Review: Suddenly Wolf by Abby Blake

Suddenly Wolf by Abby Blake

Publisher: Siren-Bookstrand Publishing
Genre: Paranormal Romance

Heat Rating: 3

 

Blurb

No. No. And hell, no.

There was no such thing as fate…or werewolves.

Three testosterone-laden, alpha male types claimed she belonged to them? And that they were willing to share? Nope, couldn’t be happening. She must’ve hit her head harder than she’d realized because something was clearly messing with her usually sensible thought processes.

But how the hell could she explain the crazy way she heard their thoughts in her head? Or the inexplicable way her body reacted to them all even though they were absolutely not her type? Oh, and, yeah, the wild, blazingly hot dreams of foursomes? They totally sucked.

So why then, when faced with a chance to reclaim her quiet life, was Andrea suddenly desperate to make Xavier, Daegan, and Isaac live up to their promise of forever?



Wendy's Review

Abby Blake brought a story that has you using all your emotions to get through it. It is a refreshing touch and an enjoyable read.

Andrea owned and operated her jewellery store with pride but one night and it all comes to a halt, when closing her store she forgot to lock the door which almost caused her life. Fumbling robbers accidently shot Andrea in a hold up and as she was bleeding out. Her only hope happened to be with Isaac and Daegan the two wolves who found her and made the decision to save her by turning her into a wolf, it was perfect because they found their mate, they decided to act first and deal with the ramifications from their brother Xavier.

To no avail Andrea embarks on an adventure that she couldn't quiet fathom and to live with three men who claim to be her mates. Things like this don’t happen so there must be a reasonable explanation of why she is a wolf now and how she is attracted to three men/wolves.

As things progress Andrea came to realize that not only was the sex wonderful and out of this world so was her life. She came to realize that her life was empty without her men.

Xavier, Daegan, and Isaac live up to their promise of forever. To them Andrea is their life long mate and they wanted nothing more than to please her in life and in bed. Even though Andrea kept saying these men were not her type, she knew that there were no other men for her.

5 Tea Cups!

      

Review: Black Lust by Karyn Gerrard

Black Lust by Karyn Gerrard

Publisher:Evernight Publishing
Genre: Paranormal Romance

Heat Rating: 3
 

Blurb

Lucius Black lives a debauched and wild nightlife. Being a ‘Quarter’ (1/4 vampire), blood and sex are what he is. However, his existence wears thin after a century of hedonistic pleasure.

Trevina Patterson lives a quiet, happy life running a hair salon in a village on the east coast of the United Kingdom. It was a perfect life and all she could ask for, until a chance encounter with Lucius Black.

What was it about him that was so unsettling and yet so attractive?

For Lucius, no woman had ever been enough, until Trevina. She awakened in him feelings he had not thought possible. Passions considered by him to be little more than vampiric mythology. She awakened his...black lust.



Lorien's Review

Black Lust is an intriguing paranormal romance story filled with emotions and well-developed characters. Lucius Black is a Dhampire, a quarter vampire who enjoys his debauched playboy lifestyle. That is until he meets Trevina, a hairdresser who stirs up his lust for a change. While her beauty is plain, he finds an instant attraction toward her that he can’t deny. From their first encounter, you can sense their desire and inner conflict. We also get a glimpse of his Dhampyre cousin, Wolfram and Jessilynn’s relationship.

The characters definitely grabbed my attention and pulled me into their exciting world. There was plenty of emotional depth and erotic romance to sink your teeth into the characters and invest in their happy ending. Not to mention, the sex scenes were steamy and deliciously hot! The suspenseful plot and background of the family’s history added another layer to the story. A great read for fans of erotic and dark paranormal romance.

4 Tea Cups!

 

   

Review: Blessed by Ann Mayburn

Blessed by Ann Mayburn

Publisher: Liquid Silver Books
Genre: Paranormal Romance

Heat Rating: 4

Blurb

Shay is an ordinary college girl with an extraordinary birthright. Handsome professor Aiden Klemenson singles her out as a potential Chosen of the benevolent Gods of Creation, and his perfect woman. He tries to convince Eliana that she is born to do the work of the Gods, but her upbringing hasn’t given her much faith in gods or destiny. Despite her better judgment, desire burns between them with an enchantment all its own.

The Gods of Destruction will stop at nothing to keep Eliana from fulfilling her destiny: to become a formidable warrior against evil. Cunning and deceitful, they send demons and magical serial killers to exterminate her before she can become a threat. With Aidan’s guidance, Eliana realizes that in order to survive she must accept her fate and learn to harness the fierce magic within her--and open her heart to his love.


