weakened, in a half life, without her mate, to face the world's greatest evil on her own?  Five Stars, all the way!