Favorite Author #3!

Sherrilyn Kenyon

New York Time and International Best Seller

*My neighbor got me hooked on Sherrilyn's Dark-Hunter Series. Once I read Fantasy Lover I couldn't stop. Since I started reading it just a few years back I bought all that were available at the time, just before Retribution was released. My dad helped me in supplying the money. I read them all in about a week and was left wanting more! This series was the first real adult series I read. I think it's safe to say Sherrilyn got me hooked on reading. I haven't stopped and keep finding new authors I fall in love with but Sherrilyn will always be first in my heart.

About Fantasy Lover:
Being trapped in a bedroom with a woman is a grand thing. Being trapped in hundreds of bedrooms over two thousand years isn’t. And being cursed into a book as a love-slave for eternity can ruin even a Spartan warrior’s day.
As a love-slave, I know everything about women. How to touch them, how to savor them, and most of all, how to pleasure them. But when I was summoned to fulfill Grace Alexander’s sexual fantasies, I found the first woman in history who saw me as a man with a tormented past. She alone bothered to take me out of the bedroom and into the world. She taught me to love again. But I wasn’t born to know love. I was cursed to walk eternity alone. As an ancient Greek general, I had long ago accepted my sentence. Yet...

Dark-Hunter Series is about, well to sum it up, tragedy, love, loss, and patience. You have your dark-hunters (who can only be out in the dark), were-hunters (a.k.a. shifters), dream-hunters, and much more. Read and find the humor I found with Simi! Might want to grab some BBQ sauce first though.

*Chronicles of Nick is for young adults and if connected to The Dark-Hunter series. As Nick is a major character in both.

About:
At fourteen, Nick Gautier thinks he knows everything about the world around him. Streetwise, tough, and savvy, his quick sarcasm is the stuff of legends. . .until the night when his best friends try to kill him. Saved by a mysterious warrior who has more fighting skills than Chuck Norris, Nick is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters: immortal vampire slayers who risk everything to save humanity.
Nick quickly learns that the human world is only a veil for a much larger and more dangerous one: a world where the captain of the football team is a werewolf and the girl he has a crush on goes out at night to stake the undead. But before he can even learn the rules of this new world, his fellow students are turning into flesh-eating zombies—and he’s next on the menu.
As if starting high school isn’t hard enough. . .now Nick has to hide his new friends from his mom, his chain saw from the principal, and keep the zombies and the demon Simi from eating his brains, all without getting grounded or suspended. How in the world is he supposed to do that?


Sherrilyn has several more series I haven't had the pleasure of getting to YET!
The League
Dream-Hunter (part of Dark-Hunter)
Were-Hunter (part of Dark-Hunter)
Hellchaser
Lords of Avalon
Belador and more.

Check Sherrilyn out at 

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Challenge!

As you may know; I am at a loss as to what the title to my Lycan series should be. I am in need of suggestions. Starting January 1st I will start taking suggestions and on the 15th I will put them to a vote. In essence one of you will be naming the series. On the 1st I will post several excerpts and brief descriptions of the main characters. Plus a few things that will go on in the series.

The person who's suggestion is chosen will receive a $10 gift card to either Amazon or Barnes and Noble.

The people who made suggestions will receive a free copy of the 1st e-book published, 'Dalara'.  Hoping by November 2014.

So, start thinking and make sure you follow this blog. That way you will be ready come the 1st of the year.

Back to the 'Writing Cave' for me.

Distracted!!!

I'm a bit distracted writing. I am hoping to get to posting some of the passages. Until then Check out  Laura Wright, Alexandra Ivy, Patricia Briggs, J.R. Ward and Tina Folsom's works!

Bayou Heat Review

"Bayou Heat" 

by Alexandra Ivy and Laura Wright

(Adult Content, sex and violence)

***courtesy of alexandraivy.com***

"Hidden in the depths of the Louisiana bayous, the Pantera, have become little more than a legend to most humans. It’s rumored that in the ancient past twin sisters, born of magic, had created a sacred land and claimed it as their own. From that land was born creatures who were neither human or animal, but a mixture of the two. Faster and stronger than humans, they have hyper acute senses, and when surrounded by the magic of the Wildlands they’re capable of shifting into pumas. It was also whispered that they possess other gifts. Telepathy, witchcraft, immortality, and the ability to produce a musk that could enthrall mere mortals. Mothers warned young girls never to roam alone near the swamps, convinced that they would be snatched by the Pantera, while young men were trained to avoid hunting anywhere near the protected Wildlands. Not that the warnings were always successful. What girl didn’t dream of being seduced by a gorgeous, mysterious stranger? And what young man didn’t want to try his skill against the most lethal predators?

As the years passed, however, the sightings of the Pantera became so rare that the rumors faded to myths. Most believed the entire species had become extinct. Sadly they weren’t entirely mistaken..."

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My 1st attempt at a review so bare with me!

~~~Spoilers~~~

I wasn't sure if I would enjoy this series. I tend to lean towards vampires rather than shifters...just my preference, then having a collaboration series didn't seem like it would be well meshed. Once I started reading Raphael I couldn't stop...The details of the scenery and the lore is unbelievable. The imaginations of these two are astounding. 

Book 1: Raphael is one of self-control until Ashe enters the picture one night...all hell breaks loose and she steals his heart.

Book 2: Parish is a tough warrior that has never taken no for an answer let alone asked for anything...then he must retrieve Julia for the sake of their race. Learning the hard way and overcoming his hatred for the human race he finds love.

Book 3: Bayon had hid his feelings for a female that was presumed dead, well she wasn't. Keira had been kidnapped. Bayon is sent tracking the ones who are trying to end their race when he happens upon her locked in a room. Keira is Parish's sister and, well happy ending once they profess their love for each other.

Book 4: Jean-Baptiste has been hiding his loss of control, therefore his magic, from everyone. Being sent to retrieve a voodoo priestess with a female that is uptight and tries to act in control, he finds unable to resist mating...

All in all I love the series and can't wait for the next 2 books. The stories are shorter than I'd liked and they abruptly stop without leading into the next book. I do find this a bit frustrating though I enjoy the no happily ever after for all. Having a book end with everyone happy is the usual, Alexandra and Laura make it work and leave you wanting more. I give all 4 books 5 out of 5 stars! I hope they keep up with the series. I can't wait to see who exactly is behind the traitorous acts.

Wednesday Reads

It's Wednesday,  how about you joining me in the world of vampires, demons, lycans, shadowdwellers and romance.

The first book of the Nightwalker's Series by Jaquelyn Frank is about Jacob, a demon, and not your ordinary demon. Nature, destiny and fate lead the life of Jacob and his race. Isabella turns life upside down when a stranger resures her. A hidden secret that even her family never know is about to turn the Nightwalkers' live upside down. Nightworld in a new beginning.