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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I’m reviewing Touch Of Steel by Kate Cross at Smexybooks

Touch Of Steel (Clockwork Agents #2) by Kate Cross
PNR/Steampunk
December 4, 2012
Signet Eclipse

Favorite Quote: “You’re not going to kill me in my sleep are you?.“ “No, I’d want you awake for that.”

Claire Brooks is on a mission of revenge. A deadly agent for The Company, Claire is determined to find the reasons her brother was killed, even if that means getting into bed with the Wardens of the Realm. When she is taken prisoner by the Wardens after being shot by a fellow agent, Claire agrees to help bring down The Company and accept whatever punishment the Wardens deem fit if they help her capture the rogue agent who her murdered her brother.

Alistair Payne, Lord Wolford, an agent for the Wardens, is still recovering both mentally and physically after his lover betrayed him and left him for dead. Struggling with past issues involving betrayal. Alistair agrees to partner up with Claire; he will help her capture the rogue agent while keeping a tight grip on her leash.

When Claire and Alistair go undercover as an affianced couple, both Claire and Alistair find it hard to discount the growing feelings between them. As they get closer to the capture of their target, each must decide what’s more important…their loyalties or their hearts?

Touch Of Steel, the second in Ms. Cross’s dark and intriguing Clockwork Agents series, submerges us back into the wonderful world of Victorian sediments and steampunk adventures. Riveting action, wicked spies, steamy romance, and an all-star cast keep us on our toes. Lush world building continues to evolve as we divulge deeper into the mechanics behind the Wardens of the Realm and their arch enemies, The Company. The Wardens are a secret government group who work behind the scenes to protect the monarchy and it’s hierarchy, while The Company seeks to destroy it. One important aspect to remember is each group feels it is doing what is best for England and its residents and each will stop at nothing to achieve their objectives.

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I’m reviewing The Kingmakers by Clay & Susan Griffith at Smexybooks

The Kingmakers (Vampire Empire #3) by Clay and Susan Griffith
Urban/Steampunk Fantasy
Trade
September 4, 2012
Pyr

Favorite Quote: “How will history judge me? I care not.”

The Kingmakers is the dramatic, pulse pounding, emotional, heart wrenching conclusion to Clay and Susan’s epic Vampire Empire trilogy. From the first sentence of The Greyfriar (book one), I was instantly swept away into an incredible adventure of unimaginable horror, and an impossible romance so pure, that it shatters your heart. At the end of The Rift Walker (book two), Adele and Greyfriar exposed betrayers within Adele’s empire and gained valuable allies. Some of Adele’s trusted allies and hidden enemies have found out the Greyfriar’s secret (he is really Prince Gareth) and now they both wait to see what they will do with that information.

The Kingmaker is a splendid conclusion to the spellbinding magic of The Vampire Empire. Filled with mind boggling political intrigue, betrayal, deception, magic and a healthy dose of romance-you can’t help but be swept away by this epic trilogy.

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I’m reviewing Meljean Brook’s Riveted at Smexybooks

Riveted (Iron sea #3) by Meljean Brook
Steampunk, Romance
Released: September 4, 2012
Berkley Trade

Favorite Quote: “I’ll always wait for you…”

Meljean Brook once again delivers a “riveting” steampunk fantasy revolving around two personable and quite adorable characters. Plenty of swashbuckling adventure and fast paced action still exists yet the setting and characters involved are completely new and fresh, which only heightens the ever evolving world building. Each new installment that Meljean Brook’s writes for this series manages to invoke new emotions without deviating from the main arc.

I enjoyed watching our protagonists meet and get to know one another. Especially when their backgrounds are unveiled. Both Annika and David have issues that cause them to shy away from relationships. Annika was raised in a secluded secretive community that did not entertain the rigid social structures and taboos of the New World. When she leaves her settlement, she is constantly finding herself committing a new faux pas with each new port she visits. She longs to find her sister and go home but there is a small part of her that also longs to be accepted for who she is.

David Kentwess studies volcanoes. He and a group of fellow scientists are heading to Iceland to study the volcanoes and develop a way to forecast eruptions. David was injured in an eruption, which has resulted in his having to wear prosthetics. These prosthetics are not pretty to look at it and they form an invisible yet solid barrier between him and society. He sees the disgust and pity reflected on the faces of those he meets and chooses to rise above it rather than give into it. David wants two things in life. To fulfill a promise and find someone who can accept him for the man he is; beyond his prosthetics.

