This has been the week, like last week, of edits and more edits. I needed to add a couple more chapters (advice from editor) and those went back to the editor at the beginning of the week. Still working on the blurb for Cherish. It's either blah blah or gives too much away. I'm at the point where I'm ready to be completely done with this manuscript but it still needs me. LOL
Series:
Author: Mary Calmes
Length: 338 pages
Genre: Romance / Paranormal / Alternate Universe / Alpha-Omega Dynamics / Gay /
Notes: This was different than what I expected when it comes to omega. There are similarities with omega's being considered objects, but Avery's parents/family with how he's treated and raised is kinda of flipping the bird at convention and tradition. I love that this has a non-toxic alpha male, too. This balances the possessiveness with a willingness/love to allow Avery to be himself and to do what he loves. I wish it was a series. Not that I wanted more from these two MCs because I like where this HEA, but I want Lynden's (sorry for the spelling, I listened to the audio not sure of the spelling) romance. I would love to see him get his HEA.
Blurb: You belong to me and I know it down deep, in muscle and bone, where my wolf lives.
Avery Rhine isn’t an average homicide detective with the Chicago PD. In fact, Avery isn’t an average anything. Sure, as an omega he knows he’s at the bottom of the food chain, but that’s never slowed him down. He’s got a great life, complete with a loving family and a best friend who’d take a bullet for him, so what more could he possibly want or need? Except, maybe, for the world to change. And to find someone to spend more than one night with, but that isn’t high on his list of priorities. He’s never been one to believe in destiny or whatever else the fantasies sell about there being someone special out there meant just for him.
Then a chance encounter at a party changes everything.
Graeme Davenport has no delusions about finding his true mate. The consensus is that if an alpha doesn’t find their other half by the time they’re thirty, the chances of it ever happening go from slim to none. He’s not a mere alpha, though; Graeme is a cyne who sits at the pinnacle of lupine hierarchy, so he’s obligated by tradition and duty to choose an omega now, sign a contract, and bond with him. Love is not part of the equation.
When Graeme and Avery meet, their fierce attraction to each other flies in the face of reason and logic. Avery’s intense physical reaction to the alpha is something he’s never experienced before, while Graeme, who has always been the soul of discretion, loses all his inhibitions to desire for the man he wants to possess. They are two very different men trying to navigate expectations, separate reason from innate primal drive, and do it while working together to solve a murder.
It will take everything they are to find a middle ground, and to learn to trust in a fated kind of love.
Title: Fallen
Series: (The Dark in You Book 7)
Author: Suzanne Wright
Length: 283 pages
Genre: Romance / Paranormal /
Notes: I have read only the first book in this series, but it was a while ago but I still remembered some of the details of the world itself. I didn't have a problem following along after skipping the other books. LOL I just liked the cover and the blurb and gave it a go. I enjoyed and I'm thinking about going back to read the others.
Blurb: Only a few are brave enough to fall . . .
When Raini desperately needed help, she went to the one person who she knew could save her dying friend . . . her secretive and ruthlessly powerful anchor, Maddox. His price was that she grant him access to her life, yet he's still determined not to form the anchor bond with Raini. That rejection stings, even while she can't stop her body - or her demon - reacting to his presence.
Maddox is a descendent, a rare breed of demon possessing angelic blood - and Raini knows he'll let someone close when hell freezes over. As a succubus, she's used to men wanting her uncontrollably - and used to having all the power. But while Maddox wants her strictly on his own terms, for the first time she can remember Raini's struggling to keep her own emotions in check.
Yet when someone - or something - starts to target Raini, Maddox's protectiveness goes into overdrive. Suddenly he's finding it harder to keep his secrets and his distance, for nothing seems to matter as much as Raini. As the threat escalates into all-out war, they both have to decide: can they trust the other to catch them if they fall?
Title: Shadow Mage
Series: Darkling Mage, 1
Author: Nazri Noor
Length: 305 pages
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Notes: I was introduce to this world with Blood Moon, and I thought I would go back to the beginning. I have about 2 hours left on the audiobook and I'm at that point where I'm yelling at the character to Do Not Go Back! It's a good story.
Blurb: The gods are dying. But for one man, death is only the beginning.
Mortal or divine, the bloodshed must end, and Dust is the mage for the job. But first he must contend with a succubus, a talking sword, a spider queen, a goddess of magic, and eldritch abominations from beyond the stars. No big deal… right?
If you like snarky heroes, snappy dialogue, and a bit of grit and gore, you’ll love the first standalone book in Nazri Noor’s series of urban fantasy novels. Explore the Darkling Mage universe and discover a taste of Shadow Magic today.
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