The book is very readable, and very well-paced.

So, what was it that made The Midnight Hunt stand out from the crowd? What was it that surprised me? The first thing was the quality of writing. I’m guessing I don’t need to note, here, that all four of these women are very sexy and each pair feel a powerful (and dangerous) attraction to each other… it is an erotic romance after all. To complicate matters further, a (human) investigative reporter named Becca Land is determined to get to the bottom of recent events, which means her working with, or at least trying to work with, Jody Gates, a vampire detective. When one of Sylvan’s wolves is infected, she is thrown into the path of human doctor Drake McKennan, who risks her own life to treat a werewolf. In addition to this, young female werewolves are being attacked, and a disease called “Were fever” is infected both humans and werewolves. Sylvan Mir is the alpha “Were”, attempting to protect her species in the face of human antagonism and uneasy alliance with the other Praeterns. Though the human and supernatural creatures have long co-existed, the latter have recently come out into the open, leading to a troubled cohabitation that is, at the start of The Midnight Hunt, very much a work-in-progress. The Midnight Hunt is set in a world in which “Weres”, vampires and other “Praetern” races live uneasily alongside human beings. I was very pleasantly surprised, and now understand why I recently heard Radclyffe described as “the rock star of lesbian romance”. Still, I began the book with an open mind, keen to see why it was so popular… In the comments left by Raand’s fans, her alpha werewolf Sylvan was most often described as “hot”, and I was worried that this meant sexy, but one-dimensional. The book has been described as both erotica and erotic romance – two genres that I’m not hugely enamoured with.

I’ll be honest, I wasn’t sure what to expect from The Midnight Hunt (the first book in Raand’s Midnight Hunters series). With an endorsement like that, I had to read the books. I’ll repeat what I said at the time, this was not the result of spamming or any other dodgy practice, but rather an outpouring of support from Raand (aka Radclyffe)’s very loyal fans. Raand’s Sylvan Mir – got far and away more votes than any other contender. Nearly a year ago, I ran a poll on this site for readers to vote for their favourite female werewolves.

The Midnight Hunt by L.L. Raand