Stacey's Review
 
Set in Washington, D.C. in a new type of society where Gods and Goddesses are worshipped in a vast array of temples, we meet Eliana and Aiden. Though I read the books in this series out of order, in no way did it mess with any of the events or storyline. These books are so well written and it’s easy to find yourself immediately drawn in. I love that while Ann Mayburn included these characters in the second book, she also maintained the integrity of their own personal story. Not giving away too much in her second book in the series. And oh my, is their story good!

Eliana is a junior in college. Her biggest worry has been passing her classes and working at a garden center. Until now. Being a daughter of atheists, she never in a million years would think she would find herself in the middle of a battle over her between Creation and Destruction. But that’s exactly where she ends up. Throw in the fact she has a huge crush on one of her professors that she denies to herself, and the sparks fly.

She soon learns that her professor, Aiden holds all of the answers. Between working at a garden center, school and a roommate who happens to be a witch, Eliana must find a way to protect and ready herself for her time of choosing. And Aiden isn’t the only one who wants to help her with her decision. She is approached by demons who try to persuade her as only demons can. She is tormented by her boss at work and constantly harassed by a college punk who doesn’t understand the meaning of the word “No.”.

Eliana finds herself at the hands of a madman hell bent on raping, torturing and killing women. A man filled with such hate that only one thing could put a stop to his crimes. Trapped, tied up and drugged, Eliana must find the courage to defeat him and survive. Can she? Will she find her path to Creation and her God or will she lose and find herself in the arms of Destruction?

Every single time I read one of Ann Mayburn’s books (and I have now read four), I find myself so involved that I think of little else for days afterwards. She has created an amazing society in Washington, D.C. and, I love visiting. Her characters, though they have strengths beyond us mere mortals, they also have weaknesses. They may be Chosen by the Gods, but their human sides will have you choosing them every single time.

Another amazing book!!!

5 Tea Cups!

      

Review: Hell's Revenge by Eve Langlais

Hell's Revenge by Eve Langlais

Publisher: Liquid Silver Books
Genre: Paranormal Romance

Heat Rating: 3

Blurb

I am literally going to kill my mother.

To say I have mommy issues is putting it mildly. The woman who abandoned me has a lot of nerve to just saunter back into my life without warning and drop a bombshell of atomic proportions. I tried to kill her as way of resolving my inner Freudian issues, but my damned boyfriends stopped me. Spoilsports.

As if wanting to strangle my birth mother isn’t enough, once again, someone is messing with my life and a new player steps in to save me. Did I mention my dark knight is tall, gorgeous and fanged? Just don’t tell my lovers because apparently they’re not willing to share me with the undead.

The final showdown with the mysterious figure—also known as the major pain in my ass—fast approaches. I don’t care how powerful they are. They screwed up big time when they took something precious of mine. It’s never a good idea to piss off this Princess of Hell because revenge is my middle name.


Lorien's Review
 
In the last book of the Princess of Hell, Muriel faces one of her biggest challenge as the whole series wraps up. She reconnects with her Mother Earth who interrupts her nice family dinner with some surprising news and adds a third lover into the mix, which her succubus power relies on different magic beings. Not to mention the usual assassination attempts that came with her position.

But this time, there's a maternal war in hell against her own mother that threatens Muriel to take drastic measure of news with her pregnancy. Will she choose to keep her baby and destroy the world or risk her baby and save the world?

Hell’s Revenge is a terrific continuation of dark humor and nonstop action. I enjoyed the entire series and found the last book even more enthralling. This was another page-turner with strong characterization and catchy dialogue. The storyline had plenty of twists and turns that kept my mind rapt in the story. I loved the relationship and interaction between Muriel, Auric and David. The sex scenes were super-hot and incredibly fun to read.

The only thing I would have liked to see more is the connection with her new vampire lover, Teivel. Regardless, Eve Langlais did not disappoint to deliver an entertaining story. I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading about a feisty heroine with a kickass attitude and an imaginary world-building plot. It’s well worth picking up a copy!

5 Tea Cups!

      

Review: Alpha Panthers by Becca Van

Alpha Panthers by Becca Van

Publisher: Siren-Bookstrand Publishing
Genre: Paranormal Romance

Heat Rating: 4

 

Blurb
 
April Waterson has just waved good-bye to her best friend and work colleague after a ritual Friday night out for dinner and drinks. She heads toward a cabstand and begins to feel ill. When April's vision finally clears, she finds herself in an unfamiliar forest, surrounded by gigantic trees. She falls asleep leaning against a large tree trunk.

April finally awakens and finds herself in a palatial-style mansion with two Alpha shape-shifting panthers, Gage and Saxon Kian, claiming she is their mate. She attempts to escape and finds herself being rescued by another shape-shifter, only this time it's a bear. Ben Koku knows April is his mate as well. He asks April to accept his claim so he may help her deal with the dominant, arrogant panther shifters, and she accepts.

