I’m reviewing Bound By Night by Larissa Ione at Smexybooks

Bound By Night (MoonBound Vampire Clan, #1) by Larissa Ione
Paranormal Romance
September 24, 2013
Pocket Books

Favorite Quote: “I should have been a relationship therapist or some shit.“

In a world where vampires are enslaved to humans, one woman and one man seek to right a terrible wrong and find a love worth dying for.

Nicole Martin hates vampires. As a child, she watched her family’s vampire slaves revolt and decimate her entire family right before her eyes. Taken out of the US as a child, Nicole is back and ready to take up the reins of her family’s company, Daedelus, as CEO. She plans to continue her work finding a cure for vampirism in hopes she can not only obliterate her memories of her past but also the entire bloodsucking vampire race.

Riker, a member of the renegade vampire clan, MoonBound, has waited years to exact revenge against the Martin for the deaths of his mate and friends. When Nicole Martin comes back to the states to take over her parents’ company as CEO,  Riker sees the perfect opportunity to take his revenge and kidnaps Nicole in order to use her as a bargaining chip against a rival clan. Determined to make her pay for her family’s crime, he finds himself becoming obsessed with her instead.

Nicole led a fairly sheltered life overseas and had no idea of the atrocities her parents’ company committed against the vampires. Life with the MoonBound clan quickly disabuses Nicole of her prejudices and forces her to take a long hard look at her own crimes against them. Her disgust and shame forces her to use her in depth knowledge of vampire biology to help find cures to problems that plague the vampires. She also finds her attraction to Riker growing though Riker’s own prejudice against her and her family leaves her little doubt he does not return her feelings.

Caught between a rival vampire clan’s need for revenge and a human company who doesn’t want to give up their experiments, Nicole and Riker find themselves falling deeper for one another as their respective species begin taking steps towards war.

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I'm reviewing Strength by Carrie Butler at Smexybooks

Strength (Mark Of Nexus #1) by Carrie Butler

NA/PNR
March 23, 2013
Sapphire Publishing

Favorite Quote: “So help me, as long as I live, I’ll never get tired of seeing that man without a shirt on. How he stays so humble, I’ll never know.

When college student Rena Collins finds herself nose-to-chest with the campus outcast, her rumor-laced notions are shattered. Handsome, considerate, and seemingly sane, Wallace Blake doesn’t look like he spends his nights alone, screaming and banging on the walls of his dorm room. Hell, he doesn’t look like he spends his nights alone, period.

Too curious for her own good, Rena vows to uncover the truth behind Wallace’s madman reputation–and how two seconds of contact had left her with bruises. Of course, there are a few setbacks along the way: guilt, admiration, feelings of the warm and fuzzy variety…

Not to mention the unwanted attention of Wallace’s powerful, supernaturally-gifted family.

They’re a bloodline divided by opposing ideals, two soon-to-be warring factions that live in secret among us. When Rena ends up caught in their crossfire, Wallace has no choice but to save her by using his powers. Now they’re really in trouble. With war on the horizon and Rena’s life in the balance, he needs to put some distance between them. But Rena won’t let go. If fighting is what it takes to prove her own strength and keep Wallace in her life, then that’s what she’ll do–even if it means risking a whole lot more than her heart. (Goodreads)

Strength is a new adult paranormal romance for whom fans of Jennifer Armentrout’s LUX series might enjoy. Set in the present, we are introduced to Rena Collins as she stalks the college campus madman Wallace Blake. Curious as to all the rumors of his insanity, she soon learns he is not insane. In fact, to her disappointment, he is rather normal and explanations are given for his seemingly violent behavior. Rena and Wallace form a tentative friendship which leads to some amazing and dangerous revelations. Revelations that could spell disaster and possibly death for Rena.

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I’m reviewing Fire & Frost Anthology at Smexybooks

Fire & Frost by Meljean Brook, Caroline Crane, and Jessica Sims
PNR/UF/Steampunk Romance Anthology
May 25, 2013
Self published
Speed Mating by Jessica Sims – Estrella may be going into heat, but she’s determined to remain in control. Just because she’s ovulating doesn’t mean she has to settle for just any man (or his beast). Her sexy alpha’s determined to find her a tiger to take care of her heat and father her child…but no one seems to look quite as good as the man in charge. Will giving in to her need for her alpha ruin her tenuous relationship with her clan or be a match made in heaven?
Conjuring Max by Carolyn Crane – The witches of the world ridiculed and rejected nerdy Veronica for trying to use newfangled computers to enhance old world spellcasting. Well, it’s 1984 now, and she’s perfected her spellcasting computer program. Hey, who needs friends when you can conjure virtually anything…or anybody? So when Veronica makes powerful new enemies, she conjures Max, a pitbull of a cop, to deal with the pesky hitmen who keep coming around. Maybe Veronica can finally get some peace and quiet so she can work on her computer. But tough-guy Max is in no mood to play lapdog to a gorgeous witch.
Wrecked by Meljean Brook – Elizabeth has spent the past five years running from her father; her father’s huntsman, Caius, has spent the past five years pursuing her. But when he finally catches up to her on an airship flying above Europe’s zombie-infested cities, Elizabeth discovers that Caius isn’t the only danger she has to fear—and now that he’s found her, Caius doesn’t intend to let her go…(Blurb from Goodreads)
 
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Review & Giveaway of Rogue Rider by Larissa Ione at Smexybooks

