Posts Tagged ‘demonica’

Okay, I am embarrassed to admit to all of you Vampire/Paranormal die-hards out there, that I have JUST started the Christine Feehan “Dark” series. Yes, I am SO behind the times, and my upcoming reviews of these books will probably be unnecessary, but since I always feel the need to “discuss” what I’ve just read, you’ll all have to bear with me

Oh my goodness are these books INTENSE or what??? I have just finished book one, and was simply consumed with the emotional intensity of the couple in question. Whoa! No wonder women are enraptured with with these books. I’ve NEVER heard a *mortal* man speak that way. Boy could Christine give a few of our men some great lessons in love (*giggle* – my husband would roll his eyes big time right now…)

I still have to review the last Larissa Ione book of the Demonica series (I enjoyed it immensely), and will get to that one shortly, too!

Oh by the way…where have I been lately? Well along with recent influx of trade shows I have been attending, I have been obsessed with my newest DVD “Moonlight” series. I will have to admit, Mick St. John is easily the hottest vampire alive (or is it dead?). I just didn’t have the heart to acknowledge any other vampire while I was indulging in him… too bad we will not get a season 2

I did like this book, but I did not bond as much as I thought I would. After book one, I was certain Shade would be my favorite brother. Hot biker look,  long black hair, black leather, tattooed, rugged and sexy! While I felt there was emotion clearly depicted, I found myself somewhat disconnected throughout the story. I blame Shade’s “curse”! It held him back from loving, which in turn, held me back from completely *feeling* the connection between the two main characters. Never fear, it is worthy of reading, integral to the continuing storyline, and anyway, book #3 brought me back front and center!

Shade, a promiscuous Seminous Demon, with seemingly no regrets towards his sexual deviant nature, is cursed. A misdeed from his past, has cursed him with the threat of becoming invisible, and painfully starved, if he is to ever fall in love. He avoids any emotional connection (while continuing to indulge in his sexual nature), and finds himself inadvertently involved with a human female (you’ll remember Runa from book 1 – she was getting too *needy*, and Shade felt it time to cut the ties – ugh! Stupid boys!)

Shade rediscovers Runa in book 2, while they are imprisoned together in a cell. Something is different about Runa…She is just as beautiful, yet, stronger…angrier…(and has her own life changing event which affects her very existence).

“So that made what you did okay? When did you start screwing around on me?”

He propped an elbow on his knee, somehow managing to look casual, as if he got captured by Ghouls all the time and maybe enjoyed it little. “Don’t ask questions you don’t want to know the answers to.”

“Oh I want to know.”

“I don’t think you do.”

“You’re an ass.”

“Tell me something I don’t know.”

“I was in love with you.” Silence fell like an executioner’s ax. Oh, God. Had she just said that out loud?

Shade and Runa find themselves working together against their captors, while continuously protecting each other from potential harm. As events unfold, Shade and Runa develop a new found appreciation for each other, and re-discover the meaning of friendship. While Runa learns to trust Shade, and overcome her apprehension towards him,

Her heart did a little flip, that he’d have suffered for her, and dammit, it shouldn’t be flipping for him for any reason. It seemed to be looking for any excuse to fall for him again. Clearly, it had a very short memory.

Shade fights any further emotional connection to her, that could potentially doom his fate.

“Damn you,” he said, in a voice that had been scraped over sandpaper. “Damn you for making me burn like this. For you.”

We also get glimpses into the developing connection (read: sexual tension) between a half-breed “Soul Shredder” (Gem) and a demon hating Aegis guardian (Kynan). This storyline is almost as absorbing as that of the main characters.

“What are we talking about? Sex?”

Her mouth went dry, and a shiver of both desire and anxiety race through her. “I- I don’t know. I just…could you see yourself with one?”

One long finger trailed along her jaw, the most intimate contact they’d ever had. “Never.”

With that, he stalked out of the room.

I loved how the author cleverly re-depicted many scenes from book one (that were originally overlooked as part of the environment, seemingly, unimportant to the events in book one), and, in perspective to book two, everything becomes much clearer, and crucial to the continuing story line.

While I found myself somewhat detached throughout a portion of the book, the ending was wrought with emotional discord, as alliances were forged (and not just between male and female).

“I would take your pain away if I could, human.” The words were spoken so softly Kynan barely heard them, and then Wraith was stalking away as though his feet were on fire.

I rode every twist and turn with tenacity, wanting to know more (and relieved to know I could lose myself in book# 3 and continue the ride!) I love these characters! Each and everyone is interesting, and likeable, and while I may have not bonded as intensely to the main characters of this particular novel, I have bonded to the series as a whole.

• Pleasure Unbound: A Demonica Novel
• Desire Unchained: A Demonica Novel
• Passion Unleashed (The Demonica Series)
• “Eternity Embraced” as found in the The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance 2 anthology
• Ecstasy Unveiled (The Demonica Series)
• Sin Undone (The Demonica Series) (expected release date: Sept. 2010)

I just got back from a trade show (and I’m absolutely exhausted)!

I’m glad to finally be reading again (with all the show preparations and then the show itself, my reading time was completely taken over), but I’m happy to be curling up with a good book yet again.

I have just started Larissa Ione’s Demonica series (Book 1 – Pleasure Unbound), and am halfway through the first book. So far so good! While it is not entirely vampires, the supernatural characters are interesting, and while it differs greatly from the Lynsay Sands & Kerrelyn Sparks books I am used to, the style actually reminds me of Jeaniene Frost’s Night Huntress series (half human slayer, with many prejudices against the supernatural, who learns a great deal from befriending someone she once considered her enemy).

I will be reviewing these as I go, along with the remaining books from Lynsay Sands series