Will the three men be able to convince April she is a worthy mate for the three of them?


Stacey's Review
 
In Alpha Panthers, Terra Form 1, Becca Van takes us from the plains of Nebraska into the deep, dark forest of Terra Form on another earthly plane. Terra Form is a loand of shapeshifters and filled with menage’s of the human and animalistic kind.

A story that starts out with a far from classic love triangle involving two were-panthers and a woman. We are witness to not only a ménage with two men but also woman and panther. I have to be honest, it didn’t sit well with me.

However, I pulled up my professional boots and plodded on through to the heart of the story.
A woman in a strange land, claimed and marked by two men/panthers who believe she is their mate, also comes across a were-bear who also believes he has claim to her-- in the process. This making her life even more complicated. Far from her normal, solitary life in Nebraska. Who will she choose? Will she accept her newfound destiny or fight tooth and nail to get out of there and back to her lonely life on another plane? The main story line is easy to focus on if you are not into the human having sexual acts with animals type thing.

Becca Van has written a very steamy read. Her imaginative crafting and phenomenal word weaving gives us a view much different than your run of the mill shifter stories.

I recommend this to ménage fans but with the warning of scenes involving post shifting sexual acts.

3 Tea Cups!

 

Review: Mastered By A Wolf by Belladonna Bordeaux

Mastered By A Wolf by Belladonna Bordeaux


Publisher: Liquid Silver Books
Genre: Paranormal Romance

Heat Rating: 4
 

Blurb

Eliza Dogood is a half-fae-maid coming into maturity and suffering all the growing pangs caused by this life-altering time. The one aspect she’s finding harder and harder to cope with are the lurid fantasies. It’s not uncommon for her kind, but having put herself on the shelf, Eliza faces a lonely future with only her naughty dreams to keep her warm at night. Until she meets him.

William Cope has never considered how a life-mate might affect his solitary werewolf life. He’s about to find out. Eliza is the perfect woman for him. Not only is she gorgeous, she’s a willing slave too. A single caveat has put the brakes on their mating. Eliza is fae. His bite will destroy her.

Contains: light bondage, domination/submission, anal sex


Stacey's Review
 
To be quite honest, Mastered By A Wolf is the very first Historical Paranormal Romance I have ever read. Before I opened this book, I was full of skepticism and preconceived notions. However, once I opened it and began to read—I could not put it down. Meeting Eliza Dogood and William Cope, turned out to be an amazing experience.

Set in 1814 London, this story is about a half fae/ woman who is not fully aware of her powers fae or womanly and a beast of a man/werewolf who is incredibly comfortable with his own abilities. A game of slave and master begins and as it goes on, you see they are not so very different. The chemistry between these two is evident from their very first meeting. A primal need apparent for them both. It isn’t until they almost lose each other, that they find what they have both needed all along. A true, earth shattering, mind boggling love that Eliza and William would sacrifice anything to hold onto.

Belladonna Bordeaux has forever changed my opinion of historical romance stories. She has opened the mind of this skeptic with her wonderfully imaginative story of fae, vampires, elves and werewolves. This story proves that Historical Romance is not just for your Grandmother anymore.

Because of Mastered By The Wolf, I am a newly turned Paranormal Historical Romance follower. She has proven to me that the old adage “Never judge a book by it’s cover”, couldn’t be more true. I’d hate to have missed such a truly fabulous love story. Now, I will no longer slide past the Historical Romance section with averted eyes. Instead, I will search it out with an open mind and heart.

5 Tea Cups!

      

Review: For the Love of Liberty by Sierra Summers

For the Love of Liberty by Sierra Summers

Publisher: Liquid Silver Books
Genre: Paranormal Romance

Heat Rating: 2

 

Blurb

Liberty Slater and her young son have been virtual prisoners of her father-in-law since her husband’s death. The only thing that has given her comfort is the wild wolf living in the woods behind her home. She can tell her wolf her hopes, dreams and fears. But her wolf isn’t what he appears; he’s actually Damon Hix--a shifter sent by the half-brother she never knew about to bring her home.

When Damon reveals himself things get complicated, and what was supposed to be a snatch and grab changes the second he touches Liberty. He knows she belongs to him and him alone, no matter what it takes he will free Liberty.


Yadkny's Review

Liberty has been living with the fear that her son will grow up to be just as cold and domineering as her father-in-law. Unfortunately, Libby is without options on how to stop the seemingly inevitable. Her only solace is the wolf that has become her confidant and given her a small of peace of mind if only for a brief moment each day. It is only when she least expects it that her prayer for freedom is answered and a discovery is made that changes everything about past and her future.

