Tanya's Reviews > The Hybrid Rule: Book 18 of the Grey Wolves Series

Book eighteen of the magnificent grey wolves series by the talented storyteller Quinn Loftis. This book is a fantastic addition to this great series. Quinn gives real depth to her characters and the level of realism as they go through personal emotional and relationship struggles is very captivating to read. I love the fact that she isn’t afraid to kill off loved characters and surprise her readers. I love the fact that she has her recurring main characters and supporting characters but regularly introduces new characters to the series expanding this fictional world she has created. I love how this supernatural series has a wide spectrum of supernatural characters such as the werewolves, vampires, far, elves, djinn, pixies, warlocks, witches, sprites, gypsy healers, trolls and draheim. I definitely recommend reading this series or really any book written by her you won’t be disappointed.






Following the events of the previous book the dormant Lizzie Fairchild and the rogue alpha wolf Finn are being held at a human military facility Area 51, because Cain the vampire king is working with human scientists trying to create an army of hybrids. Cain is made aware of Alston the traitor of a high fae’s death. Cain has discovered the key to making a hybrid thanks to the fact that Alice a human scientist is a gypsy healer, she’s conflicted on helping Cain but thanks to her father ordering her to spy on Cain she has no choice and they inject Lizzie with gypsy healer and vampire blood to make her into a hybrid the transformation will take about six days since that’s how long it takes to transform into vampire. Finn desperate to get to his mate uses the mate bond to contact Fane to alert him about Cain using gypsy healer blood with vampire blood and experimenting on dormant wolves. Lilly, Tenia, Myanin, Dillion and Tanya are questioning the captured vampire Claude for answers when they receive word from Fane about Lizzie and Finn’s situation and that they is an undiscovered gypsy healer now in Cain’s grasp. Fane recruits the pregnant gypsy healer Kara and her mate Nick for assistance who is horrified to learn that Cain has her friend whom she thought was dead. Since his fathers death Thalion is now the elf king, Decebel and Jen are still dealing with Jen’s miscarriage, Boain and his mate Lorna are tasked to visit cities where they have found dormant wolves to try protect them. Peri and Nissa have a personal mission so they get other fae to step in and give the pack a hand. Jen discovers that Thia has a habit of dismembering her dolls. Jewel and Kara are reunited since Kara’s rescue from Ludcarab, shocked to learn that Kara is pregnant. Jacque while fighting vampires uses her sprite abilities again. Lizzie survives the hybrid experiment, Alice who has been reading up in the gypsy healer books seeks information about mates from Lizzie who realises that Alice is lonely making her feel some sympathy towards her especially after Alice confides in her about being there against her will too and ordered to spy on Cain. Lizzie tells Alice that the wolves are coming for them and they’ll want Alice too because she’s a gypsy healer. Nissa, peri and Lucien head to the draheim realm looking for answers on their missing memories about being rescued by the draheim when they were children. The great Luna steps in and tells them it’s not time to know. Jen who isn’t on the hunt for vampires is watching over the children with Rachel and sally is training Titus Sally’s son who surprises them by turning into a grey and white wolf puppy, much to everyone’s pleasure, Kara and jewel enlist sally and rachels help to use the gypsy healer bond but it doesn’t work completely. Fane expressed reservations about them contacting Alice because she is working with Cain and unsure of her loyalties. Tenia uses her control powers on Claude making him a spy to get them information on the base and make contact with Alice. Alice and Cain argue because she doesn’t want to harm people but Cain opens up about when he was turned into a vampire against his will, vampires and wolves were fighting and the vampires were desperate so they started attacking villages feeding and turning them into vampires this happened to Cain and he went after his fiancé Alice who had been bitten as well but the wolves had killed her and all the others that had been bitten that’s what he has against the wolves. Lizzie starts dying because she needs blood, Cain has been adamant about keeping her separate from her mate Finn but when Gus blood doesn’t work gives in Finn and her claim each other a fight breaks out between Finn and Cain which is broken by Claude biting Alice Cain tries transforming her into a vampire to save her. Claude informs Tenia that Cain has over two hundred dormants and that he bit Alice to save Lizzie and finn but knows Alice will die because she needs her true mate blood and gypsy healers only have wolf mates, he also informs her he’s broken free from her influence warns her about his obsession with her. Lily and Thad come with a warning that the demon book is in the hands of a sprite they don’t recognise. The female sprite in question plans to bring her sisters back I think it may be the same one from The previous book that helped Cain find the rogue wolves angry at peri for killing her four sisters tapped in the order. Finn and Lizzie sharing a cell now concerned by cains threat that of Alice dies he will kill everyone in the military base and knows his blood won’t be enough to save Alice because her gypsy healer dna will fight his blood off only the blood of her werewolf mate can save her.