Showing posts with label fae. Show all posts
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Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Moon-kissed : Within the Darkness by Amelia Hutchins


 Synopsis

Alexandria Helios is on a mission to find her brother. Landon disappeared on his quest to find the Sacred Library that holds the cure to the moon sickness affecting their people. There is one problem. Her journey will take her through the Kingdom of Night and directly into Torrin’s path as the head of the Night King’s army. He’s egotistical, sexy, sin incarnate, and everything she knows she shouldn’t want, but his whispered promise of dark desires awakens something deep within her that makes him hard to resist.
Torrin didn’t expect the lead assassin of the Moon Clan to walk into his trap. Alexandria has ignited something within him he thought was gone, and he knows he shouldn’t crave her, but he does. She’s a fire in a world of ice, bathed in blood and moonlight that calls to the darkness within him.
Secrets are unraveling as both are tossed into a ploy that neither is destined to survive. Can they find common ground and work together to defeat the darkness? Or will the world come crashing down around them as they tear each other apart?

 

 Review

 If you want tension, anger, sex, death, murder, sorrow, angst, hopelessness....it is all there in this book.

Alexandria and Torrin burnt up my pages. This is not your cookie cutter romance where the hero and heroine fight for their love - this is enemy vs enemy with sexual tension riddled all through it. Did I mention there's magic and a prophecy as well? 

If you've read this author's previous works then you know that there is a slow, taxing, painful burn between the main characters. At times they hate each other as much as they care for each other. At their core they are enemies and are constantly trying to outthink the other.

Just a warning - there isn't a HEA this is where you see Alexandria slowly morph into the bad ass that she is meant to be.

Friday, April 11, 2014

C.A. Szarek "The Tartan MP3 Player"




Book One in the time travel, fantasy romance series, Highland Secrets!
She never believed in magic…
Claire McGowan, Scotophile and historical romance novel addict, finally saves up enough for her dream vacation to Scotland.
She never imagines she’ll get sucked back to the seventeenth century while running on the beach—that’s what she gets for exercising when she should be relaxing.
He knows with a harsh certainty magic exists...
The Fae have taken his brother—Laird of his clan. Duncan MacLeod finds a bonnie naked and confused lass. He’s convinced Claire arrived in 1672 through the Faery Stones—a magical portal he’s been scouring the lands for over the past six months.
At last, he has someone who’s been through the Faery Stones and can help him find them—and get his brother back.


First, I’d like to thank the author and Twinsie Book Tours for allowing me to participate in this Blog Tour. In my cyber book travels I have heard of C.A. Szarek before, but I haven't had the pleasure of experiencing her writing. When the call for blogs went out I read the synopsis and was immediately intrigued. The title I loved and I have always had a soft spot for Scottish time travel romances.  Duncan and Claire did not disappoint. I enjoyed how the author navigated her way around Duncan accepting her mysterious appearance on his beach. The Fae of course. Slam the Fae and time travel together and I am there. The chemistry between Duncan and Claire was instant and burned straight off the pages. I literally devoured this story and wished it had been a bit longer. There were steamy love scenes, tension-laden missions to the Faery realm and action packed fight scenes. YES! YES! I enjoyed this read. 


 


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