Damon knew Liberty had changed his life the minute he saw her. By playing the role of a non-shifting wolf, he got to know the real Liberty. With each visit became more intrigued and more aware of his growing feelings and protective instincts towards the widowed mother. She became more to him than a mission his alpha sent him on. Now a small window of opportunity has opened for him to grant her freedom and stake his claim.

This story may not be packed with pages, but it is packed with emotion and heat. Most of the story’s focus is on Libby and Damon, but as the Alexander family reunites, we see trouble brewing for them with the Dark Fae Queen. Unlikely allies are formed and an unforeseen pairing of mates takes place. However, much of the details were rushed toward the end, so it leaves the reader with a happily-ever-after and a small cliffhanger.

This second in The Alexander Wolves series may not have been as action-packed as the first, but the feelings between Libby and Damon were wonderfully uncomplicated. I expect quite an interesting adventure is about to take place in the next installment, but first one more Alexander must be reunited with her family. Readers needing a quick escape into the world of shape-shifting wolves will enjoy this story.

3 ½ Tea Cups!

 

   

Review: Beast by Sophie Oak

Beast by Sophie Oak

Publisher: Siren-Bookstrand Publishing
Genre: Paranormal Romance

Heat Rating: 2
 

Blurb

Fresh from his latest scandal, vampire playboy Dante Dellacourt has been given an ultimatum—take a consort and settle down or be disowned.
Exiled by her pack, the werewolf Kaja is stolen from her frozen plane and awakens in a foreign world. Frightened and alone, she savagely fights for her freedom.
When Dante and his Fae cousins are called to defend the gnomes of the marketplace from their feral prize, he discovers that Kaja glows like no other consort he has ever seen. Exotic and wild, her body calls to him in ways he had not dreamed possible.
In order to claim his werewolf, he must first tame this ferocious beauty. But to earn her submission, will Dante be forced to unleash his inner beast?


Monica's Review
 
“This is what I need, Kaja. I didn’t understand it before. I’m a warrior. I’m a beast, and this is my cause. Come with me. Fight with me. And this isn’t my home, Kaja. You are my home.” I hand no idea he could be so demanding, such a beast nothing like the Dante in Bound: A Faery Story.

I was ecstatic when I found out that Dante was going to have his own book. I loved him in Bound: A Faery Story; he was such a playboy, so funny, harmless especially when he was scared of a little kitty kat. Now in this book he actually has to seek a consort in order not to lose his way of life but never thought that he would fall in love believed he could still have his playboy way.

I could not believe how the story began with Dante, him starting in a Bachelor television show. It was the ending of the show where he is about to choose a finance but he had another plan. Yet in another scandal he finds himself in family drama and is threatened by his father, find a consort or else. He comes up with a plan to find the most inappropriate consort and please his family but regret what they did and sent her away. Then Dante can go back to his playboy way. His cousin’s were on their way to the marketplace to take care of an uncontrollable woman and he believes he found the perfect consort.

Kaja is a werewolf that has been outcasted by her pack. She was the only one in her family to survive after her family was killed when her father lost a fight to become the First. She does her best to find the door to go to another plane but the PlaneWalker takes her prisoner and takes her to the marketplace. When she awakens she finds herself in a cage and when Dante walks into the tent with his cousin she believes that Beck is the biggest threat. She makes the biggest mistake in that belief because Dante thoroughly dominates her and shows her who the master is.

The inner beast comes out of Dante when Kaja is around him and especially when she puts herself in danger. The true claws of the vampire come out and are ready to slay anything that stands between him and Kaja. He understands that he needs to bring out his dominate side, something he did not know he had but it feels good and this is a way to tame his werewolf. When his enemy strikes and he feels that Kaja is in pain he knows what he has to do and lets the Beast out to play.

Dante really took me by surprise with his dominate ways, some spanking, bondage and toy playing. Then when his beast would come out he just seemed like a true warrior keeping his Kaja safe. When Kaja was introduced at the beginning she seemed fragile, confused but she developed into a strong woman starting to see that she finally belonged. She understood that Dante did not want her forever but she was going to take as much as she could from him. The when he would least expect is she would flee.

I loved that I was able to read about the characters from the first book, which I loved. Then to read about another character from a totally different book is awesome, who would have thought to have Julian Lodge as a vampire in this book. Well, duh Sophie Oak of course.

Dante and Kaja belonged together from the moment that Dante had Kaja pinned down in the cage. They were hot together. This book could be read as a stand alone book but if you have not read the first book it will help to know where it all began. I can’t wait to see what Ms. Oak has in store for the next book in this series. This story is amazing, so pick up your copy today. All I have to say is keep it coming Ms. Oak because I will be there ready for anything that you dish out.

5 Tea Cups!