Annika had no idea that her meeting David was not accidental. Annika has something David wants. David strikes up a friendship with her, attempting to smooth the way for his request. When outside forces intervene, Annika refuses to help David. In anger, David betrays their friendship and is shocked by his feelings of guilt and pain when Annika dissolves their friendship and tells him to take a hike.

From this moment on, we see two storylines intertwining. One, the main conflict, which is as just as entertainingly complex as in the last two books, and the subplot which focuses on David’s & Annika’s journey towards finding themselves and each other.

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I’m reviewing Heart Of Brass by Kate Cross at Smexybooks

Heart Of Brass (Clockwork Agents #1) by Kate Cross
PNR/Steampunk
Paperback
May 1, 2012
Signet Eclipse

Favorite Quote: “She drove him to distraction, frustrated him, amazed him, and made him what to do better.“

Arden Grey, Countess Huntley, has everything a woman of the 19th century could want. Wealth, status, and independence. Everything except her husband. The Earl of Huntley disappeared seven years ago while on a mission for a secret government agency called the Wardens. Arden knows her husband is still alive and has never given up hope he will come home to her. One night Arden feels someone watching her and realizes it's her missing husband.

Lucas (Luke) Gray, the Earl of Huntley, is now an assassin for the Company, a corrupt agency.  Referred to as number 5, he is sent to assassinate Arden for her crimes against the Company. As Luke watches his target, he finds himself unable to complete his mission. Something about Arden is familiar and his attraction to her both excites and scares him.

Arden and Lucas's best friend implement a plan and are able to capture and subdue Luke.They take him to the Wardens headquarters and learn that the Company has tampered with both his memories and his physical stature. Luke is definitely not the man he was seven years ago. The Wardens don't trust him but Arden finally has him back in her life and will do anything to keep him there. As Arden and Luke struggle to reacquaint themselves with one another again, they have to stop the Company from killing them and Arden has to stop a serial killer.

 

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I’m reviewing Wicked As They Come by Delilah S. Dawson ay Smexybooks

Wicked As They Come (A Blud Novel #1) Delilah S. Dawson
Steampunk PNR
Paperback
March 27, 2012
Pocket

Favorite Quote:
“Is it inevitable?”
“Only if you want it to be.”

Tish Everett has just come out of an abusive relationship. She is finally free after three years and has no plans to enter into another relationship that could take away her fragile new found freedom. When she attends the estate sale of a former patient, she finds an old locket that opens up to reveal the most delicious man she has ever laid eyes on. That night, Tish awakens, naked, to an alternative world and Criminy Stain. Criminy is a gypsy, magician, and a bludman. His owns and operates a traveling circus caravan, outfitted with the wonders of his world. Criminy claims that he placed a wish on the locket, a wish for his soul mate, and Tish is the answer to that wish. As Tish tries to adapt to this new world and to Criminy, she finds herself struggling to maintain a link to her old world. Criminy offers her a position in his caravan as a fortune teller when it’s revealed that his world gives her this talent. Glimpses into the future show her that she has some hard choices to make that could effect both their worlds if she isn’t careful. When her locket is stolen, Tish and Criminy set out on a journey that pits them against monsters, ghosts, bludbunnies; ultimately leading them to an evil that plans to use the locket and Tish to destroy Criminy and rid the world of his kind forever.

 

 

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I’m reviewing Hunter’s Prey by Moira Rogers at Smexybooks

Hunter’s Prey (Bloodhounds #2) by Moira Rogers
Paranormal Romance
Ebook
March 6, 2012
Samhain Publishing

Favorite Quote: “I used to be charming, once upon a time. “

Ophelia retired from life as a prostitute, but her new position is even more complicated. Managing the bloodhound manor in Iron Creek is difficult and time-consuming, a job she enjoys less with each passing day. Then there's her inconvenient attraction to Hunter. The newly turned hound seems eager to enjoy her company, but wary of anything more intimate.

Having survived the violence of his first full moon out of a cage, Hunter isn't looking forward to his first new moon. Ophelia offers to be the woman who sates his needs during the three long days of sexual fury, but he can't abide the thought of hurting her in a state of mindless lust. Especially since she longs to settle into a respectable life, and his needs are anything but respectable.

