Archive for January 2012
Review of Fury of Fire (Dragonfury, #1) By Coreene Callahan
Title: Fury of FireAuthor: Coreene Callahan
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy Romance
Source: Amazon Vine
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Published: February 7, 2012
Rating:
Received this ARC from Amazon Vine.
Welcome to Washington State.
Coreene Callahan's debut novel is the beginning to many additional installments.
Bastian is one of the oldest of his kind; an all male race born of human females - dragon-shifters. As leader of the Nightfury dragon clan it is his duty to protect humankind. With their numbers declining he needs to set an example. With only 5 days until the Meridian’s axis realign, he has less than a week to find a mate.
“…Be the first to commit, to have a son, to lose his female in child birth.”
Myst Munroe, a nurse practitioner, just wants to check on her pregnant patient – Caroline Van Owen. She is still recovering from her mother, Dana’s, murder. When she arrives at Caroline’s house and discovers her lying in a pool of blood – the flashbacks begin. Her training kicks in and she works to save both mother and her unborn child. Soon Bastian and his first in command, Rikar, arrive dressed as EMS workers – the battle begins.
Bastian feels an immediate attraction to Myst; her energy is unlike anything he has experienced before. Seeing her distress, he feels a compelling need to take care of her. For Bastian, that is something that has never happen before – but it is the one thing that he can’t seem to control. When Myst starts to recover from the shock she become desperate, he knows that she will need his help – even if she is reluctant to accept it. Before long, Bastian finds himself unable to maintain his control – he wants to claim Myst for his own.
This is an emotion packed book that will make you laugh and make you cry. Myst’s plight comes right off the pages. Her confusion over her feelings for Bastian tears her.
The secondary characters enrich the story. It’s a good thing that we will get 2 more installments this year (according to Amazon):
Fury of Ice ~ Releasing 4/24/12 ~ Excerpt in back of this book
Fury of Seduction ~ Releasing 7/24/12
Review of Undertow By Cherry Adair
Welcome to the Caribbean.
This book has been on to-read list for about a year; Cherry Adair is one of my auto-order authors.
Teal Williams, a master marine mechanic, agreed to come to Cutter Cay to fill in for her father. Teal is recently divorced and hoping to earn enough to start her own business. However, she when she discovers her first assignment is aboard the Decrepit for an undetermined amount of time to savage the Dutch pirate ship, the Vrijheid, she wants no part of it. There is no way she is going aboard a ship captained by Zane Cutter; not to mention she gets incurably seasick.
Zane ‘Ace’ Cutter, known as the Casanova of the Caribbean, is grateful to discover that he feels no attraction to Teal; she also seems immune to his charms. Of course once on board the Decrepit he discovers there is a lot to Teal and all of it is appealing. Before Long, Zane finds he is unable to maintain the distance she seems to want to put between them. But his nickname, Ace, says it all; the sea and woman give him everything he wants – he wants to claim Teal for his own.
This book was a good read. However, the main plot was muddled with so many subplots that I often felt lost. I am not sure how the series will continue; since every possible plot twist was mixed into this installment. Drug addicted parent, dead parents, drunken one night stand, terrorist plot, government agents, treasure hunt and so on. I also felt that there was no passion between Teal and Zane. The issues between them seemed to resolve themselves; no angst!
