Review: Plenty of action, but I wouldn't have minded just a bit more of the romance
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 20, 2012
I've really enjoyed all of Harrison's Elder Races stories. Her shorts have a slightly different feel than the longer books, but I still like them.  This time around the pairing is a human former special ops soldier who has a spark of power and a wounded Wyr canine shifter - the cool thing about the story is that the capable warrior is a woman.I really liked that the heroine is a competant warrior and that the alpha hero has strategic smarts too - he lays his plans carefully when in pursuit of the reluctant mate to be and he actually listens to her reasoning and grudgingly admits that she is best suited recon task and that his skills are needed elsewhere. And there are some pretty funny lines too - a whole new twist on 'my Precious':)For those who thought that Harrison's Serpent's Kiss didn't have enough action, Natural Evil takes names and kicks butt in that department. The focus is more on the action than the romance, which has some steam but an open ended HEA instead of a fully realized one - I'd have liked to have seen just a bit more of the pair together.The way that Natural Evil ended was a bit odd and has me wondering if there will be more of this 'tarot' related shorts - with a medusa in the lead - to tide us over until the next full length, The Lord's Fall.(Oh and everyone else probably already knows this but Harrison had said before that she'd previously written romances under another name and in the afterword we finally find out that her earlier nom de plume was Amanda Carpenter. )