Their mutual goal is simple: avoid entanglements. It's a solid plan, at least until a vampire drug lord and a couple of nosy Guild representatives force them to work together to defend their friends and everything they hold dear-including each other. (Goodreads)

I’m a huge fan of Moira Rogers’s steampunk/ pnr series-The Bloodhounds. An incredibly sexy, action packed story that will keep you glued to your e reader. An enchanting mix of old and new sets the stage as we engage with our two fascinating protagonists-Ophelia and Hunter.

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I’m reviewing Meljean Brook’s Heart Of Steel at Smexybooks

Heart Of Steel (Iron Seas #2) by Meljean Brook
Steampunk, Romance
November 1, 2011

Favorite Quote:  “Give her a heart of steel.”

“A heart of steel? But…why?”

“Because there is no other way to survive.”

 

When Captain Yasmeen tossed Archimedes Fox over the side of her ship in The Iron Duke for having the sheer gall of trying to commandeer it, she tosses him in a canal which shows Fox that she wasn’t trying to kill him per say, just give him a little wake up call. She also relieved him of a certain valuable sketch that he desperately needs back. Fox decides that the adventure and the Captain are too much to resist and once again barges back into Yasmeen’s life. Yasmeen agrees to help him recover the sketch, for a small fee, but laughs at his declaration of courting her. When an old friend of Fox’s approaches him for help, Yasmeen and Fox find themselves part of a rebellion in the middle of Horde territory.

 

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I’m Reviewing Phoenix Rising by Philippa Ballantine & Tee Morris at Smexy Books

Favorite Quote: “ Yes Books, I know. I’m such a bad, bad agent. I should be put across your knee and spanked.”

BLURB: Evil is most assuredly afoot—and Britain’s fate rests in the hands of an alluring renegade  and a librarian.
These are dark days indeed in Victoria’s England. Londoners are vanishing, then reappearing, washing up as corpses on the banks of the Thames, drained of blood and bone. Yet the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences—the Crown’s clandestine organization whose bailiwick is the strange and unsettling—will not allow its agents to investigate. Fearless and exceedingly lovely Eliza D. Braun, however, with her bulletproof corset and a disturbing fondness for dynamite, refuses to let the matter rest and she’s prepared to drag her timorous new partner, Wellington Books, along with her into the perilous fray.
For a malevolent brotherhood is operating in the deepening London shadows, intent upon the enslavement of all Britons. And Books and Braun—he with his encyclopedic brain and she with her remarkable devices—must get to the twisted roots of a most nefarious plot . . . or see England fall to the Phoenix! (Goodreads)

WTH Wednesday Regretsy-when DIY meets WTH

I love Regretsy. Seriously. I could read this site all day. Hereare some of my personal favs.


I don’t even what to know.


More like, “You be strange. I call men in white coats.”


Your going to feel something wearing this rock ring all right. And probably hear a few things too.


What? I can’t hear you. I look stupendous? Why thank you.


Some things should never be made. Never.


Fashion be damned! I want these boots.


Once more Steampunk is violated.

My review of The Greyfriar (Vampire Empire, Book 1) by Clay Griffith & Susan Griffith is at Smexybooks

Favorite Quote: “That a few marks on this paper can bring you my heart in my absence is great magic. Life is now a constant source of wonder.”

In 1870 vampires declared war on the humans and swept through the Northern lands like a plague; destroying everything and everyone in their path. Millions of humans died. Millions more died later due to famine and disease. The human survivors fled south to the tropics due to the vampires intolerance for the hotter climates. Once there the human began to rebuild their societies and dreams with a feverish abandonment.
Now the year is 2010 and the humans are preparing for a bloody war to reclaim their heritage and rid the world of the vampire scrounge. Caught in the middle of this inevitable war is Princess Adele and a mysterious man called the Greyfriar who’s dangerous relationship with each other will challenge and defy everything and everyone in their lives.

 

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I’m At Smexy Books Talking About Books

I went a visiting to Smexy Books house today to eat her food, play with her toys, and to talk with her about Meljean Brook’s fantastical fascinating world of steampunk with her newest release-Iron Duke.
WOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOO
Urrr, em, sorry.


Come on over and see why we think Meljean Brook’s Iron Duke is a 5 star read.

Later on today I'm pulling a solo act with my review of Kate Brady's Last To Die.