Rogue Rider (Lords of Deliverance #4) by Larissa Ione
Paranormal Romance
November 20, 2012
Grand Central
Favorite Quote: “I’m really not in Kansas anymore.“
Reseph was the first Horseman to break his seal, becoming the sadistic Pestilence. Beginning in book one Eternal Rider, we have watched Pestilence do everything in his power to bring about the Apocalypse. At the end of book three Lethal Rider, Pestilence is stabbed, immobilized, and his soul sent to Sheoul (hell) to be tortured for eternity. Reaver, the Horsemens’ angelic watcher, makes a deal with Hades and secures Reseph’s release. Reseph awakens in the middle of a snow storm, naked, with no memory of his past or present. He is found by Jillian, a human woman, and she nurses him back to health. Jillian and Reseph slowly learn to trust one another and eventually fall in love, only to be surprised when his siblings find him, inform him of who and what he was, and take him back to Ares home in Greece. Jillian is shocked by the Horsemen’s accusations, especially when she realized that Reseph is Pestilence, the same demon who terrorized her into seclusion. As Jillian and Reseph siblings try to make peace with what he did as Pestilence, there is a greater evil coming for them, an evil that only Pestilence can destroy.







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I'm reviewing Lord’s Fall by Thea Harrison with May at Smexybooks

Lord’s Fall (Elder Races #5) by Thea Harrison
Paranormal Romance
Released: November 6, 2012
Berkley

Joint review by May & Tori

Lord’s Fall , the 5th book in Thea Harrison’s best selling Elder Races novels, picks up a couple months after the events of Oracle Moon. Dragos is getting ready to host the Sentinel Games to find  two new Wyr bodyguards after the defection of Tiagos and Rune. The Sentinel Games is a shapeshifter version of the Gladiator Games. Wyrs from all over the world will compete to be the last two standing. During all this, Pia, now heavily pregnant and mated to Dragos, is traveling to the Elves in order to repair the relations between the the Wyrs and the Elves. Dragos is beside himself, letting Pia go without him, but she is insistent that she needs to do something and the strained relations need to be repaired. When Pia finds herself trapped in the middle of an Elven war and unable to get through to Dragos, she has to rely on herself and her bodyguards to make it out alive.

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I’m reviewing The Wolf Who Loved Me by Lydia Dare at Smexybooks.

The Wolf Who Loved Me (Westfield Wolves #5) by Lydia Dare
Paranormal Romance
Ebook
April 1, 2012
Sourcebooks Casablanca

Favorite Quote: “When I close my eyes, I dream of you. When I open my eyes, I see you beside me. When I reach out, I can touch you. It’s all I ever dreamed of. “

Lady Madeline Hayburn Has Money Problems...
Specifically, she has so much of it that she's dogged by fortune hunters, including her bewilderingly attractive, penniless neighbor, with his wild nature and uncouth manners...
Weston Hadley Has An Identity Crisis...
Specifically, he's just turned into a wolf while Madeline was watching. Now it's up to the regal lady to tame the wild beast...if she can...(Amazon)

 

I am a huge fan of Ms. Dare and her sexy wolves so when I was approached to review The Wolf Who Loved Me, I squeeed like a fan-girl and pounced on it. II do so love the very bad and very sexy Westfield brothers.  In here we meet the Hadley brothers, related to Dash Thrope, the hero in installment four-The Taming Of The Wolf. We first meet them in Lydia Dare’s spin off series, Gentlemen Vampires. Our hero, Weston Hadley, has loved Lady Madeline Hayburn for years but knows she is expected to make a much more brilliant match then a penniless, wild Hadley. When she accidentally comes upon him transforming into a lycan, Wes can’t risk her revealing his and his family’s secret so he kidnaps her and spirits her away to Greta Green. His reasoning? If he marries her, his secrets become hers. As Wes and Madeline get closer to Scotland and the alter, they learn more about themselves and each other. But can two strangers learn to love one another?

 

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I’m reviewing Lord Of The Abyss by Nalini Singh at Smexybooks

 

Lord Of The Abyss (Royal House Of Shadows #4) by Nalini Singh
Paranormal Romance
E book
November 15, 2011
Harlequin

Favorite Quote: “There will be a new Lord. There will never be another Liliana.”

Once upon a time…the Blood Sorcerer vanquished the kingdom of Elden. To save their children, the queen scattered them to safety and the king filled them with vengeance. Only a magical timepiece connects the four royal heirs…and time is running out.…
As the dark Lord who condemns souls to damnation in the Abyss, Micah is nothing but a feared monster wrapped in impenetrable black armor. He has no idea he is the last heir of Elden, its last hope. Only one woman knows—the daughter of his enemy.
Liliana is nothing like her father, the Blood Sorcerer who’d cursed Micah. She sees past Micah’s armor to the prince inside. A prince whose sinful touch she craves. But first she has to brave his dark, dangerous lair and help him remember. Because they only have till midnight to save Elden. (Goodreads)

Lord Of The Abyss is the fourth book and conclusion to the Royal House of Shadow series. Each book in the four book series is based on one sibling who finds their soul mate and their way back to their rightful destiny. I did not read the first three in this series; however that did not deflect in any way my enjoyment of this story. I’m convinced everything Ms. Singh writes is dipped in gold and sprinkled with unicorn dust so this did not disappoint. While some background is given to link it to the other three in the series, this one revolves around one couple and one main conflict so that allows it to be comfortably read as a stand alone.

 

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